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03-29-2006, 01:15 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Atheism: The Case Against God - George H. Smith
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03-29-2006, 01:42 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Wonderland/BarbieWorld
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The Alchemist-Paolo Coelho. I just finished it. Interesting book I must say, but it was kind of funny, though.
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Everytime you masturbate, God kills a kitten!
So, DON'T DO IT!!!!
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03-29-2006, 03:31 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 41
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the book that i'm reading right now is fruits basket volume one.
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03-29-2006, 03:58 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: .....
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I'm reading Playing in traffic.
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03-29-2006, 04:04 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Between Here and There
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I just started Anne Rice's "The Witching Hour" and I'm finishing off "Alice in Wonderland". After I'm done with that book I'll be getting to volume 14 of "Boys Over Flowers".
Ash, I hope you enjoy Fruitsbasket! 
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03-31-2006, 02:10 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 1,387
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"Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power" by Michelangelo Signorile
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"And if you didn't get all that, here's a short synopsis. I FUCKING DON'T LIKE YOU, CUNT."
--Geisha
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03-31-2006, 09:37 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: couch-surfer
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"Existentialism and Modern Literature" by Davis Dunbar McElroy
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The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must---" designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
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03-31-2006, 08:52 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 142
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"The Secret History of Lucifer" by Lynn Picknett
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"The Myth of Freedom" by Chogym Trungpa
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04-01-2006, 04:39 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: A long time ago in a galaxy far away...
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120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade.
I'm going to have nightmares for weeks after reading this book.
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04-02-2006, 02:58 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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"Blood the Last Vampire: Night of the Beasts". I had just finished it, and man what a good read ^_^ it did a good job at explaining the movie, had an original vampire concept, and then some. Its now one of my favourite novels.
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04-02-2006, 03:55 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Northwestern Washington
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I just bought 1984 by Orwell and Insomnia by Stephen King for my upcoming trip to Hawaii.
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It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?
--Friedrich Nietzsche
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04-02-2006, 06:28 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Wouldn't you like to know...
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
pssst, Morrigan, tokidoki shashin wa ii...
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04-02-2006, 07:01 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Wouldn't you like to know...
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Originally Posted by Xnguela
I <3 that book like woah! Seriously, I got it as my Secret Santa gift this year in the dorms.
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I have so very much love for this book...huzzah there is another fan!
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
pssst, Morrigan, tokidoki shashin wa ii...
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04-06-2006, 01:55 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: The Netherlands
Posts: 244
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Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden
And 'Learn to Live' By Dr. Phil... -.-;
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04-06-2006, 03:14 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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Still reading Don Quixote... And my lines.
Who else has come across http://www.online-literature.com? And what did you think of it?
A friend and I (who don't get to see each other too often) were going to have an email/msn based book club using this for our main resource... Oh, the ideas you come up with late at night...
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Nay then, I have an eye of you. - If you love me, hold not off.
Hamlet
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04-06-2006, 07:09 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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Ah, yes. Don Quijote, I loved that book 
Though if it's not in Spanish, I think it will only be a shadow of it. It's the amazing beauty of words long dead that make Cervantes a genious.
I'm reading American Gods
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I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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04-07-2006, 03:33 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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It's always the way, isn't it? Like Camus's "L'Etranger" just isn't the same in English. You totally miss out on the gut-thump it has in French. Or "Un Noson Dywyll" (but that's in Welsh!)
Sadly though, my Spanish isn't good enough. I must learn it properly sometime. Dutch is taking priority at the moment.
What's American Gods like?
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Nay then, I have an eye of you. - If you love me, hold not off.
Hamlet
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04-07-2006, 04:55 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,247
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I have started several books lately and have yet to decide which to concentrate on.
"LSD: MY Problem Child" - Dr. Albert Hofmann. Very technical, it focuses on the chemical properties of the drug more than I thought it would. However, as the inventor/discoverer of LSD, Dr. Hofmann has a unique point of view on psychedelic history.
"Valis" - Philip K. Dick. I'm just a few pages into this. It's seems like it's going to be a very sad story, based on the author's own drug experiences.
"The Alchemist" - Paul Coelho. Fluffy bedtime reading.
"The Turn of the Screw" - Henry James. A psychological ghost story written in 1898.
"Watchmen" - Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons. A graphic novel portraying superheroes in a different light.
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Last edited by Morrigan_Dubh; 04-07-2006 at 04:57 AM.
Reason: Forget to enter the names of the authors of "Watchmen".
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04-07-2006, 11:19 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: wirral, england
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Ahh, yes I remember Watchmen. An excellent read.
I'm reading Bill Hicks Agent Of Evolution, Strunk and White's Elements of Style and To Kill A Mocking Bird.
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04-07-2006, 12:58 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
Posts: 590
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Dark Terrors 6
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy
Excellent collections.
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"If I had my way, we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes." - William S. Burroughs, "Queer"
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04-07-2006, 11:25 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: London, UK
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I always find myself reading a number of books at the same time. At the moment they are...
The Journey Back From Hell by Anton Gill - The accounts of some 120 concentration camp survivors on their lives after the holocaust. Beautifully written and extremely interesting, this one is the book I take everywhere with me.
The Righteous by Martin Gilbert - The brief stories of a huge number of holocaust heroes, but due to the simple writing style and brevity this one gets read a lot less than The Journey Back From Hell
The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice - What can I say, sometimes you need a break from holocaust literature, and what better a break than the stories of flowery vampires in all their homoerotic glory?
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04-08-2006, 08:53 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Neverwhere
Posts: 320
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I am reading Gothic, by Fred Botting ... The Bradbury Chronicles, by Sam Weller ... and Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein.
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04-09-2006, 07:07 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
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Originally Posted by Morrigan_Dubh
"Valis" - Philip K. Dick. I'm just a few pages into this. It's seems like it's going to be a very sad story, based on the author's own drug experiences.
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Have you ever read "Eye In The Sky" by him? ( I'd love to see anybody try to film it!)
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"The Turn of the Screw" - Henry James. A psychological ghost story written in 1898.
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And if you haven't already - give "Lost Hearts" a peep...
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Nay then, I have an eye of you. - If you love me, hold not off.
Hamlet
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04-09-2006, 12:31 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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Originally Posted by spookypurple
What's American Gods like?
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It's very cool, and the main theme speaks about a same exact theory I once thought about gods. Though, I feel there's something missing in Neil Gaiman's writing style. It feels he needed something to be perfect, but I don't know what is it. Ever had that sensation?
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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04-10-2006, 04:16 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,247
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Originally Posted by spookypurple
Have you ever read "Eye In The Sky" by him? ( I'd love to see anybody try to film it!)
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No, not yet. I have only read a fraction of his work, but "A Scanner Darkly" made such a deep impression on me that I quickly became a PKD fangirl.
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And if you haven't already - give "Lost Hearts" a peep...
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I haven't already. I will. I bought 5 new books at the same time as "The Turn of the Screw" so I have a lot to get through first - The Idiot and Crime and Punishment by Dovstoevsky, A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, and Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens... So I still have a lot to trawl through!
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