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08-15-2010, 02:31 PM
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#2751
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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How was the movie? I haven't gotten the courage to watch it yet.
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08-15-2010, 11:08 PM
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#2752
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
Posts: 2,594
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Originally Posted by Saya
How was the movie? I haven't gotten the courage to watch it yet.
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It was really good. I thought Kristen Stew did a good job, but then I liked her in Cake Eaters as well.
I've read the first page, and am enjoying the speed of the book already.
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"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
Help me, I'm holding on for dear life
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08-15-2010, 11:26 PM
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#2753
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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All the short stories left in the I Am Legend book remind me too much of Stephen King (he has a blurb on the back saying Matheson was a huge inspiration, and you can really, really tell), so I'm moving on to Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood.
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08-16-2010, 01:12 AM
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#2754
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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Naked Lunch.
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08-16-2010, 02:05 PM
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#2755
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: In the Bible Belt Dx
Posts: 128
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City of Glass - Cassandra Clare, then finishing Hannibal. :3
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08-16-2010, 02:36 PM
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#2756
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 634
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The Solitude to self:thinking of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Vivian GoRnick
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08-21-2010, 07:31 PM
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#2757
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dirty South
Posts: 1,726
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Algernon Blackwood short stories.
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Kill your idol. Come on, jump into the void!
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08-21-2010, 07:38 PM
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#2758
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood.
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08-23-2010, 10:47 AM
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#2759
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: El Paso, TX
Posts: 76
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Nothing at the moment - got any good suggestions I might be able to dig up at a local library?
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08-29-2010, 07:03 AM
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#2760
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Georgia
Posts: 797
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The Biotechnology of Cannabis Sativa - Dr. Sam R. Zwenger
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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord to tell everyone about that time at Ronnie's house when I smashed the beer bottle over my own head.
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08-29-2010, 07:34 AM
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#2761
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Osaka, Japan
Posts: 1,472
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
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"Now some of you may encounter the devil's bargain if you get that far. Any old soul is worth saving at least to a priest, but not every soul is worth buying. So you can take the offer as a compliment."
-William S. Burroughs
You're not entitled to your opinion.
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08-29-2010, 10:21 AM
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#2762
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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I keep alternating between Thus Spoke Zarathustra and The Genealogy of Morals. I think I am getting too much Nietzsche in my diet.
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08-29-2010, 11:02 AM
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#2763
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 2,932
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If I Die in Juarez by Stella Pope Duarte.
It doesn't matter if you guys don't live here; I heavily recommend it.
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Originally Posted by KissMeDeadly
You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
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real classy
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08-30-2010, 01:26 PM
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#2764
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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It does look like something I ought to read, not in any of the bookstores around here though, I'll see if the library has it when I go back to school next week.
Reading Half The Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
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08-30-2010, 01:37 PM
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#2765
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 348
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sstil reading PARADISE LOST.
it's hard but cool.
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09-23-2010, 10:50 AM
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#2766
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: New England
Posts: 93
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I'm also currently re-reading PARADISE LOST, concurrently with VARNEY THE VAMPYRE, or THE FEAST OF BLOOD. It's the entire serial collected into one book, and it's huge. It'll take me a while to finish.
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10-07-2010, 09:50 AM
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#2767
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Maine
Posts: 8
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I just finished a StarCraft novel by Christie Golden called Firstborn. I really enjoyed that book. I'm hugely into the StarCraft universe. I think it's Blizzard's best one.
Soon, I will get my hands on another copy of Song of Susannah, the sixth book in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
Then I will get another copy of Pride and Prejudice. I got halfway through that before the library needed it back.
After that, it's either Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses or Thomas Pynchon's V.
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10-07-2010, 06:52 PM
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#2768
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Originally Posted by Ibeus
After that, it's either Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
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Good reading, but the ending was anti-climatic IMHO.
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10-07-2010, 07:16 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Fiddler's Green
Posts: 1,406
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There are more books I'd like to read than actually reading now. Then again there are also books laying around my house I've been supposed to read but giving up mid-sentence as a result of trying too hard on one fucking word. I do this all the time, even with shit I'm assigned to read in school and even when I know I'm gonna ENJOY what I have to fucking read but still I'm distracted.
Anyway, it's really just an over-thought habit I need to get over. Another habit I gotta kick is putting too much on my plate and setting Stefanovik up for disaster. I mean notice how I said books.
One of the main books I'd like to be reading is Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, but right now all I've been passively making the time to gaze upon are the following:
-Me and You and Memento and Fargo. A book on screenwriting.
Really good first chapter that epitomized the lost protagonist and related it to one of my favorites, Jim Jarmusch's Stranger than Paradise . I wanna keep it going though I don't have much time to read a book of this length when it's due in a month. This is considering my lazy over thought habit, mind you.
While I'm essantially against reading BOOKS about IMAGES just like I am against self-help books (which this one pretty much is), I need some guidance before I take on the trials of writing a complete and presentable screenplay.
-The Films of Lars Von Trier. A thesis on the man's work. Huge fan.
I've literally only read the first few pages about (stoned as fuck) but I can already say I'm obsessed with the Dogme 95 manifesto. Come back. Please. Antichrist was good but it's clear we're in need of another cinematic revolt. But that'll eventually be my job.
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10-08-2010, 06:14 AM
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#2770
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Antigo, WI [feel free to say 'where???' lol]
Posts: 156
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ive just finished a book called EVIL? by Timothy Carter. very humorous lol
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10-08-2010, 06:07 PM
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#2771
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 25
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I'm reading a translation of Baudelaire's les Fleurs du Mal, and am about halfway through the Upanishads.
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10-08-2010, 07:13 PM
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#2772
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 634
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Northanger Abby by Jane Austen
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" The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear"
- H. P. Lovecraft
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10-08-2010, 07:36 PM
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#2773
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 4,036
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jiff Lindsay
xD
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"I've an idea. Why don't we play a little game. Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive. Just for a while. What do you say? Let's pretend we're human. Oh, brother, it's such a long time since I was with anyone who got enthusiastic about anything."
― Jack Osborne
add me on
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10-08-2010, 08:23 PM
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#2774
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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I read that! Its actually decent, but I'm not going to bother with the other books, having spoilers on how silly they get.
I just realized I'm still not done Half The Sky. I'm really behind on my reading. School is not an excuse!
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10-08-2010, 08:57 PM
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#2775
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: New Orleans, LA
Posts: 30
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I read the Dexter books too. I don't think they get silly, exactly but I didn't love them. I saw the show first then started on the books. It's like the Sookie Stackhouse books and True Blood the show though- the books and the seasons of the show are two different things.
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