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04-10-2006, 04:23 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
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"A Scanner Darkly" was his best work, at least to me. I haven't read "Valis" or "Eye In the Sky", though.
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04-10-2006, 05:35 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: in a house on a road by a tree
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Right now I am reading "Light in August" by William Faulkner, "Buckland's Complete Guide to Spirit Communication", and my seed flyer so I can figure out what the hell I am going to plant in my flower beds this year.
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04-10-2006, 06:25 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Originally Posted by angel011
"A Scanner Darkly" was his best work, at least to me. I haven't read "Valis" or "Eye In the Sky", though.
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It is a masterpiece, isn't it? I am reallyl looking forward to the movie, if only to see what how well the rotoscoping works.
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04-10-2006, 01:48 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Bethlehem, PA
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Right now I'm reading a novel called "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski. This novel is unreal - twisted barely describes it.
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04-10-2006, 11:44 PM
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#630
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: in my own little world...
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Ok, I have a feeling Im gonna get flamed for this one...but thats ok, i can take it...
Im reading "Chicken Soup for the Military Wives Soul"
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04-10-2006, 11:57 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Originally Posted by lena
Im reading "Chicken Soup for the Military Wives Soul"
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Bwah hahahahaha!
Yeah you're right you are going to get flamed. Do you need the uplifting stories to make it through your day?
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04-11-2006, 12:05 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: in my own little world...
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Originally Posted by tenet_2012
Bwah hahahahaha!
Yeah you're right you are going to get flamed. Do you need the uplifting stories to make it through your day?
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Wow, wasnt expecting it so quick...but to answer your question, no, and actually theres a section of the book about when they dont make it back....So its not all cheerful chipper anecdotes. The other ones, I wouldnt dream of reading....but this one, well its got the words military wives on the cover, and therefore I felt duty bound to buy it.
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04-11-2006, 01:05 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: a'Straiya
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"The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
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04-11-2006, 02:28 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Austria
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Originally Posted by Niels
Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden
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Beautiful to read, much better than the film (didnīt watch it as I read the book years before it could be seen in Europe). I recommend to read it - if you want to understand Geisha (Gnet member) *LOL*
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04-11-2006, 02:46 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Originally Posted by disorder
"The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
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Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant book!
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04-11-2006, 03:05 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Austria
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Just reading it again: "Story of the Eye" by Georges Bataille
In 1928, under a pseudonym, Georges Bataille published this first novel, a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes. A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds the parallels in Sade and Nietzsche and in the investigations of contemporary psychology; it also forecasts Bataille's own theories of ecstasy, death and transgression which he developed in later work.
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04-11-2006, 02:16 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: New Mexico
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Well, i'm re-reading Dante's Divine Comedy for the seventh time, and I really must say, it gets better each time you read it.
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04-12-2006, 09:36 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
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Currently reading The Five of Cups by Caitlin R Kiernan.
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04-12-2006, 09:53 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 667
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currently re-reading Lost Souls.
Words connot express how much I love this book.
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04-13-2006, 12:48 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Austria
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Originally Posted by Xnguela
So, if you didn't watch it, how the hell do you know it's "much better than the film"? I enjoyed the film.
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I saw the propaganda involved with the film. I visited their film homepage. I saw the "making of" video. I read local newspapers reviews and I have some friends who went to watch the film. All in all it convinced me - together with the fact that the length of the book doesnīt fit into just a few minutes of film - that the film is not as good as it should be.
I have yet to see a film from commercial Hollywood (sorry to insult you) thatīs a brilliant and genuine rendition of a book. Sorry.
But - this doesnīt ignore the fact that there are probably people who actually liked the film. Itīs just my personal opinion. I respect others. If you liked it - fine!
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04-13-2006, 02:51 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: New Mexico
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Oh, and along with the Divine Comedy, i'm reading the Bahavad Gita(I butched the spelling).
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04-13-2006, 10:37 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Austria
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Xng (just looking at my new desktop "Hey, thatīs Xng!") I guess thatīs absolutely true. I for myself decided not to watch the film, as I read the book. While reading you picture your own little world and mediate about what the actors would look like etc. And what I saw reviewing the film (I do that nearly every time before I watch a movie) didnīt really match with what I had in mind. Beautiful artists and sets - but - my impression was that the story had to be neglected to fit it into just a few minutes of film. Well - maybe Iīll watch it in the future, if you say itīs a good film, mmmh, maybe I should? You made me halting.
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04-14-2006, 07:39 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: nomad
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Shadowmarch by Tad Williams, it was a good read, just what you need for long lonesome rainy cold evenings in a small town in northern Greece.
I can't wait for the next part of the trilogy :-)
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04-14-2006, 09:59 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Im reading The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank and The Call of Cthulhu by H.P Lovecraft.
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04-14-2006, 10:31 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Lebanon
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Originally Posted by Engulfed_in_darkness
Im reading The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
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I read part of it last year in English class. It's quite interesting!
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04-14-2006, 02:14 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: San Francisco, California.
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Handouts from my U.$. Native History class, "Tell Me A Riddle" by Tillie Olsen & the labour-studies textbook "Who Built America?". Because I have to. For school.
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04-14-2006, 02:24 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 380
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Originally Posted by succubus,queenofvampires
I read part of it last year in English class. It's quite interesting!
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I know. The holocaust was indeed one the most interesting masscres Ive heard of,Adolf Hitler being a supreme figure surpassed the killings by Jack the ripper or charles manson(If he really did anything in the first place). Though Chrales Manson killed in an intersting way. Carving words onto flesh. Amazing.
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04-16-2006, 12:57 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: nomad
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Terry Pratchett - Interesting Times
I've just started it, but as always, I can already tell I like it....Pratchett is always nice to read...
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04-17-2006, 07:54 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
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Control Freak by Christa Faust
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04-17-2006, 08:08 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Estonia, Pärnu
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The Body Thief- Anne Rice (Shes bloody brilliant)
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