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05-12-2006, 02:29 PM
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#726
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Austria
Posts: 311
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Just reading the novel "Null negativ" by Garzaner. His first novel, 600 pages, German... Very impressing.
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05-25-2006, 05:37 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 142
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Emily Brontё - Wuthering Heights
I'm astonished she only wrote one book, and it was rejected when it was first published.
Her sister, Charlotte Brontё is also a proficient author. I've been yearning to read one of her greatest novels, Jane Eyre.
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05-28-2006, 10:45 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Previously today, The Time Machine from H.G. Wells.
Currently, Schrodinger's Cat, by Robert Anton Wilson.
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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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05-29-2006, 07:24 AM
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#729
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
Posts: 130
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Almost finished with Mischief by Douglas Clegg.
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05-29-2006, 10:54 AM
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#730
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: London
Posts: 155
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The Regulators - Richard Bachman
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"Like that old tale, the girl who wanted to become the best dancer in the world. "Yes," said the sorceress, "but each time you set your foot on earth will be like knives slashing." "If you can stand the pain, you will be granted your desire."
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05-29-2006, 06:10 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Blountsville, AL
Posts: 2,619
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I spotted about a month ago this very intriguing book that really leapt out to me, but I didn't buy it. I've been looking for it for several weeks when last Saturday I returned to the exact same bookstore and purchased it. It was significantly damaged, and it was the only copy they had, but I purchased it regardless. Titled "Plucker" by Brom, this is a picturebook remnant of children's storybooks, but lasts about one-hundred-fifty pages and is NOT for children. The art within is so mellow and frightening and the story itself is such a dark one. In essence, a young boy's Jack-in-the-box becomes forgotten under his bed and witnesses the slow, painful death of the other forgotten toys. The boy's father brings a terrifying doll -a warder of evil spirits- from Africa to the boy, and something horrifying crawls out from it and begins to do strange things with the other forgotten toys. I haven't gotten far yet, but this is a very compelling story filled with beautiful art. I recommend this to everyone. 
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05-31-2006, 06:39 AM
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#732
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
Posts: 130
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The Backwoods by Edward Lee.
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05-31-2006, 06:52 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: London, UK
Posts: 2,065
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I just started "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak, and it's bloody excellent.
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05-31-2006, 09:48 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: buttmunch Houston, TX
Posts: 649
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1984 ~ George Orwell
Gotta love summer reading assignments. It's funny 'cause I've never set foot in a private school before. I would enjoy it more if I didn't have to write a bloody paper on it.
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Imagination takes the shadows away
Imagination keeps the shadows away
~Clan of Xymox
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05-31-2006, 06:17 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 2,126
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Just started reading The "midnighters" by Scott Westerfield, but i've been reading bits from this non-fiction book called "The two Babylons" by Alexander Hislop, depicting the Catholic church as Babylon the great. It's a very factual book which was first printed in 1916, so it's had 90 years to be challenged.
You can read the book on the website.
http://www.biblebelievers.com/babylon/
Worth reading whether you're catholic or not.
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Everyone has a ghost...a phantom behind us which slows and drags us down.. This ghost or spectral has a name..."Regret".
"I've never regretted anything..." - Light Yagami
Life is a shit sandwich. Unfortunately, it's always lunchtime. How much bread you have goes a long way toward determining how easy it is to swallow.
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05-31-2006, 07:00 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: In hell
Posts: 2
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read?
well am read sweet blood. It goog so far but ! of my friends told me the end is a big let down.
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05-31-2006, 07:06 PM
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#737
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Australia. Finally back home.
Posts: 957
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Originally Posted by Die_ana
Well, I am reading "Sweet blood". It is good so far, but one of my friends told me that the end is a big let down.
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1. Your grammar sucks. I made some corrections in bold.
2. It's really hard to read your posts in red. Dark on dark doesn't work well.
3. It's polite to introduce yourself before posting.
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"It's strange to see how much people have changed through the years. Just for fun, see if you can find the point where we all turned bitter."
-- Chris Isaak
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06-01-2006, 04:44 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Australia. Finally back home.
Posts: 957
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I'm reading "Trickster's Queen" by Tamora Peirce.
Generally I love her books but I've been really disappointed in this series. My friend told me that it gets better as the book continues so I'm perservering but I probably won't finish it.
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"It's strange to see how much people have changed through the years. Just for fun, see if you can find the point where we all turned bitter."
-- Chris Isaak
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06-02-2006, 02:01 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Austria
Posts: 311
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Anyone working on his/her thesis? Getting your PhD?
Are you PRO-crastination :-)
You´ve got to read " Piled higher & Deeper" online.
Click HERE to read PhD Online
Warning: By clicking on the above link you might support your addiction to procrastination!
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06-02-2006, 02:28 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
Posts: 590
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I'm reading "Wolfhound: The Right to Duel" by Maria Semyonova. The title translation is mine; the book is originally Russian, and was, at least to mu knowledge, never translated to English. I'm reading it in Serbian translation.
It's the second book in the "Wolfhound" series (five are written so far). A fantasy with a bit of SF. The usage of Slavic mythology makes this book refreshing. What's even more refreshing is the lack of clichés -- just when you think that something is a cliché, it takes another direction. Intelligent, humorous, truly enjoyable.
There should be a movie soon, too.
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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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06-06-2006, 04:58 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
Posts: 130
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Currently reading She Loves Monsters by Simon Clark.
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06-06-2006, 06:01 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 186
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I'm currently reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.
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06-06-2006, 06:04 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: MA
Posts: 18
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Originally Posted by the_cure
I'm currently reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.
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Awesome book...
Currently reading: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by R. Heinlein.
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06-08-2006, 12:23 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Australia. Finally back home.
Posts: 957
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Originally Posted by the_cure
I'm currently reading Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.
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I loved Angels and Demons. I actually consider it to be his best book, far better than the Da Vinci Code.
I just finished reading "Animal Farm" by George Orwell this morning. I had an exam on it today so I had to re-read it.
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"It's strange to see how much people have changed through the years. Just for fun, see if you can find the point where we all turned bitter."
-- Chris Isaak
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06-08-2006, 07:18 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,247
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I have just started reading "The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien.
Darkly humourous, it opens with the narrator describing a murder he is commiting. It gets stranger and more twisted as it goes on. And I am only on chapter 3.... I am looking forward to getting deeper and deeper into the narrator's strange little world.
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Petrified for the millionth time...
Slowly my soul evaporates
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06-08-2006, 11:52 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 20
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The Barbed Rose by Gail Dayton. Fantasy novel, nice quick read. Not too deap or with much of a message but a good plot and character developement.
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06-09-2006, 04:59 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
Posts: 752
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Currently reading 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories' by Washington Irving. The two supposedly best stories in it are Legend of Sleepy Hollow (obviously) and Rip Van Winkle but I think of the very interesting ones is 'The Mutability of Literature'. During the short story a man is having an intelligent conversation with a Quarto tome about the mutability of literature. At the end of the story, when the tome stops talking, the man is not able to tell whether the conversation was real or in his mind. Very interesting.
I strongly recommend to everybody here who enjoys intelligent short stories.
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O loneliness, O hopelessness
To search the ends of time,
For there is in all the world
No greater love than mine.
-Annie Lennox, Love Song For A Vampire-
Rouge Z. Hatter has FINALLY returned to Gnet!
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06-10-2006, 07:42 AM
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#748
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
Posts: 130
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The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice.
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06-10-2006, 10:56 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 152
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I have just finished reading two books, Blood Memory by Greg Iles, which I thoroughly enjoyed and Mosaic by Soheir Kashoggi which I was overall pretty disappointed in. 
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06-11-2006, 12:51 AM
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#750
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: I'm underneath the sink, now what do you think, living under my sink?
Posts: 592
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Started reading "Theif of Time" by Terry Pratchett
An interesting and often humourous look at time.
My first experience of the Discworld series and an enjoyable one so far.
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