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09-23-2006, 10:15 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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Anne Rice - Violin
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09-30-2006, 06:15 PM
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#852
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Houston Texas
Posts: 443
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Edgar Allen Poe - Sixty-Seven Tales of the Dark Recesses of the Mind
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10-01-2006, 07:01 AM
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#853
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Wellsville, NY
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Raymond E. Fiest's Rift War Saga. the second book "Magician: Master"
I LOVE fantasy books. they are my passion. I have reaad almost all of David Eddings books.
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our lips met passionately, but then she cloesed her legs and broke my glasses.
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10-02-2006, 08:19 AM
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#854
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Norway
Posts: 211
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The lord of the rings for the 11th time now  LOVE that book<3<3<3
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"Fiction is the truth inside the lie"
-Stephen King
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10-03-2006, 08:17 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: St. Louis
Posts: 622
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I have been seeing her on the news for quite some time now, so I've decided to see what the Republicans have labeled as "a great read."
We'll see....
"Godless" by Ann Coulter
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"There is no way out of the mind"--Sylvia Plath
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10-03-2006, 10:42 PM
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#856
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
Posts: 2,208
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a clockwork orange....it's soooooo cool!
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It's not so much the pain
It's more the actual knife
Pretending the picture is perfect
I cut myself to sleep
I close my eyes for a second
And curse my fragile soul
I scream to hide that I'm lonely
The echo calls my name
*ANIMAL CRACKERS*
http://www.myspace.com/persephone_x
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10-03-2006, 11:56 PM
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#857
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
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I just finished "Atonement", by Ian McEwan. Next I'm going to start on "Original Sin" by P.D. James, which my friend gave me for my birthday 6 years ago.
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10-04-2006, 06:51 PM
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#858
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Illinois
Posts: 11
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Vampire Kisses - Ellen Schreiber
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10-05-2006, 04:36 PM
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#859
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
Posts: 2,535
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"Touching Evil" by Kay Hooper
It can be a disturbing book.
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"Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon."
-Zach Galifianakis
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10-19-2006, 12:43 AM
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#860
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: St. Louis
Posts: 622
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Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable
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"There is no way out of the mind"--Sylvia Plath
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10-19-2006, 06:54 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 29
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Anne Rice\ Lestat the vampire(i think it's called in english)
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10-26-2006, 10:27 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Missoula, MT
Posts: 1
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Tracks
I am reading Tracks by Louise Erdrich.
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10-26-2006, 10:34 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Out of my mind.
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I just cracked open Beowulf again. (I don't think I finished it the first time I read it.) This is a really cool poem, and goes perfectly with the album I'm currently obsessed with.
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"What have I taken away from you?"
"My irlelaulsiitoyn!."
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10-31-2006, 05:52 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: United States.
Posts: 1,670
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Originally Posted by phensky
I am reading Tracks by Louise Erdrich.
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Ha. That name reminded me of Eldritch. =]
I haven't really been reading anything lately more less studing while reading The Vampire Encyclopedia, it's rather good. Has alot of good notations and sources.
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"What a bunch of garbage: liberal, democrat, conservative, republican. Two sides of the same coin. Two management teams bidding for control, the CEO job, of Slavery Inc."
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10-31-2006, 06:04 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: London, UK
Posts: 2,065
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I'm just finishing Watership Down by Richard Adams, and holy fuck... It's the most perfect book ever written. And it's about rabbits! I mean you just don't get more perfect than that.
It's my favourite book now. Hands down.
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11-03-2006, 09:40 AM
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#866
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: U.K
Posts: 1,858
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Half way through Memoirs Of A Geisha. It's much better than I expected & is so much better than the film! The descriptions of the kimonos are so vivd, hehe I love it.
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11-05-2006, 03:44 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Wellsville, NY
Posts: 261
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right now, I am reading The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer. its in the artemis fowl series. and I am also reading a sewing machine manual and a collection f things by edgar allen poe. I went to his house in Philly. lucky me.
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our lips met passionately, but then she cloesed her legs and broke my glasses.
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11-05-2006, 08:30 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
Posts: 2,535
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I just hardly finished reading "So B. It" by Sarah Weeks. It was a fantastic book. Her book (who's title slips my memory right now) is also really good.
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"Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon."
-Zach Galifianakis
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11-05-2006, 11:11 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow?
Posts: 798
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Lisey's Story, by Stephen King
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He said "It's all in your head"
And I said, "So's everything," but he didn't get it
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11-05-2006, 11:58 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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After finishing Dracula, now I'm reading Frankenstein.
I want to see which of these pieces of literature deserves the name of best horror novel.
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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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11-05-2006, 01:29 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow?
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I loved Frankenstein. More so than Dracula I think. I don't think I could really choose one as "the best horror novel", but Frankenstein was just amazing, I couldn't put it down.
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He said "It's all in your head"
And I said, "So's everything," but he didn't get it
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11-05-2006, 01:58 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
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Originally Posted by Alaizabel Cray
Lisey's Story, by Stephen King
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My step mother is reading that. She loves Stephen King. She says it's pretty good. Is it???
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"Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon."
-Zach Galifianakis
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11-05-2006, 02:13 PM
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#873
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: a russian, vienna-educated, living in the Netherlands. beat that.
Posts: 465
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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
After finishing Dracula, now I'm reading Frankenstein.
I want to see which of these pieces of literature deserves the name of best horror novel.
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I actually hated both. But to compare bad with worse I suppose Frankestein was better.
I understand that when these two books were written, the style of writing as well as the view on evil and morals was different, but I still think that Dracula is a very boring book that is not about Dracula at all and Frankenstein a book writen by an author that wan't sure what she wanted to say by the whole thing.
Both dissappointed me terribly. In Frankenstein, Marry Shelly seems to have an idea that she doesn't manage to develop since she is too preoccupied with shocking the reader. And in Dracula, its all about noble men that kill the evil beastie, let alone the terrible, at least for me, style Stoker wrote in where each character wrote absolutely the same. I managed to finish the book only by imagining little hints as to the world of Dracula and hoping that Stoker just didn't dare to write more about Dracula's side of the story in fear of his reputation.
I can respect both books for the impact they made during their time and I even thank Stoker every time I read that he was the one who set the roots for the elegant image of the vampire as we know it today. And I like Shelly's biography. But Dracula or Frankenstein as books are something terrible in my oppinion.
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--If you want to love me you'll have to love my shadow. This black creature that is stuck to my feet and that hates the light whithout which it wouldn't exist. Sometimes, I think it is more me than I am. Please be gentle as you make my shadow white.
-- On soft pillows you won't ride into eternity and spilling your blood you won't get out of eternity again.
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11-05-2006, 03:30 PM
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#874
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: U.K
Posts: 1,858
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Meh, I managed to plough through Dracula. It was ok. Occasionaly a tad dull, but not awful. I preferred it to the film with Keanu Reeves & Winona Ryder in. Gawsh that was a horrible film.
As for Frankenstein, I haven't read it yet. Though I do have a copy somewhere. I'll give it a try sometime.
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11-05-2006, 03:33 PM
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#875
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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we had to read Frankenstein for literature class.........i didnt like it. AT ALL. thats a first.........
i just finished Shelters of Stone by Jean Auel. she is a fantastic author.
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