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11-24-2006, 06:42 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Behind you
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Right now I am currently reading Hannibal by Thomas harris and Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. Both of which, are good books so far. 
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The snack that smiles back -Goldfish-
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11-24-2006, 06:49 PM
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#927
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
Posts: 101
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Some of my shitty poems
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11-25-2006, 07:47 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 1,688
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Currant Events-- Piers Anthony. If you know Piers, you know that the title's not a typo... Yay for puns!
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A SPIDER sewed at night
Without a light
Upon an arc of white.
If ruff it was of dame
Or shroud of gnome,
Himself, himself inform.
Of immortality
His strategy
Was physiognomy.
--Emily Dickinson
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11-25-2006, 08:56 AM
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#929
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: The Netherlands
Posts: 36
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The shadow over Innsmouth - Lovecraft
And too many other books I still need to finish.
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11-25-2006, 08:06 PM
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#930
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 185
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Peter Straub is really cool. He also co-wrote a book with King which is awesome, imo.
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11-25-2006, 08:06 PM
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#931
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 185
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Wow, their are Terry Goodkind fans here. I love the Sword of Truth series! Just one more book to go and it will all be over. =)
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11-30-2006, 06:27 PM
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#932
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Athens, GA
Posts: 1,696
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I just finished "The Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton. I will probably start the Once and Future King soon for my AP Lit class. . .
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"Don't ever let anybody teach you to think, Lance: it is the curse of the world." - King Arthur in T.H. White's The Once And Future King
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you" The Bible (Matthew 7:12)
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11-30-2006, 06:31 PM
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#933
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Athens, GA
Posts: 1,696
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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
Haha, true.
Dan Brown is just an awful writer.
It's clear that he couldn't come up with a creative plot and not even for his life could he have given life to the characters.
As so, he tossed random trivia and conspiracy theories around as an attempt to compensate for his lack of talent in the writing aisle.
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Da Vinci Code isn't his only book. In fact, though I thought it a good read, I enjoyed Angels and Demons MUCH more. Also, even though he did take old ideas for the Da Vinci Code and write a story on them, he's not a bad author. The storyline in itself was enjoyable, with or without the plot it was given. The book did move rather slowly, though, so if you didn't like it and have yet to read Angels and Demons, I do suggest picking it up and giving it a chance.
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"Don't ever let anybody teach you to think, Lance: it is the curse of the world." - King Arthur in T.H. White's The Once And Future King
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you" The Bible (Matthew 7:12)
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11-30-2006, 06:37 PM
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#934
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: A box of cookies
Posts: 141
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Originally Posted by DarkHeartedDemoness
Currant Events-- Piers Anthony. If you know Piers, you know that the title's not a typo... Yay for puns!
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He's such a fun author!
I'm reading Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman(?) and Terry Pratchett. It's hilarious!
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11-30-2006, 09:27 PM
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#935
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Oakland, CA
Posts: 20
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Reading
1) Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
2) Criminal Investigation for Dummies
3) Last Chancers by Gav Thorpe (Don't ask me why)
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12-02-2006, 11:40 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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a compilation of poetry and philosophy from the romantic period
its quite enjoyable 
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12-04-2006, 03:26 PM
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#937
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Your back pocket!
Posts: 347
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The Barbed Rose- Gail Dayton
Pretty good!
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Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...
Author: George Carlin
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12-07-2006, 01:46 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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The Complete Poems of John Keats, or something like that
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Autonomy Not Uniformity
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12-07-2006, 01:47 PM
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#939
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Gothamburg
Posts: 230
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'Interesting Times' by Terry Pratchett. After that, 'Vampire Lestat' by Anne Rice.
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Studies show:
Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
What the world is really like
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12-07-2006, 02:29 PM
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#940
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Quebec
Posts: 100
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Promise of the witch-king. R.A. Salvatore. Hoping I could finally get Road of the patriarch
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12-09-2006, 08:50 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Blountsville, AL
Posts: 2,619
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I'm up to chapter six of "the Mysteries of Udolpho" by Ann Radcliffe (it's a small font, mind you). I've been reading it every night, which no book has convinced me to do for a very long time. For those of you that would like to read a little of it before buying it, please check out the free online text at project gutenberg:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu...ookup?num=3268
Read it, or else! I'm serious; this book changed my outlook! >.<
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12-09-2006, 09:43 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Currently reading The Dying Earth by Jack Vance.
I didn't finish all of it and forgot where I left off, and lost my unfinished book of The Illuminatus! Trilogy...
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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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12-09-2006, 10:13 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: South of the Unseelie Court
Posts: 415
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The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm A lovely anthology containing two of my favorite authors ever: Neil Gaiman, and Holly Black.
Oh, and I'm trying to steal Anthony Rapp's book from a friend of mine, she's not agreeing to letting me read over her shoulder! Anthony Rapp is the actor who played Mark Cohen in the original Broadway Musical RENT. Excuse me but I'm a devote Renthead.
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Some people are alive simply
because it is illegal to kill them.
~ A wise old bumpersticker
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12-10-2006, 03:52 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Oslo, Norway
Posts: 1,830
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At the moment I'm reading "Queen of the Dead", Anne Rice and "The Mists of Avalon", Marion Zimmer Bradley. I need to read at least two books at once, else I can't seem to concentrate on either.
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However far away I will always love you
However long I stay I will always love you
Whatever words I say I will always love you
I will always love you
- The Cure, "Love Song"
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12-10-2006, 08:06 AM
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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 Draconysius
I'm up to chapter six of "the Mysteries of Udolpho" by Ann Radcliffe (it's a small font, mind you). I've been reading it every night, which no book has convinced me to do for a very long time. For those of you that would like to read a little of it before buying it, please check out the free online text at project gutenberg:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu...ookup?num=3268
Read it, or else! I'm serious; this book changed my outlook! >.< |
Now you know where I get my references to Chateau St. Aubert in my Location field.
I love the way she describes it, and the estate that surrounds it. I would love to live there, and retire there.
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12-11-2006, 06:34 PM
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#946
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 50
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Vampire Hunter D #3, the Poetical Works of Lord Byron, The Chronicles of Narnia, and hopefully Eragon before Friday when the movie comes out.
Just got done reading: Half Blood Prince and Running with Scissors.
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12-12-2006, 07:44 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Blountsville, AL
Posts: 2,619
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Originally Posted by HumanePain
Now you know where I get my references to Chateau St. Aubert in my Location field.
I love the way she describes it, and the estate that surrounds it. I would love to live there, and retire there.
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Yes, Radcliffe is a great painter with words. I've only read to chapter six so far, but this book's already renewed my love for nature. T_T I can't wait till castle Udolpho comes into the story, though! Whoo!
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12-12-2006, 08:58 PM
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#948
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Houston Texas
Posts: 443
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Dante's Inferno just cause im bored and had no other book handie to read. lol
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"The Goths are beautiful, a vast depth of sub cultural,
aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that
as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion
...the costume without the brain."
--Peter Murphy
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12-12-2006, 09:13 PM
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#949
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
Posts: 2,208
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The Complete Works of Robert Burns
MS SQL Server 2000 Programming By example- F.G Guerrero and C.E Rojas
RedDragon- Thomas Harris
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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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12-16-2006, 08:39 AM
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#950
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
Posts: 2,535
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I am currently reading "Boyproof." Interesting book I must say. Although it's the first book I've read in a month that isn't published by Push.
Still a good book so far.
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