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05-21-2007, 08:38 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Detroit [Otherwise Known as Hell on Earth]
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Im reading Black House By Stephen King
A Collection of Stories Book by Poe
AND for school, Im trying to get through the Crucible.
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06-01-2007, 09:45 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Medina OH
Posts: 22
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Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade by Guy Browning
Harry Potter 6 (for the 5 billionth time)
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06-01-2007, 10:04 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
Posts: 2,413
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"Song of Myself" is Whitman, no?
Reading "Blackbird House" by Alice Hoffman. She writes as if in a fairy tale. fast and enchanting. beautiful reads.
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I am The Mighty Cooch!!!!!!
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06-03-2007, 04:07 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 47
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Schapelle Corby;My Story (with Kathryn Bonella)-story of an Aussie in jail in Bali for drug smuggling.
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06-03-2007, 04:36 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 19
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I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight by Margaret Cho, Wormwood by Poppy Z Brite, and The Children of Men by PD James.
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06-03-2007, 05:14 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Posts: 468
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Arthur Schopenhauer's "Essays", "Devils" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and "Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories"
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06-03-2007, 11:09 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 18
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I just finished 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King and I just started reading The Adventures of a Simpleton by Hans Jakob Christoph Von Grimmelshausen (what a name!)
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06-03-2007, 11:22 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Belgium
Posts: 87
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Originally Posted by heretoday_gonetomorrow
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
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I've read that one too, it's a great book I think, I just wanted to read something nice and saw some flyer for this book and thought the picture was so nice (black with white hands holding a red apple) and just had to read it.
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06-03-2007, 11:24 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 Romantic Raven
Arthur Schopenhauer's "Essays"...
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I have been meaning to read that, I assume this is the same Schopenhauer that influenced Nietzsche?
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06-03-2007, 01:41 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: UK
Posts: 195
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I'm reading "The power of the marked over the mind" (loosely translated title, as it is a Norwegian book) by Bent Sofus Tranøy and "The dark reign of Gothic Rock" by Dave Thompson.
Lately I haven't had the time nor energy to read as much and varied as I'd like, and I haven't even gotten my hands on the Dante collection at the library 
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I'm not saying that stupidity should be a capital offence, but we could remove all the warningstickers and let nature run it's course...
"Nutrizone can kiss my pale, decayed ass"
-Draconysius
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06-03-2007, 08:16 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 186
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
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06-03-2007, 08:20 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Plato's Republic.
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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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06-03-2007, 08:52 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Out of my mind.
Posts: 999
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Could have sworn I posted it. Oh well.
Robert Ludlum - The Apocalypse Watch
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"What have I taken away from you?"
"My irlelaulsiitoyn!."
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06-04-2007, 08:39 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Somewhere in this Universe, that's all I'll say.
Posts: 713
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If you haven't read Prep by Curtis Sittenfield yet, DON'T! You will die. It is the most awful book I have ever read. I decided to give it a second chance yesterday and have fully confirmed it as abysmal. Ewwwww...
The main character is shallow and boring, the school it takes place at is annoying and there is no real plot. Ugh. Just trust me on this one. Don't inflict such boring torture on yourself.
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Yawn. This is rather tedious, is it not?
www.chansondeplume.blogspot.com
^Mon blog d'ecriture en francais. Veuillez lire et commenter!
Translation: My writing blog in french. Feel free to read and comment.
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06-04-2007, 08:42 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In a black hole with a black moon
Posts: 2,658
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Originally Posted by MollyMac
"Song of Myself" is Whitman, no?
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Goodness, I'm afriad you're right. It's Song about Myself is Keats. Anyway, great poetry and still reading such a book.
Goth Forever
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"I think in some way I wanted it to end, even if it meant my own destruction."
-Jeffrey Dahmer
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06-04-2007, 10:39 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: no matter from which location, its far, too far
Posts: 37
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Rudiments of English Linguistics....
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06-04-2007, 11:01 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Bucharest, Romania
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Originally Posted by HumanePain
I have been meaning to read that, I assume this is the same Schopenhauer that influenced Nietzsche?
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Yes, I believe it is, or at least so I have heard. Although I must confess that I haven't read any of Nietzsche's works yet... *blush*
Anyway, the "Essays" are amazing. They give a new perspective upon life and society in general. However, they are good ONLY if you don't take everything there literally and apply it in your life, because then you will just end up depressed. The ending of the book is a bit upsetting too; Schopenhauer talks about old age and death, leaving you with a bitter taste of something that is over, but unaccomplished. Anyway, the book is worth reading.
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06-06-2007, 03:40 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: no matter from which location, its far, too far
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...yes, those german pessimists  ...I have some experiences with listenig to people´s interpretations of the philosophical texts and those make me often more sad than the original writing...
I don´t consider Nietzsche or Schopenhauer pessimistic in way they make you sad and cry...optimisim is unfortunately based on the stupid "will to live"...when I say something like this to my mom she is affraid I am getting depressed....but it such a truth, that you are forced to live, "to keep up the fire"...and who knows why? because you want? no, because your braincells are faking you, promissing satisfaction worth living...the last satisfaction is death...so what is the point, then?
when this kind of truth doesn´t make one happy is it because he thinks about loosing lower things and animal pleasure of them...when you enjoy the beauty of pure thought it makes you feel chaste and heavenly...and that frees you from the addiction to life, and that is the real application of "sad guys" philosophy....
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06-08-2007, 11:54 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
Posts: 130
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Requiem for the Devil by Jeri Smith-Ready. Not at all my usual genre preference, but still decent nonetheless.
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06-08-2007, 02:53 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - HP Lovecraft.
It's part of a collection that has to go back to the library tomorrow, but it turns out they have an omnibus, so I'm getting that out so I can finish all of the short stories Lovecraft wrote.
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06-08-2007, 03:10 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Posts: 468
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Originally Posted by FireAndIce
when this kind of truth doesn´t make one happy is it because he thinks about loosing lower things and animal pleasure of them...when you enjoy the beauty of pure thought it makes you feel chaste and heavenly...and that frees you from the addiction to life, and that is the real application of "sad guys" philosophy.... |
However true it may seem while you read their works, after you finish the pessimistic philosophers' books and you sit and reflect upon them, one question instantly pops into your mind: what is WRONG with these people?! Of course, one can find pleasure in merely thinking and philosophising, but a bit of hedonism never hurt anybody. After all, nobody knows the purpose of our existence, so we may as well make the most of it in any possible way we can.
As for the addiction to life... I don't think suicide would serve any purpose. Life is worth living, and when you feel that something is in the way of your well-being and it endangers your existence, that factor must be removed. However difficult a situation may seem, there is always a way out of it.
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"I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me." - Charles Baudelaire
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06-18-2007, 06:11 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 47
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Lisey's Story by Stephen King
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06-18-2007, 09:45 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: no matter from which location, its far, too far
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As for the addiction to life... I don't think suicide would serve any purpose. Life is worth living, and when you feel that something is in the way of your well-being and it endangers your existence, that factor must be removed. However difficult a situation may seem, there is always a way out of it.[/quote]
No one says that you should commit a suicide, of course. To get rid of addiction to life is a philosophical internal and balanced state...it helps you to get rid of agression and selfinvolvement, to get rid of fear of unexpected and death...It is very similar to dissolving of passions in buddism...but "sad guys" really lack something...they are extremly selfish and self-centered theoretics...no compassion, no feeling for others, no mercy...
"However difficult a situation may seem, there is always a way out of it." ...but you often cannot change external influences on you...there is no way out from burning car after accident with your head halved, to be very cruel...wise men say you can change yourself and get balanced and adapted internally any time...I dare to not agree...only thing to do if you survive is to take a "moral" and learn as much as you can after...if there is an"after"...bad things just happen...
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06-18-2007, 10:53 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Somewhere in this Universe, that's all I'll say.
Posts: 713
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I'm reading a number of books at the moment actually.
"Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
"I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
"Collected poems" by Anna Akhmatova
"I shook hands with the devil" by Roméo D'Allaire
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Yawn. This is rather tedious, is it not?
www.chansondeplume.blogspot.com
^Mon blog d'ecriture en francais. Veuillez lire et commenter!
Translation: My writing blog in french. Feel free to read and comment.
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06-18-2007, 11:20 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 16
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Christopher Moore's YOU SUCK a love story. Very funny, he is a great writer.
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