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07-24-2007, 11:53 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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My dear sweet mother just chock full of lavendar recently returned from France with a gift for me:
Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, in French no less! Tres bien!
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07-24-2007, 12:34 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: London.
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Suggestions for good goth books?
I've read Dracula, and I'm a big fan of the Demonata series. Any other books that are a goth must-have?
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07-24-2007, 12:48 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
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Originally Posted by sofizza_the_toad@hotmail.
I've read Dracula, and I'm a big fan of the Demonata series. Any other books that are a goth must-have?
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I'm sure you'll get a load of responses there, but a quick word to the wise, the board regulars like it if you go to the introduction forums, read the stickies and post your answers to the 13 questions there before you get stuck into the forums...
Quick! do it now! 
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07-25-2007, 08:20 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: UK/Tokyo
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Originally Posted by She_Is_My_Sin
& the names he gave them were a bit cheesy.
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A bit cheesy is an understatement!!! Haha I was laughing so much at the names... it was a total 'wtf' moment!
Heehee
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07-25-2007, 11:36 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow?
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Originally Posted by __DearlyDeparted__
Well Ive just finshed Anne Rice- Tale Of the body theif. And am currently now reading Stethen King- Pet Sematary. Lol Im such a book nerd I like have 10+ diffrent books which I have yet to start reading ...
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Hah, you're not the only book nerd, don't worry. I've got nearly 20 books lying around that I still need to get to. They'll have to wait until I finish HP 7 though, which may take a while because I seem to suddenly have tons of other crap to get done.
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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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07-25-2007, 08:51 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Albany, NY
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I just started From The Dust Returned, by Ray Bradbury. I picked it up on a whim from the bookstore today, and I'm having trouble putting it down. It has a feel to it that I think will appeal to many of the people that frequent this site.
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07-25-2007, 10:14 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Murderapolis
Posts: 188
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Nabokov's ******
Good stuff. ^.^
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07-25-2007, 11:36 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: a sneeze away from San Francisco
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I loved ******, though the teach took it away when she saw it. Sigh.
I am currently reading impulse, by Ellen Hopkins. It's written in verse, very interesting.
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Originally Posted by Joker_in_the_Pack
At some point, you need to look yourself in the mirror and realize that what other people did to you does not define you as a person. You and your actions define who you are as a person. It's up to you to be a good person, in spite of all the evil you've faced. In fact, it should be because of the evil you see that it's good you do. Be the change you want in the world. Next time someone tells me that they're an asshole because they've had a bad life, I'm stabbing them in the eye with a spork.
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07-27-2007, 05:44 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Well, I finished 'Interview With The Vampire'. Damn I love that book. I agree that Lestat is a very interesting character.
I'm now beginning Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's Faust, as translated in the original meters by Bayard Taylor.
When I finish Faust, I was pondering hunting down my father's old copy of Dante's "Inferno". Good idea? Bad Idea?
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A prank a day keeps the dog leash away - Jello Biafra
I want your skulls! I NEED your skulls! - Misfits
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07-27-2007, 06:48 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Flushing, NY
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I am currently reading THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Again.
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07-28-2007, 06:08 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Oslo, Norway
Posts: 1,830
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Breathless - wonderful idea! Great book.
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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
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07-28-2007, 09:48 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 63
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Othello for school, then A Doll's House.
Ungh, while I like Othello, I'm dreading A Doll's House. Bad.
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07-29-2007, 10:10 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 40
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Just finished Robert McCammon's Swan Song. Starting Are You Loathsome Tonight? by Poppy Z. Brite. I"m catching up on the stuff by her that I haven't read yet.
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07-29-2007, 10:32 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
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I just finished reading The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. Very interesting and different.
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07-29-2007, 10:40 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: At work.
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Just finished "the Stand" & now am reading "No One Here Gets Out Alive" which is a biography of Jim Morrison. I never knew he was a Mensa-quality genius.
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07-29-2007, 05:10 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
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Originally Posted by Alaizabel Cray
Hah, you're not the only book nerd, don't worry. I've got nearly 20 books lying around that I still need to get to. They'll have to wait until I finish HP 7 though, which may take a while because I seem to suddenly have tons of other crap to get done.
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That's nothing, I've got over 50 books at home that I haven't read yet
Don't ask....
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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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07-29-2007, 09:42 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 15
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iv just startrd romeo & juilet
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07-30-2007, 12:49 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 55
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The last book I read was the conclusion of the Soldier Son Trilogy by Robin Hobb. I need to get down to forbidden planet to get another book - probably next weekend.
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07-30-2007, 07:08 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,021
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Just bought "The Vampire Book, Encyclopedia of the Undead" by J. Gordon Melton.
Pretty good reference really, fact, fiction, entertainment and folklore. Can't say Vamps are my thing, but it was on sale for seven bucks and is a fairly interesting book.
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07-30-2007, 07:12 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Inland Empire
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I'm reading Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for the second time.
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07-30-2007, 07:53 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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^Hey, I'm about to read that book!^
I just have to finish Harry Potter first.
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I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
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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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07-31-2007, 12:24 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: a sneeze away from San Francisco
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I reread my great grandfather's copy of "The Picture of Dorian Grey." It is still one of my favorite novels.
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Originally Posted by Joker_in_the_Pack
At some point, you need to look yourself in the mirror and realize that what other people did to you does not define you as a person. You and your actions define who you are as a person. It's up to you to be a good person, in spite of all the evil you've faced. In fact, it should be because of the evil you see that it's good you do. Be the change you want in the world. Next time someone tells me that they're an asshole because they've had a bad life, I'm stabbing them in the eye with a spork.
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07-31-2007, 11:28 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Brizzle, baby!
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Having finished Deathly Hallows (and yes, I agree that the epilogue was cheesy! The names are awful...) I'm now reading a John Steinbeck 2-in-1. I've finished Of Mice and Men and have just started Cannery Row, which is quite enjoyable.
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07-31-2007, 03:42 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Flushing, NY
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A Peoples' History of the United States-Howard Zinn
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07-31-2007, 05:10 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
Posts: 752
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Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
****** by Vladimir Nabokov
I Claudius by Robert Graves
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K Rowling 
Yep, i'm reading 4 books at once.
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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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