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05-20-2005, 04:52 PM
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#251
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 554
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Pale Moon Rising by Ginna Gray
*Soul*
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*Insert witty quote about something goth here*
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05-22-2005, 10:10 AM
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#252
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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I'm about to read The Good Negress. It's required summer reading because I was "invited to join Mrs. Herron-Titus's Honors Sophmore English class this coming semester!"
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-Cinema Strange
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06-01-2005, 09:00 PM
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#253
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Raleigh
Posts: 290
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I wish I could say I'm reading something intellectually stimulating, so as not to seem lazy or decadent during these trying summer months.
.....Fuck it all. I'm reading Fairy Tales redesigned for gay men. Which I am not, but they didn't have anything like beauty and the butch, so there we are.
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Truth, justice, honor...none of that's worth shit. What matters is people, and people aren't honest or just or honorable. They're petty and they're angry and they're afraid, and all anyone really wants, deep down, is to be wanted. And what's truth to that?
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06-03-2005, 10:36 AM
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#254
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Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 3
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No Subject For You!!!
I'm reading God Emperor of Dune. It's the only book in Herbert's series I haven't read. I've only read one of the new series; the new books seem like they've declined since Herbert wrote the originals, much like the V.C. Andrews books.
I just finished A Son of the Circus, which was pretty good. I love John Irving.
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06-04-2005, 04:09 AM
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#255
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Texas
Posts: 232
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Just finished Cussedness' Books, Blood Rites, Blood heresy and Blood Dawn. Reviewed them for SFReader. Gonna get a copy of Carpe Demon and Madman's Dreams next.
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06-08-2005, 05:34 AM
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#256
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 2
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Albert Camus - Le premier homme (It´s like his autobiography)
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06-09-2005, 06:28 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Austria
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i just finished reading "A Tale of Two Cities" by Dickens and I must say that i have never read such bullshit before. He got way too sentimental and forgot to keep to the idea of the book...namely the FRENCH REVOLUTION and not what a sweet little angel Lucy Manette is.
It made me wanna go an dig Dickens out of his grave and throw his damn bones in all directions.
The only interesting characters, really,were the Marquis and the guillotine.
Has anyone read it?
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06-10-2005, 11:25 AM
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#258
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 11
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Recommended Novels
I read two great Gothic Suspense novels by Joe Bright that I highly recommend: The Reflection and The Key. They’re well written and kept me up all night. The books descriptions caught my attention, but they’re even better than I imagined. The author has a great web site too: http://www.joebrightbooks.com
Does anybody have any great books that you’d recommend?
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06-10-2005, 11:32 AM
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#259
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 11
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Scapegoat
I'm reading The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier. It's an older book and not Gothic or scarry but pretty good.
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06-10-2005, 11:36 AM
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#260
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 554
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WILL SOON be reading a few things by the oh-so darling Janrae Frank 
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06-10-2005, 11:57 AM
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#261
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 7
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Joe Bright Rules!
Yeah, I read both of those novels already. They're fucking awesome! (Can I say fucking on this site?) They're not exactly Gothic, other than the setting. They're more mystery/suspense/thriller. But they were both great!
I'd also recommend Silence of the Lambs. I know, everybody's probably already read that book, but I thought of it because The Key has that same kind of intense action and a great demented villain. :twisted:
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06-10-2005, 06:24 PM
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#262
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 1
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The Key
I read The Reflection (loved it) but haven't read The Key. Do you think it's as good as The Reflection?
I looked on the web site. I love the picture on the main page. The scrapbooks are pretty cool too.
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06-13-2005, 08:06 AM
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#263
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Tampa,Fl
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at this time I am reading The Books of Blood by Clive Barker
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06-13-2005, 09:51 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 7
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Yes
Definitely read The Key. I liked it even more than The Reflection.
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06-13-2005, 07:05 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 150
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(afterglow, Camus rocks!)
Trying to get through Dracula, but summer always seems to slow me down hugely.
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06-13-2005, 07:20 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 150
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I may look into those.
Everyone go and check out Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. Or at least look it up on Amazon. first of three books that are a huge part of my life. Mervyn Peake was so beautiful! I swear you'll love it. (Though if you're going in for plot...not much happens. But it's the most vivid world you'll ever visit.)
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06-16-2005, 03:42 PM
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#267
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 11
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I looked up Titus Groan on Amazon and they look like something I'd enjoy. Thanks for the recommendation. I'm always looking for something new to read. Check out The Reflection and The Key. Several of my friends read them as well and they liked them as much as I did.
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06-16-2005, 07:40 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: 42.5
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I've read a ton of books.. are you looking for "goth" novels in particular? If so I won't be able to recommend any at all.
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"No - it's more like - wow, isn't enlightenment great?" - Doug Henning
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06-16-2005, 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by ice
I've read a ton of books.. are you looking for "goth" novels in particular? If so I won't be able to recommend any at all. |
Ice...don't you recognize a shill fest when you see it?
*request thread be moved or merged accordingly*
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06-16-2005, 09:15 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: 42.5
Posts: 1,073
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Lol.
I didn't actually read the post. I looked at the title and skimmed the first few posts and.. yeah. :oops:
I second that ^ motion.
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"No - it's more like - wow, isn't enlightenment great?" - Doug Henning
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06-16-2005, 10:10 PM
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#271
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 150
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uh...what's a shill fest?
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06-17-2005, 02:09 PM
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#272
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 11
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Originally Posted by ice
I've read a ton of books.. are you looking for "goth" novels in particular? If so I won't be able to recommend any at all. |
They don't have to be Gothic, just something good.
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06-17-2005, 05:00 PM
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#273
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 7
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TStone,
I looked at your web site and love your poem "Eaters of the Dead." Great mood and imagery. Oops, sorry for the compliment. I guess that means your writing now loses all credibility, right?
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06-17-2005, 09:49 PM
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One would think that dig would rub me, but you know what? Having spent the last three hours editing a piece I wrote in 2002, a piece I actually sold, and cringing at ever other fucking sentence…you aren’t telling me anything new by saying I lack credibility.
Fuck, let’s just say I’ve never had much of that shit anyway then we can both agree on something.
Now as for credibility equaling shill (do you know what a shill is?) you missed the whole point. What you have to understand, my little piggish pigman, is we get this sort of crap all the time. It becomes suspect when a n00b jumps on the boards, makes a brand new thread (when there is already an existing thread that would cover their post quite nicely thankyoumuch what are you reading?) and then another new poster comes in and starts agreeing with the first about how great a book, song, picture, and so now maybe you can see the light?
I don’t have a problem with shilling (just a personal problem with shilling myself but that's just me) and if someone has something they want to share, and it’s worth sharing, then please by all means share. I would, however, appreciate it if they would take a look around before they start pushing their wares. Just to get a feel for the place, and see if—maybe—a place has already been made for them to do that very thing.
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06-18-2005, 07:26 AM
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#275
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 7
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You do have a point there. I'm new to the board myself, which I suppose may seem suspect. But I don't know anybody else on this board and certainly didn't agree with the other posts for any other reason than I happened to agree with them. I certainly have nothing to gain from someone buying one book or another, so I really don't care.
As for your writing, though it may have sounded completely sarcastic, I really did like it. Me, I can't write worth a shit, so I always admire someone who can put sentences together that are actually worth reading.
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