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06-20-2005, 10:49 AM
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#276
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 7
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All of you just need to take a deep breath and let it go.
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06-20-2005, 12:28 PM
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#277
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: I own Pitseleh!!
Posts: 3,747
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Oh Tom, you're my hero! Thank you for saving us from this hideously inane thread! You deserve a kiss!
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06-21-2005, 06:14 PM
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#278
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 11
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Originally Posted by ThwanCondu
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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I just started reading Titus Groan. So far I'm very impressed. Thanks for the recommendation, ThwanCondu.
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06-22-2005, 06:27 PM
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#279
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,051
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I can't do very much but read at the moment, and I'm finally allowed limited internet access. Hi guys! I just finished The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde and Twelth Night buy Shakespeare. Heh heh, my frien was telling mt that there's this cray proffessor at the local university that is cinvinced the that Shakespeare was really an Arab man named "Sheak es Spear" or something... too many crazy people in this town.
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06-23-2005, 05:05 PM
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#280
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Norway
Posts: 1,059
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If you are of a disposition to enjoy Kurt Vonnegut as much as I do, you should at least read Timequake. You'll laugh like hell, cry, and feel fortified at the end of it, appreciating the absurd details of life and looking through creased glasses at the beauty of it all. Maybe. Try it and see. Breakfast Of Champions, also very good.
Sorry, I wasn't here for the argument, was that correctly presented?
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06-24-2005, 08:53 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: everywhere. and nowhere. and anywhere.
Posts: 13
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On the side from reading these forum threads, I'm keeping adobe open with The Space Between Dreams, an unpublished, free e-book by a man named Lee Turcotte, alias, "K'an". It's great. THe writing is so different from anything I've ever read. I am flabbergasted as to why such a wonderful and different novel is not yet published.
anyway you can find the book for download here.
and i quote,
"The Space Between Dreams is a 339-page work of literary urban surrealism overflowing with novelty, metaphysics, hiphop, martial arts, assassins, ninjas, dreams, nightmares, hallucinations and designer psychedelics. This is a strangely crafted tale for the enjoyment of surrealists, martial artists, introverts, sociopaths, b-boys and b-girls, underground intellectuals, outcasts, party people, philosophical minorities, fugitive drug subcultures, urban shamen and fine connoisseurs of psychotic ideas. If you're a literate weirdo of any flavour, I wrote this book for you."
Outside of the internet, I have yet to select my next book.
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06-25-2005, 02:31 AM
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#282
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 150
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Originally Posted by kerioctober
I just started reading Titus Groan. So far I'm very impressed. Thanks for the recommendation, ThwanCondu.
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Wonderful! That makes me so happy that I got through to someone!
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07-08-2005, 11:26 PM
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#283
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 517
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I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I'm halfway through "The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design."
A freaking science book. And it's awesome. I've never been interested in science, but Dawkins is badass.
Also, I second pitseleh on Timequake. Possibly my favorite Vonnegut.
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07-12-2005, 11:26 AM
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#284
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,249
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I be a nerd. I'm reading Lord of the Rings again.
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07-12-2005, 02:21 PM
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#285
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Norway
Posts: 1,059
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Don't worry about being the biggest nerd, Winged Dreams - I have friends who have read it 20 times or so.
I'm currently reading Reefer Madnes by Eric Schlosser. A book about America's underground economy, the legal and economical consequences of the government's drug policy, working methods of both pot growers and the DEA, the porn industry, migrant workers... A look in to various aspects of the shadow economy, both historically and current.
Very interesting read. Did you for instance know that "During the 1980's federal spendings to incarcerate drug offenders rose more than 1,300 percent, from $88 million to $1,3 billion."?
Or: "In 1970 there were 3,384 drug offenders in federal prison. Today there are more than 68,000."
Yep. The War On Drugs sure is WORKING!
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08-22-2005, 06:49 PM
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#286
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 261
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I'm reading the back of a hornet spray can, and you?
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08-23-2005, 12:46 PM
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#287
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 1
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Currently Reading Kushiel's Avatar, by Jacqueline Carey. Erm, *again.*
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08-23-2005, 11:30 PM
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#288
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 5
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Erich Fromm's ESCAPE FROM FREEDOM. Not very easy to begin.
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08-24-2005, 08:19 AM
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#289
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: technically in 8 places at once...
Posts: 506
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I'm currently reading a six-part serial novel called The Blackstone Chronicles, by John Saul. It's quite good, but I consider it only mildly creepy... your creepy tolerance may vary.
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08-24-2005, 09:29 AM
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#290
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,249
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I'm reading the third book in a six part series. It's called War of the Spider Queen and involves drow. And did I mention I'm a huge geek? XD
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08-24-2005, 09:32 AM
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#291
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,242
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I'm currently immersed in the novel "American Gods" bu Neil Gaiman. It's quite good so far, even though I'm only one quarter of the way through it.
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08-24-2005, 11:31 AM
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#292
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Cali
Posts: 8,030
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I'm reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova and it's really good so far but I haven't had much time for reading so I'm only about half way done even though I started a few weeks ago
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08-26-2005, 03:55 PM
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#293
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 95
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the Kalevala and Shogun.
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08-26-2005, 07:39 PM
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#294
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: New York
Posts: 3
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Devils of Loudun by Huxley. I'm wading through it slowly (he does go off into some rather airy realms) but it's yummy as I enjoy Catholic history from when the church was all sorts of decadent and messed up.
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08-26-2005, 08:56 PM
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#295
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: The middle of nowhere, on the outskirts of the boonies.
Posts: 506
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Originally Posted by Disfunction
I'm currently immersed in the novel "American Gods" bu Neil Gaiman. It's quite good so far, even though I'm only one quarter of the way through it.
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That books is so much crack.
And has forever warped the way I look at leprechauns.
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Will we walk all night through solitary streets?
The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses,
we'll both be lonely.
Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love
past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent
cottage?
-Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California
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08-27-2005, 02:18 PM
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#296
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Spain
Posts: 197
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In this moment I'm reading a lot of psychology books because I have to do a task for the school..
I'd prefer a good mystery's book...
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08-28-2005, 01:01 AM
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#297
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 2,130
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Books of Blood 1 thru 6 by Clive Barker.
More than one monster in more than one story delights in mangling cars until it ignites the gas tank and sets itself on fire.
Otherwise I love it so far.
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08-28-2005, 07:54 PM
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#298
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: 42.5
Posts: 1,073
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Macbeth by Shakespeare
Despite being tricky to digest, I'm liking Macbeth a lot.
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"No - it's more like - wow, isn't enlightenment great?" - Doug Henning
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08-28-2005, 11:20 PM
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#299
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 70
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Fight CLub.
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08-29-2005, 04:29 PM
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#300
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 1,055
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Gone With The Wind.
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