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03-26-2008, 08:49 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: in a kingdom by the sea
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I pull the same thing, usually I have 3-4 books going at once. It takes about 100 pages to get into one for me, and so i ease into them. Right now, is "Light on Yoga" by BKS Iyengar
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03-30-2008, 12:37 PM
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#1652
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 423
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Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz, though I should be reading Fahrenheit 451; I don't know if I spelled that right.
I should be going to the library tomorrow for it.
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03-30-2008, 01:21 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Rutland
Posts: 70
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In the Company of Crows and Ravens - John Marzluff and Tony Angell
I used to be the kind to do a few books at once. I try to stick to one now with a suitable reference book at the side just in case I fancy looking something up when spurred on by something I read. I end up not reading the whole book otherwise and have to start again.
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03-30-2008, 02:26 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
Posts: 2,535
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Right now I am reading "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman.
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03-30-2008, 02:50 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,419
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Originally Posted by emeraldlonewoulf
But did it really deserve the incredible hype it got? I don't think so.
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I always thought the same about Harry Potter.
I'm re-reading Decipher by Stel Pavlou. It has a lot of interesting things about linguistics and physics in (twisted a bit in both cases), and the story involves people trying to uncover a message to save the world. I remember it being really good anyway.
I like His Dark Materials, and whatever other book it was I read by Philip Pullman. Might have been called Clockwork or something similar, it was a short book.
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03-30-2008, 03:35 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,021
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Asimov's Robot visions.
After reading the latest Scientific American magazines special edition on robots I have to say he was a prophet.
It should be required reading in all schools.
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03-30-2008, 05:10 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Zootown
Posts: 426
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At this very moment I have In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat with me, and am trying to get through it tonight.
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04-05-2008, 04:38 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 155
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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - its totally engrossing!!!! I'd recommend it to anyone!
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04-05-2008, 04:40 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: In the Desert
Posts: 4,270
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The Odyssey. I'm beginning to remember why I began to love Greek Mythology in the first place.
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04-05-2008, 07:19 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Some crappy city out in Long Island, NY.
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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. I know. How embarrassing. I read almost anything that has vampires in the story. Even if they're terrible. Haha.
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04-05-2008, 07:44 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Radio Free Dixie, the story of Robert F. Williams, by Timothy B. Tyson
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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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04-07-2008, 05:55 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Jersey Sticks.
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
It's such a good book; I've always had a soft spot for Japanese history. And the life of a Geisha is quite an interesting story, to boot. The things they had to go through... the poor girls. I would have died if it had been me.
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04-08-2008, 04:46 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Sometimes home, more time away.
Posts: 234
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I just finished Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackery and am currently reading Dracula
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04-08-2008, 05:43 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: a sneeze away from San Francisco
Posts: 2,144
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I just finished re-reading Lo.li.ta. Does anyone else find it a bit strange how he changes his opinion of Lo's mother halfway through?
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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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04-08-2008, 09:23 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Inland Empire
Posts: 277
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How The Universe Got Its Spots - Janna Levin
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04-09-2008, 06:57 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 273
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101 People Who Are Really Screwing America (and Bernard Goldberg is only #73) by Jack Huberman
I'm also checking out Bitten by Kelly Armstrong, mostly because I saw a commercial for her newest book (Bitten is her first in the series) and I tend to like books in the supernatural-modern-times books to a certain extend (see Southern Vampire and Anita Blake book lines).
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04-10-2008, 05:30 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,041
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I have to read King Lear for English class.
I need a good book to read. I don't know what to read, though.
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04-13-2008, 01:10 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Originally Posted by ThreeEyesOni
I'm also checking out Bitten by Kelly Armstrong, mostly because I saw a commercial for her newest book (Bitten is her first in the series) and I tend to like books in the supernatural-modern-times books to a certain extend (see Southern Vampire and Anita Blake book lines).
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I almost checked out Bitten today. Could you tell me how it is after you've read it?
And i'm currently reading Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life without God
The Goth Bible
and..The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson.
Yeah, i know the last 2 together sound bad. lol.
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04-16-2008, 12:31 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: the belltower that the bats left
Posts: 388
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petshop of horrors vol4
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"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
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04-16-2008, 07:16 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Earth
Posts: 2,000
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I'm reading a novel called THE 81ST SITE by Tony Kenrick. Hey it's not Goth but it is an excellent read. I picked a copy up at a used book stand at the mall and I loved that copy. Unfortunately, that copy was falling apart. I bought a fresh copy from Amazon. That book is a real thriller, full of stuff to keep you on the edge of you seats. If you want a copy, I scanned the falling apart one and made a PDF of it. If you want it, give me an email address and I'll send it to you. I bought the book twice so I'm no fucking leach! So don't call me a pirate or whatever.
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04-16-2008, 08:25 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,041
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Books like that are really interesting. I'll keep an eye out for it. At the moment I'm re-reading The Catcher in the Rye.
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~ inscription at the Temple of Delphi
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04-17-2008, 10:32 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Zootown
Posts: 426
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Anton Chekhov's Complete Plays. It also has his short stories and essays in it. I am an English nerd, this I know. I have wayyy to many books I'm in the middle of, but somehow it helps keep things fresh.
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04-24-2008, 10:44 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Under Your Bed.
Posts: 51
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If you could only see the piles upon piles of books I need to read before I die. It's insanity. At the moment, I am reading The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris, and I'm just finishing Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice. I will start Memnoch the Devil soon after, as well as perhaps The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneggar, and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer if I can get my hands on it somehow.
Does anyone else read the Twilight Series? I was skeptical at first, but was shocked to find it to be literary crack. They're not even written that well, but somehow I devour them like the Harry Potter series (which also are not exactly genius). Is it just me?
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04-24-2008, 08:00 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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The Fifth Book of Poems by Joseph Tuccio. And it's autographed.
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04-26-2008, 12:26 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: In Your Pants, PA.
Posts: 1,918
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I'm reading a bunch of stuff right now.
I'm still reading "Rip It Up", I'm also reading The Complete Works of Flannery O' Conor and this book and Arabic love poetry, which is neat because it has the original poem in arabic and the translations...but I hate love poetry.
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