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06-28-2008, 08:01 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: North Cackalacky
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A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway. Honestly, I wouldn't have started to read this if I didn't have to for English class, but it's not so terrible.
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06-28-2008, 08:03 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 52
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Shirley by Charlotte Bronte... I really should be re-reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for my summer reading... *hides from responsible sensibility*
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06-28-2008, 08:08 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Jillian, who wrote that Hyperion book you said you liked? I am off work for a week and want to read it. Was it Dan Simmons? There are so many titles out there with the same name...
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06-28-2008, 01:09 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Precisely Dan Simmons. He also wrote a magnificent horror book called Song Of Khali. Even Stephen King called it horrifying.
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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."
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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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06-28-2008, 01:52 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Israel.
Posts: 467
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Dan Simmons is amazing.
I have red only the four books of "Hyperion", unfortunatly.
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06-28-2008, 01:56 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Israel.
Posts: 467
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Twelve Kingdoms by Fuyumi Ono and a book about Japan.
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06-28-2008, 10:09 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 39
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Just started The Alchemist, Paulo Coehlo. So far, so good.
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07-01-2008, 02:18 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Earth
Posts: 2,000
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I am reading "Fragments of Olympian Gossip"
By Nikola Tesla. 1920's.
While listening on my cosmic phone
I caught words from the Olympus blown.
A newcomer was shown around;
That much I could guess, aided by sound.
"There's Archimedes with his lever
Still busy on problems as ever.
Says: matter and force are transmutable
And wrong the laws you thought immutable."
"Below, on Earth, they work at full blast
And news are coming in thick and fast.
The latest tells of a cosmic gun.
To be pelted is very poor fun.
We are wary with so much at stake,
Those beggars are a pest—no mistake."
"Too bad, Sir Isaac, they dimmed your renown
And turned your great science upside down.
Now a long haired crank, Einstein by name,
Puts on your high teaching all the blame.
Says: matter and force are transmutable
And wrong the laws you thought immutable."
"I am much too ignorant, my son,
For grasping schemes so finely spun.
My followers are of stronger mind
And I am content to stay behind,
Perhaps I failed, but I did my best,
These masters of mine may do the rest.
Come, Kelvin, I have finished my cup.
When is your friend Tesla coming up."
"Oh, quoth Kelvin, he is always late,
It would be useless to remonstrate."
Then silence—shuffle of soft slippered feet—
I knock and—the bedlam of the street.
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07-01-2008, 07:44 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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That was awesome.
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07-01-2008, 07:57 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: In cyberspace.
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Rereading Time of the Twins by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman. I know, I know, I'm a nerd.
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07-01-2008, 07:58 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 52
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Got bored with 'Shirley'
Found a paperback collection of five of Shakespeare's plays (Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, & a Midsummer's Night Dream) at a thrift store last week.
Presently reading Macbeth
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07-02-2008, 04:48 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: U.K
Posts: 1,858
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Herbie Brennan's 'Faerie Lord'.
It hasn't got anything to do with fairies, but it's similar to His Dark Materials.
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07-02-2008, 10:00 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Earth
Posts: 2,000
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Originally Posted by HumanePain
That was awesome.
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Are you talking about Tesla's poem? Glad you liked it! BTW, his birthday is coming up on the tenth of this month.
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07-06-2008, 09:20 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Colorado
Posts: 261
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A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.
Owen speaks in ALL CAPS since his voice is a permanent scream.
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07-06-2008, 03:23 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Flushing, NY
Posts: 3,206
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The Power of Now-Eckhart Tolle
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07-06-2008, 03:26 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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On The Road by Jack Kerouac.
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07-06-2008, 03:30 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Kansas
Posts: 58
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Rereading Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
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07-11-2008, 05:26 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Japan
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Wuthering Heights and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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07-11-2008, 07:17 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: 35n 90w
Posts: 39
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At present...
"Pattern Recognition" -William Gibson
"Voodoo in Haiti" -Alfred Metraux
"One River" -Wade Davis
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07-12-2008, 11:45 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Flushing, NY
Posts: 3,206
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Getting Even-Woody Allen
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07-12-2008, 03:17 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: U.K
Posts: 1,858
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I'm reading an Dorling Kindersley book about Albrecht Durer. Plus I've got a pretty big stack of magazines about various artists to read on the side.
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07-16-2008, 02:01 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 332
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Burnt Offerings
Laurell K. Hamilton
Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics
Jennifer Baumgardner
The Human Face of Globalization: From Multicultural to Mestizaje
Jacques Audinet (translated version)
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Pinhead: Not quite.
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Pinhead: What you think of as pain is a shadow. Pain has a face. Allow me to show it to you. Gentlemen, I... Am... Pain
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07-16-2008, 03:16 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Jersey City, Nj
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Circus of the Damned
Laurell K Hamilton
Try not to have more than one book at a time
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07-16-2008, 05:50 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 332
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Originally Posted by damion
Circus of the Damned
Laurell K Hamilton
Try not to have more than one book at a time
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Yeah. I have a bad habit of coming back from the library with 4 or 5 books and only reading 2. lol.
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J.P. Monroe: Jesus Christ!
Pinhead: Not quite.
-Hellraiser 3: Hell On Earth
Pinhead: What you think of as pain is a shadow. Pain has a face. Allow me to show it to you. Gentlemen, I... Am... Pain
-Hellraiser:Bloodline
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07-16-2008, 07:14 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
Posts: 2,413
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The Discourses of Fannie Wright and Fannie Wright: Rebel in America
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