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09-25-2008, 06:35 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: The Twilight Zone
Posts: 101
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Currently:
Brave new world (English assignment but its actually quite a good book)
The gay science-Nietzsche<3
Are you loathsoem tonight-Poppy Z. Brite
Skeleton crew-Stephen King
Next up:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fight Club (My friend David said it was actually a pretty deep book)
20th century ghosts
And a whole wave of philosophy books. I swear I take one peak into that aisle in the bookstore and im stuck there for the next hour.
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09-25-2008, 06:55 PM
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#1827
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Essays - Sir Francis Bacon
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09-25-2008, 08:04 PM
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#1828
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Fort Lauderdale
Posts: 148
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Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold
Oh ... and Cannery Row ... Steinbeck
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10-02-2008, 02:37 PM
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#1829
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In front of a computer screen.
Posts: 584
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A Clockwork Orange. I never got around to reading it until now. I now realise just how much I was missing.
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10-02-2008, 02:38 PM
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#1830
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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10-02-2008, 02:48 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Originally Posted by a morbid curiosity
Now I'm reading Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski. IT'S GRIM! (In a good way.)
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Awesome book - possibly his best novel.
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All pleasure is relief from tension. - William S. Burroughs
Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak.
Hula, hula, said the witches. - Norman Mailer
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10-02-2008, 04:32 PM
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#1832
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In absentia.
Posts: 104
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As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner
Batman graphic novels
Notes From Underground- Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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10-05-2008, 03:30 PM
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#1833
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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The Faerie Path-Frewin Jones
Garden of Shadows-V.C. Andrews
I love both of them!
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10-05-2008, 09:48 PM
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#1834
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 123
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Heh, I'm reading Mary Poppins. I love old children's books like that.
I also have absolutely nothing else to read, anyway. Although I recently finished "Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines" by Nic Sheff. A pretty amazing memoir of a meth addict. Finished it in two days. That's why I have nothing to read: I read way too damn fast.
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"And as always, innocent like roller coasters. Fatality is like ghosts in snow and you have no idea what you're up against because I've seen what they look like. Becoming perfect as if they were sterling silver chainsaws going cascading......."
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10-05-2008, 10:15 PM
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#1835
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posts: 1,780
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I'm trying to stretch everything out because I normally go through things so fast, so I'm still on Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Bukowski and Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman, and after that I shall start Neverwhere.
BUT, I got into Beta so my mother is going to take me out to buy some new books. I want to get Good Omens and/or Smoke and Mirrors, Killing Joke, and maybe Catcher in the Rye as I have managed to *not* read that by now. I'm also going to look for a decent compilation of Lovecraft stories again.
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"Lucifer was an idiot, it wound up lord and master of nothing at all."
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10-07-2008, 08:38 AM
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#1836
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Australia
Posts: 88
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Memoirs of a geisha.
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10-07-2008, 08:48 AM
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#1837
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currently "The gods themselves" - Isaac Asimov
next either "Faust" - Goethe or, "Slaughterhouse 5" - Kurt Vonnegut.
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10-08-2008, 01:19 PM
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#1838
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 330
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The Secret History, by Donna Tartt. It's compulsive as fuck, even though the climax came on the first page.
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10-08-2008, 03:15 PM
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#1839
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: elsewhere
Posts: 2,015
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Twilight. My art teacher strongly requested that I read it because her daughter bought the thing and she wanted it to be used for more than 3 days. It is a 1st draft account of a 15-year-old's vampire fantasy. That's what it's about, that's how it's written, that's how it reads. It's bloody fucking frustrating to read and has only served to deepen my mistrust of vampire novels >.< At least it's quick... kind of like being shot in the foot.
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Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder where you're at.
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
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10-08-2008, 03:17 PM
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#1840
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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If my Art teacher strongly requested I read Twilight I would quit.
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10-08-2008, 03:24 PM
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If my art teacher suggested that I read Twilight I would strongly suggest that she should aquire a better taste in literature.
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10-08-2008, 03:25 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posts: 1,780
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I would just start turning in pieces of art with no effort put into them, based on the book.
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-Lauren
"Lucifer was an idiot, it wound up lord and master of nothing at all."
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10-08-2008, 06:17 PM
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#1843
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: elsewhere
Posts: 2,015
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HAHAHA. She hasn't read it, I don't think, and wanted the book to be used more than once.
However I can't say I wasn't warned because I did read that thread about it, though like anything that screams "THIS IS SO [bad/disturbing/shitty/fucking irritating], it made me want to see how bad it was >.< And all your keystrokes, for all their vitriol, have not done it justice.
Oh well. My fault. Maybe I'll forget about it sometime.
*goes back and reads thread* She's 34?
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Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder where you're at.
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
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10-08-2008, 06:27 PM
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#1844
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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I used to like Twilight until I realized how bad the vocabulary and imagery was. I also noticed how easy it must have been to write because it's in first person. I only read it the first time because I heard from a friend that it was a good teen vampire romance. Now I see it as a half-assed attempt to write a good book.
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10-10-2008, 03:16 PM
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#1845
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Between Fascination and Fear
Posts: 1,116
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I prefer stories written in first person, it helps you empathise with the character. As for Twilight, it reminds me of those "choose your vampire romance" things, only longer.
Anyway, back to the original question, I'm reading Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
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10-11-2008, 04:31 AM
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#1846
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In front of a computer screen.
Posts: 584
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Twilight... just... words fail to describe.
Anyway, I'm reading A Russian Beauty and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov.
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10-11-2008, 04:49 AM
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#1847
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Salamina, Greece
Posts: 71
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Elizabeth Kostova - "The Historian" (3rd time I'm reading this!) 
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10-11-2008, 06:54 AM
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#1848
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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Gone With the Wind
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Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. If I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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10-11-2008, 02:42 PM
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#1849
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Florida
Posts: 423
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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10-11-2008, 04:08 PM
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#1850
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,332
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Originally Posted by Disaffected Shoelaces
The Secret History, by Donna Tartt. It's compulsive as fuck, even though the climax came on the first page.
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Ridiculously good book. Although her other books aren't quite up to its standard...
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"Meow. Mew. Mrow. Maow? Miaox." - Lovely Delkaetre speaks cat.
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