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10-10-2008, 03:16 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Between Fascination and Fear
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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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#1827
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In front of a computer screen.
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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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#1828
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Salamina, Greece
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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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#1829
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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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#1830
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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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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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Wasted forever, on speed, bikes and booze.
"Meow. Mew. Mrow. Maow? Miaox." - Lovely Delkaetre speaks cat.
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10-11-2008, 04:09 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,332
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Originally Posted by GothicChristian
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
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Also a great book. Do try to read Atlas Shrugged and Anthem too.
As for what I'm reading; Miltons Paradise Lost
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Wasted forever, on speed, bikes and booze.
"Meow. Mew. Mrow. Maow? Miaox." - Lovely Delkaetre speaks cat.
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10-11-2008, 04:13 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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Originally Posted by Methadrine
As for what I'm reading; Miltons Paradise Lost
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I've just fallen rediculously in love with you. Paradise Lost is one of my favorites.
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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, 04:20 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,332
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Originally Posted by MegearaErotica
I've just fallen rediculously in love with you. Paradise Lost is one of my favorites.
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Indeed.
Delight thee more, and Siloa’s brook, that flow’d
Fast by the oracle of God.
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Wasted forever, on speed, bikes and booze.
"Meow. Mew. Mrow. Maow? Miaox." - Lovely Delkaetre speaks cat.
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10-11-2008, 04:48 PM
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#1835
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Ireland
Posts: 14
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Demian - Herman Hesse. Have just read it a third time and it gets better with each read!!
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10-12-2008, 04:32 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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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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Awesome book.
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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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10-12-2008, 04:55 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Ireland
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Yeah. Steppenwolf is pretty damn good too!
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10-12-2008, 05:39 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,419
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Perdido Street Station.
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10-12-2008, 08:48 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Northern California
Posts: 57
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Oh, it is so relieving to see people on a goth forum dislike Twilight.
Anyway, I just finished The Riven Kingdom by Karen Miller. So far, she's had entertaining work.
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10-19-2008, 04:43 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.
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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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10-19-2008, 05:25 PM
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#1841
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: United States
Posts: 761
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"The Tommyknockers" by Stephen King 
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Welcome to hell.
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10-22-2008, 03:54 AM
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#1842
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Cardiff
Posts: 173
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Anarchism - George Woodcock
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10-24-2008, 03:33 PM
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#1843
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In front of a computer screen.
Posts: 584
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Burning Bridges by Angela Carter
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10-24-2008, 05:48 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,041
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The Last Oracle by James Rollins
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"Man, know thyself, and thou wilst know the universe and the gods."
~ inscription at the Temple of Delphi
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10-24-2008, 06:15 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,274
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The Encyclopedia of Immaturity, or How To Never Grow Up, by Klutz.inc.
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10-24-2008, 08:52 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Not sure...can't see thru all this eyeliner....
Posts: 40
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Originally Posted by a morbid curiosity
Burning Bridges by Angela Carter
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Holy $#@&!! I thought I was the only person in the world who'd ever heard of Angela Carter. She is one of my favorite writers of all time. My fave book by her is The War of Dreams. I read it a few years ago, and it was so mind-blowing that I'm still recovering from the experience.
Anyway, right now I'm reading The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.
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10-24-2008, 09:44 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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A History of Western Society... huge.
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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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10-24-2008, 10:32 PM
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#1848
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
Posts: 8,001
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I'm actually looking for a new book to read.
I might start reading a book of Arabic poetry.
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10-24-2008, 10:57 PM
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#1849
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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At the moment I'm reading the strangist Inuyasha fanfiction ever to be written. It has something to do with an inner tube on Kagome's head.
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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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10-24-2008, 11:22 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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*shakes head* And if its on fanfiction I'll bet you it has rave reviews. Those people love everything.
I'm trying to decide if I should pick up this short story book I never finished or reread Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen.
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