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09-15-2009, 12:16 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
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Absolute Sandman. Now all I need is Volume 1!!!!! =D
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09-15-2009, 06:45 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dirty South
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Reading (or rather listening, since it's an audio book) to "At the Earth's Core" by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Unfortunately I listened to the 1st 5 chapters of the sequel before discovering the preceding book.
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09-15-2009, 09:56 PM
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#2353
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Australia
Posts: 12
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Almost finished Memoirs of a Geisha, about to start on George Orwell's 1984.
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09-15-2009, 10:21 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 327
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Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress was good, and I'm about to start The Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Heard it was realllllly good.
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09-16-2009, 11:34 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: You wish you knew
Posts: 11
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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09-18-2009, 10:34 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 6
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Neil Gaiman - American God's, it's great!! ^_^
That guy has fantastic imagination!
Next up is either - Exquisite Corpse - Poppy Z Brite, or some book I found on Cults for £2, bargain!!
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09-18-2009, 03:11 PM
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#2357
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Somewhere
Posts: 123
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Mrs Dalloway by Virgina Woolf
Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
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09-19-2009, 03:38 PM
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#2358
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Just finished Crime and Punishment today, it was awesome. I'll pick up another Dostoyevsky when I go to the bookstore Friday.
Until then I got Jurassic Park and The Lost World, found them at last week's flea market ^_^
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09-19-2009, 04:09 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saya
Just finished Crime and Punishment today, it was awesome. I'll pick up another Dostoyevsky when I go to the bookstore Friday.
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That's been my favourite book since I was like 12 years old. Shit is rad, am I right?
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09-19-2009, 04:59 PM
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#2360
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JCC
That's been my favourite book since I was like 12 years old. Shit is rad, am I right?
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Totally rad, and mad at myself now for not reading it sooner.
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09-19-2009, 11:00 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Australia
Posts: 12
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A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
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09-20-2009, 12:23 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: SO-IL
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Just finished Less Than Zero, which was fantastic, stopped trying to read that hapless piece of shit A Million Little Peices, and just started City of Quarts, which was a book that helped inspire the movie Bastards of the Party.
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09-20-2009, 02:44 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Yorkshire, UK
Posts: 54
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Originally Posted by withit
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
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I adore that book. The first time I read it I thought how am I meant to understand the Nadsat that they speak, but as I got into it I found myself reflexively understanding their meaning. It's wonderfully done.
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09-21-2009, 05:01 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 6
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Saya - Dostoyevsky's brilliant, have you read Notes from the Underground?
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09-21-2009, 06:40 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: North Florida
Posts: 646
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A Simple Plan by Scott Smith. The film adaptation was crap, but the novel is excellent.
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09-21-2009, 10:57 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The United States
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I'm reading Circles of Stone by Joan Dahr Lambert. Every time I read this book I feel a sort of yearning for past times when we had to fight to survive and lived freely from day to day, not needing to plan for anything but the next winter. It's a very empowering read.
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09-21-2009, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss.SB
Saya - Dostoyevsky's brilliant, have you read Notes from the Underground?
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No, Crime And Punishment was the first thing by him I read. I think I saw Notes From The Underground last time I was at Chapters, hopefully its still there.
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09-22-2009, 06:05 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Finished Jurassic Park, reading The Lost World. Already I have misgivings, in the first book Ian Malcolm died but its like Critchton changed his mind and said "Oh look he's not dead! And now he's our main character." What was the point of spending half of the first book killing him slowly and then slipping away as a sort of victory against Hammond only to just have him come back and say "Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated?"
And he's got a limp and a cane, he's like House if he was a mathematician.
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09-22-2009, 09:52 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: California
Posts: 53
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Originally Posted by Ophelia's Snorkel
I can hardly wait until you finish it! You'll have to post when you do.
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I finished a couple days ago, but I forgot to post, so this is me posting.
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09-23-2009, 01:00 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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The Cell by Stephen King. Just got into it-apparently cell phones are making people turn into wild beasts or something?
Meh. Someone gave it to me to borrow so I am going to read it, but I'm stoked on Only Revolutions next from Danielewski-though I paged through some of it and it all seems like gibberish to me so I'm not sure how I'll fare with that.
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09-23-2009, 03:15 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hell Hall
Posts: 1,167
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Flowers of evil by Charles Baudelaire .one of my favourite.
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09-23-2009, 10:20 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 4,036
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Moby Dick.. Dreadfully boring
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09-23-2009, 10:40 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Originally Posted by Geoluhread
Moby Dick.. Dreadfully boring
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I feel bad for saying it about a classic, but thats a "skip to the good parts" book. I've never read the whole thing in full.
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09-23-2009, 10:46 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 4,036
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Yea.. You told me.. But I have to read all of it .. Sense of accomplishment you may say.
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― Jack Osborne
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09-24-2009, 06:10 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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That's how I felt about practically every classic novel I've ever read.
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