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10-19-2009, 06:25 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Bliss
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In Open Spaces...
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10-22-2009, 12:48 PM
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#2427
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: North Florida
Posts: 646
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The Lace Reader by Brunonina somebody-or-other
It's okay, but her writing style seems...fractured to me. I'm sticking with it, though.
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I WILL GLUE A SPECIMEN PATCH TO HIS FOREHEAD. ~ korinna5555
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10-22-2009, 01:31 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KuroOokami
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane.
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I need to pick that up, just saw the movie trailer the other night.
Right now I'm reading The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks.
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10-22-2009, 08:34 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Born in Germany, living in Los Angeles
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I am reading Burrough's Cities of the Red Night, and it is amazing. A little bizarre, but that is exactly the brilliance of him 
I'm looking for a book to read after this
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10-23-2009, 10:13 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Minnesota
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I'm not reading anything right now, but I'm hoping to read The Watseka Wonder: A narrative of startling phenomena occurring in the case of Mary Lurancy Vennum by E. Winchester Stevens sometime soon.
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10-23-2009, 10:39 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Originally Posted by DorianGray
I am reading Burrough's Cities of the Red Night, and it is amazing. A little bizarre, but that is exactly the brilliance of him
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Have you read Burrough's 'Mars' series. My favorite is "The Chessmen of Mars."
(BTW, he used to own a bookstore here).
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10-25-2009, 06:22 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Sheffield UK.
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Crime and Punishment, alongside a collection of short stories by Maupassant.
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10-25-2009, 11:00 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Yorkshire, UK
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The Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb, third in her Liveship Trilogy. Also dipping into a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's short stories every so often.
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10-25-2009, 03:24 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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The Sadeian Woman. Angela Carter writes way better as a critic than as an author of fiction, which kind of makes since given that the ideas behind her writing are usually interesting but her prose style kinda blows.
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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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10-25-2009, 03:26 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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Originally Posted by Apathy's_Child
The Sadeian Woman. Angela Carter writes way better as a critic than as an author of fiction, which kind of makes since given that the ideas behind her writing are usually interesting but her prose style kinda blows.
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Haha, you're totally kissing ass.
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10-25-2009, 03:32 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Originally Posted by JCC
Haha, you're totally kissing ass.
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Why do you always have to embarrass me in front of hot British women? :[
Seriously, she's my kind of feminist until she touches fiction. Her scholarship is pretty cool.
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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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10-31-2009, 11:22 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Posts: 321
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I'm revising for my history exam on the Russian/Chinese Revolution, so:
Analysing The Chinese Revolution by Trevor Sowdon (Crap)
Analysing The Russian Revolution by Richard Malone (Good)
...and many others.
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11-01-2009, 12:56 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Yorkshire, UK
Posts: 54
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Human Traces by Sebastian Faulkes for about the 8th time I think.
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11-01-2009, 02:00 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: SO-IL
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I somehow managed to find myself in the middle of Born to Kvetch, Brave New World, and Pic, all at the same time.
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11-01-2009, 09:52 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
Posts: 3,231
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Abarat, by Clive Barker. Not what I was expecting, Barker's always seemed like... airport fiction. But I have Abarat and the Books Of Blood on loan from random dude, so I'll see what I make of them.
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The noblest sentiment I have encountered and the most passionate political statement to stir my heart both belong to a fictional character. Why do we have no politicians as pure in their intent and determinedly joyous in their outlook as Arkady Bogdanov of Red Mars?
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11-02-2009, 04:49 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,419
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Iron Council - China Miéville
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11-02-2009, 08:20 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: North Florida
Posts: 646
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Poppy Z. Brite's Wormwood collection
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I WILL GLUE A SPECIMEN PATCH TO HIS FOREHEAD. ~ korinna5555
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11-02-2009, 07:27 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: A lovely place where the humidity melts your makeup off.
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I'm about to start reading The Scarlet Letter, attempt #2
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11-05-2009, 12:45 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
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I just finished The Child Thief, by Brom. It's Peter Pan (sans Disney fluff) plus horror, and a dash of Celtic mythology. YUM.
It's definitely going on my book wish list.
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11-05-2009, 01:25 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: R'lyeh
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Rereading all the Douglas Adam's Hitchiker's Guide books, then I shall start on And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer, which I've heard good things about and am quite looking forward too.
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Terror Nuclear,Terror Nuclear
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11-05-2009, 07:22 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Columbus, OH
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Myths and Legends of Japan, various Roman history books, Vasari's Lives of the Artists, re-reading Titus Andronicus, and about forty other things. I just spilled General Tso on a biography of Queen Isabella.
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11-06-2009, 02:27 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,332
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*sigh* Once again I've picked up the complete works of Shakespeare. I wish that the damned man never wrote such good plays, so I didn't had to re-read them when my fancy for Ye-Halfe-Olde-English kicks in.
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Wasted forever, on speed, bikes and booze.
"Meow. Mew. Mrow. Maow? Miaox." - Lovely Delkaetre speaks cat.
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11-06-2009, 12:27 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
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I am reading nothing, but I am 5 game into my Madden NFL season
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11-06-2009, 03:25 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Earth.
Posts: 479
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Oh lord.
This would be something you would say in a gaming thread AshiesHubby.
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-Friedrich Nietzsche
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11-06-2009, 05:21 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
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I know lol, just stating what I am doing on the alternate
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