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02-02-2010, 08:41 PM
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#2551
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
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Clive Barker's Imajica. Been a while, forgot how entertaining he can be. Miss him.
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02-02-2010, 09:22 PM
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#2552
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,360
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Linux Complete Desk Reference. Har har! Now that`s gawff!
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02-03-2010, 12:16 PM
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#2553
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: A ship called Dignity
Posts: 1,919
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I bought Don Quixote, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Old Curiosity Shop today so I have plenty of reading to get stuck into.
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02-03-2010, 12:19 PM
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#2554
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
Posts: 2,606
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'Salem's Lot, Stephen King.
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02-03-2010, 07:32 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 4
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i love the icewindale trilogy, dritz has awesome pictures on the front!
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02-03-2010, 07:39 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 4
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The phantom of the opera
i'm reading the phantom of the opera by Gaston Leroux-very good in my opinion.
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02-03-2010, 11:47 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Infront mi cogida laptop
Posts: 307
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I'm trying to finish It by Stephen King
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02-03-2010, 11:47 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Infront mi cogida laptop
Posts: 307
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But i doubt if I can
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02-04-2010, 01:25 PM
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#2559
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Re-reading The Sun Also Rises for about the millionth time. Dude could turn a motherfucking phrase when he wanted to.
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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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02-05-2010, 08:06 PM
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#2560
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Posts: 357
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Quote:
Originally Posted by morgothica
i'm reading the phantom of the opera by Gaston Leroux-very good in my opinion.
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I love that book...I need to read that again soon.
I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, I wish I had more reading time it's going to take a while to finish.
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02-06-2010, 03:29 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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There's a strong case to be made for The Brothers Karamazov being the best novel ever written, IMO.
Hart Crane's complete poems and selected letters & prose. I've run out of good novels to read recently.
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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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02-07-2010, 01:47 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Infront mi cogida laptop
Posts: 307
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I'mstill reding It (S. King) I think I will be able to finish it. I hope so.
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02-07-2010, 01:51 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: California
Posts: 23
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MollyMac
Clive Barker's Imajica. Been a while, forgot how entertaining he can be. Miss him.
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LOVE Clive Barker, but I have yet to get around to Imajica yet...
I'm finally reading Fear and Loathing. Also about halfway through The Stand by Stephen King. Re-reading some Sherlock Holmes as well. I adore Holmes; he's one of my all-time favorite characters, in any medium.
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02-07-2010, 09:17 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Originally Posted by Ophelia's Snorkel
I'd be interested in what you think of that one when you're done. I've not read it yet.
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For what it is, its good. It was written in 2005 so you have to ignore the rumours bit but it gives a lot of appreciation for how they made their music and how their sound changed over the years. I found myself stopping at times to put on the album that the book was talking about how they made so I could follow along. Overall it could have been written better, but hey, its a biography and it makes good light reading.
I think the best bit of trivia was how Tolhurst once really had to go to the bathroom while they were the supporting act for Generation X and he found Billy Idol in the bathroom fucking a groupie, and he couldn't hold it in so he decided to go for it and pee. He aimed for the toilet but partly peed on Idol's leg. Since I read that whenever I think of Billy Idol I have to giggle and think "hehe, the Cure peed on you."
Dunno what to read now, might pick up The Compass Of Zen by Seung Sahn again, I don't recall if I ever finished it or not.
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02-07-2010, 09:28 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dirty South
Posts: 1,726
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Crime and Punishment, it's an excellent book, as was previously stated by others.
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02-08-2010, 01:45 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In desert part of Oregon, Central
Posts: 1,147
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Skin Trade by Laurell K Hamilton
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
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02-08-2010, 05:24 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Posts: 357
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Quote:
Originally Posted by the-nihilist
Crime and Punishment, it's an excellent book, as was previously stated by others.
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Yep, simply can't go wrong reading that book.
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02-08-2010, 11:58 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Long Beach/Phelan, CA
Posts: 37
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House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.
Have any of you read it?
It's very...different.
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02-08-2010, 12:28 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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I so wanna read that. It gets mentioned pretty regularly on here.
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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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02-10-2010, 02:18 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Originally Posted by MollyMac
Clive Barker's Imajica. Been a while, forgot how entertaining he can be. Miss him.
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Do you like it then? That's the only Clive Barker book I tried to read, and I hated it. Maybe I should give it another go.
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02-10-2010, 02:19 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Apathy's_Child
I so wanna read that. It gets mentioned pretty regularly on here.
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You wanna read weird? Read Danielewski's Only Revolutions. If you can.
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02-10-2010, 02:56 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Sheffield UK.
Posts: 2,065
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Maupassant's short stories collection.
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02-10-2010, 11:55 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Originally Posted by Pineapple_Juice
You wanna read weird? Read Danielewski's Only Revolutions. If you can.
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Sure, may just do - if I like HoL, I'll probably check out some more of his stuff anyway.
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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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02-10-2010, 05:40 PM
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#2574
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Infront mi cogida laptop
Posts: 307
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We were asked to make a book report of any Newbery medal awardee books. I still can't find one of those.
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02-10-2010, 06:08 PM
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#2575
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 18
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Sush...em reading someone's thoughts.
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