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02-15-2010, 08:18 AM
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#2601
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: new zealand
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Fitzgerald
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02-15-2010, 09:00 AM
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#2602
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 290
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Originally Posted by FlowerGirl
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Fitzgerald
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oo did you see the movie yet? It's long, but pretty well done in my opinion. 
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02-15-2010, 09:40 AM
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#2603
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: new zealand
Posts: 255
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Originally Posted by Amunet
oo did you see the movie yet? It's long, but pretty well done in my opinion. |
Yep it's one of my favourites. It's one of those movies that succeded in not dragging on and on...
There are so many quotes that I can remember...but the saddest one of all -
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My name is Benjamin Button, and I was born under unusual circumstances. While, everyone else was agin', I was gettin' younger... all alone.
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02-15-2010, 09:43 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 290
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it was def a good movie.
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02-15-2010, 06:15 PM
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#2605
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 2,932
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Politics in Latin America, by Charles H. Blake
Anthologie de la Littérature Française, by Robert Leggewie
The Portable Thomas Jefferson, by Merril D. Peterson
The Federalist Papers, by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay
The Major Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein
New Organon of Bacon
Meditations of Descartes
Adventure of Ideas by Whitehead
Anti-Oedipus by Deleuze
Don't you just love college
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Originally Posted by KissMeDeadly
You fucking people [war veterans] are only a step below entitled rich kids, the only difference being you had to do and witness horrible things, instead of being given everything.
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real classy
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02-15-2010, 07:51 PM
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#2606
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
Posts: 3,231
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"Cordelia's Honor (book 2, Barrayar)", first book of the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold.
Next up is yet another Hugo Award Winner- "Downbelow Station" by CJ Cherryh.
Between McMaster Bujold, Kim Stanley Robinson, the eternally present Ursula KLeGuin and now C J Cherryh, it's all Hugo-award winners lately. Oddly, Hugo Award winning science fiction novels have a tendency to skew slightly toward support of humanitarianism and relative socialism with a utopian end vision rather than the fiercely militaristic/ libertarian capitalist stuff that makes up a lot of science fiction with a more military bent.
(and dear god, it's saying something when there's a more military bent to something than Cordelia's Honor. Sodding isolationist Barrayans)
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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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02-15-2010, 07:59 PM
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#2607
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Infront mi cogida laptop
Posts: 307
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Right now, as in now..I'm reading my classmate's shirt. It's got a lot of funny prints. Earth-friendly quotes like...
"Conserve water...Shower with me." haha.
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02-15-2010, 09:53 PM
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#2608
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dirty South
Posts: 1,726
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I'm going to read "The Brothers Karamazov" because people have said it was a great book and it was by the same author who did "Crime and Punishment" which I thought was awesome.
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Kill your idol. Come on, jump into the void!
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02-16-2010, 05:55 AM
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#2609
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 290
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finished book one of the Bartimaeus Trilogy, waiting for the second... in the meantime, reading "Eleventh Hour" by Catherine Coulter which is a true crime book... I'm actually not too thrilled at this one, the way she's writing is bothering me. I can't pinpoint the exact reason why, but her character development is very vague and almost like someone in middle school wrote it. She jumps around a bit too. I don't recall reading any of her other stories, but I wonder if its is just this book.... hmm
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02-16-2010, 04:35 PM
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#2610
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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The Face-Dean Koontz
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02-16-2010, 04:48 PM
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#2611
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: new zealand
Posts: 255
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Originally Posted by Pineapple_Juice
The Face-Dean Koontz
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Good book!
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02-16-2010, 05:06 PM
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#2612
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Started out dull but it's getting better.
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02-16-2010, 05:15 PM
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#2613
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: new zealand
Posts: 255
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Originally Posted by Pineapple_Juice
Started out dull but it's getting better.
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The mad stabbing gets better...just wait.
If you havn't read Breathless yet I would highly recommend it. I couldnt stop turning the pages!
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02-16-2010, 05:17 PM
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#2614
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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I'm only just at the part where he sees Dunny's car go out the garage door. I'll take you up on Breathless.
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02-16-2010, 08:49 PM
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#2615
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: exile.
Posts: 89
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Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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02-17-2010, 06:51 AM
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#2616
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 290
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YAY! I just got Book 2 of the Bartimeaus Trilogy! woot!
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02-17-2010, 02:43 PM
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#2617
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Pennsylvania, US
Posts: 16
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"Moonchild" by Crowley. It's incredibly hard to follow and really doesn't get going until 100 pages in. But it's picked up enough to where I enjoy it.
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02-17-2010, 04:42 PM
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#2618
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley.
Obama's Dreams of my Father was a happy walk in the sunshine compared to this!
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02-17-2010, 05:50 PM
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#2619
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: North Florida
Posts: 646
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O'Donnell's An Utterly Impartial History of Britain. We are only mildly amused...
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02-18-2010, 10:02 AM
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#2620
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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Diary Of A Drug Fiend.
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Autonomy Not Uniformity
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02-18-2010, 10:07 AM
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#2621
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: new zealand
Posts: 255
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Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
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02-18-2010, 01:58 PM
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#2622
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 14
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Several books at the moment actually.
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft
Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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02-18-2010, 07:27 PM
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#2623
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Originally Posted by FlowerGirl
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
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I am a third way through where her new life is all pump room drama and annoying men bragging how rich they are. I can't say I like the plot much so far, but I love the flowery way it is written, with such descriptive flourish and old English idioms. Hoping it will get exciting soon.
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02-19-2010, 06:18 AM
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#2624
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 754
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Originally Posted by HumanePain
I am a third way through where her new life is all pump room drama and annoying men bragging how rich they are. I can't say I like the plot much so far, but I love the flowery way it is written, with such descriptive flourish and old English idioms. Hoping it will get exciting soon.
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You're hoping in vain HP. Northanger Abbey is horrible. It was a pretty subtle parody in its day and it's lost 99% of its appeal over time as literature drifts farther and farther from the era it was parodying. For some old gothics that are still somewhat funny try Vathek by Beckford, The Heroine by Barrett, or Nightmare Abbey by Peacock. All of them are better than Northanger.
EDIT: And Korinna's reading Diary of a Drug Fiend? Fuckin' cool. Crowley was heroin chic way before Kate Moss.
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02-19-2010, 06:43 AM
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#2625
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: new zealand
Posts: 255
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Man In Room 5
Northanger Abbey is horrible. It was a pretty subtle parody in its day and it's lost 99% of its appeal over time as literature drifts farther and farther from the era it was parodying. For some old gothics that are still somewhat funny try Vathek by Beckford, The Heroine by Barrett, or Nightmare Abbey by Peacock. All of them are better than Northanger.
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I know...*sigh* I have to do it for my english essay.
The Heroine by Barrett is pretty great. I'll take you up on Nightmare Abbey
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