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11-09-2010, 02:50 PM
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#2801
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
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Finished The Duff. It was a refreshing change in the YA market. Will need to find a similar book.
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"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle." - Plato
Help me, I'm holding on for dear life
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11-25-2010, 04:55 PM
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#2802
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Finally making a bit of time for Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. I bought it last August, its ridiculous I'm only able to get around to it now.
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11-27-2010, 05:30 PM
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#2803
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: charlotte n.c.
Posts: 101
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I'm reading ROOM. It's a book by Emma Donoghue about a five year old child who has lived his entire life in a shed
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12-04-2010, 06:41 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: charlotte n.c.
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And now, i am reading Great Expectations. Yes I know this should have been one of the first books to read, but..at least I'm reading it now
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12-04-2010, 02:41 PM
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#2805
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Primative Macedonia
Posts: 683
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Lenin: A New Biography by Dmitri Volkogonov.
-A very tasty read, Richard Pipes noted historian wrote this about the book...
"...a very forceful account that demolishes, on the basis of solid documentary evidence, the benign image of Lenin still held by many."
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.- Robert Burns
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12-05-2010, 06:38 PM
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#2806
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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I read Misery over the weekend, starting The Stand now.
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12-12-2010, 05:56 PM
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#2807
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Re-reading The Grapes of Wrath. Man, that novel is fucking good.
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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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12-22-2010, 08:33 AM
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#2808
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Sometimes home, more time away.
Posts: 234
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I've just started reading Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I'm also about halfway through Living Dolls by Natasha Walter.
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12-22-2010, 12:36 PM
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#2809
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Reading Turn Coat from Jim Butcher. I think I'm in love with Harry Dresden. I want to be done with this series so I can stop stressing about what's going to happen.
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12-29-2010, 06:16 PM
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#2810
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Reading Fluke by Christopher Moore.
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12-30-2010, 03:00 AM
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#2811
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Just finished Metamorphosis by Kafka, reading Notes From The Underground by Dostoevsky now.
I'm loving my ereader <3
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12-30-2010, 04:57 AM
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#2812
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 708
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Naked by David Sedaris.
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01-03-2011, 04:21 AM
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#2813
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
I wanna know what the fuss is about!
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01-03-2011, 04:48 PM
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#2814
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Sometimes home, more time away.
Posts: 234
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saya
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
I wanna know what the fuss is about!
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What is the fuss about? I wanna know too... Let us know when you've satisfied your curiosity.
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01-03-2011, 09:02 PM
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#2815
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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The movies were fantastic but I never read the books because the covers looked like crap teen section books. I regret thinking that.
Reading On The Road by Kerouac and Cabal from Clive Barker.
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01-07-2011, 03:41 AM
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#2816
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 5
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I am reading nice books.
Thanks
Teacher Resume
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01-12-2011, 05:07 PM
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#2817
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Reading Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard.
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01-14-2011, 07:41 AM
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#2818
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Reading Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
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01-14-2011, 01:23 PM
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#2819
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CrimsonPythonidae
What is the fuss about? I wanna know too... Let us know when you've satisfied your curiosity.
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It wasn't bad, I was interested enough to finish it in a short amount of time, and I gave it 3/5 stars on shelfari. However I do have a lot to complain about.
I like mysteries where you can follow the logic and evidence and come to your own conclusion. TGWTDT was a lot like a murder mystery game, if you ever played one. Lots of fun but everyone looks equally guilty by the time you make your guess, and its a lot of circumstancial evidence. Only the killer had no evidence beforehand, they just found ONE PIECE and it was like "What." and it got really surreal from there.
And *SPOILER!* I thought the relationship between Lisbeth and Mikael to be kinda creepy and stupid. He's in his 40s, she looks like she's 14. Larsson was a feminist and everyone kinda takes this book as a feminist mystery novel, and I'm not going to lie, thats what perked my interest, but I hate how most men are assholes with no redeeming qualities in this book, and Mikael, the lone feminist man, is a babe magnet because he's just so good and respectful to women. And there must be a romance between him and his much much younger partner, it would've been better if they just became good friends. And his on-again off-again girlfriend Berger is just there to be a drama device, there's not much to her purpose or personality at all save for sleeping with Mikael.
That said, it wasn't badly written or anything and I think a lot of the criticism about *SPOILER* a rrape scene being anti-feminist and "eroticizing rrape" was uncalled for, the dude clearly cared about women's issues and as a person who has a really really hard time reading rrape scenes, it wasn't overly prolonged and detailed, I thought, I've read some really graphic and I think eroticizing scenes before and it wasn't like that at all. He wanted it to be horrible but I don't think he had a good time writing about it.
Oh, I also read Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow this week, it was good! Not sure what to read next.
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01-14-2011, 02:38 PM
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#2820
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: ∞ ∞ //▲▲\\ ∞ ∞
Posts: 4,618
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Will to power-Friedrich Nietzsche
UGHHHH
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01-15-2011, 01:30 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bodnoirbabe
If you enjoyed that book, i highly suggest reading Good Omens if you haven't already. It was co-written with Neil Gaimen (my favorite author) and is the most hilarious book i have ever read. It's about the apocolypse. A demon and an Angel decide they like the human race, so they try to prevent the apocolypse from taking place.
oh, did i mention i have really great breasts and would like to fuck everyone?
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since i've already been accused of being a pussy hound - allow me to say that statement would be perfect if we were just sitting around right now, drinking a few beers and passing the time with nothing more than small talk.
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01-22-2011, 04:16 PM
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#2822
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Finished War Of The Worlds, reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami now.
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01-23-2011, 09:32 AM
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#2823
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Bliss
Posts: 4,374
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I am onto reading Book II of Three Books of the Occult by Aggripa. I've been reading it here and there and decided to just get through all of them. Taking forever.
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01-23-2011, 09:42 AM
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#2824
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Dude, I don't even know where I live anymore.
Posts: 1,276
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The full Necromonicon, tried reading select stories, now i have decided to read cover to cover.
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01-23-2011, 07:05 PM
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#2825
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
Posts: 2,594
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On Writing by stephen King.
How to raise boys by (can't remember)
Hunger (by who knows??)
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