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12-12-2010, 05:56 PM
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#2826
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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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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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#2827
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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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#2828
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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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#2829
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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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#2830
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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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#2831
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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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#2832
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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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#2833
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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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#2834
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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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#2835
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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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#2836
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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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#2837
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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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#2838
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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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#2839
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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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#2840
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 1
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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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#2841
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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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#2842
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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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#2843
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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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#2844
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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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Help me, I'm holding on for dear life
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01-24-2011, 06:00 AM
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#2845
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Spain
Posts: 14
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I'm almost finished with "The End of the Affair" by Graham Greene. I like it, even though I wasn't expecting to.
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01-24-2011, 06:39 AM
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#2846
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Walden or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau
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01-24-2011, 07:43 AM
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#2847
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 95
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Rereading Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
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01-27-2011, 10:40 PM
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#2848
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Sometimes home, more time away.
Posts: 234
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Sounds alright, a couple of people at work said it was a good read. I'm interested enough to give it a go when I'm done with Infidel but this:
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Originally Posted by Saya
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.
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might irritate me a bit too. Thanks for your perspective 
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01-29-2011, 12:53 PM
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#2849
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: ∞ ∞ //▲▲\\ ∞ ∞
Posts: 4,618
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The communist manifesto and Utopia.
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01-31-2011, 12:58 PM
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#2850
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: California
Posts: 23
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Berlin Diary by William Shirer.
Re-reading Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin.
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