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05-26-2011, 09:24 PM
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#2901
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Nonviolence In Theory and Practice. Had to buy it for a peace studies class a few years ago.
Dont remmber anything sbout that class, except that my teacher ended up hating me aad forbidding me from her class. My notes stop roughly 10 pages in so i guess i ddnt learn muh th first tim.
Goddamn you, touch screen keyboard.
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05-26-2011, 09:28 PM
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#2902
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Ohio
Posts: 54
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Originally Posted by Pineapple_Juice
Goddamn you, touch screen keyboard.
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It's the little things in life that get us, right?
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05-27-2011, 06:05 AM
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#2903
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 708
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Originally Posted by Sinjob
Devouring Cormac McCarthy's The Road. A bit slow but the language and not to mention consistent breaks are worth it.
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I saw the film a few weeks ago, and was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. I assumed that the slowness of the plot meant they'd just make it all action-y, expand the roles of the cannibals, and all that noise. But it was very faithful. Although I don't like what they did with the ending (which, again, is faithful but... well, let me know when you've finished and, if you're remotely interested, I'll tell you what I would like to've seen them do with it).
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05-27-2011, 10:19 AM
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#2904
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Seattle
Posts: 20
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Verland: The Transformation
I'm only halfway through and this book is already a favorite!! Verland: The Transformation is back to the gothic tradition in literature! This vampire is the isolated outsider and the book's themes are dark, brooding and unbelievably intense! Is immortality the real gift humanity thinks it is? Cannibals as the first vampires? The origins of the Josephus Equation as a vampire's survival? Dark, intense and unsettling! I love this!
http://www.verlandlives.com
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05-27-2011, 10:20 AM
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#2905
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Seattle
Posts: 20
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Grausamkeit
I keep hearing good things about this one. I normally read D&D-type scifi.
I'm currently reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Yes, I am a drooling fangirl for this series, regardless of the total lack of reality.  |
Brooks isn't literature, but it's a fun, fast read!
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05-27-2011, 12:22 PM
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#2906
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Originally Posted by Llyallowyn
It's the little things in life that get us, right?
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Amen. and praise buddha
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05-30-2011, 07:00 PM
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#2907
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Next school book: Hunting Humans: The Rise Of The Modern Multiple Murderer by Elliott Leyton.
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05-30-2011, 07:18 PM
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#2908
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
Posts: 2,594
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Finished Amanda Hocking's Hollowland - man so disappointed with it. It's like she's taken most of the big zombie movies (thinking resident evil, 28 days later) and stuck her character into someone else's reality.
Virus (spread by blood/saliva) makes people into zombies. Girl in quarantine that gets overrun by zombies, lives and goes in search of her brother, along the way kicks loads of zombie butt, comes across the usual people you'd expect to meet along the way - religious zealot, gun totting idiots and a few really nice people...
Yep, it's that predictable, but it has loads of action and is a fast read.
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06-01-2011, 01:50 AM
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#2909
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Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 2
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I recently started reading the book on which Dexter TV series is based, and I can say that I like the book way better that the TV series so far
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06-01-2011, 07:16 AM
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#2910
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Montgomery, Illinois
Posts: 5
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Priest manga for the 23293293929 time. I was a fan before the movie came out. Sucks that they changed it so much. that's hollywood for you.
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06-01-2011, 08:40 AM
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#2911
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 4,036
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Rereading Harry Potter and Haruki Murakami's master piece "Kafka on the Shore"
For lack of new interesting material.
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06-01-2011, 02:51 PM
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#2912
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Originally Posted by Geoluhread
Rereading Harry Potter and Haruki Murakami's master piece "Kafka on the Shore"
For lack of new interesting material.
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You'd like the book I'm reading now! I'm getting pretty freaked out reading it.
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06-01-2011, 03:32 PM
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#2913
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Empire.
Yep.
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06-01-2011, 09:52 PM
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#2914
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Posts: 360
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I'm currently reading "French Women Don't Get Fat" by Mireille Guiliano.
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"Since you said goodbye polka dots filled my eyes...and I don't know why."
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06-04-2011, 07:49 PM
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#2915
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Ohio
Posts: 54
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I just finished "The Summer Country" by James A Hetley. It wasn't a terrible read, but it was definitely not what I expected. I am more interested in fantasy with a political or emotional undercurrent, a real story about growing up or struggling with various aspects of life. In some sense of those words, this book had it, since the main character is a victim of forced intimate encounters trying to deal with additional suffering brought on by an abusive father, religious zealot mother, and living with her slutty, confident sister. Ultimately, it is like a more mature version of Twilight, sans vampires and enter wizards.
Last edited by Llyallowyn; 06-04-2011 at 07:51 PM.
Reason: I appreciate censors, but...
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06-04-2011, 11:27 PM
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#2916
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Regarding The Pain Of Others by Susan Sontag
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06-05-2011, 12:51 PM
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#2917
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,271
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Necroscope ~ Brian Lumley
My mother recommended this series to me when I was 14, but I was too busy reading 'Dracula' and 'Interview With The Vampire' to give it a chance. Once again Mother schools me with her book selection....some 19 years down the road...
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06-06-2011, 01:49 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 132
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I just borrowed The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo from a friend. I've heard good things, hope they're true.
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06-06-2011, 02:46 PM
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#2919
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Originally Posted by Valhalla
I just borrowed The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo from a friend. I've heard good things, hope they're true.
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I don't know how to feel about it. I had misgivings about it after I read it, I ranted about it here quite a bit, but I still overall enjoyed it. But now as time passes I like it less and less.
Not to discourage you, I don't feel like it was a waste of time reading or anything.
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06-06-2011, 05:04 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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Just finished "Grin in the Dark" by Ramsey Campbell, which sadly I really didn't like. I loved the idea of a lost silent film star (ala Paul Auster) and clowns terrify me... but it was a disjointed mess with a weak and predictable ending.
Now I'm reading Bright's Passing by Josh Ritter, and maybe picking up my copy of David J Schow's The Kill Riff as I'm still in a horror mood, just want it to be GOOD. 
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06-07-2011, 08:19 PM
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#2921
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Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 132
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saya
I don't know how to feel about it. I had misgivings about it after I read it, I ranted about it here quite a bit, but I still overall enjoyed it. But now as time passes I like it less and less.
Not to discourage you, I don't feel like it was a waste of time reading or anything.
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When I finish it I'll let you know what I think.
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06-08-2011, 06:11 PM
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#2922
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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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Just finished "Good Omens", fucking fantastic. Neil Gaiman must have some kind of magical powers to be able to create so much awesomeness.
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06-14-2011, 03:36 PM
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#2923
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Syrian with Armenian origin
Posts: 22
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Samarcande- Amin Maalouf
but the books my university required me to read held me back from reading it but i'm planning to continue reading it after my exams...
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07-04-2011, 11:42 AM
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#2924
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Why Nations Go To War by John G. Stoessinger.
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07-04-2011, 05:26 PM
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#2925
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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OK, I have stocked up my summer reading supply:
Nietzsche:
The Birth of Tragedy
Twilight of The Idols
Human, All Too Human
The Will To Power
Ecce Homo
Kafka: The Complete Stories (I was ripped off! Amerika is not in it! Complete, my decayed ass...)
Aristotle: The Art of Rhetoric
Seneca: Essays and Letters
Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
Stumpf: Socrates to Sartre - A History of Philosophy
I began by reading the last one listed now, and it flows very well, with some but infrequent trips to the dictionary. I should have read this one first before diving into Nietzche's Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals. In fact this last one is so enlightening about philosophy in general that I think I will buy something by Cicero and read that and the Seneca book first before continuing Nietzsche maybe even preclude him with Schopenhauer and of course Hegel . But I do want to read the Germans before the French (Montaigne, Descartes) as I have heard it then becomes dry reading the other way around (the French then the German philosophers) although I do not know why, I find them both equally fascinating.
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