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03-09-2012, 08:19 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
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i'm reading a collection of H.P.lovecraft. but i'm doing the great mistake to read it in my bed at night...
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03-09-2012, 12:07 PM
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#3027
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Am I in the library? No? Perhaps the pantry? No. Damn.Hm... Check the laboratory. Yup, found me.
Posts: 31
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Originally Posted by Adept of the King
i'm reading a collection of H.P.lovecraft. but i'm doing the great mistake to read it in my bed at night...
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I plan on reading HP Lovecraft and Edward Gorey to my future children. Should I have any, that is.
Anyway, at the moment, I'm reading Hamlet. Me gusta.
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03-11-2012, 09:14 PM
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#3028
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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I just read The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Actually, I finished it last week but shhh. It was REALLY REALLY good! I'm going to check out We Have Always Lived In The Castle tomorrow after my exam.
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03-12-2012, 04:42 AM
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#3029
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Atlanta
Posts: 272
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Originally Posted by Saya
I just read The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Actually, I finished it last week but shhh. It was REALLY REALLY good! I'm going to check out We Have Always Lived In The Castle tomorrow after my exam.
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How funny, I'm reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle right now! It's wonderful; I'm just the tiniest bit angry that it's taken me this long to discover Shirley Jackson.
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03-12-2012, 06:02 AM
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#3030
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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I know, right? The Haunting (1963, of course) is one of my favourite horror films and I missed it in the opening credits when it said it was based on the book.
Of course I rewatched it after I finished the book and am now a little disappointed with the changes they made, and now the movie seems heavy handed.
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03-12-2012, 10:03 AM
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#3031
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Atlanta
Posts: 272
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saya
I know, right? The Haunting (1963, of course) is one of my favourite horror films and I missed it in the opening credits when it said it was based on the book.
Of course I rewatched it after I finished the book and am now a little disappointed with the changes they made, and now the movie seems heavy handed.
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Now you've got me wanting to read the book and then watch the movie again.
Just finished We Have Always... and am pretty sure I'm just going to read it again instead of starting a new book. SO good.
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03-13-2012, 07:58 PM
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#3032
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Just finished! Its funny, its a fair sized book and so little happens, but I never felt it was tedious or dragging. The only complaint I have at all is that I thought it was fairly obvious who murdered the family.
Now I'm starting Collateral Damage by Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian.
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03-16-2012, 08:42 PM
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#3033
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Asgard!!
Posts: 62
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By The Time You Read This I'll Be Dead.
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03-17-2012, 12:09 AM
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#3034
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Too many. Exorcist, catching fire, god delusion, storm front, lovecraft...
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03-17-2012, 08:59 PM
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#3035
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Attemping From Pews To Polling Places: Faith And Politics In The American Religious Mosaic. I say attempting because if its dry I don't think I'll be able to finish it before its due back.
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03-26-2012, 10:13 AM
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#3036
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Haughton, LA
Posts: 38
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Currently re-reading "Clive Barker's Book of Blood"
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03-28-2012, 10:10 PM
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#3037
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges. He's really frustrating. He has a lot of experience in war zones and has awesome insights, and I liked Collateral Damage since it was mostly Iraq Veterans talking about their experiences while Hedges' voice barely entered.
And yet, he seems to miss his own points. Like he goes on about how war is terrible and war crimes happen because of the very nature of war, even if you're on the "good side", being exposed to terrible acts of violence fucks you up. That said, he says he's not anti-war, and that the US should intervene in cases like Bosnia and Rwanda and the blood is on our hands because we didn't. Nevermind its the same intentions that got us into Afghanistan and Iraq.
And its like, you know, maybe Africa is in the situation its in because of colonialism and imperalism and white dudes thinking they should interfere in everyone's business. Oh, and maybe we should not fund genocidal dickheads to begin with.
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03-29-2012, 03:43 AM
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#3038
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 4
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the war against the euro.... more terrifying than S.King's books 
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04-14-2012, 03:56 PM
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#3039
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 708
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On the fifth book of Preacher, War in the Sun. The weakest yet, but the series has been kickass enough that I'm still jonesing for the next one already.
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04-14-2012, 06:01 PM
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#3040
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin.
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04-15-2012, 07:23 AM
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#3041
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Society and Solitude - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think Emerson has replaced Dr. Samuel Johnson as my favorite writer.
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04-15-2012, 08:18 AM
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#3042
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Back in Wisconsin(thinking about invading the south)
Posts: 3,693
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Voltaire's Candide. It's been sitting on the bookshelf downstairs for years and I've wanted to read it for years. The books are all very nice hardcovers and I'm just soo used to thinking of them as decorations, since I'm not used to reading hardcover books that look like that, and they've always been there my whole life.
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04-15-2012, 09:29 AM
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#3043
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 4
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Within tentation The Unforgiving, a comic short series... not bad not good..
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04-15-2012, 01:11 PM
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#3044
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Posts: 12
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Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
I've heard so many things about this book, so I bought myself a $3.50 paperback copy.
So far, so good.
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04-17-2012, 06:31 AM
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#3045
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy. I've read it before but picked it up for the shitter & got engrossed all over again. Fucking spectacular.
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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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04-19-2012, 10:47 AM
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#3046
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 233
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just finnished Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Dale Peterson and Richard Wrangham an incredible book. i highly recomend it one of the best books i have read in decades. grim reading at times but worth it.
now im of to see if i can give myself a brain hemorrhage by finally trying to read The Ants by E. O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler.
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04-19-2012, 01:32 PM
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#3047
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Everywhere
Posts: 650
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I was reading Dexter series, but now I have it on MP3. I'm reading Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz. Love it so far!
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04-19-2012, 02:58 PM
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#3048
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 233
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koontz certainly spins an entertaining yarn. i havnt read any koontz for years i should pick up something soon...
phant? NO!
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04-19-2012, 03:48 PM
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#3049
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
Posts: 2,594
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hot head......
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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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04-19-2012, 03:58 PM
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#3050
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 233
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fruitbat
hot head......
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ten characters my arse!
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