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12-20-2005, 10:22 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nottingham
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Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman. It has cobwebs on the cover, is about the two sons of a Spider God and was purchased at an official Neil Gaiman book reading/interview/signing - I really had no choice.
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Insanley jelouse, got to wait 'till xmas for my copy. Stooopid Jesus.
Just in the process of finishing High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
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12-20-2005, 05:09 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Maple Ridge, BC, Canada
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Nearly finished The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It was okay, but near the end it has gotten preachy, stating that Love is the uniting force of the universe...
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"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose." -Friedrich Nietzsche
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12-21-2005, 04:56 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Maple Ridge, BC, Canada
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I am now reading Endymion; same author, the next book in the series. I forgive Simmons for the end of the last book, as this one is not letting me down.
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"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose." -Friedrich Nietzsche
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12-22-2005, 11:41 PM
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#479
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,249
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Dune by Frank Herbert.
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12-25-2005, 02:22 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Maple Ridge, BC, Canada
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I'm reading Rise of Endymion; the fourth in the series. It's still good.
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"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose." -Friedrich Nietzsche
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12-28-2005, 05:22 PM
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#481
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 182
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Just about to pick up Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.
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12-29-2005, 07:06 PM
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#482
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 10
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
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12-30-2005, 09:04 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,249
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Oh! Ender's Game is a good book. I read it in my sci fi class. I hope you enjoy it.
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01-01-2006, 06:06 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Texas
Posts: 232
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Just finished "The Undead", permuted press' zombie anthology. They juiced up the old shambling mess, stepping away from the stereotypes for some gory fun. Many of the stories are thought-provoking. My favorite has t.v. producers capture zombies, sticks them in an underground labyrinth, then send in humans to try to survive and turns it into reality t.v.
good social commentary on that one.
http://www.undeadanthology.com
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01-01-2006, 07:15 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Sedona, AZ
Posts: 870
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Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse
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My mother birthed me far too soon,
born at nine and dead by noon.
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01-02-2006, 02:05 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Raleigh
Posts: 290
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I'm rereading The Picture Of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde.
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Truth, justice, honor...none of that's worth shit. What matters is people, and people aren't honest or just or honorable. They're petty and they're angry and they're afraid, and all anyone really wants, deep down, is to be wanted. And what's truth to that?
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01-02-2006, 06:56 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Sedona, AZ
Posts: 870
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What a wonderful book!
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My mother birthed me far too soon,
born at nine and dead by noon.
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01-03-2006, 07:41 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: From your imagination. Im not really here. o.0
Posts: 19
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Blackwood farm - Anne Rice
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01-03-2006, 08:55 PM
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Recent reads…first off I’d like to make honorable mention to the short fiction recently published here.
Though they don't contend with the Harry Shannon, DGK Goldberg, Wrath’s, Lindberg’s, or Flem’s or yore…still, reasonable worthy reads.
As for novels, I just finished E.E. Knights recent work in his apocalyptic vampire saga and wasn’t disappointed, much. I’ve emailed him a few times and made mention that he would do well with a decent editor, and this latest endeavor (even published by ROC) signifies he hasn’t fucking listened on iota. Aside from the minor grammar fuckups (and to be fair King’s Buick Eight had more than it’s fair share) I really enjoyed the book. It’s a Pringles book. Where, after eating one, you have to devour the others, and they continue to combine the best offering of apocalyptic fiction to be had today.
Buy it, as well as the others.
Next up is Eragon and Eldest, by Christopher Paolini.
OK. The first book is rather pedestrian, with dire need of cliché rebukes, a really good plagiarism lawyer, and how 'bout a little fucking consistency? He leaves little doubt the book was written by a teenager, edited by his parents, and published with little regard to his audience…it was like reading a really good second draft, case closed.
Eldest is a more refined, more highly polished version of the former, with more fantasy, more high adventure, and less…what’chou talking ‘bout shite.
It’s Tolkien meets Alexander, meets Lewis, meets McCaffery, meets White, meets Jordon in the far future, and in that context…it’s not so bad.
Laurell K. Hamilton’s Cerulean Sin’s.
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I wish Anita would just…fucking die.
The bitch is costing me money, and does the same thing over and over and over again.
Stephen King’s Colorado Kid.
Buy it.
Just. Fucking. Buy. It.
That is all
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01-04-2006, 01:00 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Sanctropolis, Bitchland USA
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The Lucifer Principle - Howard Bloom
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Your blatant disregard and lack of respect for the members here pisses me off. You think that just because Sanctus likes you for some reason(?) , that you can act like a bastard and get absolutely no comeuppance? Fuck you dickwad!
-Never mistake my tolerance for fucking approval.... never.
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01-04-2006, 03:26 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: a lonely place...
Posts: 953
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a computer screen hahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
*smart ass
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"the man who won an award for taking the most drugs ever consumed by a human has died. he was attacked by a pack of wolves....he thought he saw."
*another eliter*
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01-05-2006, 06:40 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Texas
Posts: 232
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better a smart ass than a fuck head.
although that might be an interesting visual...
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01-05-2006, 06:53 PM
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#493
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: The Nanny State
Posts: 100
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"Programming PHP" pub by O'reilly.
I'm so out of practice... How you get Flash/PHP to create tables in MySQL?
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UltraNEO*com
"Listen when your hurting someone, don't think of the pain he feels, only concentrate on the pleasure of causing him pain. That's the only way to show true compassion for your partner." - taken from Korosiya Ichi
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01-05-2006, 10:43 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,249
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I started reading The Picture of Dorian Gray. I'm still reading another book but I can't help start reading new books.
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01-06-2006, 01:13 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Tampa Bay
Posts: 491
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Originally Posted by FenrisQueen
I'm rereading The Picture Of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde.
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My pure black cat just had a pure gray kitten (among others). I just started calling her Dorian Grey. Maybe I should give that another read soon.
Currently reading Split Infinity by Piers Anthony
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I seek the animated corpse that preys upon the living, usually by night, seeking blood to continue its existence.
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01-06-2006, 03:45 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Between Madness and Delirium
Posts: 183
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I just started reading a bunch of old books that I own including: Poe, Dahl, Tolken, Coleridge, Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, Kyoka Izumi, and a few others that I can't remember right off the top of my head.
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01-07-2006, 11:13 PM
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#497
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 150
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Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Pretty funny.
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01-08-2006, 03:44 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Norway
Posts: 1,059
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Finally it has arrived! I'm well into reading the newest book in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, A Feast for Crows. Surely one of the best fantasy series ever. I love the cruel unpredictability of it, where bad things happen to good people, and the fact that the characters are not either clear-cut heroes or villains.
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01-08-2006, 12:34 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Maple Ridge, BC, Canada
Posts: 224
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Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds.
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"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose." -Friedrich Nietzsche
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01-08-2006, 12:38 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: nomad
Posts: 336
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Jeff Smith-Bone
a really fat b/w comic book. nice drawing style, lots of lovely monsters and a cute story.
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"The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent."
Mark Twain
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