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06-07-2011, 08:19 PM
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#2901
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Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 132
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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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#2902
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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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#2903
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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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#2904
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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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#2905
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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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07-15-2011, 01:19 PM
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#2906
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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A Study in Scarlet. After I finish this I want to read Koontz's Frankenstein.
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07-15-2011, 02:32 PM
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#2907
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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War by Gwynne Dyer.
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07-15-2011, 07:25 PM
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#2908
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Vermont
Posts: 30
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Current read
My uncle pressured me into reading Lacan's Écrits... translated I will admit. He said no self-respecting English major can graduate without it! 
A theoretical challenge! Let's start there...
Just finished Verland: The Transformation by B.E. Scully... a gothic literary masterpiece. No self-respecting literary goth should be without it!
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07-16-2011, 05:29 AM
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#2909
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
Posts: 2,594
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I'm beta reading for a couple of other writers, so I can't say titles but they are totally outside my genre and I'm enjoying it.
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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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08-08-2011, 10:34 PM
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#2910
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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The Sexual Politics Of Meat by Carol J. Adams. Had a lot of reading to do for school so finally getting around to it, only bought it in May.
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08-09-2011, 05:39 AM
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#2911
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 4,036
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami.
This book is amazing it's been giving me the weirdest dreams and it's a very enjoyable read.
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"I've an idea. Why don't we play a little game. Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive. Just for a while. What do you say? Let's pretend we're human. Oh, brother, it's such a long time since I was with anyone who got enthusiastic about anything."
― Jack Osborne
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08-24-2011, 07:08 PM
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#2912
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 5
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cult classics
I'm reading Panther's Bite and Lightning Through the thoughts of the abyss both vampire cult classics, never mind the price its as much as eating out and this lasts longer
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08-24-2011, 07:47 PM
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#2913
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 323
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I just obtained a very large chunk of H.P. Lovecraft's non-horror writings. It's interesting to learn about him from his own pen.
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08-24-2011, 07:59 PM
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#2914
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: "Historic" River City
Posts: 327
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Grimmie by Linda S. Cowden. It's about the Grim Reaper doing things outside his job description.
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08-30-2011, 08:54 PM
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#2915
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: The centural valley C.A
Posts: 17
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At the moment I'm re-reading paradise lost aswell as the players manuel for vtm .
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08-31-2011, 11:26 AM
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#2916
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 9
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The Faber Book of Madness. Edited by Roy Porter.
The elliptical philosophy and study behind madness, containing poetic quotes from certain known and unknown writers along with unspecified jargon consisting of the ever-growing contingencies of psychological studies. All in my opinion of course.
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08-31-2011, 07:22 PM
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#2917
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Fiddler's Green
Posts: 1,406
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Professor and the madman and soon, The Rum Diary.
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09-01-2011, 11:01 AM
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#2918
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 634
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Marketing the menacing fetus in Japan by Helen Hardacre, and some steamy Yaoi novels (a.k.a male homosexual novels) on the side.
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" The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear"
- H. P. Lovecraft
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09-09-2011, 11:15 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 5
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Human .4 for my school book club, has anyone read it?
.......and I'm rereading Sandman volume 5. The amount of checkouts I've made for that series must appall my librarians ^.^
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09-10-2011, 08:40 AM
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#2920
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Delicious Hostess Fruit Filling, Oregon
Posts: 469
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20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill.
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09-17-2011, 08:48 PM
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#2921
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 5
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cult classic
The vampire novels are a bit like prose sa to ofer a differnce to what is usally meant by something of this fashion. Lightning through the thoughts of the abyss shows a mark on religion as taken by the stolen mind to refute and Panther's Bite includes the harvest of what subsides as indiffer3nt but to limit one's graces as a shallow return to nevelop reason by mystery that contains...two must buy, a bit costly, but never mind the pizza!
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09-18-2011, 07:35 PM
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#2922
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
Posts: 2,594
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The heart and the fist by Eric Greitens.
Wow there really are humanitarians around still.
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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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09-19-2011, 01:40 PM
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#2923
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Atlanta
Posts: 272
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Wuthering Heights. For a class on ghost stories. I hate it less every time I read it. Maybe with another 4 or 5 tries I'll actually begin to enjoy it?
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10-10-2011, 02:14 PM
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#2924
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 3
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The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I'm pretty addicted to it. First time reading a book with so many pages. 600+
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10-23-2011, 08:28 AM
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#2925
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 4,036
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A game of thrones, so far so good.
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"I've an idea. Why don't we play a little game. Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive. Just for a while. What do you say? Let's pretend we're human. Oh, brother, it's such a long time since I was with anyone who got enthusiastic about anything."
― Jack Osborne
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