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08-12-2013, 05:23 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 729
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^I was going to read 'Guns Germs and Steel'... might have to do that when I find it in a library.
I have no idea how 'Sabriel' and the others haven't gathered more attention... some might find it too "young" for them but it's still quite a kick ass mature story and severely underrated. First read it when I was about 10 (advanced reader) and am hoping Nix writes more about the Old Kingdom/Ancelstierre.
...Actually. You might enjoy ' Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories'. There's a short story where Nicholas Sayre tries to cross the Wall again. 'Hope Chest' is also pretty epic.
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08-14-2013, 04:02 AM
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#3152
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Posts: 6
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Poppy Z. Brite's Exquisite Corpse, picked it up in Dublin last week and got started on it yesterday.
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08-14-2013, 06:56 PM
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#3153
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 3
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Mick Mercers-music to die for.
Mostly discographies in that book but very interesting.
I love Micks gotiska rock books 
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08-16-2013, 02:05 PM
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#3154
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Alamo City, USA
Posts: 764
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"The Hellbound Heart" by Clive Barker. It's the novella the first "Hellraiser" film was based on.
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08-16-2013, 08:20 PM
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#3155
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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How is it? I keep seeing it in an anthology and wanting to pick it up, but I've never read a Clive Barker book before.
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08-16-2013, 08:55 PM
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#3156
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Alamo City, USA
Posts: 764
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It's an excellent story, even though I have problems reading Barker's style sometimes. I tried reading "Abarat" years ago but couldn't get into it. In a lot of ways he's like Stephen King, hit or miss but from what I've read he's more hit than miss.
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09-25-2013, 08:49 PM
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#3157
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
Posts: 2,606
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Currently reading "The Right Hand of Evil" by John Saul.
It's alright. Not very far in yet.
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"Follow your bliss..."
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10-04-2013, 02:21 PM
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#3158
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Asgard!!
Posts: 62
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The Class Project: How to Kill a Mother. Just got this book today. Saw something about this on the show Deadly Women.
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10-25-2013, 10:27 AM
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#3159
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: error
Posts: 3
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Bradbury's 'Something wicked this way comes'
Feynman's 'What do you care what other people think?'
'A passion for science'-obscure book I found in the library,but good
'The little black book of computer viruses'
'The Unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath'
Dawkin's 'The God delusion'
Nietzsche's 'The Antichrist
the last two I will probably never finish
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10-25-2013, 10:39 AM
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#3160
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: error
Posts: 3
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I enjoyed the Millenium trirology tremendously
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12-03-2013, 12:19 AM
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#3161
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Germany
Posts: 14
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"Tysteren", in german it's "Der stumme Besucher" (the silent visitor) by Jan-Erik Fjell. Usually I don't like the way crime novels / thriller are written in Scandinavia but this one turns out quite well. Until now, will see if it stays this way.
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12-16-2013, 10:13 AM
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#3162
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 15
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Past two books have been "PostApoc" by Liz Worth, an experimental druggie apocalypse novel, and then "How To Kill A Vampire" by Liisa Ladouceur. Looking for the next book.
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12-18-2013, 02:07 PM
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#3163
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 9
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Just finished MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood. Now I'm splitting my time between The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson and a cunnilingus guide
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12-18-2013, 07:47 PM
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#3164
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Sioux Falls, SD
Posts: 8
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Skin Game by Jim Butcher... just kidding, I wish! I just finished Cheshire Red book 2 Hellbent by Cherie Priest and just picked up a book I have been procrastinating getting to: Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris. Next up I'll start a new series, but haven't found the right one yet. Any thoughts on a good paranormal detective series I could get in to? Not too big on the /romance ones - I gave up Anita Blake after Narcissus.
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12-24-2013, 03:38 PM
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#3165
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Florida USA
Posts: 77
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At the moment I'm wearing the Teen series: The Maze Runner. I was debating on wanting to read this, but it sounds very interesting to me and decided to give it a read. If the first book is any good, I continue on reading the whole series. 
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12-28-2013, 01:41 PM
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#3166
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Posts: 25
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I'm reading "You Are What You Eat" by Dr.Gillian McKeith. )))
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01-01-2014, 09:09 PM
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#3167
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Reading Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein right now. I'm debating on recommending it from now on as a good starting place for people who want to learn about trans* and gender issues. Fundamentally, at least so far, its pretty damn good and accessible, but it also came out in the early nineties and a lot has happened in gender studies since then. Also the use of words that are more accepted to be slurs now (does that make sense? Like she uses the word "hermaphrodite when I think she means intersex) that would make me a bit nervous lending the book to someone who might take it as a pass to use slurs.
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01-01-2014, 10:11 PM
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#3168
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 15
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Finished reading "Haunted Ontario" by Terry Boyle. A neat series of anecdotes and tales, easy reading.
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01-03-2014, 07:57 PM
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#3169
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Living History - Hillary Rodham-Clinton
I have had a thing for biographies and autobiographies lately.
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01-12-2014, 10:38 PM
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#3170
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Scandinavian living in the Orient
Posts: 35
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
After that I will read Dracula by Bram Stoker.
Got both books for christmas.
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01-16-2014, 10:53 PM
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#3171
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 80
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The Deed Of Paksenarion by Elizabeth Moon. Not goth by any means but I dig fantasy a lot. I read this when I was like 13 so I'm revisiting it to see how it holds up.
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01-17-2014, 07:10 PM
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#3172
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Wales
Posts: 1
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Possession, by A.S.Byatt.
It's a little slow so far, but the premise is good and I'm hoping it will pick up. The writing style is pretty, anyway.
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03-08-2014, 03:12 PM
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#3173
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 8
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The Turbulent Universe by Paul Kurtz.
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03-13-2014, 12:19 PM
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#3174
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Florida USA
Posts: 77
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I decided to start reading a few of my classic novels that's in my closet that I haven't yet read, right now I decided to read Watership Down by Richard Adams.
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03-13-2014, 01:31 PM
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#3175
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Alamo City, USA
Posts: 764
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My Soloman Kane anthology by Robert E. Howard.
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