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04-04-2007, 05:43 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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04-04-2007, 05:53 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Washington
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Originally Posted by ArtificialOne
Hm.. Sounds kind of horrifying really...lol
I'm reading The Difference engine... by some guy I've never read... The premise is good, but hate the fact the guy is writing in this form where he's trying to make everyone sound british....lol
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How's that coming? I've been considering reading that myself.
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04-04-2007, 06:01 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Norway
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I just finished 1984.
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Give a man a fire, and he is warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, and he is warm for the rest of his life.
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04-04-2007, 09:29 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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Just yesterday I put down Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra after reading the first part (out of four) and part of the second.
It's a good read, but definitely not something you'd read like a normal book. Rather, read it like a compendium of aphorisms, reading one section at a time every now and then.
Today I'm starting Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot.
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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04-04-2007, 10:52 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In a black hole with a black moon
Posts: 2,658
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Re-reading "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
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"I think in some way I wanted it to end, even if it meant my own destruction."
-Jeffrey Dahmer
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04-05-2007, 09:14 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Santa Monica, Ca. and Los Angeles
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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke!
Great Book about the reintroduction of magic into English culture in Victorian england. First time novelist with Jane Austin's style and Tolkien's magnitude.
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04-05-2007, 04:59 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: US
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Less like reading more like veiwing Medieval Manuscript Painting, by Sabrina Mitchell. Great art.
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04-07-2007, 04:32 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
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Originally Posted by The Raven King
Great Book about the reintroduction of magic into English culture in Victorian england. First time novelist with Jane Austin's style and Tolkien's magnitude.
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Ooooo!!!!!! My hubby just finished that one with rave reviews, it's on my "next up" list after I finish Vasari.
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04-08-2007, 04:01 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sunshine Coast, OLD, Australia
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I am currently reading a book called Live Without a Net that contains a series of short stories.
Heres the info http://www.amazon.com/Live-Without-N...5475708&sr=1-2
It's worth a read and is fairly cheap to pick up.
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04-08-2007, 01:13 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Trapped in Bermuda
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I'm currently on one of the translations of The Dialogues of Plato.
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04-08-2007, 05:52 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: UK
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'Shadowplay' by Tad Williams, waited 3 years for him to write/publish it as it's the second in the Shadowmarch trilogy, and a great book so far.
And on the train to work; 'The Fall of the House of Usher and Others', Edgar Allan Poe collection.
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04-08-2007, 07:58 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Somewhere in this Universe, that's all I'll say.
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Originally Posted by Vyvian Blackthorne
Re-reading "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
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Just finished reading it...amazing novel. Could not put it down. There was so much to think about in it...Oscar Wilde definitley was a genius.
I'm reading a book by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt called "La part de l'autre" (The Part Of The Other). It's very good so far. About what could have happened had Hitler been accepted at art school.
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Yawn. This is rather tedious, is it not?
www.chansondeplume.blogspot.com
^Mon blog d'ecriture en francais. Veuillez lire et commenter!
Translation: My writing blog in french. Feel free to read and comment.
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04-19-2007, 08:52 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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Just bought House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danieleweski.
This must be the most (using the word Newsweek used to describe it) ambitious book I have seen ever!
And I've read Schrodinger's Cat.
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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04-19-2007, 10:20 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: London, UK
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In the past week I've finished the Red Dwarf Omnibus by Grant Naylor, read the Quiet American by Graham Greene (for school) and have just started Hotel Transylvania by Chelsea Qhinn Yarbro.
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04-20-2007, 03:36 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Almost done with The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
I just read the part about the nitric acid. Spooky!
And still only 500 pages into The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
Just started A Tour of the Calculus.
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04-20-2007, 06:52 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Ohio
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I'm reading
Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
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04-20-2007, 08:00 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In desert part of Oregon, Central
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I'm reading "Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You" by Ray Bradbury
And I am reading various short stories by Guy de Maupassant, Nathanial Hawthorne, and Edgar Allen Poe.
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
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04-20-2007, 09:56 AM
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It's Edgar Allan Poe...
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04-20-2007, 10:02 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In desert part of Oregon, Central
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Originally Posted by Bloopie
It's Edgar Allan Poe...
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I'm sorry then deary. I haven't had musch sleep, half an hour to be exact.
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
~Gilbert Highet
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04-22-2007, 10:11 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Well, I finally finished The Picture of Dorian Gray.
I did guess what the ending might be when I began reading it, but then as Dorian escaped one threat after another I began to think that he was untouchable, and so Wilde manipulates the reader superbly such that the ending is sudden and a surprise. I recommend reading it.
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04-22-2007, 01:55 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Washington
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That's exactly what I'll be reading next, actually. I'll start on the first chapter today or tomorrow, whenever I have the time. I just finished reading Inferno of the Divine Comedy, so now I need something else to read. I'll revisit the other two thirds later...
Brilliant story by the way, Inferno. Once you get past all the allusions to ancient characters and tales, there's really a lot of imagination and exciting story-telling techniques put into it. The punishment for suicides still has me in awe.
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04-22-2007, 03:30 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
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Nothing exciting here, just more on Dance phsyiology. I had a lot of Robert Burns' poems sung to me this weekend, though
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04-25-2007, 07:09 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
Posts: 2,208
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Sung to you this weekend? Huh?
I am reading the Caterbury Tales...
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It's not so much the pain
It's more the actual knife
Pretending the picture is perfect
I cut myself to sleep
I close my eyes for a second
And curse my fragile soul
I scream to hide that I'm lonely
The echo calls my name
*ANIMAL CRACKERS*
http://www.myspace.com/persephone_x
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04-25-2007, 10:07 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: New England
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Love In Vein edited by Poppy Z. Brite.
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04-29-2007, 01:16 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Posts: 1,679
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A brave new world I cant remeber who wrote it.
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"Yo tengo la empanada empinada"
- Me
" I love 4play! Its the best thing I've ever done"
- My Boyfriend
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