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01-10-2008, 01:13 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: In the broken temple bells, in the ringing...
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Terry Pratchett's " Wintersmith ".
It's a great take on both the the winter solstice and what witchcraft is at heart ( less fancy words and new age jewellery and more getting on with it ), and also it contains small blue scottish men, a plague of chickens and a cheese called Horace. All of this = WIN for me.
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01-10-2008, 04:30 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Yay, I got my books already. 
So now I'm reading Orwell's two books and Fahrenheit 451, and The Problem With Civilization sounds like something I'd enjoy, so I'll have to put it in my roster.
More books! =[
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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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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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01-10-2008, 07:07 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Oviedo, FL
Posts: 137
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I promised my friend i would read harry potter series. Alot easier then what im used to but it's entertaining. Im actually using propper grammar and punctuation now. This is amazing
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01-10-2008, 07:18 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: West Yorkshire - England
Posts: 57
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Twilight by William Gay. It's a weird and sureal deep south gothic tale. Very strange and a little perverse, fantastic!
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01-10-2008, 07:37 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Santa Ana CA, USA
Posts: 186
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The Medieval Underworld - Adrew McCall.
Basically an historical book about what life was like for the "outsider" or "villein" in the middle ages.
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01-11-2008, 03:45 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Zaporizhia, Ukraine
Posts: 18
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I have three favorite books. They are Holy Bible, Fleurs du mals by Charles Baudelaire and best poems by E.A. Poe. I love reading modern Gothic poetry too.
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01-13-2008, 07:51 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Jolly old England.
Posts: 300
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Not really anything especially alternative but right now I'm reading "Diary of an On-Call Girl", which is the diary (oddly enough) of a UK police woman who is a response officer, hence the 'on-call'.
It's really very interesting and good. Funny, satirical, very 'real' and unlike the other book I've read in a similar sort of genre ("Wasting Police Time") it doesn't feel.. Bleak, as Wasting Police Time does. Instead it gives more of an impression that "Okay, it isn't perfect, but that's just the way it is."
But yes, anyway...
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And then a chubby puppy with teensy legs rolls past which makes me giggle like a little school girl and forget what I was thinking about...
Breathing heard just below the floorboards.
The sense of something terrible rousing itself from
from its torpor.
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01-13-2008, 08:25 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Originally Posted by 0_Cothurnatus_0
I have three favorite books. They are Holy Bible, Fleurs du mals by Charles Baudelaire and best poems by E.A. Poe. I love reading modern Gothic poetry too.
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Great minds think alike! Only I would add Samuel Johnson.
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01-14-2008, 05:03 PM
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#1559
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: NL, Canada
Posts: 30
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
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01-15-2008, 08:33 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 184
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Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
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01-17-2008, 12:38 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 11
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Ah. Well, I tend to get bored very easily when it comes to books, so I just read a whole bunch of different books at the same time. Like, I sit down for hours with a stack of books next to me and rotate novels every once in a while. You finish a lot more books, faster that way...To me at least. Anyway, I'm reading about eight books right now:
1) Emma - Jane Austen
2) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
4) Valiant - Holly Black
5) Inkheart - Corniela Funke
6) Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr
7) Fly by Night - Frances Hardinge
8) Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Though I'd have to say that my favorite books ever are Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) and Frankenstein : Prodigal Son (by either Dean Koontz or Stephen King, I forget). Those are really good ones.
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01-21-2008, 04:16 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: NL, Canada
Posts: 30
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^ I absolutely love Jane Eyre.
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01-21-2008, 10:57 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 11
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^^ And how could you not? I have to say, though, that I think she mentioned God & co. a bit too much...But I guess that's part of what reading a book from that time period entails.
Either way, it was a great book...Glad someone else here liked it. =)
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01-22-2008, 01:28 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 6
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Nora Roberts ''The Stanislaski Sisters''. I always loved love novels pihh i have no idea why
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01-22-2008, 06:09 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 95
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Seeing as I just started college I am now reading a crap load of text books, but on top of that I am also reading Angels and Demons, or at least I will be as soon as I get a chance to read anything other than school related crap. Anyone read it before???
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01-22-2008, 09:12 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Greece
Posts: 135
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I finnished "The Pariah" by Gaham Masterton and just started "Illuminati" by Dan Brown
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01-22-2008, 10:37 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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1. Darkwitch Rising (Sara Douglass)
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray AGAIN (Oscar Wilde)
3. Still trying at Finnegan's Wake (James Joyce)
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01-22-2008, 11:24 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Jersey Sticks.
Posts: 1,062
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I'm actually in the process of reading Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, for the second or so time. It's quite a funny book in my opinion, as I'm quite a sucker for sattire.
Catherine's just adorable, and so air-headed. Believing some abbey is grounds for supernatural activity and mystery because of a Gothic novel. 
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"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws." - Charles Baudelaire
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01-23-2008, 11:04 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: United States.
Posts: 1,670
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Just read Blood and gold and Blood canticle by Anee Rice.
Reading Queen of the Damned again now ofcourse also by Rice.
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"What a bunch of garbage: liberal, democrat, conservative, republican. Two sides of the same coin. Two management teams bidding for control, the CEO job, of Slavery Inc."
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01-23-2008, 02:38 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: NL, Canada
Posts: 30
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Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
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01-24-2008, 09:28 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: 37°4N 122°3W
Posts: 64
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Just finished 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick, in time for the re-release of 'Blade Runner' to Theatres.
Now reading 'Black Company', by Glen Cook.
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01-30-2008, 07:09 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Posts: 468
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I just finished "White Oleander", which is a great book. I read it in two days, I just couldn't put it down! It brought out the artistic inspiration I desperately needed. The film is also nice, I recommend it.
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"I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me." - Charles Baudelaire
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01-30-2008, 04:49 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
Posts: 2,535
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I'm currently reading "Requiem for a Dream."
It's an interesting book. The author's style of writing is quite fascinating to me. The way he doesn't use quotation marks for conversation, and the way he uses slash marks when he writes things like he/s and she/s. I like it.
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"Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon."
-Zach Galifianakis
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01-31-2008, 02:58 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 3
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His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
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01-31-2008, 05:10 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: VA BCH VA
Posts: 118
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Originally Posted by Haex
Just finished 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick, in time for the re-release of 'Blade Runner' to Theatres.
Now reading 'Black Company', by Glen Cook.
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Dick's work is great; how did you like it? And there's a re-release of Blade Runner? My husband is going to Lose His Natural Mind when I tell him! Thanks!
As for me, I'm re-reading "Dune" by Frank Herbert----the classics just don't get old.
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