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10-25-2008, 02:45 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: I though it was supposed to be warm here
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I am reading The Shining. Great way to pass a Saturday.
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10-25-2008, 03:02 PM
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#1877
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Your mother.
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The Amulet Of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud.
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10-25-2008, 08:09 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
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Originally Posted by Necrophagist
The Amulet Of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud.
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I think I read that book before. It was about the demon Bartholomew I think. I need to go back to the school library.
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Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. If I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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10-26-2008, 12:34 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Bangkok
Posts: 1,921
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Originally Posted by MegearaErotica
I need to go back to the school library.
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I wish you'll managed to survive and return.
lol
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"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian."
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10-26-2008, 12:35 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: a sneeze away from San Francisco
Posts: 2,144
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Macbeth; I cannot bring myself to say it at school, too much like theatre
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Originally Posted by Joker_in_the_Pack
At some point, you need to look yourself in the mirror and realize that what other people did to you does not define you as a person. You and your actions define who you are as a person. It's up to you to be a good person, in spite of all the evil you've faced. In fact, it should be because of the evil you see that it's good you do. Be the change you want in the world. Next time someone tells me that they're an asshole because they've had a bad life, I'm stabbing them in the eye with a spork.
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10-28-2008, 06:03 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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The Story Of My Experiments With Truth by Gandhi.
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10-28-2008, 07:32 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 754
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In The Circles of Fear and Desire--William Patrick Day
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10-30-2008, 06:31 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Australia
Posts: 69
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"Confessions of a Werewolf supermodel"
-Ronda Thompson
I've only just started reading it. It will be a "light" read
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10-30-2008, 06:46 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Neverwhere
Posts: 320
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Idylls of the King - by the Immortal Tennyson.
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11-02-2008, 01:11 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 754
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Jesus, nobody has posted since my last post here? Am I a fast reader or am I just the touch of death to any threads I post in?
Right now I'm reading Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite. Finally broke down and bought it when Borders sent me a 25% coupon. 
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11-02-2008, 01:23 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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A Hero of Our Time, by Lermontov. Started it yesterday and am nearly finished (it's pretty short).
I liked it, although I probably shouldn't have gone to it with such high expectations.
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All pleasure is relief from tension. - William S. Burroughs
Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak.
Hula, hula, said the witches. - Norman Mailer
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11-02-2008, 07:36 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Albany, NY
Posts: 922
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I've got a queue of books to read over the break. I'm thinking the first I want to tackle is The Iron Heel, by Jack London, and then We Have Always Lived In The Castle, by Shirley Jackson. After that, I'm not sure.
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"I saw Judas Iscariot, carryin' John Wilkes Boothe." - Tom Waits
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11-03-2008, 06:15 PM
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i recently found a good place to buy books...Goodwill. One dollar paperbacks and two dollar hard covers.
Last time i was there i found a good copy of Tim Lebbon's Dusk which i'm in the process of reading. The jury is still out on it.
i also picked up Kate Chopin's The Awakening. i saw on the news that a house she owned nearby burned down and it dawned on me i've never read any of her books. It's still on the shelf but it is next on the list.
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11-03-2008, 07:12 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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I finally finished The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire. Only tool me 10 months off and on. I would read a few pages several times a night a week at bedtime, but would go some weeks without reading it at all. It isn't the kind of writing that makes one want to read continuously, but rather to enjoy a taste now and then, for his words are strong and require deep absorption.
Some real gems in there, artistically as well as poetically.
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11-04-2008, 10:27 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Endless Life by Lawrence Ferlenghetti. Very good.
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All pleasure is relief from tension. - William S. Burroughs
Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak.
Hula, hula, said the witches. - Norman Mailer
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11-05-2008, 03:08 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: down under
Posts: 65
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"Interview with the Vampire" by Anne Rice. The picture it paints of a vampire life is indescribably beautiful, romantic, lustful yet darkly passionate. Whenever I pick up from the last page I've been reading, it's like entering a dream again...I haven't enjoyed a book like that for a long long time. No wonder I've heard this book mentioned in all these different places.
At the same time I'm reading a bit of Edgar Allan Poe...sometimes I start nodding off because it's so hard to digest but for the sake of the beauty of literature, I'm still at it.
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11-05-2008, 07:33 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,419
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Originally Posted by Raptor
Perdido Street Station.
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This was good, I haven't read much lately besides bits of textbooks.
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11-05-2008, 05:19 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 29
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Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes a Lesson from the Tokyo Riot Police, by Robert Twigger.
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11-05-2008, 05:34 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In absentia.
Posts: 104
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I have recently added Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim to my stack. I tend to read numerous books at one time.
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11-07-2008, 09:04 PM
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#1896
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posts: 1,780
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Right now I'm reading 1984
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-Lauren
"Lucifer was an idiot, it wound up lord and master of nothing at all."
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11-07-2008, 09:18 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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I just read The Masque of the Red Death over again. I liked the symbolism throughout the story.
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Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. If I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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11-07-2008, 09:53 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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The Lionness of Judah, a story about a a Jewish woman that joined the Belgian resistance to Nazi occupation, covering her underground activities as a lion tamer, until she was captured and sent to Auschwitz to be victim of Dr. Mengele.
I know! Crazy, huh?! Best part is she lives in my city.
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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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11-10-2008, 02:27 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: down under
Posts: 65
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^ radical Jewish woman
I'm reading a play, "Peer Gynt" by Henrik Ibsen. I can't wait to get to the bit when the mountain Trolls come out. hehehe!
And I went impulse shopping. I didn't even check if the library had The Vampire Lestat. I just had to buy it. Own it. Interview With the Vampire was...my heart.
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11-10-2008, 05:37 AM
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#1900
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Under a pile of red satin sheets.
Posts: 38
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Oooh. The Hamlet- faulkner, Jane Eyre- Bronte, Uncle Silas-J,S. LeFanu
I have a problem with reading to many books at the same time.
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