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12-06-2008, 07:13 PM
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#1951
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: CA
Posts: 667
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
So far I enjoy it , It takes me really far away in time and space .
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12-06-2008, 07:41 PM
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#1952
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: the twilight zone
Posts: 86
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the count of monte cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
i think most people on here will know what it's about. i just started today and so far i like it alot.
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12-06-2008, 07:51 PM
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#1953
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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I just finished reading Brisingr and am disappointed that Paolini couldn't finish writing the series in the third book.
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-Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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12-07-2008, 06:38 AM
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#1954
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: East Anglia, U.K
Posts: 19
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Currently re-reading Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. A true classic...
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12-07-2008, 10:19 AM
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#1955
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: In the broken temple bells, in the ringing...
Posts: 5,979
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Michael Moorcock - The Metatemporal Detective
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12-08-2008, 11:39 AM
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#1956
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: East Anglia, U.K
Posts: 19
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David Sylvian:The Last Romantic - which thus far is proving to be an interesting look at the former Japan vocalist.
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12-09-2008, 06:25 AM
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#1957
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Yew City
Posts: 2,413
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"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Yeah, I know, but I must keep to some traditions, else... something might happen.
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12-09-2008, 07:38 AM
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#1958
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 754
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Originally Posted by MollyMac
"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Yeah, I know, but I must keep to some traditions, else... something might happen.
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I read A Christmas Carol for the 1st time a couple years ago and couldn't believe how childish it was. I never realized it was for kids and had always assumed the movies had simply dumbed down an adult story. Was I ever wrong. You could see where it was going from the 1st page even if you didn't already know the cliche formula.
I'm currently reading The Complete Poems of John Keats.
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12-12-2008, 11:29 AM
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#1959
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Between Fascination and Fear
Posts: 1,116
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I just finished the third volume of War and Peace. I'm thinking of reading the books I was given for my birthday next.
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12-12-2008, 11:33 AM
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#1960
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 28
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'The Apes of God' by Wyndham Lewis.
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12-12-2008, 12:45 PM
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#1961
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Houston, Texas.
Posts: 8
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I'm getting started on reading 'Cirque du Freak' by Darren Shan and (by request of my dad) 'Economics in One Lesson' by Henry Hazlitt.
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12-15-2008, 10:37 AM
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#1962
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In front of a computer screen.
Posts: 584
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Just finished The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.
Now it's Dead Souls by Gogol. Yup.
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12-20-2008, 09:10 PM
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#1963
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Texas
Posts: 70
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Heart Shaped Box- Joe Hill (About washed up rock musician who buys a poltergeist, it's entertaining enough)
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12-21-2008, 12:58 AM
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#1964
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Australia
Posts: 291
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Picture of Dorian Gray.
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12-21-2008, 12:59 AM
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#1965
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Australia
Posts: 291
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and burlesque and the art of the tease.
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12-21-2008, 01:35 AM
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#1966
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Somewhere
Posts: 32
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Dean Koontz - Brother Odd
H.P Lovecraft - Dreams of Terror and Death
Frank Beddor - The Looking Glass Wars
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12-21-2008, 01:33 PM
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#1967
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: At my computer desk, or within the pages of a book.
Posts: 103
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"Magic's Price" from the Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey-- one of the few books that has ever made me cry so much that I had to stop reading it. I'm picking up where I left off, from about four years ago..
Oh, and also "Wallflower" volume 2 by Hayakawa Tomoko. Great series!!
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12-22-2008, 11:38 AM
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#1968
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Between Fascination and Fear
Posts: 1,116
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A Happy Death by Albert Camus. 
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"I am a citizen of the universe!"
- Porucík Servadac, Na Komete (1970)
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12-23-2008, 04:31 AM
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#1969
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Posts: 69
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Jeff Long - Deeper
I like the story but I hate his writing style.
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12-23-2008, 08:46 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal - I don't know who wrote the original Sanskrit, but the translation is by Swami Prabhavananda and Frederick Manchester.
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12-23-2008, 10:39 AM
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#1971
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Scotland
Posts: 16
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Currently it's Cell by Stephen King.
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12-26-2008, 04:39 PM
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#1972
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: At my computer desk, or within the pages of a book.
Posts: 103
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"Rhapsody: Child of Blood" by Elizabeth Hayden. I'm going back and reading the earlier books in The Symphony of Ages series before I start "The Assassin King"... I definitely recommend these!!
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12-26-2008, 07:55 PM
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#1973
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In front of a computer screen.
Posts: 584
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Still Dead Souls, but I also read Hamlet and Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen this week. (I didn't like it much.)
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12-26-2008, 08:54 PM
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#1974
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 182
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Haunted by Chuck Palaniuk
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12-27-2008, 08:02 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 754
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Originally Posted by a morbid curiosity
Still Dead Souls,
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What do you think of Dead Souls? It's on my want-to-read list but I'm not sure I'll ever actually get to it.
I'm now reading The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film by Michael Weldon. I've consulted this book for over a decade but now I'm actually reading it straight thru and listing all the movies I want to see.
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