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01-01-2009, 04:51 PM
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#2001
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
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Originally Posted by JCC
I'll probably pick up '******' by Vladmir Nabokov from the library once I've finished 'The Wall'.
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Get this edition if you can. I have it and found the notes pretty interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/Annotated-****...0855536&sr=8-1
I'd also suggest reading it together with a GF who is 16 years younger than you but I guess you can't do that at your age.
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01-04-2009, 08:44 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution, by his friend Kevin Booth. It's an awesome bio - very well-written and with a thorough account of one of my personal heroes, the good and the bad. I'm on page 63 and I already got teary twice. I can't recommend this bio highly enough, especially if like me you've been duped into buying that shitty one by whatsername, where all she does is rant in poorly written English about how he's the goddamn Second Coming.
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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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01-04-2009, 11:00 AM
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#2003
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 523
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I've seen Chuck Palahniuk mentioned several times, so I bought 'Haunted' today, and have started reading it. I'm hoping it lives up to the blurb on the back.
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I can only please one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow's not looking good either.
I was a vegetarian until I lost my virginity, and a wise man said to me 'do you not feel guilty now, having had all that meat inside you?'
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01-04-2009, 11:10 AM
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#2004
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 48
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I'm on the last chapter of "The Watchers"
After this I'll have nothing to read...
But there is a giant box filled with books in the attic...
But we can't get to them until my granddad gives us back the ladder...
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01-04-2009, 02:26 PM
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#2005
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
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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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01-04-2009, 03:46 PM
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#2006
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Originally Posted by Alarica
I've seen Chuck Palahniuk mentioned several times, so I bought 'Haunted' today, and have started reading it. I'm hoping it lives up to the blurb on the back.
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Aside from Diary, Haunted was the shittiest book he's written thus far. Next time I'd suggest Invisible Monsters, Lullaby, or Choke.
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01-04-2009, 04:23 PM
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#2007
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 29
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The Black cat by Edgar Allan Poe.
Then i think ill read Berniece
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01-04-2009, 04:32 PM
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#2008
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
Posts: 752
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I'm currently reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
I recommend it highly. 
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O loneliness, O hopelessness
To search the ends of time,
For there is in all the world
No greater love than mine.
-Annie Lennox, Love Song For A Vampire-
Rouge Z. Hatter has FINALLY returned to Gnet!
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01-04-2009, 05:12 PM
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#2009
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 5
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i am starting cirque du freak soon
right now i'm finishing breaking dawn
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01-04-2009, 07:43 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,065
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I hope you get flamed for reading Twilight, arkemedes.
Anyways, I just finished reading The House of Seven Gables for school. It was okay, though the plot seemed a little dragged out.
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01-05-2009, 03:13 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 2,424
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Originally Posted by roserougesang
I'm currently reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
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I was just about to post the exact same thing.
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01-05-2009, 12:45 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 523
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Originally Posted by Pineapple_Juice
Aside from Diary, Haunted was the shittiest book he's written thus far. Next time I'd suggest Invisible Monsters, Lullaby, or Choke.
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Cheers for that. Will have a look next time I'm in town. Have to say though, I am enjoying Haunted so far.
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I can only please one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow's not looking good either.
I was a vegetarian until I lost my virginity, and a wise man said to me 'do you not feel guilty now, having had all that meat inside you?'
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01-05-2009, 12:58 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Originally Posted by Alarica
Cheers for that. Will have a look next time I'm in town. Have to say though, I am enjoying Haunted so far.
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Eh, to each his own I suppose. The only bits I thought were interesting involved the pool and the foot jobs. After that I had to have copious amounts of tea and a full 9 hours of sleep any time I wanted to read it and stay awake. Dunno how far you've gotten though.
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01-07-2009, 04:58 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
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this morning I am beginning to read The Ghost Writer by John Harwood.
I hope this one is good enough to read. I feel some gothic emotions in this book.
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01-11-2009, 05:07 AM
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#2015
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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I just finished reading '******'. I'm currently reading 'Lonesome Traveler' by Kerouac, which I'm probably going to give up on because it's as impenetrable and annoying as Desolation Angels. I'm going to start reading 'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert soon.
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01-11-2009, 05:21 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Melbourne, Australia.
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I'm currently reading "The Fist of God" by Frederick Forsyth, again.
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I have hopes about death, But none about life."
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01-11-2009, 05:32 AM
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#2017
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Originally Posted by JCC
I just finished reading '******'. I'm currently reading 'Lonesome Traveler' by Kerouac, which I'm probably going to give up on because it's as impenetrable and annoying as Desolation Angels. I'm going to start reading 'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert soon.
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I hate that you're forever devouring stuff I didn't find until a few years after you. Makes me feel like I wasted my teenage years.
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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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01-11-2009, 05:51 AM
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#2018
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Everywhere
Posts: 650
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Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
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01-11-2009, 10:53 AM
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#2019
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Far Away.
Posts: 262
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P.Coelho - The Devil and Miss Prym
Well actually i'm reading it in romanian and I don't know if it has the same title in english but eh...i tried.
Romanian : P.Coelho - Diavolul si Domnisoara Prym
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01-11-2009, 10:57 AM
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#2020
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Romania
Posts: 85
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Faust by Goethe
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01-15-2009, 11:15 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 523
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I bought 'Anna Karenina' today. Will get stuck in later on.
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I can only please one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow's not looking good either.
I was a vegetarian until I lost my virginity, and a wise man said to me 'do you not feel guilty now, having had all that meat inside you?'
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01-17-2009, 03:04 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 265
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The Judge is currently perusing Journey to the End of the Night, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
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Originally Posted by Apathy's_Child
I hate that you're forever devouring stuff I didn't find until a few years after you. Makes me feel like I wasted my teenage years.
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"Son, you're 22 years old and you're spending your Saturday afternoon in bed with a girl. You're wasting your life."
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01-17-2009, 04:10 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,360
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Originally Posted by Xombie
That's a lie. If you really didn't like Twilight, you wouldn't even waste your time on the sequel.
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You want to know what a bigger waste of time is? Ragging on people who have, or are currently reading Twilight.
Re-reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
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01-17-2009, 06:15 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Albany, NY
Posts: 922
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I'm finishing Ender's Shadow. It's quite good.
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01-17-2009, 11:52 AM
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#2025
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In front of a computer screen.
Posts: 584
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L.olita by Vladimir Nabokov... but I'm doing a lot more writing than reading at present.
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