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02-03-2009, 01:49 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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At the moment, I'm searching around for some decent horror reads, I've just read Nocturnes, collection of short stories by John Connolly, and am re-reading again my favorite, The Outsider, by Camus. Can anybody recommend some actually shit-scary horror, not just the same old cliches?
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02-03-2009, 02:16 AM
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#2052
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Lost City of Atlanta
Posts: 326
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Originally Posted by Opteron_Man
Anybody here ever read "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes?
It was a book I read back in highschool. It was a good one.
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Yes, I really liked that one. Never read it in school, but it was recommended to me and I picked it up. Actually one of the few books that had me crying at the ending though.
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02-15-2009, 01:51 PM
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#2053
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,360
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Burroughs, William S. - Naked Lunch
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02-15-2009, 02:59 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
Posts: 3,231
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"Gates of Fire" by Stephen Pressfield. It's historical fiction, a story of the battle of Thermopylae told to Xerxes by a Spartan Squire captured after the battle. It details the run up to the battle- the training the youth of the city endured, the culture of the times, the various social levels- but does include plenty of the battle itself. Worth a read. Not much godly interference except for a vision the story's teller had when he was young.
"The Wraeththu Trilogy", by Storm Constantine. This one was written in the eighties by a woman who was very, very clearly a goth or at least a New Romantic. Valor of Christian Death wrote a few of the poems in the trilogy, and the ridiculous amounts of sex and inter-character bickering are balanced by pleasingly lush description and some genuine consideration of a post-human race.
"Hell's Angels" by Hunter S Thompson. A rambling account of HST's interactions with the Angels in the sixties, including various comparisons of news sources to reality, some highly contradictory comments on the original Angels' codes of behaviour, and the HST's distinctively hyperbolic style.
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The noblest sentiment I have encountered and the most passionate political statement to stir my heart both belong to a fictional character. Why do we have no politicians as pure in their intent and determinedly joyous in their outlook as Arkady Bogdanov of Red Mars?
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02-15-2009, 03:58 PM
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#2055
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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I just finished Angels and Demons. It sucked.
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02-15-2009, 04:14 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Far Away.
Posts: 262
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Started to read Max Banus - Cei care m-au ucis [Those who killed me] It's about the time the author spent in jail back when Nicolae Ceausescu was only one of the Central P.C.R. committee secretaries.
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02-17-2009, 08:53 AM
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#2057
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,419
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Just finished Fight Club. And Arctic Drift by Clive Cussler before that, it was pretty bad.
Now The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams. And a book for my course bleh.
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02-25-2009, 07:40 AM
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#2058
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Nothing is more frightening than reality! I am reading non-fiction,
The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
:shudders: Thank God that Stalin is DEAD!
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02-25-2009, 02:34 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Chicago, ILL
Posts: 159
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i'm reading "dance with the devil" by sherriyn keynon.
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02-25-2009, 06:26 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: elsewhere
Posts: 2,015
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I'm reading the Titian section of The Lives of Vasari. I hate Vasari. He's a pompous and bombastic asshat.
*sigh* Who was at least semi-useful to the field of art history...
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Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder where you're at.
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
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02-27-2009, 04:17 AM
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#2062
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 754
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Richard Hurd's Letters On Chivalry And Romance
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03-02-2009, 06:14 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 754
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Literary Women--Ellen Moers
(I have to read 6 books in 24 days and so far I'm kicking ass.)
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03-02-2009, 02:11 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,332
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Re-reading the Wheel of Time series. I should be reading something much more elegant and stylish and goff, but at the moment I don't give a damn.
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Wasted forever, on speed, bikes and booze.
"Meow. Mew. Mrow. Maow? Miaox." - Lovely Delkaetre speaks cat.
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03-02-2009, 05:22 PM
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#2065
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Phillips Exeter Academy, NH
Posts: 1,429
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Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman.
The trickster god personified.
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Billy Mack: This is shit isn't it?
Manager: Solid gold shit, maestro.
Charlotte: You're probably just having a mid-life crisis. Did you buy a Porsche yet?
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03-05-2009, 10:40 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Timequake for the fifth time. So fucking good. Kurt Vonnegut is definitely one of my favourite people.
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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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03-05-2009, 10:41 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Heaven and Earth
Posts: 2,606
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Stardust by Neil Gaiman. It's a bit different from the movie, but still just as [if not more] enjoyable!
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"Follow your bliss..."
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03-05-2009, 09:22 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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The Stardust movie pissed me off, the book is pretty good though.
I'm reading The Life Of Pi right now, so far finding it somewhat pretentious. I have doubts about the claim that this book will make me believe in God.
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03-06-2009, 01:17 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Originally Posted by Saya
I'm reading The Life Of Pi right now, so far finding it somewhat pretentious. I have doubts about the claim that this book will make me believe in God.
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Don't bother, it's shit. Seriously. Stop reading it and go read something good instead. You'll thank me for this advice - I forced myself to read the whole thing (before my days of "if you can't make it work a hundred pages in, you can't make it work") and still regret that afternoon of my life that could have been spent doing something worthwhile, like getting high watching Ren and Stimpy or jerking it to trampling porn.
Currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray - highly addictive. It's been two bathroom visits and I'm almost done. Also dipping in and out of Wallace Stevens' collected poems (for quiet periods at work and on the bus)
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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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03-07-2009, 03:59 PM
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#2071
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In front of a computer screen.
Posts: 584
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Of Mice And Men, again, 'cause our teacher says we have to do a close textual analysis of it. Scintillating.
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03-08-2009, 06:37 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 754
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The Gothic Quest: A History of the Gothic Novel--Montague Summers
Double goth points for me for reading a book with Gothic in the title twice. Too bad Summers can't write for shit.
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03-11-2009, 02:39 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 754
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The Elizabethan Malady: A Study of Melancholia in English Literature from 1580 to 1640--Lawrence Babb
I still have 4 books to read before the 25th. 
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03-11-2009, 09:46 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Jersey Sticks.
Posts: 1,062
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I'm in the middle of reading a compilation of Philip K. Dick's work. It's quite good.
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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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03-12-2009, 01:39 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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World War Z finally. I was completely convinced that there was a zombie in my house. My cat kept staring at the catflap in my door like there was something there.
It's fantastic.
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