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04-29-2009, 09:34 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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Originally Posted by CrimsonPythonidae
Jilian, can you please explain to me the thing about "vs" and "v"? I did try to look it up but quickly grew tired of not finding what I wanted, I didn't realise there was an issue of one now being void yet still publicized? All I can can find is "vs" as an abbreviation of versus, not "v".
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Sorry, I barely saw this.
The original abbreviation of "versus" is "v." not "vs."
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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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05-02-2009, 10:36 AM
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#2127
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 754
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Bowie In Berlin by Thomas Jerome Seabrook
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05-02-2009, 11:13 AM
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#2128
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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I read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest today. It was good.
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05-03-2009, 10:48 AM
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#2129
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: U.K
Posts: 90
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Broken by Shy Keenan
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05-03-2009, 10:54 AM
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#2130
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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I just read God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin and now I'm reading Now and After by Alexander Berkman.
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05-06-2009, 04:55 PM
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#2131
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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George Orwell's 1984. It seems like I've been reading and reading and yet I'm only on page 30. Odd.
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05-06-2009, 04:58 PM
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#2132
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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No money for books this week, so borrowed Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz from my roommate. Its not that bad, so far.
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05-06-2009, 06:45 PM
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#2133
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,360
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American Gods - Neil Gaimon.
Fucking great stuff.
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05-06-2009, 07:12 PM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 57
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Slaughter House Five - Kurt Vonnegut
ahhhhh, the originality of the writing is like getting into a hottub...
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05-06-2009, 09:12 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
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Originally Posted by Saya
No money for books this week, so borrowed Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz from my roommate. Its not that bad, so far.
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It's amaziiiiing, the whole series.
PS go Vonnegut.
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05-06-2009, 10:42 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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"Langford's Basic Photography", Chapter 11: Film Processing.
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05-07-2009, 10:43 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Originally Posted by JCC
I read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest today. It was good.
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"Good"?
GOOD?
I'm sure you meant to say "excellent", but even knowing that, a vein in my temple is throbbing something crazy.
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Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak.
Hula, hula, said the witches. - Norman Mailer
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05-07-2009, 06:26 PM
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#2138
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Jersey Sticks.
Posts: 1,062
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American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Fuck, I miss Laura.
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05-09-2009, 02:37 PM
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#2139
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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I'm about halfway through The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy. Hopefully I'll finish it by the end of the night.
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05-09-2009, 03:17 PM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: A room 6'4" by 10'1"
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"Chasing the Dime" by Michael Connelly.
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05-09-2009, 06:11 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Parkersburg, WV
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I'm about halfway through a piece of shit called "I Shudder At Your Touch." It's a collection of short stories that are supposed to have two common themes: Sex and horror. There's very little of each to be found.
It's awful, really. Most of the stories are contrived and make little sense. The example par excellence lies in the summary of a story called "The Swords": A young man in England, who happens to be a virgin, wanders through a carnival and enters a tent to find a show in which a beautiful woman wearing green powder sits in the ring. One by one the audience members walk up to her and stab her with swords. The young man is perplexed when he sees that she does not appear to be in pain and no blood can be seen.
Later, the man who runs the show offers to sell this beautiful woman to the young man for ten pounds. He of course accepts, but is disgusted when he finds that screwing her is very reminiscent of screwing a dead person - that is to say, she's not into it at all. He goes to pull her up by her hands, one of which detaches itself. Again, there is no blood. She grabs her hand from him and runs away screaming. The end.
I don't think I'll be finishing this book. Thank god I only borrowed it.
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05-10-2009, 04:25 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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I just finished Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee. Next I'll read Junky by William S. Burroughs.
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05-10-2009, 08:22 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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Well, I've just finished Junky, so I'll read The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin.
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05-10-2009, 08:31 AM
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Join Date: May 2009
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Hi
Hi by all I from kazakhstan! I not from yours, but take a great interest.
Not so well I understand English - but I try, let's get acquainted!
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05-11-2009, 08:35 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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I'm going to read Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev.
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05-11-2009, 03:08 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
Posts: 3,231
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The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
White Crow, by Mary Gentle
The Dispossessed, by Ursula LeGuin
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05-11-2009, 08:47 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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I'm currently working on three books.
Re-reading Drawing Blood, PZ Brite
The Rose and The Beast, F. Block
Smack, M. Burgess
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05-11-2009, 10:31 PM
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#2148
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Smack is good. I vaguely remember reading it my freshman year of high school.
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05-12-2009, 05:35 AM
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#2149
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Australia
Posts: 291
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The Winner Stands Alone, Paulo Coelho
Democracy and Democratization, Georg Sorensen
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05-12-2009, 08:24 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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The Complete Dramatic Works - Samuel Beckett
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