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11-05-2004, 12:46 PM
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#126
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Norway
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Currently I´m reading Count Zero, by William Gibson, which I started on directly after finishing Ghost Girl, by Helena McEwen. Both good reads. Before that I read A Home At The End Of The World by Michael Cunningham and Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck. Also I stumbled upon a marvellous fantasy trilogy called A Song Of Ice And Fire, by George R. R. Martin, which was devoured pretty fast alongside a couple of Kurt Vonnegut books, namely A Breakfast Of Champions and Hocus Pocus. Funny stuff. So you can tell I´ve had too much time on my hands lately...
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11-06-2004, 04:07 AM
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#127
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: your house
Posts: 212
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pitseleh!!!!
(sigh) 
Good to see you back. Book 4 of the Song of Ice and Fire series is due out...sometime...maybe....
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11-07-2004, 06:20 AM
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#128
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Norway
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Thanks man, it's goo-od to be back! Can't wait until the next installment in the Song of Ice And Fire series. A Feast of Crows, it's apparently called.
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11-07-2004, 08:23 AM
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#129
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Under the rainbow
Posts: 125
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midnight predator- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Willow-V.C. Andrews
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11-09-2004, 06:58 AM
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#130
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Athens, Greece
Posts: 664
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Originally Posted by secretboy
Just finished Flow my tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick. I forgot how much I loved that novel. Finished it far too quickly, though.
I really wish more of his novels had as much heart as this one did. Kind of sad.
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I just looove this book! Note: must read again.
Currently reading Francis Bacon: The logic of sensation, by Gilles Deleuze. In English. I have to say it is a must for Bacon fans.
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11-09-2004, 12:20 PM
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#131
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Posts: 8
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I'm reading a book on the history of pirates.
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11-15-2004, 03:22 PM
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#132
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Raleigh
Posts: 290
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hmmm....::thinks really hard::
right now I'm reading about the Persecution of Witches in the middle ages, blood and gold, and my all time favorite book, in the forests of the night, by AA rhodes
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11-18-2004, 11:30 PM
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#133
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: California
Posts: 167
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right now, i am reading "living at the edge of the worl.... a teenagers survival in the tunnels of the grand central station" it's about a homeless girl... a true tale, too
i just got done reading "loner" about a homeless girl, also, but she's a hippie
"stoner and spaz"
and i cant remember the books before that. i read at least 1 book per week.
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11-23-2004, 05:14 PM
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#134
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Raleigh
Posts: 290
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Cyrano de Bergorac! All hail the nose! Non Merci! Non Merci! Non Merci!
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11-23-2004, 05:20 PM
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#135
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,051
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The Last Mohican
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-Cinema Strange
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11-23-2004, 05:35 PM
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#136
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 3
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"The Teeth of the Tiger," by Tom Clancy. :P
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11-23-2004, 08:31 PM
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#137
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: 42.5
Posts: 1,073
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The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
:P
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"No - it's more like - wow, isn't enlightenment great?" - Doug Henning
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11-23-2004, 09:06 PM
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#138
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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i'm reading jonathan strange and mr. norrell right now. good stuff
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11-23-2004, 10:12 PM
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#139
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: your house
Posts: 212
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Originally Posted by Aves_Coal
i'm reading jonathan strange and mr. norrell right now. good stuff
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I keep seeing that in stores, how is it? what's it like?
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A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
--Chinese proverb
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11-27-2004, 12:51 PM
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#140
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Nowhere!
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What am I reading at the moment
I just finished The Dark Tower: The Dark Tower. I am sad now that it is over but it was amazing. Now I am reading An Introduction to the bhudda and his teachings. Jack Kerouacs good blonde and other stories.
Kid
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11-27-2004, 02:54 PM
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#141
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 1,111
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"The Cryptographer" by Tobias Hill
It's for school.
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11-29-2004, 07:30 AM
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#142
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 3,793
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On Writing, by Stephen King.
second time around...
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11-29-2004, 05:02 PM
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#143
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: your house
Posts: 212
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Originally Posted by edible_eye
On Writing, by Stephen King.
second time around...
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Awesome book. I leant my copy to the guy that runs this site, never saw it again. 
Have you read A Writer's Tale by Richard Laymon?
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A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
--Chinese proverb
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11-29-2004, 05:09 PM
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#144
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 3,793
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Originally Posted by secretboy
Have you read A Writer's Tale by Richard Laymon?
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no, but i take it that's a recommendation. and i accept.
is richard laymon the guy who writes vampire novels, almost exclusively?
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12-02-2004, 09:08 PM
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#145
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: California
Posts: 167
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a book caled "gay rights"
it's a good book
factual and not biased either way
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12-03-2004, 01:53 AM
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#146
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Athens, Greece
Posts: 664
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The Servant of the Bones, Anne Rice
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12-03-2004, 02:24 AM
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#147
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Norway
Posts: 1,059
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I'm reading Post Office, by Charles Bukowski. Unwholesome fun.
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12-12-2004, 09:27 PM
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#148
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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One of books I am re-reading is "The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire" vol 1, by Edward Gibbon. I have and have read, all 6 volumes. If you are a coder or a math geek than you would recognize the other books I am reading, which I will not designate. Math is God. Physics is God. I worship at your temple.
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12-13-2004, 12:22 AM
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#149
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 257
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I'm reading Trainspotting to impress someone I have a crush on. Yeah. It's an okay book, although I do have to read it out loud at some points.
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12-17-2004, 12:02 AM
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#150
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: PA, USA
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skoteinh, excellent choice in reading material. I loved that book. But then again I really like Anne Rice books. Funny thing tho, I've never read any of her witch books. The Mayfair ones? Maybe I should one day. I think I've read all of her vampire books. Of those I'd have to say Memnoch the Devil was my favorite.
As for what I'm reading now, Forbidden Knowledge by Roger Shattuck. It's a really interesting book. He discusses whether or not there should be limits on what we know. He makes many references to literature throughout history to elaborate on his point.
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