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02-18-2010, 10:02 AM
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#2601
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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Diary Of A Drug Fiend.
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02-18-2010, 10:07 AM
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#2602
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: new zealand
Posts: 255
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Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
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02-18-2010, 01:58 PM
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#2603
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 14
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Several books at the moment actually.
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft
Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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02-18-2010, 07:27 PM
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#2604
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
Posts: 7,449
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlowerGirl
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
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I am a third way through where her new life is all pump room drama and annoying men bragging how rich they are. I can't say I like the plot much so far, but I love the flowery way it is written, with such descriptive flourish and old English idioms. Hoping it will get exciting soon.
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02-19-2010, 06:18 AM
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#2605
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: IL, USA
Posts: 754
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HumanePain
I am a third way through where her new life is all pump room drama and annoying men bragging how rich they are. I can't say I like the plot much so far, but I love the flowery way it is written, with such descriptive flourish and old English idioms. Hoping it will get exciting soon.
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You're hoping in vain HP. Northanger Abbey is horrible. It was a pretty subtle parody in its day and it's lost 99% of its appeal over time as literature drifts farther and farther from the era it was parodying. For some old gothics that are still somewhat funny try Vathek by Beckford, The Heroine by Barrett, or Nightmare Abbey by Peacock. All of them are better than Northanger.
EDIT: And Korinna's reading Diary of a Drug Fiend? Fuckin' cool. Crowley was heroin chic way before Kate Moss.
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02-19-2010, 06:43 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: new zealand
Posts: 255
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Man In Room 5
Northanger Abbey is horrible. It was a pretty subtle parody in its day and it's lost 99% of its appeal over time as literature drifts farther and farther from the era it was parodying. For some old gothics that are still somewhat funny try Vathek by Beckford, The Heroine by Barrett, or Nightmare Abbey by Peacock. All of them are better than Northanger.
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I know...*sigh* I have to do it for my english essay.
The Heroine by Barrett is pretty great. I'll take you up on Nightmare Abbey
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02-19-2010, 07:08 AM
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#2607
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Smexyville, Colorado
Posts: 2,424
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H.G. Wells Pocket History of the World.
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02-24-2010, 06:40 PM
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#2608
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Texas
Posts: 76
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I just finished Gallows Hill by Louis Duncan i cant beleive how ignorant people are
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02-24-2010, 10:00 PM
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#2609
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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The Eyes of Darkness-Dean Koontz.
Crappy title, but it's been good so far.
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02-27-2010, 08:48 PM
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#2610
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: America
Posts: 24
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The Vampire Lestat again. Also, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' Demon In My View, John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, and Sun Tzu's The Art of War.
Thoughts on any of them excepting The Vampire Lestat?
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02-28-2010, 04:07 AM
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#2611
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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The Book of Daniel - E. L. Doctorow. It's actually very good.
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02-28-2010, 04:15 AM
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#2612
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Near Southampton
Posts: 1,319
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The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Again. It's brilliant!
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02-28-2010, 06:46 PM
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#2613
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Finished Backlash and am now a little more disgusted with the world. I'm still in the mood for feminist lit so I picked up The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti.
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02-28-2010, 11:33 PM
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#2614
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Finished Anansi Boys again.
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03-01-2010, 03:02 PM
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#2615
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Hollywood, FL
Posts: 12
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I'm reading The Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology (the publisher escapes me now)
Rereading Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
And Poison by Chris Wooding
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03-01-2010, 03:18 PM
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#2616
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Somewhere
Posts: 123
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bete Noire
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Again. It's brilliant!
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I just saw the movie. Maybe I'll read it.
The Great Gatsby... again.
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03-02-2010, 02:22 PM
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#2617
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Picked up Insomnia from Stephen King. It's alright, but 200 pages in and I'm still only about a quarter of the way through.
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03-02-2010, 08:37 PM
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#2618
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Let me know how that one goes, its always there at the bookstore, its like they can't get rid of it.
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03-03-2010, 06:49 AM
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#2619
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: yo momma house
Posts: 67
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I finished Peter Ward's Future Evolution when I showed up 2 1/2 hours early to class the other day. It was actually not as terrible as I was lead to believe. I was thinking it was all "geneticaly enhanced pork and humans that survive into the deep future, because I can only see 10 feet in front of me" bullshit. All of that is actually just a footnote.
I learned stuff too. You know about how terrible overfishing is? It actually isn't going to hold that much weight into the future, unless humans start building underwater cities and commiting mass genocide of whole clades like they have with whales (and those whales just can not die fast enough).
And like in The Life and Death of Planet Earth (which is fucking amazing), he intersperses the text with little bits of prose describing the environments in a first person environment.
And here's where it gets good. Okay, you know the time right after we go extinct, but large portions of our infrastructure (buildings, dams, garbage heaps, etc.) are still around? Well, in real life those bits are going to dissolve before the first new genuses will have a chance to appear. But ol' Ward says to hell with the most probable future, I want giant crows now!
And that's exactly what he did. He had his time traveler make some curious observations about the snakes, pigs, and rats living in a giant garbage pile before turning to a forest (which also shouldn't be there, it's more likely a clover-field with giant dandelions) and being taloned in the back of the head by a huge mob of fucking gigantic future crows that are hungry for blood.
I would pay money to die that way... so cool!
For those of you keeping track at home, that would bring the scores up to:
Humans: Dead
Dinosaurs: Giant Fucking Flesh-Eating Crows
SO cool!
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03-03-2010, 07:08 AM
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#2620
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Gallifrey
Posts: 2,817
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Oh forgot. Read Metamorphosis too. Probably one of the most depressing things I've ever read. I don't understand what the moral of the story was about at all.
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03-04-2010, 12:23 PM
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#2621
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: United States.
Posts: 1,670
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Siddhartha.
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03-05-2010, 06:08 PM
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#2622
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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Siddhartha's awesome.
I'm reading Jane Eyre.
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03-05-2010, 11:57 PM
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#2623
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dirty South
Posts: 1,726
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Vernor Vinge - "Across Realtime" while I'm at work.
Jerry Pournelle - "War World: The Burning Eye" while I'm at home.
I like science fiction.
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03-06-2010, 01:48 PM
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#2624
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Chicago, ILL
Posts: 159
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"The Host" Stephine Meyers
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03-06-2010, 04:49 PM
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#2625
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 4,678
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Kobo Abe - The Woman in the Dunes
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