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09-18-2005, 07:22 PM
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#326
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 150
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Ring by Koji Suzuki.
This is the book the movies Ringu and The Ring are based on. It's pretty different. The main character is male, and married. His kid is a baby girl, not a 9 year old boy. I'm getting a horrible feeling that it's quite sexist. Sexist books upset me instantly once I notice it. And it taints it all for me. But I've sworn never to quit reading a book because of content I'm morally oppossed to. And I've decided to give it a chance. Unfortunately as I was just reading it a new character was introduced. Apparently a protagonist. An old friend of the main character. He's a rapist. And the main character is totally aware of this. Has been for decades. Not sure how to feel about this.
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09-23-2005, 12:41 AM
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#327
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The moon. In a box.
Posts: 33
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Ring
I read ring, the book that inspired the movie the ring. I relaly liked it. Its based in japan and is barely liek teh movie at all. It's pretty good, and now im reading the sequel "spiral". But yeah I recomend it. It's not as spooky s the movie but its pretty good.
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09-23-2005, 06:20 PM
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#328
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 3
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Well I am reading alot of books I guess I'll rail them off
The Holy Bibile (proverbs and psalms)
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu which everybody needs to read in their lives.
Being Dharma by Ajahn Chah- which is also a very....inspiring book.
Variouse Bhuddist, Confuciast, Taoist parables.
Red Dragon- a psycological thriller that makes you think.
JTHM- Also makes you think once you delve into it.
Once and Future King- King Arthur and Chivalry
Le Morte D'Arthur- King Arthur and Chivalry (older)
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09-25-2005, 12:09 PM
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#329
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 150
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Originally Posted by sorrow
I read ring, the book that inspired the movie the ring. I relaly liked it. Its based in japan and is barely liek teh movie at all. It's pretty good, and now im reading the sequel "spiral". But yeah I recomend it. It's not as spooky s the movie but its pretty good.
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OH, I agree, it's definitely good. Very smart. Pretty well played out. But the homopobic and sexist attitudes may prevent me from reading the second book.
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09-28-2005, 11:21 PM
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#330
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 69
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ANANSI BOYS!
I finished it yesterday in one huge orgy of reading. Now my head hurts from sleep deprivation. Has anyone else run to the stores yet?
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09-29-2005, 12:15 AM
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#331
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 1,311
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i'm currently going through the Dark Tower Series again...
Also reading Pleiku by J.D.Coleman which is the true account that inspired the Viet Nam War movie "We Where Soldiers". The book reads like a military debriefing and is full of military lingo. It's quite good once you get use to the battalion designations and other military stuff which are all explained. Two thumbs up beyotches.
Telecosm by George Gilder. 0_o This one is one of those "Brief History of Time" like books. Discusses how unlimited bandwidth can change the world. Or something to that effect. It is interesting because it goes in depth with the explanations of fiber optic telecomunications. Two thumbs and a toe up.
and my favourite one at the moment...O'Reilley's Linux in a Nutshell which is basically a quick reference book to almost anything you want to know about the Linux OS and several popular shells. The main focus are the commands. Awesome book.
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09-29-2005, 11:03 AM
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#332
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 1,249
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide.
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09-30-2005, 03:38 PM
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#333
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: nevada, usa
Posts: 35
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Stay - Nicola Griffith (I love this book.)
With or Without You - Lauren Sanders
Cyanide Wells - Marcia Muller
How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me - Susan Rose Blauner
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10-01-2005, 09:26 AM
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#334
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Allen, Texas (Satans Cunt)
Posts: 8
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Im currenly reading
Disco bloodbath-James St James.
Killer Kids- Variouse authors
and Body Dump- Fred Rosen
All freekin great books
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10-01-2005, 09:38 AM
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#335
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,242
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American Gods by Neil Gaiman; it's wonderful.
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"You had a tough day at the office, so you come home, make yourself some dinner, smother your kids, pop in a movie; maybe a have a drink. It's fun, right? ...wrong.
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10-02-2005, 07:04 AM
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#336
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 10
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Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
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10-02-2005, 10:49 PM
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#337
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 150
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Gah! I had to start Spiral. It's like Narnia...I don't agree with the author's morals but I just can't help enjoying the story! Which causes me internal conflict. And external. You should see the state of the book.
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10-05-2005, 05:00 PM
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#338
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 2
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currently...
i am reading ERAGON, its actually a good book, the author is like 14 or somthin like that
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10-05-2005, 05:01 PM
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#339
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 2
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currently...
i am reading ERAGON, its actually a good book, the author is like 14 or somthin like that :-P
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10-07-2005, 01:31 AM
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#340
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 23
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I'm reading The Mallorean series by David Eddings... again.
And I must read His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, I have it, but it's just a huge book *cries*
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10-07-2005, 01:35 AM
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#341
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 69
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Originally Posted by Akuma2636
I'm reading The Mallorean series by David Eddings... again.
And I must read His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, I have it, but it's just a huge book *cries*
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The omnibus edition? Think of it as three smaller books, and just start with the first one. ^_^
I'm currently reading "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco, and also remembering Foucault's Pendulum fondly.
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10-07-2005, 04:53 AM
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#342
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: From your imagination. Im not really here. o.0
Posts: 19
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Edgar Allan Poe - Selective Writings
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10-07-2005, 05:02 AM
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#343
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: south, south of London
Posts: 845
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The Da Vinci Code, From Hell and The Mabinogion.
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10-07-2005, 06:01 AM
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#344
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Canada
Posts: 1,242
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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woold
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"You had a tough day at the office, so you come home, make yourself some dinner, smother your kids, pop in a movie; maybe a have a drink. It's fun, right? ...wrong.
...don't smother your kids."
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10-07-2005, 02:34 PM
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#345
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: England
Posts: 5
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interview with a vampire by ann rice
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10-07-2005, 03:55 PM
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#346
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: A black hole near the middle of California
Posts: 18
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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, and The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (I'm reading them practically at the same time).
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10-13-2005, 06:21 AM
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#347
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: a lonely place...
Posts: 953
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cooking for allergies and dietary requirements
arrrrggggghhhhh.........work just never ends!!!
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"the man who won an award for taking the most drugs ever consumed by a human has died. he was attacked by a pack of wolves....he thought he saw."
*another eliter*
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10-13-2005, 01:36 PM
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#348
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dallas, TX.....Like you even give a damn.
Posts: 1,210
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"Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk.
Great book, excellent so far.
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TwistedKitsune: I like broccoli too! Just not when it's thrown out a window at my back by an ornery 5 year old...
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10-13-2005, 03:47 PM
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#349
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 122
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I'm reading Dostoevsky's "The Idiot." Eventhough it's a bit different from his other works, it's still a good find.
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10-14-2005, 03:56 PM
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#350
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 36
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I'm reading the teachings of Thomas Aquinas, which, I can barely understand, but I think he is trying to say religion is a science...
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