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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
08-05-2004, 09:19 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Peterborough, Ontario, Best Country in the world. (Known to most as Canada)
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I just bought The Last of the Mohicans today.
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"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious." - Alan Minter, Boxer
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada." - Britney Spears, Pop Singer
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08-05-2004, 09:37 PM
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#197
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Addict
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Seattle-ish
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"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy.
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"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso
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08-06-2004, 09:49 AM
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Scribe
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Oregon, USA (but my heart is in the British Isles)
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now i'm reading 'I Capture the Castle' by Dodie Smith. lovely!
xoxoxo
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~*here she comes again, dancin' 'neath the starry sky*~
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08-06-2004, 10:27 AM
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Best Seller
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Amityville
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Still in the midst of Tad Williams Bloated Epic: Otherworld. I hated the first book but was still hooked by the story and ideas. Disliked the second book but still anxious and still determined to see this to the conclusion, I marched on. Now on the third book and am actually loving it. Will keep you posted.
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08-06-2004, 11:42 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: New Zealand
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Read The Pianist. Very good book.
Almost finished Catcher in the Rye but will have to stop so I can finish Pamela for English.
I'm also reading on the side Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead which is a fun book on the writer's life.
Also reading random short stories on the side, last I read was Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle. Well written.
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"...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
Fool! said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write. - Sir Philip Sidney
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08-06-2004, 11:50 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: New Britain, CT
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Raymond Chandler - The Little Sister
Grant Morrison, et. al. - JLA: And Justice For All
Kate Bornstein - My Gender Workbook
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln - Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Philip K. Dick - The Divine Invasion
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08-07-2004, 05:45 AM
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Gender: Private
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I just don't like Feist. I'd object to him less if so many people weren't hailing him as some imaginative genius. He's a pretty stock-standard writer. And his style is incredibly amatuerish, or at least it is in Magician.
I'm not reading anything at the moment, though I'm thinking about reading a bit of Discworld.
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08-08-2004, 05:18 AM
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Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: My snail trail
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I just finished "The Talisman" by Stephen King and Peter Straub, after starting it in 1998 or 1999. Really. I am a snail.
T.S Eliot, a bio by Peter Ackroyd,
and "The Jewel in the Wound".
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08-08-2004, 08:19 AM
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#204
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Writer
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: The Otherworld
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Right now I'm reading Traveler, the first in Melanie Jackson's Wildside series. It's one of those intriguing series that have been unjustly labeled as cheesecake romance, but it's fantasy people! FANTASY! If you're a fan of goblins, then stay away, because they're the evil villains in this. 
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Traveling The World, One Dream At A Time
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08-08-2004, 08:53 AM
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#205
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Writing Machine
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: UK
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This week, I have been reading Death and the Penguin, by Andrey Kurkov.
It's the story of a russian writer and his pet penguin, and how he unwittingly gets embroiled in a series of deaths after taking on a job writing newspaper obituaries.
A good read.
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08-08-2004, 09:21 PM
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#206
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Peterborough, Ontario, Best Country in the world. (Known to most as Canada)
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hrm. I am reading A Semester in the Life Of A Garbage Bag, by Gordon Korman. It cracks me up every time I read it.
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"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious." - Alan Minter, Boxer
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada." - Britney Spears, Pop Singer
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08-09-2004, 10:37 PM
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#207
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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I'm reading The Lone Drow by R. A. Salvatore. It's an amazing book and you should all read it!
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08-11-2004, 02:27 AM
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#208
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Jul 2004
Gender: Private
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Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.
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08-11-2004, 02:38 AM
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#209
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Scribe
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Toronto, Ontario.
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Pyramids by: Terry Pratchett.
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"No...I am not a god. I just happen to be very handy with a blowdryer."
- Omar Fradoo.
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08-11-2004, 09:09 AM
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Best Seller
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: ohio
Gender: Female
Posts: 600
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Myyyyyy...B I B L E...Yes thats the book for me! I stand alone ont eh Wrod of God! The B I B L E! Bible!
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