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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
01-27-2005, 12:37 PM
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Profound Writer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: England
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,236
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Finally a non-Eggers/Coupland book falls into my eyeline...
David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Bit of a guilty pleasure this one. Sick but somehow gripping.
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Never get so attached to a poem
you forget truth that lacks lyricism
and never draw so close to the heat
that you forget that you must eat
- En Gallop, Joanna Newsom
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01-27-2005, 12:39 PM
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Forum Hottie
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Florida
Gender: Female
Posts: 7,522
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Conversations with God Book 2
By: Neale D. Walsch
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Years of practice only to find, practice is for amateurs. Live life without a script...
Renae L. Soler
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01-27-2005, 03:18 PM
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Wordsmith
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: New York
Posts: 5,240
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Oh, I think the pile of books next to my bed grows bigger; I add two for every one I finish. Here's what I got:
Stephen Greenblatt's "Will in the World."
Robert H. Hopcke's "There are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Stories of Our Lives."
"The Buddha and His Teachings."
Simon Blackburn's "Think."
Suzette Haden Elgin's "More on the Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense."
A french coursebook.
Tobin Blake's "The Power of Stillness."
Wheelock's Latin.
So yeah, no novels. I love them, but my thirst for knowledge keeps me in Psychology, Language, Biographies, Philosophy, and Spiritual books. Occasional poetry as well.
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01-27-2005, 09:58 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: wouldn't you like to know? hehe...
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k3ng!!!
so i'm not the only one out there who's reading it!
actually, i managed to finish it a while ago, but close enough. hang in there!
went to the bookstore today...bought two more books...i'm such an impulse shopper
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01-31-2005, 04:15 PM
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Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: South Dakota.
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Currently, I'm reading "The Oddyssey" (sp?) as a school project that I have to, but on a side note I'm reading this one... book.. that remains... titleless...  DANG IT >< I know when I get home I can look at it and get the title, but until then- live long and prosper you titleless piece of literature! 
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-::-God Is In Heaven Now.-::-
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01-31-2005, 05:23 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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I'm reading Iliad again and I'm also reading Great Expectations (for school). I'm also reading sunrise.
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Dewa Mata
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01-31-2005, 05:42 PM
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Penguin-in-Chief
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Edinburgh
Gender: Male
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Hmm.
I seem to be in a constant state of reading Being and Nothingness, the existentialist book. Three pages at a time...
As I slowly become more arty, I've started picking up books on famous directors and popular artistic movements. Pop Art and Minimalism are my fascinations just now.
Over on the escapism side I just finished (as you may have noted from the topic I posted) George R. R. Martin's most recent release. Thoroughly recommended.
Also on the biographical and musical fronts I'm nose-deep in an exploration of obscure English singer/songwriter Nick Drake.
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02-01-2005, 03:36 PM
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Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: South Dakota.
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Originally Posted by tsuraseyu
I'm reading Iliad again and I'm also reading Great Expectations (for school). I'm also reading sunrise.
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I read the Iliad, I didn't like it at all. I had to read it, though, so maybe that's why. It was boring-it was long- and it was pointless at times. There were too many characters for my liking, and if it wasn't for my teachers "Reference Sheet" I would have been lost in a haze. T_T
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02-01-2005, 04:44 PM
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Scribe
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: the wasteland... fine, PA...
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aaaahhhh.... (that is an anguished wail)
well, I am reading:
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler
and
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (for school)
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Evil little girl
Darkness hiding in her soul
Body full of worms
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02-03-2005, 05:52 PM
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Writing Machine
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: South Carolina
Gender: Female
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Right now I'm enjoying The Complete Works and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. It's great!
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. --Ernest Hemingway
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02-03-2005, 05:59 PM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: In Another Land
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The Situationist Internationale archives at www.bopsecrets.org sporadically.
And my current book is Why I Write by George Orwell.
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the tea gods
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02-03-2005, 06:48 PM
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Writer
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Toronto
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Im currently reading Tommy Lee's new autobiography, Tommyland. It actually isn't as good as I thought it would be. It is, because I'm a huge Motley Crue fan and Tommy Lee fan, but many people probably wouldn't like it.
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02-04-2005, 12:38 AM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne Australia
Gender: Female
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I started on Bella Bathurst's Special this morning. 12 pages into it and my interest on it is on edge...
Borrowed from a library today:
Idoru - William Gibson
A Change In The Lighting - Amy Witting
Marriages - Amy Witting
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02-04-2005, 08:41 PM
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Best Seller
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: sitting on the dock of the bay, wasting time
Gender: Female
Posts: 602
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Wurthering Heights...for school, but I like it.
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02-05-2005, 01:07 AM
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Addict
Join Date: Jan 2005
Gender: Private
Posts: 104
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I'm currently reading:
IN SCHOOL:
The Westing Game (weird, huh? o.o I read this book in the 5th or 6th grade. Pretty good, too.)
AT HOME:
-published: The Wolf and the Dove (cheesy romance novel, but too bad for me; I'm the one wasting my time after all)
-online: The Mirror of Maybe (I hope the writer updates soon before I write the end of the story myself. *whines very childishly* It's getting really annoying. T---T)
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"OooOOOooh, my dearie, my luv- CAKE!!"
I have no idea where this came from, but all I know is that I couldn't have made it up, even though it came into my head with no other thought. Thanks, whoever wrote this first!
Something to do with HP slash...
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