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06-09-2006, 09:31 PM
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Write now I'm reading Lolita by Nabakov and is one of the greatest books I've ever read. The writing in it flows nicely and the plot even today would be considered extremely controversial.
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06-09-2006, 09:37 PM
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Location: Middle Earth
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I'm about halfway through "Street Magic" by Tamora Pierce right now. It's #2 in The Circle Opens Quartet, but that's actually a sequel quartet to The Circle of Magic Quartet, so if you look at it that way it's book #6. All of them are very good.
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it's a long long road, it's a big big world
we are wise wise women, we are giggling girls
we both carry a smile to show when we're pleased
both carry a switchblade in our sleeves
- Ani DiFranco, from "If He Tries Anything"
also in "Somplace To Be Flying" by Charles de Lint
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06-12-2006, 12:38 AM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Feb 2006
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I just started on the text of The Mysterious Mother, by Horace Walpole - I'd rather liked Otranto and thought to give his dramatic masterwork a try. I believe that for my 18th Century dramatic fixes I shall in future stick with Sheridan.
I am also working through The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, after having very much enjoyed A Sentimental Journey. Sterne has now assured his place among my favourite authors, though I'm taking Shandy slowly, it being that rare sort of book which one is tempted never to begin for fear of actually finishing it.
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Great God, how frail a thing is man; how swift his minutes pass:
His age contracts within a span, he blooms and dies like grass.
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06-12-2006, 06:38 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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I just started Salt Rain by Sarah Armstrong.
I just finished Double Exposure by Brian Caswell and The Da Vinci Code.
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06-12-2006, 08:35 AM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Thunder Bay
Gender: Male
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Hmm I have currently finished the entire "Black Magician Trilogy" I recommend this highly. I have also started book one "The Dragon Bone Chair" in Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series. It seems a fairly good book though im only around 150 pages in.
Sincerely - J.C
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06-12-2006, 09:13 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Maryland
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I just finished Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier and and started Terrorist by John Updike.
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The Palace Flophouse
When Newton closed his eyes beneath a tree
and took the apple from the serpent, he
conceived the urge of humanity, plea, plea,
procreant desire and tendency.
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06-12-2006, 10:02 AM
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Just finished all the Orson Scott Card Bean and Ender novels and just started Watership Down (for about the sixth time).
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06-12-2006, 10:27 AM
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Location: British Columbia
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I am nearly finished Celtic Myths and Legend by Peter Ellesford Berris, it is awesome.
Being Jewish from the line of David, house of Judah, I am of course interested in the other tribes, my kin and many of our people at one time in ages past migrated to live in Erinn,Scotland and the land of the Cymru and although some say that the Tuatha de danaan are from the Goddess Danu I believe from careful study that the tribe of Dan , those anyway that did not give up worship of the cow following their release from four hundred years of slavery under Egypt were those that migrated to Ireland and brought with them their worship, their magic and their lore and mystical ways.
This book is a perfect gorgeous blend of literary masterpieces, my favorite is the children of Lir and scholarly writing. I highly recommend it.
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Once upon a time in a place far far away..........
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06-13-2006, 07:30 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Portland, Oregon
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (the Mitchell translation) and I Am David
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Here lies a dead bird...
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06-20-2006, 06:27 AM
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Adept Writer
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Anywhere and everywhere
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The Weavers of Saramyr by Chris Wooding; The Snow-Walker Trilogy by Catherine Fisher and The Riddle by Alison Croggon
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06-21-2006, 10:12 PM
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The Black Swan by Mercedes Lackey. Very good.
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it's a long long road, it's a big big world
we are wise wise women, we are giggling girls
we both carry a smile to show when we're pleased
both carry a switchblade in our sleeves
- Ani DiFranco, from "If He Tries Anything"
also in "Somplace To Be Flying" by Charles de Lint
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06-28-2006, 01:54 PM
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I just finished The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffennegger. It was utterly fantastic. And then I read the Da Vinci Code (in about a day) for the first time. Suspenseful and fun, but like everyone's been saying, the writing leaves much to be desired. Now I'm going to start Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst. Supposed to be good. 
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O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
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06-28-2006, 02:06 PM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Feb 2006
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, by Tobias Smollett. I'm quite fond of it.
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Great God, how frail a thing is man; how swift his minutes pass:
His age contracts within a span, he blooms and dies like grass.
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06-28-2006, 07:33 PM
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Scribe
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Last edited by Writer87 : 11-24-2007 at 09:58 PM.
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06-28-2006, 10:12 PM
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Louisiana
Gender: Male
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I just finished 'Velocity' by Dean Koontz and 'Book of the Dead' by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, both within the week. 'Book of the Dead' was fantastic. 'Velocity' was... alright. Koontz has done better but this wasn't really bad either. It left a lot to be desired.
I'm starting 'The Alienist' by Caleb Carr
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