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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
06-29-2006, 02:02 AM
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I read the Alienist...it's been a few years...it was a pretty good story. Turn of the century (1900) psych detective story, can't remember enough about it to ruin anything for you though.
Dig the pic of old Walter Sobchak, "Eight year olds, dude."
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06-30-2006, 08:53 AM
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#812
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Profound Writer
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Somewhere
Gender: Female
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I'm currently reading Shakespeare. Lots and lots of Shakespeare.
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06-30-2006, 03:20 PM
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#813
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Penguin-in-Chief
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Location: Edinburgh
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel, a quite unique take on the term 'magician', probably best encapsulated by this extract:
"Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might," he admitted, "but a gentleman never could."
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06-30-2006, 10:39 PM
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#814
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Prolific Writer
Join Date: Feb 2006
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I'm quite fond of that novel, actually - it is a blessed release from the usual bland, rather dreadful, seemingly universal prose style adopted by most modern writers.
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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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06-30-2006, 11:32 PM
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#815
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Moderator
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strangedaze is reading The Godfather by Mario Puzo.
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His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
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07-12-2006, 07:07 PM
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#816
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Forcing myself to read Diary by Palahniuk and am enjoying the Novel "Flicker" by Theodore Roszak (sp?).
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07-13-2006, 06:58 PM
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#817
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Writing Machine
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Location: Middle Earth
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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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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07-14-2006, 01:34 PM
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#818
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Best Seller
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Surely not MN
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Ringworld- Not very far but it's wonderful (Reminds me of a less rediculous Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy).
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"It's Amazing..."
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07-14-2006, 02:41 PM
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Free Fall by Kyle Mills
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07-14-2006, 02:43 PM
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#820
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Profound Writer
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Location: Dover, PA
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Kevin Brooks. I just finished the book Lucas. Lucas was a good book, a little disturbing but I loved it.
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“People always leave, but sometimes they come back.”
"Everybody can't be popular, because if they were -- nobody would be popular."
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07-14-2006, 04:16 PM
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Moderator
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Just Read
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
The Big Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Reading
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine by Thom Jones
Awaydays by Kevin Sampson
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07-14-2006, 05:00 PM
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#822
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Adept Writer
Join Date: Apr 2006
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The Crystal Desert by Julia Gray
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Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Stay in school and learn to be evil.
Child of the Ver'ai - Prologue: Cyrin Dark Dreams - Excerpt
RPG addict? Visit Chaos Sword
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07-17-2006, 11:38 PM
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#823
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Writing Machine
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Rhapsody by Elizabeth Hayden
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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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07-18-2006, 06:59 AM
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Adept Writer
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Ireland, Cork laddie!
Gender: Male
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the day of the jackal - frederick forsyth.
mighty good book.
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"What the fuck was that?" - Mayor of Hiroshima
'Sounds shopliftingly good!' - some guy.
Ah, the Luftwaffe! - Homer Simpson
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07-19-2006, 12:22 AM
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#825
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Finally finished Diary by Palahniuk, probably his worst work to date. Finished Flicker by Roszak, amazing book.
Reading A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. Last book of the latter of those authors I have to read.
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