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[TheAbsynthFairy]

That is a good book. You should also try Permanent Midnight or Autobiography of a Face. Both depressing, but clearly worth the read.

[saechalyn]

That is a good book. You should also try Permanent Midnight or Autobiography of a Face. Both depressing, but clearly worth the read.

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Excellent, thank you!

[Anathema]

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

[Raven]

Just finished 'Redemption' by Wayne Sharrocks, so am now starting

'Industrial Magic' by Kelley Armstrong.

[Guest Megalicious]

Yeah...she is so full of self pity it kinda sickens me. But I did love that book.

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Oh god, she is. Atleast you liked the book. I can't say I cared for it. Whine, whine, whine ... thats all it got out of it . :erm

Right now I'm reading two things ...

Im finishing up the expression of the emotions in man and animals by Charles Darwin.

And also try to finish up One nation under therapy by Christina Sommers and Sally Satel.

Edited June 12, 2006 by Megalicious

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The screen where I just typed this message

[Steven]

"ordering your private world"

....kind of a wake up call book for men who are overextended.......

[Shade Everdark]

"ordering your private world"

....kind of a wake up call book for men who are overextended.......

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I haven't had a problem with...um...overextension, for a good seven or eight months now.

Go figure. :grin

[jadnifer]

stranger returns. novel about a copycat of ted bundy. good read.

[Homicidalheathen]

I just skimmed through the devil wears prada. Mindless dribble, one of the WORST books I have ever fucking read.

Might have been interesting to a teen who has never struggled, had a bitch of a boss, a boyfriend, lived on her own.....ect.......ect.......

I actually found a mispelling.

NYT best seller list means SHIT to me.

Coarse the movies I like allot of the times get bad reviews, and the popular stuff like romantic comedies give me a coma.

[Hellheart]

Reading "Days of Infamy," by Turtledove, one of the best alternate history authors.

[Amerist]

The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy.

[DarkVampire]

A book about ancient Sumeria.

[Anathema]

grimm's fairy tales

[bav]

The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart

[BrassFusion]

the gaean trilogy. AGAAAAAIN.

i get too easily addicted to stories/movies/music/videogames i like and i don't expose myself to enough new stuff...

[sister ray]

Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How A Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine by David Edmonds and John Eidinow

[Troy Spiral (13)]

The Heart of Buddha's Teaching - Thich Nat Han

STILL reading this dang thing. I'm the kind of person that cant just breeze through something that i dont quite "get". So its taking ages. Its more of a "study" than a read. Yes i read books , usually with a dictionary nearby. Every page is a challenge.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

A book about ancient Sumeria.

wow.

What i know about sumeria i learned from "The Cartoon History of the Universe" ... which actually is really damn good. In the back of my mind i keep meaning to look into it further. The ancient City-States seem facinating.

[Homicidalheathen]

Serial killer fare again....but this one isn't very good.....more about being in the FBI, so I am skimming through and reading the good, (groesome) parts.....Between good and Evil, by Roger L Depue.

[DarkVampire]

wow.

What i know about sumeria i learned from "The Cartoon History of the Universe" ... which actually is really damn good. In the back of my mind i keep meaning to look into it further. The ancient City-States seem facinating.

I like history and its been a while since I read anything about ancient Sumeria. Last time was a brief chapter in a college text book. My main reason is to get my facts right. One of my vampire characters, in my stories I write, came from ancient Sumeria.

Edited September 13, 2006 by DarkVampire

[Homicidalheathen]

I have to share this one paragraph with you all from the book I mentioned earlier, From between Good and Evil by Roger L Depue.

This one section is about serial killer Edmund Kemper who was 6ft 9, 300 lb necrophile, with an IQ of 140. He killed 6 women and his grandparents......his last victim his own mother, who he decapitated.

This is the last paragraph about this character: "Later in the tapes, Kemper talked about how, after decapitating several of his victims, he had conversations with the heads, had sex with them (a few serial killers do this, have sex with the heads of their victims) and then sometimes perched them on the backs of chairs. Once, he said, one of the heads fell. A full grown human head can weigh fifteen to twenty lbs, and when it hit the floor, it must have sounded like a bowling ball. Hearing the noise, the downstairs tenant apparently yelled up about keeping the noise down. Kemper leaned out his window and shouted, 'I'm sorry, I lost my head for a minute'. The memory of it made him laugh. To him, it was an inside joke, highly entertaining, like so much cocktail party chatter."

I just wanted to share that sick little tid bit with ya.

Edited September 13, 2006 by Homicidalheathen

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

Im reading One Commando... had to Interlibrary Loan it since its an $85 paperback from south africa... anyway the author was in the Rhodesian Light infantry (hence my wanting to read the book)... well it turns out that it is fiction and in the first few pages the author graphically details how the main character watches his mother get gangraped, murdered, and mutilated by communist guerrillas....

ok... now that I have painted a nice picture of the book... I have to ask WTF? why was that necessary... he could have just said "as an 8 year old the kid witnessed this..." but for some stupid reason, the author felt the need to do it in a pseudo-porno style. I was grossed out by it and I am shocked at the fact that several well respected non fiction authors wrote forwards for the book. I am seriously glad that I did not buy this piece of crap.

I dont see why anyone would feel the need to ficionalize their own life (he basically made his own life cooler) while at the same time composing some seriously ill porno stuff.

[livininxtcgoth]

i'm just finishing up 1984 by george orwell---i've always heard good things about this book but its like soooo much better than i thot it would be. "lullaby" by chuck paluhniuk is sitting on my dresser (the author of fight club, great write you should check him out) and next i think i'm going for "electric kool-aid acid test"

[phee]

American Gods - Neil Gaiman