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Jimbean

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 12:49 pm

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haven't heard anyone talk about good books they read lately or have heard about. I'm currently reading the prestige, I like it in the sense that you catch a lot of stuff the movie kinda blows by quickly. I also just recently read in cold blood and the stranger and reccomend them both as well. Any bookworms out there? give me some good reads.

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 12:55 pm

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PFFF BUKS R 4 SKOOL

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 1:29 pm

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The only books I have read in my life (other than school) were the harry potter and lord of the rings series (including Hobbit and Silmarillion), and 1 sword of shanarra book. I will probably never read another book again haha. I have bad ADD, I prefer video games or movies.

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 2:54 pm

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my favorite books, most of which I've read 2-3 times

Atlas Shrugged,
The Fountainhead,
We the Living, by Ayn Rand

Contact by Carl Sagan

The Call of the Wild
White Fang, by Jack London

1984 by George Orwell

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware

The Dragonlance series (fantasy novels) by Weis and Hickman

I'm currently reading White Noise by Don DeLillo, and it's very good. It's about a suburban American family and a bunch of interesting observations on many different subjects.

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Matti

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 3:40 pm

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I just finished Memnoch The Devil by Anne Rice. I wasn't happy with the end.

I've been on a huge Anne Rice kick lately - I have The Vampire Armand coming up next.

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 3:44 pm

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I heard Anne Rice is a born again Christian now. I never saw that coming lol.

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Matti

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 3:52 pm

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Eternus wrote:

I heard Anne Rice is a born again Christian now. I never saw that coming lol.

Yep, and it's depressing as hell how she feels about her own work (The Vampire Chronicles.)

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In 1998, after spending most of her adult life as a self-described atheist, Rice returned to her Roman Catholic faith, which she had not practiced since she was 18. In October 2005, as she reaffirmed her Catholic faith, Rice announced in a Newsweek article that she would "write only for the Lord." She called Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, her first novel in this genre, the beginning of a trilogy that will chronicle the life of Jesus.

In an interview with Christianity Today, headlined "Interview with a Penitent", Rice declared that she will never again write another vampire novel, saying; "I would never go back, not even if they say, 'You will be financially ruined; you've got to write another vampire book.' I would say no. I have no choice. I would be a fool for all eternity to turn my back on God like that." Some of her fans reacted with shock to the news of her religious and literary conversion, admonishing her in magazine articles, internet weblogs and reader reviews found on the web. Rice responded in a post on Amazon.com (see below) that stated: "And yes, the Chronicles are no more! Thank God!"

Whether Rice would continue to be a supporter of causes like gay rights (her son Christopher is openly gay) was much debated; she has said that Christianity's stance on homosexuality was something she wrestled with as she considered converting. She remains a passionate supporter of the rights of homosexuals and their right to participate in religious worship. She was adamant about all her convictions. Her pattern of political contributions since 1998 suggests that she continues to identify with the Democratic Party [2]. for example she endorsed John Kerry for president in 2004 and she opposes the War in Iraq.

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 3:55 pm

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Matti wrote:

I just finished Memnoch The Devil by Anne Rice. I wasn't happy with the end.

I've been on a huge Anne Rice kick lately - I have The Vampire Armand coming up next.

All right Matti I have and read "The Vampire Armand", I hope you enjoy it. Yea I used to read a lot of Anne Rice stuff but I haven't read anything by her recently. I think the last book I read of hers was Merrick (I named a mule after it).

Edit: Lol Now I see why I have not read anything of hers recently.

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Matti

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 4:37 pm

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Remey wrote:

Matti wrote:

I just finished Memnoch The Devil by Anne Rice. I wasn't happy with the end.

I've been on a huge Anne Rice kick lately - I have The Vampire Armand coming up next.

Merrick was awesome.

Pandora is REALLY good too.

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 7:39 pm

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Finished up The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins a few months ago. Almost through with Hegemony and Survival by Noam Chomsky, starting Collapse by Jared Diamond (Guns Germs and Steel was ridiculously good) and other than that I'm pretty much spending all the rest of my reading time on school.

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 7:54 pm

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I recently finished House of Bush, House of Saud, which I thought was pretty interesting. I've also just started A Brief History of Time, which I wish was a movie (narrated entirely by Steven Hawking of course), so that I could take psychedelic drugs and watch it.

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Ponuh

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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 8:51 pm

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oh and that new einstein bio seems really interesting as well

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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 2:57 am

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I think i am done reading books after the next Harry potter, i just finished Bourne Identity and then watched the movie, you cannot even remotely consider 2 characters names, and the name of an organization to be "based on" and Eragon got raped to shit in movie form too.

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Ponuh

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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:25 pm

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what the fuck? why would you want to stop reading? You want to become that moronic old person who everyone wishes would just die?

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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 8:24 am

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The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz is a good one. Bio of a Polish cavalry officer taken prisoner during WW2. His torture, imprisonment, escape, and deadly trek (with 7 companions) from Siberia to India are chronicled.

Recently read the newly constructed Tolkien book The Children of Hurin. This is a massively extended version of the Lay of the Children of Hurin from the Silmarillion. The writing has existed in scattered forms for many years but Christopher Tolkien has compiled it into one cohesive volume.

Sarah by JT Leroy was another book I couldn't put down. Fictionalized bio of a 12 year old ladyboy prostitute in a West Virginia truckstop. Sadly I loaned it out and never got it back and the stupid thing might be out of print now.

Honestly though, at this point if I'm looking for anything it'll be some type of history/bio or myth/religion. I'm tired of feigned depth, and I've been that way for a while. It's a hard stance to explain I guess, especially considering I haven't really bothered about it for 5 or 6 years. This all stems from my loathing The Catcher in the Rye, if that helps explain it at all.

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I think i am done reading books after the next Harry potter

If someone told me the last book I'd ever read would be a harry potter I'd just skip the torture and kill myself on the spot.

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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 3:43 pm

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DeadLegend wrote:

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I think i am done reading books after the next Harry potter

If someone told me the last book I'd ever read would be a harry potter I'd just skip the torture and kill myself on the spot.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

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Yarr

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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 4:09 pm

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DL you didnt like "Catcher in the Rye"?

I enjoyed reading it in high school and I enjoyed writing an essay on it even more.

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Jimbean

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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 5:06 pm

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yeh that's pretty strange dead... because I thought you were the type of person who could totally relate to some of holden's opinions, "whenever you think you've found someplace new someone's already been there first and scribbled "fuck you" all over it"

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Ponuh

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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 5:07 pm

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he's saying that he finds it disingenuous

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Jimbean

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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 5:10 pm

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yeh but I didn't find catcher in the rye in to have "fake depth" I don't even know where/how/why someone could discern such a thing. Unless you despise all fiction because it's not reguritated facts.

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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 5:31 pm

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I definitely think there's such a thing as "fake depth". It seems a lot of people, even people who read quite a bit, read only fiction. Good fiction can be extremely powerful but nothing expands a person like good non-fiction. I think people should read more non fiction than fiction.

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Mintsy

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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 9:17 pm

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I'm reading Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. It's very beautiful.
It's hard for me to read fiction, cause I get so into it. This is probably the first novel I read in a long time. I'm usually reading nonfiction stuff cause it's easier to distance myself from the book.
eh.

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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 10:13 pm

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The Sacred Bone(s) by Michael Byrnes
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookse ... 0061146072

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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:29 am

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I uh, just finished The Outsiders. Great book imo ~.~

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