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Kaenash
February 2, 2006 4:30 PM

I am reading "The Areas of my Expertise" by John Hodgmon. It is basically a book of complete human knowledge. Its pretty cool, because the cover is supposed to have this mettalic silver dragon swooping down to either rescue or eat a beautiful, nearly nude sword maiden as she falls off a cliff. All of this is overseen by the bitter glare of the ever-uncaring Triple Suns.

Okay, I am not really reading it. I am more or less just thinking about how cool the cover is.

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JESUSSANDWICH February 2, 2006 4:43 PM	Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins. Catcher in the rye(2nd time) Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut Franny and Zooey (2nd time) The place of dead roads by William S Burroughs Ghost of a chance by burroughs I renewed my library account. :D
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Kaenash February 2, 2006 5:47 PM	Catcher in the Rye was a good book. I can point to that book and say "That is what changed my literary style of writing in high school". I went from describing something the way a painter who paints landscapes does, to being more illustrative.
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Zaster February 2, 2006 5:52 PM	The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil. It's either the most important book I've ever read, or the damnedest load of crap. I'll get back to you in 20 years with my follow-up review.
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ivytheplant
February 2, 2006 5:53 PM

The Map That Changed the World - Simon Winchester
America: The Book
High Hearts - Rita Mae Brown
The Science Fictional Universe
Devils and Demons - Rod Serling
The Cat's Pajamas & Other Stories - James Morrow
The Lost World (3rd time) - Michael Crichton (side note, several months ago I finished Jurassic Park for the 17th time)
Pimp: The Story of My Life - Iceberg Slim
Conquistador - SM Stirling
This Is The Way The World Ends - James Morrow (been reading that for a few years, actually)
Batman: Year One
Son of a Witch - Gregory Maguire
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Southern Discomfort - Rita Mae Brown
Zodiac - Neal Stephenson (though I keep losing it)
Filth - Grant Morrison (taking me a while since he makes my brain hurt)

And none of this is counting my textbooks. and supplemental reading material for class that I would have read on my own anyway.

I've also been reading The Foundation Trilogy since 1989. I will get halfway through the second book, get distracted by another book, and when I pick Foundation up again, I've forgotten everything so I have to start over. Lather, rinse, repeat.

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boorite
February 2, 2006 6:00 PM

I'm reading two nonfiction books: Sight Unseen by Budd Hopkins (about UFO invisibility and transgenic humans) and Communion by Whitley Streiber (an autobiographical account of UFO abduction by a famous horror writer). OMG I can feel myslef geting smartar!!!1

But seriously, if you like it when fairly normal-seeming people say completely outlandish shit with a totally straight face (and who doesn't?), you will LOVE these books.

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The_young_scot February 2, 2006 6:41 PM	I'm reading "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. Its got all 4 books in the series ("The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy", "The restaraunt at the end of the universe", "life, the universe and everything" and "So long and thanks for all the fish") I just started "The restaraunt at the end of the universe" I've also read the first 5 books of the Discworld series, which rock.
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bunnerabb February 2, 2006 7:25 PM	I finished Snow Crash late, last year and I'm trying to find time to re-read some vonngut that Pita got for me. Best B0x set EVAR!1 Mostly, I'm reading the help manuals for Nuendo 1.6.1
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dcomposed February 2, 2006 7:37 PM
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NooniePuuBunny February 2, 2006 7:43 PM
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pita February 2, 2006 10:01 PM	The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou. One of my favourites: "I couldn't tell fact from fiction or if my dream was true, The only sure prediction in this whole world was you. I'd touched your features inchly, heard love and dared the cost. The scented spiel reeled me unreal and found my senses lost."
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User #57357 February 2, 2006 10:12 PM	Hard Times, by Charles Dickens. I also read No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre. Animal Farm, by George Orwell. AND....The Sketchbook of Gregory Crayon, Gent. , by Washinton Irving, WHICH, by the way, IS GAWD-AWFUL. One classic a month.
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Commander_t February 2, 2006 10:44 PM	Jurgen by James Cabell Branch Dark Tower 7: Dark Tower by Stephen King The Holy Bible by Various The Republic by Plato That's just a small few...
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LuckyGuess February 2, 2006 10:55 PM	I'm rereading "Practical Demon Keeping," and beginning "Count Zero." I also read any Lewis Carroll any chance I get.
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umfumdisi
February 2, 2006 11:36 PM

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I've also been reading The Foundation Trilogy since 1989. I will get halfway through the second book, get distracted by another book, and when I pick Foundation up again, I've forgotten everything so I have to start over. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Hell, how are you ever going to read all 14 (or is it 15?) books in the Foundation series at that pace?

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Recently finished C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet trilogy. The first book is wonderful. The second book starts out very well, but the middle part is turgid, and the end is ridiculous. The third book is interesting, but the ending is quite anti-climactic due to an incredibly quick resolution of events.

Currently reading Down Beat: 60 Years of Jazz and Harlan Ellison's Deathbird Stories.

On deck is Potty Training for Dummies.

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HotRodDeathToll February 2, 2006 11:58 PM	Nineteen eighty-four
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BigFrank105 February 3, 2006 7:12 AM	"Ford Tough"... basically a biography/autobiography of Ford Motor Company I just finished reading Le Petit Prince (en Francais) for the millionth time.
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ftc February 3, 2006 7:30 AM	'tis - Frank McCourt. Sequel to Angela's Ashes (childhood memoir)
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attitudechicka
February 3, 2006 8:18 AM

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On deck is Potty Training for Dummies.

That seems to be the only type of book I can find time to read these days. "Caring for Your Child, Birth to 5 Years" is the one that I have successfully master 12 times already, though I keep going back as if some kind of new information might magically appear, such as the two dollars that appeared themselves in my purse last week.

I haven't read Potty Training for Dummies yet, but I've got several others, including a pop up book on how to use the bathroom and wash your hands. The major problem is Travis is in size 6 Huggies brand diapers, and they don't make them any bigger so I'm being forced into early potty training.

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UnknownEric February 3, 2006 8:30 AM	quote: Franny and Zooey (2nd time) I love the Glass stories. The greatest books in which absolutely nothing ever happens, yet you still can't put them down. Currently I'm reading DC Showcase Presents The Justice League of America Vol. 1. Great cheesy early 60s comic goodness, although I'd like to throw Snapper Carr down a well.
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theReverend February 3, 2006 10:28 AM	Trying to get through the biliography of Guns, Germs and Steel, and the new Discover just came. Also Funny Times.
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Cre8tive13 February 3, 2006 11:23 AM
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TheGovernor
February 3, 2006 11:40 AM

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I'm reading "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. Its got all 4 books in the series ("The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy", "The restaraunt at the end of the universe", "life, the universe and everything" and "So long and thanks for all the fish")

I just started "The restaraunt at the end of the universe"

Coincidences Ahoy! thats exactly what Im reading again right now also, and Im just up to the start of Restaurant. It could be said Mostly Harmless was the fifth part of the 'trilogy' but I believe it wasnt finished, but is the reason Im re-reading the lot so I can finally see for myself.

The Last book I read was a christmas gift called The Shadow in the Wind by Carlos Zafon, Which I found to be quite magically brilliant in parts, although the end suffers from the Author not knowing when to call it quits (a bit like the movie Return of the King, where you've just watched a wonderful epic story come to a conclusion, but then have to wait half an hour while they wrap up all the loose ends.

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UnknownEric February 3, 2006 11:51 AM	Mostly Harmless was finished, I just don't like the ending he gave it. ;)
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niteowl February 3, 2006 11:55 AM	I'm currently reading this:
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boorite February 3, 2006 1:43 PM	quote: "Count Zero." Probably the most important collection of one sf author's stories in the last 25 or 30 years.
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bltsandwich17 February 3, 2006 1:55 PM	WHat are books????
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TheGovernor February 3, 2006 2:47 PM	quote: quote: These two work better this way round
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mandingo February 3, 2006 2:55 PM	i'm still on this one great great book for anyone who wants to know what their bet size should be in no limit. it also gives hand quizzes at the end of each section so you can see what you'd do, what Harrington would do and why, and adjust your game as you see fit
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boorite February 3, 2006 3:05 PM	wwwafboj? (who would win a fight batman or jesus????)
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The_young_scot February 3, 2006 3:11 PM	quote: wwwafboj? (who would win a fight batman or jesus????) Batman
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Zaster February 3, 2006 4:53 PM	Batman would dismantle that skinny jew. No question.
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ivytheplant February 3, 2006 6:59 PM	Totally.
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ArtemisStrong February 4, 2006 12:57 PM	..dude. McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales Colour Of Magic (like fourth time) Candide (kinda sorta') And I recently sold Place of Dead Roads for 20$ in beer money (it was a crazy time in my life which I can thank only God's infinite mercy for getting me through).
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Zaster February 4, 2006 1:52 PM
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biped February 5, 2006 9:46 AM
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TheGovernor February 5, 2006 11:02 AM	quote: i'm still on this one great great book for anyone who wants to know what their bet size should be in no limit. it also gives hand quizzes at the end of each section so you can see what you'd do, what Harrington would do and why, and adjust your game as you see fit Caro's book of poker tells is also well worth it.
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little_kitty February 5, 2006 1:32 PM	I had to buy it for my German History class back in the day... and mysteriously enough I've read it several times just for fun.
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areallystupidguy February 5, 2006 8:52 PM	I'm rereading this one: It's a good book.
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areallystupidguy February 5, 2006 9:03 PM	I'm also reading the latest damn Xanth book, "Pet Peeve". I hate this series so much, but something inside me can't help but read them all. That is the part of me I hate the most.
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mandingo
February 5, 2006 9:32 PM

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wwwafboj?

(who would win a fight batman or jesus????)

neither, they're both fictitious

*throws atheist gang sign*

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Caro's book of poker tells is also well worth it.

word. as is the video, which you can catch on limewire sometimes

i'm waiting for Caro's Book of Tells, Internet Edition:

rofl = bluff

roflmao = monster hand

lol = drawing hand

wtf = got nothing

0m6 n00dz plz k thx l00l bibi = royal flush

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ArtemisStrong February 6, 2006 1:26 PM	quote: quote: wwwafboj? (who would win a fight batman or jesus????) neither, they're both fictitious throws atheist gang sign Excuse me, mr. allah loving, freedom hatin, god-bashing blasphemer, but don't athiests believe that Jesus did in fact exist? Or am I wrong, mr. two-faced, will-burn-in-Hell, is-in-my-prayers, sacrilegeous heretic?
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Brad February 6, 2006 1:31 PM	Oh hey, I guess this is a good place to say I made a site for cataloging what you're reading/watching/playing/listening to. http://junklog.com/ And here's what I've been reading.
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kramer_vs_kramer February 6, 2006 2:13 PM	What an excellent idea for a site. I wish I'd thought of that.
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biped February 6, 2006 2:44 PM	I wish I'd thought of something that would cause people to give me millions of dollars.
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Rabid_Weasle February 6, 2006 3:49 PM	I wish I had thought of BoomExamScam.com.
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Zaster February 6, 2006 5:25 PM	I bought this book of Zen poetry. All the pages are blank! Ba-Dum-CHA! Actually it's pretty good. This wacky old hermit spent many years living a life of solitude and contemplation in the mountains of 14th century China. "Songs of Cold Mountain" (same translator, different hermit) is worthwhile as well. Oh, and contrary to what that image suggests, you cannot actually look inside it, fool.
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UnknownEric February 7, 2006 10:33 AM	quote: Oh hey, I guess this is a good place to say I made a site for cataloging what you're reading/watching/playing/listening to. http://junklog.com/ And here's what I've been reading. Oh man, now I'm addicted to this.
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mmyers February 7, 2006 11:03 AM	I'm reading Hitchiker's Guide for the first time ever. I'm nearly done with it. I can see why people are so into it.
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ivytheplant February 7, 2006 11:05 AM	Me too. Thanks a lot, Brad. No, really. This is actually a nice way of cataloguing my DVDs. I've just been too lazy to create a database. And this has the added bonus of amazon.com images.
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