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PostPosted: 01-02-2007 10:04 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Franz Kafka "The Metamorphosis".txt



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Whatever happened to Citizen Kunt?



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A little Shelley.

OZYMANDIAS
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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PostPosted: 01-02-2007 11:26 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


You would be reading Shelley. :olo:
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PostPosted: 01-02-2007 11:29 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Ann Rule.

Green River Running Red.



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PostPosted: 01-03-2007 05:32 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


The Descent
and
World War Z
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The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation & the Anatomy of Terrorism - Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

can't recommend this book strongly enough. real 'through the looking glass' stuff about US links with al-qa'eda right up to the present day
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Wabbit wrote:
A little Shelley.

OZYMANDIAS
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.


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PostPosted: 01-03-2007 06:22 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Toynbee on Russia and Communism
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PostPosted: 01-03-2007 06:40 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


nothing :shrug:

thinkin tho
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I'm almost done reading A Mind of its Own by Cordelia Fine, and I've been flicking in and out of What is to be Done? by Lenin which lead me to buy the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels :)

Oh yeah, the Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn is around halfway done as well, I need to find something else light to read alongside them.
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PostPosted: 01-03-2007 01:07 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


reading atm a book about the Celts.....



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PostPosted: 01-03-2007 01:18 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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PostPosted: 01-03-2007 01:21 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I've started The Baroque Cycle by Stephenson weeks ago, but TBH I'm having a really hard time staying interested.

Does it ever get interesting, or does it continue to talk about fictional alchemists wandering around and meeting Isaac Newton and such? I assume there is a plot buried somewhere, but I've had a hard time divining much of it so far.

I'm pretty close to writing Stephenson off completely as "not my cup of tea," since Snow Crash was utterly disappointing to me as well. I read more than half of that one, but never got over the cheesy cyber lingo enough to feel immersed. I think it was probably written for a younger audience though, which is part of the reason I gave Baroque a chance.
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PostPosted: 01-03-2007 01:39 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


The Diamond Age is good, at least the first 2/3

And Cryptonomicon, although it's not cyberpunk/sci-fi :up:
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PostPosted: 01-03-2007 01:41 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


orson scott cards "ender's game"
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PostPosted: 01-03-2007 02:06 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


mac wrote:
orson scott cards "ender's game"


I like that book! I'm currently reading Dan Simmons' Illium. I also have the sequel Olympus. I always liked Greek mythology and Homer, this is a nice (SF) twist on it.
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PostPosted: 01-03-2007 02:34 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Grudge wrote:
The Diamond Age is good, at least the first 2/3

And Cryptonomicon, although it's not cyberpunk/sci-fi :up:


Have you read any of The Baroque Cycle? Did you like it?
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mac wrote:
orson scott cards "ender's game"


Those are great books. I have a friend who swears that in any situation, the best thing you can do is whatever you think Ender would do. :olo:
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PostPosted: 01-03-2007 04:12 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


R00k wrote:
mac wrote:
orson scott cards "ender's game"


Those are great books. I have a friend who swears that in any situation, the best thing you can do is whatever you think Ender would do. :olo:


"Ender's Game" was great, but I liked the bean series better.
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PostPosted: 01-03-2007 06:31 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I loved 'Cryptonomicon' by Stephenson...I have to read it again, and also his 'Snow Crash'. I am a little weary of the 'Baroque Cycle'.

Right now I'm reading Dan Simmon's "Ilium", starting "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson, and still trying to finish "Ancestor's Tale" (Dawkins).



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R00k wrote:
Grudge wrote:
The Diamond Age is good, at least the first 2/3

And Cryptonomicon, although it's not cyberpunk/sci-fi :up:


Have you read any of The Baroque Cycle? Did you like it?


nope, haven't read them
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Hannibal Rising, by Thomas Harris

The Hannibal books are good in this order, in my opinion:

The Silence of the Lambs (3rd book chronoligically)
The Red Dragon (2nd book)
Hannibal Rising (1st book, Hannibal's youth)
Hannibal (4th book, Hannibal after he escapes in Lambs)
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'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins


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you rebel



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Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
absolutely cannot put this book down
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Diary- chuck Palahniuk ( for the 4th time :shrug: )



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Underpants? wrote:
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
absolutely cannot put this book down


you put it down long enough to post :L
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Chinese Knots for Beaded Jewellery - Susan Millodot :/
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+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
Underpants? wrote:
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
absolutely cannot put this book down


you put it down long enough to post :L


posting one-handed!
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Good Omens

Terry Pratchet & Neil Gaiman

Just finished, American Gods by Neil Gaiman
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The Rainmaker, can barely put it down.
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Letter to a christian Nation by Harris.
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"Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" by Harold Bloom
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Fender wrote:
I just finished The DaVinci Code, first book I've read in quite some time. I should read more... dunno what's next.


Angels and Demons.

If you are into the whole Templar stuff then The Last Templar is another excellent read. I also have a few more, but I havent read them myself yet because of how busy I've been this term so i can't really comment on them.

Edit:
Oh and right now I'm reading The Varities of Religious Experience.

Oh, and Choke by Palahniuk. I need to finish these books :o
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