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April 16th, 2008, 03:55 PM
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Awesome Sauce
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I finished No Country and enjoyed it. I thought the film did a good job with the novel, but I wish the film had included a couple of scenes from the book. whatever.
I've also read Child of God...nothing like necrophiliac hermit stories.
I probably won't get to The Road until after the semester is over.
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I've read all his stuff and I don't feel it was a waste of time
One of the few authors I can say the latter for
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April 16th, 2008, 06:05 PM
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Qiyamat a tawil
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April 16th, 2008, 06:08 PM
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Drinker of milkshakes
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Back in Funkytown for good! Fuck East Texas!
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Rereading Xenocide by Orson Scott Card. This book is amazing, and I recommend Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind (in that order) to anyone who likes deep, complex, dark, interesting books with some great dialogue.
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I always read No Smoking signs as Nosmo King. I want to meet Nosmo King.
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April 17th, 2008, 03:18 AM
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Mage of the Black Ring
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Someone in my History of Soviet Russia class gave a presentation on that book. It sounded good.
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Solzhenitsyn rules. Read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich also.
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April 17th, 2008, 03:40 PM
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Awesome Sauce
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Russian lit is bitchin'.
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May 11th, 2008, 08:17 PM
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Limbonic Architect
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Maine
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Just finished Works of Hesiod & the Homeric Hymns today. Good to have some fundamental lessons on Greek mythology.
Just started the Histories of Herodotus. Can't wait to read the part about what really happened at Thermopylae.
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May 11th, 2008, 08:21 PM
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Winter is Coming...
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Home in Buffalo, college in Tampa, FL
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What do you mean? Xerxes was a twelve foot tall giant, he had tribes of goat-headed minstrels serenading him and he used big fat bastards with axes for hands as executioners.
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May 11th, 2008, 08:26 PM
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Limbonic Architect
Join Date: Jan 2006
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It's merely a few pages in an 800-page work. I'll probably leave Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War to the end of the summer.
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May 12th, 2008, 12:27 AM
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Mmmhmm, okra...
Join Date: Jun 2006
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I've finished reading Peter James' Denial. Very disappointing. I wouldn't recommend it, unless you're a casual fan of the thriller genre. A piss-poor imitation(of sorts) of Stephen King's Misery.I found it lacking in suspense, and just extremely poorly written, in general.
Now reading Elizabeth George's A Suitable Vengeance
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he will not be slave,
no snare of past can trap him,
though the future may.
Still he runs and burns behind him,
in advanced retreat;
still his life remains unfettered-
he denies defeat.
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May 12th, 2008, 12:59 AM
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 I keep suggesting Ian Irvine out of Australia. He blends sci-fi with fantasy, and blurs the lines between which characters are good or evil, or just simply jerks. He doesn't write in any kind of cliched way. He's very detailed with the geographies, cultures, and characters, but always keeps the story moving. And my favorite thing about him, is that his books rarely have a happy ending...much more realistic.
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