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08-18-2006, 06:54 PM
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starving artist
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What are you reading?
Okay, so we have the what are you listening to thread, and I just started reading more, since I had stopped for a while, not having the patience to just sit down and devour a book.
So what are you reading now?
Cats Eye by Margaret Atwood
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08-18-2006, 06:56 PM
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Coinneach Odhar Fiosaiche
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Consider Phlebas
Ian M Rankin
Again. I get so involved with this book.
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Harmless. Sometimes.
Men must be born and reborn to belong. Their bodies must be made of the dust of their forefather's bones.
Luther Standing Bear
Donal'
Donal' Chapter 2
Donal' Chapter 3
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08-18-2006, 06:56 PM
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Professional Dreamer
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A handful of oldie-but-goodie romance novels.
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Dark, Passionate & Evil Erotica
(and the occasional sweet romance)
The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
~ George Sand (1804 - 1876)
Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat
in the struggle to become what we want to be. ~ Ninon de L'Enclos
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08-18-2006, 07:11 PM
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Literotica guru
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Tales of a Female Nomad - Living at Large in the World
Rita Golden Gelman
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08-18-2006, 07:30 PM
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Experienced
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Night Shift-- Stephen King
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08-18-2006, 08:05 PM
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I got a bunch of Andrew Neiderman books (The Devil's Advocate, Angel of Mercy, In Double Jeopardy, Surrogate Child, After Life, The Maddening...) at my favorite secondhand bookstore. I can spend hours in that place hunting through the stacks all hopped up and shaking on venti vanilla lattes.
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08-18-2006, 08:24 PM
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Literotica Guru
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Witching Hour by Anne Rice
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08-18-2006, 08:35 PM
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Literotica Guru
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Vortex by Larry Bond.
I like techno-thrillers.
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08-18-2006, 08:39 PM
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Equal Opportunity Sexpot
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Everyman by Philip Roth. But I'm not recommending it. It stinks. I'm going to finish it, dammit.
Before that, I read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Poer. Fabulous.
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08-18-2006, 10:11 PM
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Hey, my Halo is smoking
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Reading two books right now. The first is "Seeds of Time" by Kay Kenyon. Not bad but nothing to go into shock over. (Sci-Fi)
The second is the Koran. I haven't read this in something like ten years so I'm finding it interesting, especially with what is going on in the Middle East right now.
I have on the desk another of the books by William Gibson. When I am done with both of the above I will sit back and enjoy his writing.
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08-18-2006, 10:14 PM
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A Different Scene
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"Alec Baldwin Doesn't Love Me ... and Other Tails of My Queer Life." - Ford
Love it. Recommended. Highly. 
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I hope that you’re not sorry for the choice you made.
I’m finally alive again,
I hope your body’s not your grave.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa
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08-19-2006, 12:58 AM
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Psycho Bitch
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Steven King - Dark Tower VII. Finally... The last volume 
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I'm nothing but a "filthy, black, whore, slut" according to my trolls. 
This is a must read! My stomach hurts from laughter, I swear to God. ~ Aurora Black
" knew you could write but now I know that you can WRITE." ~ LadyCibelle
 
"Hey. I fucked your mother!" ~ Borat
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08-19-2006, 06:16 AM
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starving artist
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Originally Posted by neonurotic
I got a bunch of Andrew Neiderman books (The Devil's Advocate, Angel of Mercy, In Double Jeopardy, Surrogate Child, After Life, The Maddening...) at my favorite secondhand bookstore. I can spend hours in that place hunting through the stacks all hopped up and shaking on venti vanilla lattes.
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08-19-2006, 07:41 AM
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Muse Herding Lynx
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Rereading "Seduced By Moonlight" by Laurel K...I promised my muse I would find a way to pick up the fourth one if she let me actually finish my story so I'm reading through the other three again as a delay tactic until I can afford the hardcover price  |
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08-19-2006, 10:14 AM
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Literotica Guru
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On Writing by Stephan King.
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"...Because you two girls are tall and short, slim and stout and blonde and brunette, and that's just the kind of woman I crave..." Groucho Marx
~Goodbye Joe~ R.I.P
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08-19-2006, 10:18 AM
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Goth Flufflet
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Consider Phlebas
Ian M Rankin
Again. I get so involved with this book.
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Not to be pedantic or anything but I thought Iain M Banks wrote that book...
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"Cute Little Twat" - Tatelou
"Resident Mistress Of The Newbies" - Minsue
"[You can choose your friends]...but your family you have to periodically tell to go fuck a mackerel." - John-The-Author
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08-19-2006, 10:21 AM
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Bailing Out
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Consider Phlebas
Ian M Rankin
Again. I get so involved with this book.
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I can also recommend the same title by Iain M. Banks *giggle*
Try Banks's - The Algebraist - equally spellbinding.
Current read: A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
Just finished 'On Beauty' by Zadie Smith, stunning female perspective on males, not for the faint hearted, she tells me things about my gender that I never knew. |
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08-19-2006, 11:15 AM
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Unreconstructed Optimist
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Bedside reading - 'A Game of Thrones', George R R Martin. I like his style, but find the stories overwhelming - too much in one book, maybe. I thought I was wordy but he makes me look terse!
Downstairs reading - currently 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' (second reading).
I'll probably pick up C J Cherryh's 'The Paladin' next and read it yet again. Oh, and every now and then I'll pick up King's 'On Writing'.
Alex
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Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,
'Fool,' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart and write.'
(From 'Astrophel and Stella', by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)) For anyone worried about ratings, I think dr_mabeuse said it best - "A moment's reflection on pop music, fast food joints, and prime time TV should prove to anyone that the correlation between popularity and quality is tenuous at best."
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08-19-2006, 11:15 AM
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Sweet & Twisted
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'The Right Hand of Evil' ~ John Saul
As soon as I finish that, I'm going to re-read 'Angels & Demons' ~ Dan Brown.
(Maybe even 'The Da Vinci Code' again. Haven't decided. )
Has anyone ever read 'House of Leaves' ~ Mark Z. Danielewski?
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08-19-2006, 11:53 AM
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Ancient writer
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Paul Gallico - Mrs Harris MP
Asimov - Bicentennial Man
Marlowe's plays
Ngaio Marsh - A Man lay dead
Wordsworth Dictionary of Classical and Literary Allusion
Og
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08-19-2006, 12:14 PM
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Back in the saddle
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Just finished Re-reading the Belgariad, Mallorean, Belgarath, and Polgara by David and Leigh Eddings. I'll probably pick up Raymond E. Feist again next, starting from Magician. That way, I'll have just finished the last book in perfect time to import the new one from the U.K. when it comes out Sept. 04
I haven't purchased a Feist novel in the U.S. since Rage of a Demon King, since they come out six months to a year earlier in the U.K. Three cheers for Amazon!
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08-19-2006, 06:00 PM
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Goth Flufflet
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I'm re-reading my Pratchett collection in order of.. well. Whenever I pick one up *grins* My fiance is reading Pratchett too.
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Never Underestimate The Power of Pointy Ears!
"Helen, you really are just legal, and too sweet for words." - Perdita
"Just-Legal is the sweetest Ambassador of Newbies." - Abstruse
"Cute Little Twat" - Tatelou
"Resident Mistress Of The Newbies" - Minsue
"[You can choose your friends]...but your family you have to periodically tell to go fuck a mackerel." - John-The-Author
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08-19-2006, 06:13 PM
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Lech Master
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Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. The Book of the Dead.
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08-19-2006, 06:15 PM
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Log Cabin Something
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Fortune's Favorites by Colleen McCullough. Almost done. Fascinating historical novel about ancient Rome, particularly Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Sertorius, and Caesar. I recommend it. Read it before, but rereading can be fun too.
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I support same-sex marriage. Gay people have every bit as much right to experience divorce as the rest of us.
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08-19-2006, 07:02 PM
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Paralyzer
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I'm re-reading my Pratchett collection in order of.. well. Whenever I pick one up *grins* My fiance is reading Pratchett too.
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Have you read Hat Full of Sky? I can't recall the other one at the moment. Some people skip the two because they are geared toward middle schoolers but I loved them.
I am re-reading Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon. "Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources." But that's always been when I do my best writing.
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