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POETRY
TITLE: Without AUTHOR: Donald Hall PUBLISHER: Mariner Books
TITLE: The Branch Will Not Break AUTHOR: James Wright PUBLISHER: Wesleyan University Press
TITLE: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore AUTHOR: John Ford GENRE: Drama / Poetry
TITLE: Without AUTHOR: Donald Hall PUBLISHER: Mariner Books
TITLE: The Branch Will Not Break AUTHOR: James Wright PUBLISHER: Wesleyan University Press
TITLE: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore AUTHOR: John Ford GENRE: Drama / Poetry
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PSYCHOLOGY
Title: Men in Love (Men's Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love Over Rage Author: Nancy Friday Publisher: Dell Publishing
Title: Being and Becoming (A field approach to Psychology) Author: Arthur W. Combs Publisher: Springer Publishing Company (ISBN: 0-8261-1257-9)
TITLE: The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling AUTHOR: James Hillman PUBLISHER: Warner Books
Title: Men in Love (Men's Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love Over Rage Author: Nancy Friday Publisher: Dell Publishing
Title: Being and Becoming (A field approach to Psychology) Author: Arthur W. Combs Publisher: Springer Publishing Company (ISBN: 0-8261-1257-9)
TITLE: The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling AUTHOR: James Hillman PUBLISHER: Warner Books
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MISCELLANEOUS
TITLE: The Story of V - A Natural History of Female Sexuality (ISBN: 0-8135-3455-0) AUTHOR: Catherine Blackledge PUBLISHER: Rutgers University Press GENRE: Miscellaneous All about the history of the vagina.
TITLE: Woman - An Intimate Geography (ISBN: 0-395-69130-3) AUTHOR: Natalie Angier PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company GENRE: Miscellaneous All about what a woman is -- or what it is to be female.
GENRE: PHYSICS
TITLE: Atom AUTHOR: Lawrence M. Krauss PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company
TITLE: Origins of Existence -- How Life Emerged in the Universe AUTHOR: Fred Adams PUBLISHER: The Free Press
TITLE: The Story of V - A Natural History of Female Sexuality (ISBN: 0-8135-3455-0) AUTHOR: Catherine Blackledge PUBLISHER: Rutgers University Press GENRE: Miscellaneous All about the history of the vagina.
TITLE: Woman - An Intimate Geography (ISBN: 0-395-69130-3) AUTHOR: Natalie Angier PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company GENRE: Miscellaneous All about what a woman is -- or what it is to be female.
GENRE: PHYSICS
TITLE: Atom AUTHOR: Lawrence M. Krauss PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company
TITLE: Origins of Existence -- How Life Emerged in the Universe AUTHOR: Fred Adams PUBLISHER: The Free Press
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Get your reading matter sorted peoples - this library needs filling. Read first post for details, categories and how it (might possibly) work. 
Then:
Post your books in this thread, and I will link to the categories and posts.
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Post your books in this thread, and I will link to the categories and posts.
BlackShanglan
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TITLE: Madame Bovary
AUTHOR: Gustave Flaubert
PUBLISHER: Assorted (out of copyright)
GENRE: Novel, Other
SHORT SYNOPSIS: The stunning, cynical, and harrowing tale of Emma Bovary, a woman poisoned by her ideals and consumed by the world around her. Written with profound realism, beauty, and psychologial insight, the novel follows her from her early convent days through her marriage to an adoring but despised husband, her affair with a wealthy but shallow lover, and her ruthless pursuit of the hollow ideals and false dreams that eventually destroy her. It was not braggadocio but a terrible courage that led Flaubert to confess, when asked on whom the heroine was modelled, "Madame Bovary? C'est moi."
AUTHOR: Gustave Flaubert
PUBLISHER: Assorted (out of copyright)
GENRE: Novel, Other
SHORT SYNOPSIS: The stunning, cynical, and harrowing tale of Emma Bovary, a woman poisoned by her ideals and consumed by the world around her. Written with profound realism, beauty, and psychologial insight, the novel follows her from her early convent days through her marriage to an adoring but despised husband, her affair with a wealthy but shallow lover, and her ruthless pursuit of the hollow ideals and false dreams that eventually destroy her. It was not braggadocio but a terrible courage that led Flaubert to confess, when asked on whom the heroine was modelled, "Madame Bovary? C'est moi."
CharleyH
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Please post your suggested reading material in the following format:
TITLE: Man Sitting in the Corridor by Marguerite Duras
EDITOR: ?
PUBLISHER: ?
GENRE - Fiction
SHORT SYNOPSIS: Not her most famous written work or even film, as she wrote L'amant (The Lover) and 'Hiroshima, Mon Amour'. Yet, this author is wonderfully real and poetic, and I do not even think she used the word fuck or pussy once in this story about a person who voyeuristically watches a whore and her john in an alley in (I think) Paris. (been a while, yet this was the most impressionable work in regards to my own erotic writing).
TITLE: Man Sitting in the Corridor by Marguerite Duras
EDITOR: ?
PUBLISHER: ?
GENRE - Fiction
SHORT SYNOPSIS: Not her most famous written work or even film, as she wrote L'amant (The Lover) and 'Hiroshima, Mon Amour'. Yet, this author is wonderfully real and poetic, and I do not even think she used the word fuck or pussy once in this story about a person who voyeuristically watches a whore and her john in an alley in (I think) Paris. (been a while, yet this was the most impressionable work in regards to my own erotic writing).
AngeloMichael
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TITLE The Darkness That Comes Before: (The Prince of Nothing, Book 1)
AUTHOR R. Scott Bakker
PUBLISHER Overlook Press
GENRE - Novels - Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS This story focuses on a character that has the power to manipulate anyone to believe anything he wishes and the struggle of others not to fall under his spell while at the same time facing their own inner demons. All this while an unimaginable horror threatens to return and only this dangerous yet compelling indivudual may be able to stop it. Not a lot of sympathetic characters in this series which makes you appreciate the few there are all the more. The author uses sex as a powerful ingredient in his storytelling, extremely well written with unique prose and emotionally exhausting.
Roughly based on the crusades and other holy wars with strong religious themes and adding into the mix a non-human force gathering strength in order to deliver the humans of this world to their destruction. Strong magic in this series and interesting explanations on how it is used and its different types.
(Sorry, tried to make it as short as I could.
)
TITLE The Warrior Prophet: (The Prince of Nothing, Book 2)
AUTHOR R. Scott Bakker
PUBLISHER Overlook Press
GENRE - Novels - Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS See Book 1
TITLE The Thousandfold Thought: (The Prince of Nothing, Book 3)
AUTHOR R. Scott Bakker
PUBLISHER Overlook Press
GENRE - Novels - Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS See Book 1
AUTHOR R. Scott Bakker
PUBLISHER Overlook Press
GENRE - Novels - Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS This story focuses on a character that has the power to manipulate anyone to believe anything he wishes and the struggle of others not to fall under his spell while at the same time facing their own inner demons. All this while an unimaginable horror threatens to return and only this dangerous yet compelling indivudual may be able to stop it. Not a lot of sympathetic characters in this series which makes you appreciate the few there are all the more. The author uses sex as a powerful ingredient in his storytelling, extremely well written with unique prose and emotionally exhausting.
Roughly based on the crusades and other holy wars with strong religious themes and adding into the mix a non-human force gathering strength in order to deliver the humans of this world to their destruction. Strong magic in this series and interesting explanations on how it is used and its different types.
(Sorry, tried to make it as short as I could.
)TITLE The Warrior Prophet: (The Prince of Nothing, Book 2)
AUTHOR R. Scott Bakker
PUBLISHER Overlook Press
GENRE - Novels - Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS See Book 1
TITLE The Thousandfold Thought: (The Prince of Nothing, Book 3)
AUTHOR R. Scott Bakker
PUBLISHER Overlook Press
GENRE - Novels - Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS See Book 1
AngeloMichael
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TITLE A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
AUTHOR George R. R. Martin
PUBLISHER Spectra
GENRE - Novels - Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS GRRM is the epitome of modern fantasy. Based on the medievel feudal society of Europe, but this world has been stuck in this system for thousands of years and seasons last for years. Lots of intrigue and suspense! Imagine the War of the Roses going on while a dark force of evil cratures that thrive in the cold gathers to invade the world not to conquer but to just kill, oh and a decade long winter is just around the corner. Magic is almost nonexistent in the beginning which makes you apprieciate the magnitude of it all the more when it makes itself present and its use slowly builds in power and frequency as the plot gains momentum.
TITLE A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)
AUTHOR George R. R. Martin
PUBLISHER Spectra
GENRE - Novels - Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS See Book 1
TITLE A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)
AUTHOR George R. R. Martin
PUBLISHER Spectra
GENRE - Novels - Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS See Book 1
TITLE A Feast For Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)
AUTHOR George R. R. Martin
PUBLISHER Spectra
GENRE - Novels - Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS See Book 1
AUTHOR George R. R. Martin
PUBLISHER Spectra
GENRE - Novels - Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS GRRM is the epitome of modern fantasy. Based on the medievel feudal society of Europe, but this world has been stuck in this system for thousands of years and seasons last for years. Lots of intrigue and suspense! Imagine the War of the Roses going on while a dark force of evil cratures that thrive in the cold gathers to invade the world not to conquer but to just kill, oh and a decade long winter is just around the corner. Magic is almost nonexistent in the beginning which makes you apprieciate the magnitude of it all the more when it makes itself present and its use slowly builds in power and frequency as the plot gains momentum.
TITLE A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)
AUTHOR George R. R. Martin
PUBLISHER Spectra
GENRE - Novels - Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS See Book 1
TITLE A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)
AUTHOR George R. R. Martin
PUBLISHER Spectra
GENRE - Novels - Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS See Book 1
TITLE A Feast For Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4)
AUTHOR George R. R. Martin
PUBLISHER Spectra
GENRE - Novels - Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS See Book 1
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Title: Men In Love (Men's Sexual Fantasies: The Triumph of Love Over Rage)
Author: Nancy Friday
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Genre: Miscellaneous (Psychology)
Synopsis:
In Men In Love, Nancy Friday explores the sexual psyche of the American male. The book is composed of the secret thoughts and fantasies of over two hundred men (through written letters to the author) on a wide variety of subjects such as masturbation, oral & anal sex, and BDSM. More taboo subjects are also explored within the text: rape, incest and even beastiality (just to name a few).
This is not a book for the easily offended.
I believe that reading this book has given me a clearer insight into the minds of men. How they think, their desires, their emotions. The vulnerability beneath the mask they present to the outside world, their fears. Illuminating work.
Author: Nancy Friday
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Genre: Miscellaneous (Psychology)
Synopsis:
In Men In Love, Nancy Friday explores the sexual psyche of the American male. The book is composed of the secret thoughts and fantasies of over two hundred men (through written letters to the author) on a wide variety of subjects such as masturbation, oral & anal sex, and BDSM. More taboo subjects are also explored within the text: rape, incest and even beastiality (just to name a few).
This is not a book for the easily offended.
I believe that reading this book has given me a clearer insight into the minds of men. How they think, their desires, their emotions. The vulnerability beneath the mask they present to the outside world, their fears. Illuminating work.
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rgraham666
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Title: The Risen Empire
Author: Scott Westerfield
Publisher: ?
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis:
This book, set far in the future is at its heart about the competition between two rival visions of immortality.
There is the Risen Empire, where the elite are all Risen, raised from the dead by bio-technology.
And the Rix, who are much like the Borg. The individuals are all augmented with bionics and cybernetics, while being ruled by AIs.
The book does an excellent job of making this very personal by focusing on the characters, all of whom are very well delineated. The book never allows the technology to rule. It's the people that count.
A damned interesting read.
The lesson I gleaned from it? The dead get in the way.
Oh, here's a link.
Author: Scott Westerfield
Publisher: ?
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis:
This book, set far in the future is at its heart about the competition between two rival visions of immortality.
There is the Risen Empire, where the elite are all Risen, raised from the dead by bio-technology.
And the Rix, who are much like the Borg. The individuals are all augmented with bionics and cybernetics, while being ruled by AIs.
The book does an excellent job of making this very personal by focusing on the characters, all of whom are very well delineated. The book never allows the technology to rule. It's the people that count.
A damned interesting read.
The lesson I gleaned from it? The dead get in the way.
Oh, here's a link.
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TITLE Backroads
AUTHOR Tawni O'Dell
PUBLISHER (if possible)??
GENRE - Novels -Other
SHORT SYNOPSIS : Harley is a young man forced to work two jobs to care for his 3 little sisters and this is a book about him, his relationships and his philosophies. It's complex, a little dark but very well written. It sucks you in and you can't put it down. I read it on a recommendation from a friend who missed his stop on the tube 'cos he was so absorbed in it. A great novel that every writershould read to see how it's done.
AUTHOR Tawni O'Dell
PUBLISHER (if possible)??
GENRE - Novels -Other
SHORT SYNOPSIS : Harley is a young man forced to work two jobs to care for his 3 little sisters and this is a book about him, his relationships and his philosophies. It's complex, a little dark but very well written. It sucks you in and you can't put it down. I read it on a recommendation from a friend who missed his stop on the tube 'cos he was so absorbed in it. A great novel that every writershould read to see how it's done.
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TITLE: Mort
AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett
PUBLISHER : Corgi Adult
GENRE - Novels: Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS: "Death comes to eveyone, when he came to Mort he offered him a Job." Mort is Death's assitant -yup Death, tall skeletal dude dressed in black. This is Pratchett's discworld at it's best. Great adventure, wonderful humour and loveable characters. It's good to know even anthropomorphic beings get it wrong now and then.
AUTHOR: Terry Pratchett
PUBLISHER : Corgi Adult
GENRE - Novels: Fantasy
SHORT SYNOPSIS: "Death comes to eveyone, when he came to Mort he offered him a Job." Mort is Death's assitant -yup Death, tall skeletal dude dressed in black. This is Pratchett's discworld at it's best. Great adventure, wonderful humour and loveable characters. It's good to know even anthropomorphic beings get it wrong now and then.
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TITLE: Dark Moon
AUTHOR: David Gemmell
PUBLISHER : Del Rey
GENRE : Novels: Fantasy.
SHORT SYNOPSIS: Tarantio is a soldier, he is a great swordsman but his "brother" Dace is much deadlier. Sometimes Dace takes over Tarantio's body and masacres anyone who gets in his way. Tarantio has never know a life without Dace, and often wonders if he's possesed or just insane. This is an exquisitly well written book, I have fallen inlove with Tarantio and his "brother" Dace and this is THE best David Gemmel book ever, and that's saying something. One of the greatest fantasy novels, ever.
AUTHOR: David Gemmell
PUBLISHER : Del Rey
GENRE : Novels: Fantasy.
SHORT SYNOPSIS: Tarantio is a soldier, he is a great swordsman but his "brother" Dace is much deadlier. Sometimes Dace takes over Tarantio's body and masacres anyone who gets in his way. Tarantio has never know a life without Dace, and often wonders if he's possesed or just insane. This is an exquisitly well written book, I have fallen inlove with Tarantio and his "brother" Dace and this is THE best David Gemmel book ever, and that's saying something. One of the greatest fantasy novels, ever.
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