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27th November 2006, 2:52pm
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#46 | | AB3
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Edinburgh
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this isn't going to be like the ten minutes of better living you managed after reading 'veronica decides to die' is it? 
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27th November 2006, 2:59pm
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#47 | | Das ist technosex
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Originally Posted by spoonie  this isn't going to be like the ten minutes of better living you managed after reading 'veronica decides to die' is it?
/x | Haha! you know, I'm one of those people that get so easily inspired to do things or become something (especially after reading a book) but I guess my natural state must just be inertia, because that europhic feeling of 'that's it, i'm actually going to change my life, and I know how to do it' only ever lasts about 4 hours, max and even then thats with chemical stimulation  I reckon thats why i've never read a self help book that worked. I get more of a sense of what i want my life to be about after reading a fairy tale, or a book set in a country i want to visit or something like that. for 10 minutes. | |
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30th November 2006, 5:56pm
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#48 | | Bring the heid o' charlie Editor
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Staley Road
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Originally Posted by yelloworld
John Connolly - the 5 'charlie parker' books
Love the style, love the darkness, love the twisted humour. love the blood and guts
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Keep the first four, ditch the fifth | |
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30th November 2006, 6:19pm
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#49 | | ...playground tactics...
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Originally Posted by Charlie Parker Keep the first four, ditch the fifth | The 5th one did go a little too far into the realm of 'what the fuck?' and I lost exactly what he was trying to say Parker was but overall I thought it was readable
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30th November 2006, 10:43pm
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#50 | | Bring the heid o' charlie Editor
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Connolly read too many conspiracy bestsellers for that one | |
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1st December 2006, 1:22pm
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#51 | | ...playground tactics...
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yeah the conspiracy theme was a bit OTT - was a pity cos it coulda bin a smasher of a book
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1st December 2006, 1:25pm
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#52 | | Eternally clueless one
Join Date: May 2004 Location: in my house
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house of the spirits by isabell allende. the story is amazing (and true, mostly) and the characters rock. | |
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1st December 2006, 1:26pm
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#53 | | DJ PUMPIO
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Anything by Bret Easton Ellis | |
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1st December 2006, 1:54pm
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#54 | | Forever Waiting.
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Originally Posted by Goth_pixie George R.R. Martin - the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series. Kind of a fantasy War of the Roses, with added blood, guts, magic and dragons. | I love that series, i only started reading it a few months back, but i love all of the books so far.
Isaac Asimov - Foundation
Raymond E Feist - Magician
Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts - The Empire Trilogy (Daughter of the Empire,Servant of the Empire, Mistress of the Empire)
Aldous Huxley - Brave new world
Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Baxter - The light of other days
Alistair Reynolds - Century Rain Cory Doctorow - Down and out in the magic kingdom
Peter F Hamilton - The nights dawn trilogy.
There are so many other i could mention.
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1st December 2006, 1:56pm
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#55 | | Eternally clueless one
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Aldous Huxley - Brave new world
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| a mate of mine has my copy of brave new world. he downloaded the audio book on mp3, i went nuts and made him delete it and promise me he'd read the book.
he hasn't done it yet. | |
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1st December 2006, 1:59pm
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#56 | | Forever Waiting.
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Originally Posted by faerie_child a mate of mine has my copy of brave new world. he downloaded the audio book on mp3, i went nuts and made him delete it and promise me he'd read the book.
he hasn't done it yet. |
Could be worse, he could watch the film version.
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1st December 2006, 2:01pm
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#57 | | Eternally clueless one
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Originally Posted by johnnie walker Could be worse, he could watch the film version. | there is no film! it never happened! *sticks fingers in me ears* LALALALALALA!! | |
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1st December 2006, 2:07pm
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#58 | | Squee The Drumming Monkey
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I think Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series is totally underrated, only books that have bouught me totally into their world, so to speak.
I really like SHakepseare, but I don't know if that counts since they are plays, but read them at school.
Harry Potter of course
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1st December 2006, 3:32pm
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#59 | | ...playground tactics...
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Originally Posted by faerie_child house of the spirits by isabell allende. the story is amazing (and true, mostly) and the characters rock. | Good call! I really like Isabelle Allende
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1st December 2006, 4:05pm
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#60 | | 50ft Queenie
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Originally Posted by faerie_child a mate of mine has my copy of brave new world. he downloaded the audio book on mp3, i went nuts and made him delete it and promise me he'd read the book.
he hasn't done it yet. | I'd agree that audiobooks seem like a bit of a cop-out... but I'm making an exception for Ulysses. 40 minute round walk to and from uni + mp3 player + Soulseek = minimal reading of what everyone considers an unreadable book. 
Bet this idea seems less appealing when I actually make a start on it, but. | |
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