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 Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:23 pm
LadyAset Yeah wow so many! Anything by anne rice,dan brown, jay ansen! Wow what great authors! -Blood and Gold -666 -Angels and demons -Victor frankel books -tale of the body thief um to many to name Dan brown is simply overrated. Yeh, if yuo just want something to read for a weeks holiday when your bored on the plane or whatever, its not going to do you any harm. But a great author he just isn't. Dan Brown is to literature what Modest Mouse are to music. Personally, I'd reccommend The Insult by Rupert Thompson. I read it years ago and maybe was a little too young for it, but it really is a brilliant book. I'm reading another book by him, The Book of Revelation But it kinda reads like a porno meets the Broken movie.
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Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:30 pm
purgat0ry I read some of Friedriech Nietzche's stuff. It was very... Nihilistic Well yeh, whilst he didn't himself found the movement he was responsible for much of the meaning we associate with nihilism today. He played a large part in the concept's origins, whilst not directly coining it himself, if memory serves.
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Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:24 pm
I'm reading this old book, it was originally in German. It's called The Satanic Mill. I was a little put off by the title figuring it would be rather generic or something of the such, but it seems okay so far. My friend told me to read it and it's not as bad as I first thought. It's a story that was originally intended for younger children, but it's a bit creepy and it does a rather nice job of pulling you in.
He also recomended a book call Feed. I read some reviews and I think I'll read that next.
Information and Reviews:
[Feed]
[Satanic Mill - This review sucks, but I am not about to put much effort into this]
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:57 pm
well, in this one school year..I will have 4 literature classes under my belt..so, I will recomend some good reads from those classes.
canteburry tales- chaucer
A modest proposal- swift (it's about eating babies!! seriously!!)
The Awakening- Chopin
Palace Walk- Mafuiz
The return of the native- hardy
The heart of Darkness- conrad
I liked these books, but I don't think anybody would honestly want to read them.."a modest proposal" was pretty cool though.
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Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:34 am
I would write down what I've been reading, but it's just been comic books lately because I don't really have time for anything else. sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 5:06 pm
Anything by David Sedaris is awesome. It's some of the funniest literature I've ever read. His latest book is called Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. I've read only three of his books and they're all just a short compilation of essays that he's written. If you get a chance to read anything from Dress Your family . . . I suggest "Six to Eight Black Men" and "Bloodwork". Classics.
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I'm going through The Fountainhead right now, and storywise it's good. However, I HATE AYN RAND. I hate her philosophy "objectivism". I hate the fact that her ideas are completely unoriginal yet she for some reason gets credit for it. I hate specifically her views of how the economy should be run; no government intervention where everybody works completely in his/her own self-interest.
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I've mentioned this before, but goddamnit I find it necessary, especially in a forum mixing literature and Tool/APC/NIN. I'm tired of explaining it though. However, Mer de Noms and The Da Vinci code go together.
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Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 12:58 am
So.
The Waste Lands.
70-foot-tall cyborg bear.
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Instant win.
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Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 7:06 pm
If you read Comics, read The Sandman. It's so damn good of a series.
Neil Gaiman owns my soul. I love his writing so much.
(I haven't read any real books in a while, too busy. Just some Lovecraft here and there.)
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Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:21 pm
Broken Machine If you read Comics, read The Sandman. It's so damn good of a series.
Neil Gaiman owns my soul. I love his writing so much.
(I haven't read any real books in a while, too busy. Just some Lovecraft here and there.) I'm not dissing your liking for him, but I find his writing tripe! I can't get behind romantic gothic writing, and the art work is shocking. And why does he think he's a femminist? It just doesn't seem to make sence that he pushes strong femminist issues so much. Why can't he approach masculinity? It's like he's trying to work the sentimental, sesitive edge a little too hard. Far superior comic book work is that of Alan moore, such as The Watchmen and the Garth Ennis series Preacher. And then the fantastic work of Alex Ross and Jim Krueger on the Earth X series. And who can forget Frank Miller's work on the Batman title in The Dark Knight Returns and The Dark Knight Strikes Again? Brian Michael Bendis - PowersThe ever vigilant Miracleman by Your Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore. The short series Chosen by Mark Millar. And I must pay my repects to the Image titles G0DLAND and Girls
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Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:44 pm
As far as books not comic related I like to read Aleister Crowley.
777
Liber Aleph
Confessions
Diary of a Drug Fiend
I like work by Edgar Allan Poe.
Extrodinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds by Charlse Mackay is a good one.
The Journeys of Socrates, while not actually about Socrates is a saga, epic, epic saga. Dan Millman.
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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:09 pm
No offense or anything, but I couldn't care less if Neil Gaiman has masculinity issues. I love that style you dislike. As they say, for each their own.
Alan Moore is another one I enjoy, though.
Myehhh, Crowley is pretty much great. *nod*
I haven't had much time for reading anything too indepth lately though.
And oy vey, don't go crapping on authors. I like his writing(and to tell you the truth, I know very little about him). I'm a pervert though, so the romance is one of the reasons I so enjoy him. For the same, I love Anne Rice's erotica, though, I know I'll probably get to hear something about her now too.
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Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:31 pm
Broken Machine No offense or anything, but I couldn't care less if Neil Gaiman has masculinity issues. I love that style you dislike. As they say, for each their own.
Alan Moore is another one I enjoy, though.
Myehhh, Crowley is pretty much great. *nod*
I haven't had much time for reading anything too indepth lately though.
And oy vey, don't go crapping on authors. I like his writing(and to tell you the truth, I know very little about him). I'm a pervert though, so the romance is one of the reasons I so enjoy him. For the same, I love Anne Rice's erotica, though, I know I'll probably get to hear something about her now too. is the closest a mainstream comic book publishing house gets to perverted, You may enjoy that. The art work is fanominal. Stories are pretty fantastic too.
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 8:23 am
The Communist Manifesto has been declared as the most damaging story to our soceity according to some bullshit study. It beat out Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, a story of his life and personal beliefs; filled with anti semitism, arrogance, and pompous bullshit, Mein Kampf has been rated by many critics as the worst book ever written in a literary point of view as it was dictated by Hitler and written down word for word in stream of consciousness (and we all know how much a concious Hitler has).
Congratulations Karl Marx, your revolutionary ideas has tormented and plauged the American society for centuries!
Now go read some Ayn Rand. Suggested books include:
The Virtue of Selfishness
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
The Romantic Manifesto
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
Philosophy: Who Needs It
Really, it's captivating. Ayn Rand's philosophy is known as Objectivism. It's a collection of other's people ideas and none of it is original (or logical), but yet, she's allowed to lay claim to having created those ideas.
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:44 am
Tishirin Yokushama Girls is the closest a mainstream comic book publishing house gets to perverted, You may enjoy that. The art work is fanominal. Stories are pretty fantastic too.
I'm a sucker for very nicely done art work in comics. I might just have to check that out.
lol Nefarious Soy, I enjoyed your little tangent about Mein Kampf.
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Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 4:14 pm
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