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What are you reading? I have just finished Empress Orchid by Anchee Min this morning:
..and now I am reading Marrying Buddha by Wei Hui 
Think I got a bit of a theme going on, but I love reading books about China and Japan, their cultures and history.  | |
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I'm still in mindless mode. Just finished "The Losers Club", by Richard Perez and will start "Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncles Memoirs" tonight!
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retina said: Why this? | |
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I am just finshing up Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey and am enjoying it a great deal. | |
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REDFEATHERS said: retina said: Why this? Why not? I've enjoyed the world of Duckburg since I was a kid (with the exception of a few years when I was too "cool" to read it). I know the characters so well that they feel like old friends. | |
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Right now, I'm reading this. So far I really like it. It is really well illustrated too. | |
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retina said:
and My son and daughter just got into comic books, so I was all geeked about it and took them to the comic store. I'm going on and on about comics I used to read when I was little... Little Lulu, Dot, Richie Rich, etc... so I go in and they don't even print them anymore! My son went nuts... Fantastic Four and Spiderman were among the many he was interested in. My daughter settled for Archie! Talk about aging right then and there! | |
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Lleena said:
Right now, I'm reading this. So far I really like it. It is really well illustrated too. oooooh is that a biography? | |
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AzureStarr said: retina said:
and My son and daughter just got into comic books, so I was all geeked about it and took them to the comic store. I'm going on and on about comics I used to read when I was little... Little Lulu, Dot, Richie Rich, etc... so I go in and they don't even print them anymore! My son went nuts... Fantastic Four and Spiderman were among the many he was interested in. My daughter settled for Archie! Talk about aging right then and there! It's funny that your kids like the same comics that the kids in my neighbourhood used to like when I was a kid. My sister loved Archie but could never figure out why the two girls loved the main character so much. She thought he was a loser. 
I can't really realate to the other comics you mentioned, but that's probably because I've grown up in a different part of the world, not because you're old.
They should come up with new ideas for comics. I don't want my grandkids to come running up to me to show their brand new Spiderman outfits.  | |
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William Gibson - Pattern Recognition
RA Salvatore - Dark Elf Trilogy Mark Prendergast - The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Moby - The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age Aleister Crowley - The Book of Lies Liz Jones - Slave to the Rhythm Richard Mooney - Colony Earth Paul Devereaux - Earth Memory : Sacred Sites - Doorways into Earth's Mysteries just finished reading : Kevin Booth - Bill Hicks, Agent of Evolution John Harris - Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock Lemmy, Bowie, Prince, Leonard. RIP. |
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The Devil Wears Prada
 The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom - Anais Nin
"Unnecessary giggling"...  | |
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BabyCakes said: The Devil Wears Prada
Still??? you were reading that a while ago  | |
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I recently read "My Friend Leonard", by James Frey (who also wrote "A Million Little Pieces"). Great book. | |
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just finished:
i'm still undecided on what i'll read next. preparing for another hour of fidgeting in front of my wall of books tonight to pick and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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"I Lived With My Parents and Other Tales of Terror" By Mary Jo Pehl.
Very funny book. Listen to me on The House of Pop Culture podcast on itunes http://itunes.apple.com/u...d438631917 | |
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so far ,far better than The Davinci code. Fuck the funk - it's time to ditch the worn-out Vegas horns fills, pick up the geee-tar and finally ROCK THE MUTHA-FUCKER!! He hinted at this on Chaos, now it's time to step up and fully DELIVER!!
KrystleEyes 22/03/05 | |
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Boccaccio's Decameron. | |
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REDFEATHERS said: I have just finished Empress Orchid by Anchee Min this morning:
..and now I am reading Marrying Buddha by Wei Hui
Think I got a bit of a theme going on, but I love reading books about China and Japan, their cultures and history. Bought a new phone...reading instructions to program the thing!  Below your threshold of conscious perception.... is where you will find me. | |
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SODOM AND GOMORRAH: VOLUME IV - IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME by Marcel Proust and rereading: DEMON HAUNTED WORLD by Carl Sagan 
"...literal people are scary, man literal people scare me out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look, it says right here, see!" - ani difranco | |
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i just bought this book today:
i've been wanting to read it since it first came out, and i found it for cheep at my local bookstore. | |
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I'm reading
Poems of The Great War 1914-1918 
and STILL reading... our past lives which i keep picking up and putting down alongside re-reading James Herbet, the rats. | |
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REDFEATHERS said: BabyCakes said: The Devil Wears Prada
Still??? you were reading that a while ago Yep... i stopped and started reading V for Vendetta... BUT I am a slow reader anyway! The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom - Anais Nin
"Unnecessary giggling"... | |
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p0pstar said: I'm reading
Poems of The Great War 1914-1918 Sasoon! 
To the Warmongers
I’m back again from hell With loathsome thoughts to sell; Secrets of death to tell; And horrors from the abyss. Young faces bleared with blood, Sucked down into the mud, You shall hear things like this, Till the tormented slain Crawl round and once again, With limbs that twist awry Moan out their brutish pain, As the fighters pass them by. For you our battles shine With triumph half-divine; And the glory of the dead Kindles in each proud eye. But a curse is on my head, That shall not be unsaid, And the wounds in my heart are red, For I have watched them die. | |
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BabyCakes said: Yep... i stopped and started reading V for Vendetta... BUT I am a slow reader anyway!
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Lleena said:
Right now, I'm reading this. So far I really like it. It is really well illustrated too.  | |
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