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Thread started 10/11/09 2:50pm

Harlepolis

Whats The Last Book(s) You Read?

The last book I read was,,,,,


And I'm currently reading....


Some of the stuff she's saying leaves me confuse gifted woman, but def a walking contradiction,,,,then again, aren't we all?
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Reply #1 posted 10/11/09 2:53pm

Phishanga

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Currently, nothing.
Hey loudmouth, shut the fuck up, right?
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Reply #2 posted 10/11/09 2:57pm

Aelis

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Currently:

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Reply #3 posted 10/11/09 2:59pm

Phishanga

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Aelis said:


Currently:




Read that, too! thumbs up! Seen the movie too, ages ago. With Orson Welles, I think.
Hey loudmouth, shut the fuck up, right?
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Reply #4 posted 10/11/09 3:06pm

Aelis

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Phishanga said:

Aelis said:


Currently:




Read that, too! thumbs up! Seen the movie too, ages ago. With Orson Welles, I think.


I'm curious to see if I will like it in the end. I do so far.
I'm also supposed to read Metamorphosis (for school). Curious about that too biggrin
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Reply #5 posted 10/11/09 3:14pm

LeCram

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Patertje Pispaal van Toon Kortooms
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Reply #6 posted 10/11/09 5:40pm

ZombieKitten

The Red Tent
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Reply #7 posted 10/11/09 6:01pm

Imago








current reading:

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Reply #8 posted 10/11/09 6:29pm

Honey

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Midnight Sun - Stephenie Meyer

Currently:
If Tomorrow Comes - Sidney Sheldon
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
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Reply #9 posted 10/11/09 6:57pm

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I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone last night. I'ma read the whole series hug
The orger formerly known as theodore
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Reply #10 posted 10/11/09 6:59pm

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Shake it til ya make it dancing jig
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Reply #11 posted 10/11/09 7:00pm

jstar69

The Road
Wicked
Son of a Witch
The boy in the stripped pyjama's
The Reader
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Reply #12 posted 10/11/09 7:01pm

ScarLett

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history of cannabilism

looking for something palatable to my mind - and its just not workin
however i am on the look out for books on Comte St Germain and Jacques St Germain.... and looking for some gnostic writings - if you can recommend anything i'm all ears...
~Live Free ... Be Wyld~AlwaysOnlyMakeBelieve - LiveUrLyfe... laissez le bon temps rouler...vivre sans être sauvage...हमेशा ही बना विश्वास ~Change and do so CONSTANTLY...
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Reply #13 posted 10/12/09 12:44am

Harlepolis

lol @ Kathy Groffin. Didn't know she had a book.
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Reply #14 posted 10/12/09 6:11am

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I just finished these two







Great author


Just started this

What you don't remember never happened
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Reply #15 posted 10/12/09 6:20am

1sexymf

Harlepolis said:

The last book I read was,,,,,

And I'm currently reading....


Some of the stuff she's saying leaves me confuse gifted woman, but def a walking contradiction,,,,then again, aren't we all?



I have a copy of that that she signed for me.
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Reply #16 posted 10/12/09 6:23am

1sexymf

This was the last book I read:

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Reply #17 posted 10/12/09 7:12am

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Last book i read:



Currently reading:

WHAT IF THERE IS NO TOMORROW? THERE WASN'T ONE TODAY!
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Reply #18 posted 10/12/09 10:59am

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Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #19 posted 10/12/09 11:23am

Imago

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What a cute kid! lol
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Reply #20 posted 10/12/09 11:26am

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re-reading this.
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Reply #21 posted 10/12/09 11:26am

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Imago said:

vainandy said:


What a cute kid! lol


nod Too cute! biggrin
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Reply #22 posted 10/12/09 11:27am

Aelis

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evenstar3 said:



re-reading this.


Oh, I loved this one nod
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Reply #23 posted 10/12/09 1:30pm

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just finished re-readin six sacred stones by matthew reilly...

follow up one week away excited

b4 that the twilight series...all of them
seems that i was busy doing something close to nothing, but different than the day before music beret
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Reply #24 posted 10/12/09 2:23pm

Harlepolis

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Great book!
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Reply #25 posted 10/12/09 6:06pm

ernestsewell

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Wicked
Son of a Witch


Have you read the 3rd one in the series? And have you read his other books? They're all really good.
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Reply #26 posted 10/12/09 6:07pm

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Harlepolis said:

vainandy said:



Great book!


Have you read it? I always wondered if anyone outside of Mississippi had heard of it.

I'm not a book reader at all and never have been, but a friend of mine told me about this book and a lot of the author's reference to different places and incidents that occurred locally in Jackson, MS in the book. She lent me her copy and I couldn't put it down. I read it in less than a week.

It's a true story about the author's life as a gay man growing up as a child in the 1960s and a teen in the 1970s in an extemely homophobic and racist Mississippi. As I read the book, I immediately remembered the TV shows he mentioned and the places that he mentioned and some of them still exist today such as the gay club, Mae's Caberet, which later became Jack and Jill's and still was owned by Jack Myers. And the author's description of the homophobia and racism surrounding him during those years was dead on the money, not to mention his relationship with his own family who he loved but didn't share the same views. I almost felt like I was reading a story about myself.

I've never cared for books but if I could find more books like this one, I'd be a regular bookworm. lol
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Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #27 posted 10/12/09 6:25pm

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Aelis said:

evenstar3 said:



re-reading this.


Oh, I loved this one nod


I just got to the part where he meets charlotte for the first time love
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Reply #28 posted 10/12/09 10:44pm

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Undoubtedly the strangest and most bizarre book I've ever read.




Amazon.com Review

In the opening pages of Under the Skin, a lone female is scouting the Scottish Highlands in search of well-proportioned men: "Isserley always drove straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs. Puny, scrawny specimens were no use to her." At this point, the reader might be forgiven for anticipating some run-of-the-mill psychosexual drama. But commonplace expectation is no help when it comes to Michel Faber's strange and unsettling first novel; small details, then major clues, suggest that something deeply bizarre is afoot. What are the reasons for Isserley's extensive surgical scarring, her thick glasses, her excruciating backache? Who are the solitary few who work on the farm where her cottage is located? And why are they all nervous about the arrival of someone called Amlis Vess?

The ensuing narrative is of such cumulative, compelling strangeness that it almost defies description. The one thing that can be said with certainty is that Under the Skin is unlike anything else you have ever read. Faber's control of his medium is nearly flawless. Applying the rules of psychological realism to a fictional world that is both terrifying and unearthly, he nonetheless compels the reader's absolute identification with Isserley. Not even the author's fine short-story collection, Some Rain Must Fall, prepared us for such mastery. Under the Skin is ultimately a reviewer's nightmare and a reader's dream: a book so distinctive, so elegantly written, and so original that one can only urge everybody in earshot to experience it, and soon. --Burhan Tufail
"Let love be your perfect weapon..." ~~Andy Biersack
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Reply #29 posted 10/12/09 11:01pm

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noimageatall said:

Undoubtedly the strangest and most bizarre book I've ever read.




Amazon.com Review

In the opening pages of Under the Skin, a lone female is scouting the Scottish Highlands in search of well-proportioned men: "Isserley always drove straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs. Puny, scrawny specimens were no use to her." At this point, the reader might be forgiven for anticipating some run-of-the-mill psychosexual drama. But commonplace expectation is no help when it comes to Michel Faber's strange and unsettling first novel; small details, then major clues, suggest that something deeply bizarre is afoot. What are the reasons for Isserley's extensive surgical scarring, her thick glasses, her excruciating backache? Who are the solitary few who work on the farm where her cottage is located? And why are they all nervous about the arrival of someone called Amlis Vess?

The ensuing narrative is of such cumulative, compelling strangeness that it almost defies description. The one thing that can be said with certainty is that Under the Skin is unlike anything else you have ever read. Faber's control of his medium is nearly flawless. Applying the rules of psychological realism to a fictional world that is both terrifying and unearthly, he nonetheless compels the reader's absolute identification with Isserley. Not even the author's fine short-story collection, Some Rain Must Fall, prepared us for such mastery. Under the Skin is ultimately a reviewer's nightmare and a reader's dream: a book so distinctive, so elegantly written, and so original that one can only urge everybody in earshot to experience it, and soon. --Burhan Tufail


I'm gonna have to read that now too!
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