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Postby mitsuki lover » Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:20 pm

Reading For The Love Of Cats:Purrfect Felines now.I also replaced the
Green Lantern comics I finished reading with Supergirl.
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Postby Okami » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:28 pm

I don't think I could list all the books I'm reading right now....
And of course, I bought two more last night at Barnes & Noble. Gosh I'm a sucker for good-sounding books. So now I'm in the middle of five, beginning three, and have four more to go after this :D
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Postby the_wolfs_howl » Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:17 pm

Finished Book Two of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. I read a lot more than I'd expected while on vacation, to get through long airplane and train rides. Only twenty chapters or so to go!
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Postby Anna Mae » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:23 pm

I also happen to be reading The God Delusion. Dawkins is certainly an interesting and at times amusing author, but his general attitude of scorn for anyone who believes differently than he does detracts from the book. He intends for this book to convert believers to atheism, but ultimately I just don't find it very convincing. However, I find it interesting that he and I actually agree on quite a few things.
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Postby Htom Sirveaux » Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:26 pm

Okami (post: 1188883) wrote:I don't think I could list all the books I'm reading right now....
And of course, I bought two more last night at Barnes & Noble. Gosh I'm a sucker for good-sounding books. So now I'm in the middle of five, beginning three, and have four more to go after this :D


I'm exactly the same way. I just haven't learned how to use a library yet. :/ Actually, the library by my house is just deceptively large. It looks like there's a lot of stuff there, and there is - if you're looking for Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, John Grisham, Stephen King etc. you're in the right place. But good luck finding your Terry Pratchett or Andrew Vachss or Haruki Murakami or H.P. Lovecraft. So I end up buying stuff from the B&N down the street and not reading half of it.
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Postby Doe Johnson » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:18 pm

Gokusen Volume 15 and Saiunkoku Monogatari Book 1...yeah...my Japanese isn't nearly good enough to actually read Saiunkoku...but at least I can try. (Gokusen is a manga, but Saiunkoku is a novel)

Also, I'm re-reading the Wheel of Time series again. This might be my 5th time or so...maybe more, maybe less.
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Postby GrubbTheFragger » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:19 am

Reading a book called Twilight
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Postby mitsuki lover » Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:56 am

I read a 93 page illustrated biography of Bach that I bought at the Friends Of The Library sale back in October,yesterday.
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Postby ADXC » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:44 pm

Im reading Crime and Punishment, Ive only read the first chapter though. I think its pretty good, but Ive heard that its a hard book to read because the story is so complex. But that won't stop me!
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Postby the_wolfs_howl » Thu Jan 10, 2008 10:53 am

animedude90 (post: 1190343) wrote:Im reading Crime and Punishment, Ive only read the first chapter though. I think its pretty good, but Ive heard that its a hard book to read because the story is so complex. But that won't stop me!

That's my favorite classic ever! I really liked Crime and Punishment. But you're right]very[/i] introspective, and it almost made me feel like I was going mad while reading it (and being bedridden at the time didn't really help matters :sweat: ). But it's really amazing, better than any other of Dostoyevsky's works that I've read.
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Postby Danderson » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:10 pm

Just finished, Relentless, the 1st book in the Dominion Trilogy....It was hard to read till it got very close to the end...once it got there.....Man, it was well worth the slow pacing of the rest of the book.....

.....If there's any Christian fiction novel series that would make a great anime I think I've found it.....
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Postby jon_jinn » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:29 pm

reading Much Ado About Nothing for school.
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Postby Technomancer » Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:50 pm

The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.

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Postby uc pseudonym » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:12 pm

The Sentences by Peter Lombard

This is apparently the most basic text for medieval theology, so it is fitting I read it for a class on the same. According to the book itself this is "one of the least read of the world's great books" most likely because it was only translated into English from Latin last year. I'm not finding it difficult reading, but because the author has all the usual medieval assumptions about logic and use of scripture, I have difficulty relating to his arguments. For the moment I am reading it as an exercise in history.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:39 pm

The Prehistory of the Far Side by Gary Larson,a couple days ago.
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Postby GeneD » Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:31 am

The Vision and the Vow by Pete Greig (just started) and Twelfth Night by Shakespeare.
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Postby the_wolfs_howl » Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:26 am

lol, I always forget to post what I'm reading on Sundays. Right now, I'm reading some Adventures in Odyssey books as some light reading while reading the much-heavier A Tale of Two Cities during the week. In the past week, I've read Point of No Return and Dark Passage, and am in the process of reading Freedom Run. All are written by Paul McCusker, who also wrote a lot of the radio episodes and is quite a good writer, I'd say.
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Postby Crazy Kitty » Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:39 am

I'm currently reading The Recruit by Robert Muchamore and The Runaway Jury by John Grisham.
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Postby yukishiro128 » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:56 pm

GrubbTheFragger (post: 1190178) wrote:Reading a book called Twilight



Oh, yes!! I just finished it, New Moon, and Eclipse, all of the series that's come out so far. <3 <3
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Postby mitsuki lover » Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:11 pm

Essential The Amazing Spider-Man vol.3.
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Postby RidleyofZebes » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:47 pm

The Justice Riders by Chuck Norris.

Yes, that's about the only reason I'm reading it. :eyeroll:
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Postby mitsuki lover » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:08 pm

I started to read Preternatural a couple days back but it got confusing the way the story jumped from character to character and from place to place all the time.
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Postby Mist » Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:43 pm

I am currently reading the first "Dragonlance" trilogy, by Margret Weis and Tracey Hickman. It's an excellent series.

I also plan to start reading a book called "The Shack" that was given to my mother by a friend.

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Postby mitsuki lover » Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:37 pm

Reread Creed or Chaos by Dorothy L.Sayers yesterday.
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Postby Sheenar » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:50 pm

I'm currently reading The Phantom of the Opera.:)
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Postby jon_jinn » Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:45 pm

starting on Gilgamesh for school...
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Postby Sheenar » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:03 pm

Oh, I remember that one. Read it in hight school and in college --good story --love it. I think you'll like it. Gotta love creepy monsters (Grendel).
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Postby Technomancer » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:55 am

jon_jinn (post: 1196181) wrote:starting on Gilgamesh for school...


Which translation?
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.

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Postby Htom Sirveaux » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:11 pm

Just started Clive Barker's Coldheart Canyon. Barker is a recent literary interest of mine. Beats Stephen King by a country mile, let me tell ya.
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Postby ADXC » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:04 pm

Im like more than half way into Crime and Punishment, I gotta say its pretty good. "It's good stuff you guys, its good stuff!"
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