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09-14-2003, 12:18 PM
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Re-reading "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" by stoppard. I read it in highschool and I now find out I have it for my Humanities class my first year of college.. happy days! =P
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09-14-2003, 03:32 PM
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Crazy
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
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Just started "Quicksilver" by Neal Stephenson
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09-14-2003, 08:44 PM
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Location: Pa, USA
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
One of the rare gems that I am able to laugh aloud while reading. It is a superbly well-written and witty book. I highly recommend it to those looking for a good, enjoyable read.
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09-16-2003, 07:00 AM
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Insane
Location: New Orleans/Oakland/San Diego/Chicago
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"Stalin and the Shaping of the Soviet Union" by: Alex De Jonge
"The Elegant universe" by: Brian Greene "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by: Douglas R. Hofstadter "Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller" by: Gregg Herken "Gulag: A History" by: Anne Applebaum "The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene" by: Richard Dawkins "The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956" by: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn These are the last several books I have read and recommend all of them. The extended phenotype is a series of books that also include "The Selfish Gene" and another one that I cant remember at the moment. all are excellient. It
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"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" - Joseph Stalin |
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09-17-2003, 04:32 AM
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Fluxing wildly...
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett.
I love the Discworld series 
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09-17-2003, 09:10 AM
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Junkie
Location: At my daughter's beck and call.
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I'm reading
"The Great Dragon's Fleas" by Tim Ward It's a great travel book/search for spirituality (primarily Buddist leaning). Also reading "Water", forgot the author. Book about the state of the world's water supply.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. -Noam Chomsky Love is a verb, not a noun. -My Mom The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. -Louis Aragon, "La Porte-plume," Traite du style, 1928 |
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09-17-2003, 02:03 PM
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beauty in the breakdown
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Now I am reading A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson. I have read about half of it in the past two days, and it is one of the most hilarious books I have ever read.
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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." --Plato |
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09-17-2003, 02:50 PM
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Tilted
Location: New Haven, CT
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just finished "survival in auschwitz" -- fantastic book about someone who lived through it. Now I'm reading Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett, it's about the theory of evolution and tons of misconceptions that people have about it.
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However livin' better now, Gucci sweater now.. |
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09-18-2003, 11:45 AM
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beauty in the breakdown
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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OK, so now I finished "A Walk in the Woods," and am starting Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." --Plato |
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09-18-2003, 11:55 AM
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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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GENDER POLITICS AND MTV, by Lisa A. Lewis...
facsinating!
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09-19-2003, 09:56 PM
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Insane
Location: The reddest state ever. :(
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When I have the time its The Subtle Knife, itherwise its doing math problem after problem. Why cant I pick the stuff up more easily?
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CUBS WIN, CUBS WIN!!!! - Pat Hughes "Don't surround yourself with yourself." Yes |
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09-20-2003, 10:12 PM
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Banned
Location: Laurel, MD, USA
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not sure if manga counts... but i just finished Love Hina. I wish there was more
 with my obsession i checked out the anime and was severely dissapointed, despite the warnings. i have meant to read 1984, and some vonnegut this past summer but the one time i went to the library, it was checked out. then summer lazyness hit... |
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09-21-2003, 08:01 PM
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beauty in the breakdown
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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"A Random Walk Down Wall Street," Burton G. Malkiel. I figure its about time I really understand how it all works...
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09-22-2003, 07:19 PM
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Upright
Location: Upstate NY
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Quote:
Core Organic Chemistry Turning Points 2000 Teaching Children Literacy American Education - A History.. Whew...exciting stuff...
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Makin' poopy in the '03... "In your seeing," he said, "there should be only the seeing. In your hearing, nothing but the hearing; in your smelling, tasting, and touching, nothing but smelling, tasting, and touching; in your thinking, nothing but the thought." -Khuddaka Nikaya |
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