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What Art Thou Reading?
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I'm reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Just got it from the library today.
11-19-2009 09:22 AM
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The 3rd Rangers Apprentice book.

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M or F, not sure whom it's by though, good book. Also reading the one Steven Colbert made.

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The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami

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The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, #3) by Libba Bray


BTW, this thread is awesome.
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With A Little Help From My Friends
By George Martin.

George Martin was the producer for the Beatles for almost their whole career.
In the book, he goes into full, awesome detail about how they recorded Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
HELL YES.

An it Harm None, Do What Ye Will
An it Harm, Do Only What Ye Must


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Help at Any Cost, an expose on the teen behavior modification industry. I'm going to need blood pressure medications by the time I'm done.

I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.
The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
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Rebelnerd Wrote:Help at Any Cost, an expose on the teen behavior modification industry. I'm going to need blood pressure medications by the time I'm done.

Holyshit, does it actually support those hell camps?

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No, not at all. It exposes all the shit they do. I keep reading it and thinking "how is this not all over the news?"

I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.
The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
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Rebelnerd Wrote:No, not at all. It exposes all the shit they do. I keep reading it and thinking "how is this not all over the news?"

Oh, good. And the reason it's not on the news is because if it doesn't have either A: a cute white child B: politicians C: the Middle East or D: something patriotic they won't even consider showing it.

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(11-27-2011 10:52 AM)Efs Wrote:  Our Army is more professional than Amerika. Smile
Except ours isn't allowed to have guns
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krissy Wrote:dessert fox
Mmm, flambéed vulpine.
"There is no enemy, there is no victory, only boys who lost their lives in the sand."
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The Holy Books of Thelema Aleister Crowley

70 year old Sorcerer book written by the "Wickedest man on earth"


Evolve Your Brain


A book about getting rid of negative thought patterns to maximize efficiency

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The Grapes of Wrath- God, I hate this book so much.

How To Say Goodbye In Robot- Just to have something else to read.

somebody Wrote:This game separates the men from the other men, because why are men playing with boys anyways.
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Mozart and the Whale ~An Aspergers love story. It's so in depth, and I can relate to it! But I have the cunning suspicion that Jerry Newport is a Furry, which, if true, Is just perfect Jester .

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Th Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives by Brian Dillon

It's pretty epic so far (I'm on page 2).

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Just finished a book of the accounts of US Rangers who were involved in the Mogadishu operations in 1993.

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(11-27-2011 01:00 PM)psychopath Wrote:  
(11-27-2011 10:52 AM)Efs Wrote:  Our Army is more professional than Amerika. Smile
Except ours isn't allowed to have guns
CrayolaColours Wrote:That post owned. TDF wins post of the year.
Faby Wrote:
krissy Wrote:dessert fox
Mmm, flambéed vulpine.
"There is no enemy, there is no victory, only boys who lost their lives in the sand."
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The Desert Fox Wrote:Just finished a book of the accounts of US Rangers who were involved in the Mogadishu operations in 1993.
Dude...was it Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden? I'm reading that right now and it's amazing.

I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.
The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
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Rebelnerd Wrote:
The Desert Fox Wrote:Just finished a book of the accounts of US Rangers who were involved in the Mogadishu operations in 1993.
Dude...was it Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden? I'm reading that right now and it's amazing.
I don't think it was Black Hawk Down, but it was about that operation. The book is over at my dad's at the moment, so I'll look it up next time I go over there.

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(11-27-2011 01:00 PM)psychopath Wrote:  
(11-27-2011 10:52 AM)Efs Wrote:  Our Army is more professional than Amerika. Smile
Except ours isn't allowed to have guns
CrayolaColours Wrote:That post owned. TDF wins post of the year.
Faby Wrote:
krissy Wrote:dessert fox
Mmm, flambéed vulpine.
"There is no enemy, there is no victory, only boys who lost their lives in the sand."
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Well, if you're interested in that battle you should definitely read BHD. It makes the movie much better too, because you'll have a better understanding of what's going on and who everyone is. Plus it's pretty much the definition of a page-turner.

I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.
The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
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Dark is Rising series.

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Reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand for school, Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation in my spare time.

Acquired the following today:
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami

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Newtown Wrote:Reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
[francis]I hate Ayn Rand.[/francis]

On topic, I'm reading a Time magazine special on the ending stages of World War II.

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Except ours isn't allowed to have guns
CrayolaColours Wrote:That post owned. TDF wins post of the year.
Faby Wrote:
krissy Wrote:dessert fox
Mmm, flambéed vulpine.
"There is no enemy, there is no victory, only boys who lost their lives in the sand."
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The Dark is Rising series.

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The Colour of Magic.

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Art of War

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Also rereading Impulse at school. I keep my real reading at my house.

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Love in the time of Cholera, great read so far!!!

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A Song for Arbonne and The Infernal City. And at times, The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion.

Let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass.

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This Scentence.
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.. Wrote:A Song for Arbonne and The Infernal City. And at times, The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion.
Who was this? Vatman? (The Infernal City was an epic book)

Reading The Looking Glass Wars. I'm on the first page, and so far, I'm already blown away.

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Percy Jackson series.

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Sanjuro Wrote:Art of War

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