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Kiln
post Feb 18 2013, 03:34 AM
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I'm reading Metro 2033 and George Orwell's 1984 over again. I must just be in the mood for dark settings.


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post Feb 19 2013, 09:04 PM
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"Present At A Hanging" - and other stories.
Ambrose Bierce


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post Feb 20 2013, 01:25 AM
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QUOTE(PhonAntiPhon @ Feb 19 2013, 12:04 PM) *

"Present At A Hanging" - and other stories.
Ambrose Bierce

Bierce is fascinating simply because of his disappearance.

I'm currently reading Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I highly recommend reading this book over seeing the Spielberg film loosely based on it.


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post Feb 20 2013, 11:40 PM
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Midsummer Night's dream

I'm only reading it because my teacher is making me mad.gif


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post Feb 21 2013, 12:02 AM
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QUOTE(King Of Beasts @ Feb 20 2013, 10:40 PM) *

Midsummer Night's dream

I'm only reading it because my teacher is making me mad.gif

Dude (or dudette) Shakespeare is Awesome, seriously.


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post Feb 21 2013, 12:04 AM
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QUOTE(PhonAntiPhon @ Feb 20 2013, 03:02 PM) *

QUOTE(King Of Beasts @ Feb 20 2013, 10:40 PM) *

Midsummer Night's dream

I'm only reading it because my teacher is making me mad.gif

Dude (or dudette) Shakespeare is Awesome, seriously.


A dude, and I'm not the biggest Shakespeare fan wacko.gif


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Destri Melarg
post Feb 21 2013, 02:56 AM
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QUOTE(King Of Beasts @ Feb 20 2013, 03:04 PM) *

A dude, and I'm not the biggest Shakespeare fan wacko.gif

Doesn't take away from his Awesomeness. Stop thinking of him as the purveyor of a dead language that you are being forced to eat by your teacher. Approach him as a student of language eager to see how one makes music with words.

Either that, or go to netflix and get a copy of A Midsummer's Night Dream. Shakespeare was meant to be seen... not read.


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Grits
post Feb 21 2013, 03:13 AM
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I remember reading Romeo and Juliet while watching it at my dads house on TV. It was hard for me to process what I was hearing and the reading was difficult, but together it somehow worked. After that it was easier to have the text come to life when I was just reading (since we didnt have a TV at my house until I was in high school.)


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post Feb 21 2013, 04:37 AM
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The Flight of The Einstein by James Swallow...
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PhonAntiPhon
post Feb 21 2013, 11:31 PM
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QUOTE(Destri Melarg @ Feb 21 2013, 01:56 AM) *

Shakespeare was meant to be seen... not read.

This is very true.
I studied a lot of Shakespeare back in the day, but he really comes alive when seen or even just read aloud.
Remember that plays are dynamic things meant to live outside of our heads, and WS was as fine an exponent of that as you will find.


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post Mar 10 2013, 10:16 AM
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As I'm loving the new Spartacus series, I thought I'd treat myself to a dirt cheap book about the rise and fall of the Mighty Roman Empire™...

So I'm reading that at the mo...It's called Rubicon...By someoneorother...Not bad at all for 3... biggrin.gif ...
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post Mar 10 2013, 11:09 AM
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I dont read too much books actually, apart from in-game books in Oblivion biggrin.gif

But I do like the classic adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Have a nice little book with assorted stories in it ( The Dying Detective) which I got when I was a kid. Back then I thought the different stories were chapters! Man, those were some pretty long chapters! tongue.gif


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post Mar 13 2013, 10:52 PM
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Well currently I'm re-reading the full collection of the Feynman lectures. They are some very interesting books if you can get a hold of them (physics and non-fiction isn't for everyone though).
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post Mar 16 2013, 06:45 PM
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I've just finished reading a local newspaper. cool.gif

I haven't read a book in ages, the last one was probably Clinical Medicine in November, required for my study. tongue.gif I usually read a lot of books on my holidays in summer but I don't know yet what will they be, probably something crime/adventure related.


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post Mar 16 2013, 08:18 PM
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The Most Dangerous Game. There is no hunt like the hunting of a man! biggrin.gif


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post Mar 16 2013, 08:21 PM
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QUOTE(Darkness Eternal @ Mar 16 2013, 02:18 PM) *

The Most Dangerous Game. There is no hunt like the hunting of a man! biggrin.gif

I remember that story. My stepdad won't take me hunting anymore because I constantly talk about that story when we go hunting XD he says I can go hunt myself XDDD


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post Mar 16 2013, 08:23 PM
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QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Mar 16 2013, 08:21 PM) *

QUOTE(Darkness Eternal @ Mar 16 2013, 02:18 PM) *

The Most Dangerous Game. There is no hunt like the hunting of a man! biggrin.gif

I remember that story. My stepdad won't take me hunting anymore because I constantly talk about that story when we go hunting XD he says I can go hunt myself XDDD

Hehehe! Your stepdad sounds like a cool dude. I would love to go hunting by myself. It's one of those hobbies you wish you had.


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And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed.
I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below—above the vaulted sky.”
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post Mar 16 2013, 08:29 PM
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QUOTE(Darkness Eternal @ Mar 16 2013, 02:23 PM) *

QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Mar 16 2013, 08:21 PM) *

QUOTE(Darkness Eternal @ Mar 16 2013, 02:18 PM) *

The Most Dangerous Game. There is no hunt like the hunting of a man! biggrin.gif

I remember that story. My stepdad won't take me hunting anymore because I constantly talk about that story when we go hunting XD he says I can go hunt myself XDDD

Hehehe! Your stepdad sounds like a cool dude. I would love to go hunting by myself. It's one of those hobbies you wish you had.

He's pretty straight-edge, but cool. That's the closest he's ever gotten to cursing XD.

He taught me how to skin and dress game, and paid for my hunting license when I was younger, which comes with classes on how to survive if you're ever lost in the woods. So, now I know how to get water from the ground, build a shelter and know to always keep a knife and flint on me, but I live the downtown area of a small city. I miss the woods.

I'm about to get all nostalgic and reminisce-y.


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post Mar 16 2013, 10:16 PM
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Iron Council, by China Miville.

This book is amazing and I want this man's babies. Quite possibly the best-written and most startlingly original fantasy novel I've ever read.
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post Mar 28 2013, 02:13 PM
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Warhammer 40 000, Fulgrim by Graeme McNeill...I think...
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