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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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For my own enjoyment, I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. It was good enough that I’ll be getting the sequel.

Out of sheer boredom, I picked up the copy of The Ultimate Sex Guide that my roommate had bought for her mom. For someone that’s been locked in a closet all their life, it probably wouldn’t have been half bad. My complaints were that all the couples portrayed were:

  • white
  • yuppie
  • hetero
  • airbrushed to within an inch of their lives (on a couple of them, their navels had been airbrushed out.)

There were even a couple of pages explaining how to masturbate. Maybe I’m weird, but I never thought it was that hard to figure out.

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Demo said: “A friend just lent me “The Monkeywrench Gang”. It is incredible!”

Glad you like it :wink:

I’m currently re-reading “E Tu, Babe” by Mark Leyner. It’s sort of a 1990’s cross between Zaphod Beeblebrox and Bukaroo Bonzai, with cyberpunk overtones thrown in.

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Steal This Dream by Larry Sloman,about the life and death of Abbie Hoffman. It’s got a lousy ending. Just read Triumph of The Straight Dope finally! Also,Worth Fighting For by Mr. Quayle.(Harry Potter! :))

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I just finished Bag of Bones, by Stephen King, and now I am going to start Of Masques and Martyrs, by Christopher Golden.

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I finished * Bridget Jones’ Diary /* yesterday (it was p.g.) and am currently reading * Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone *. It is entertaining in the way The Narnia Chronicles are entertaining.

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I’m reading Beloved for a class. I think it sucks great big hairy donkey balls, and so does most of the rest of the class. Next week’s book (I think) is The Crying of Lot 49.

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Quantum Mechanics, by P. J. E. Peebles.

Sighs
– Sylence

And now, for my next trick, I will talk in spooky half-references.

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The Raven and the Nightingale
“A modern mystery of E.A. Poe”
I just started it and no one is dead yet.

~tomorrow is promised to no one~

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Recently finished Carl Sagan: A Life by Keay Davidson.

Also recently finished Lay This Body Down by our own GregAtlanta (Gregory A. Freeman), who I haven’t seen around here much lately.

Now reading Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science by John Gribbin.

Also listening to Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett (a discworld novel) in the car.

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“The Conquest of Gaul” by Gaius Julius Caesar and “Warfare in the Classical World” by John Warry.

Anybody needs to besiege a walled city, just drop me a note. I got it down pat.

Roman: “Waddaya doin’ with that Elephant?”
Hannibal: (pause) “What Elephant?”

JB
Lex Non Favet Delicatorum Votis

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I just stopped at the bookstore last night. So, I am now reading:

Our Dumb Century
Tuesdays With Morrie
& re-reading Charlotte’s Web, this time to my daughter.

Plus, I’m still working on several books that I’ve been reading for the last couple of months.

Waste
Flick Lives!

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Re-reading the Necroscope series by Brian Lumby. Drug them out 'cause my fiance liked the movie 6th sense so much, I told her it was kinda the same principle…she read about 4 pages and gave up…So I started in on them again…

“Love thine enemies…it really pisses them off.”
-Anon

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Just finished 'Tis by Frank McCourt for Book Club; currently reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez because I have never read it and it’s the favorite book of the New Squeeze. Next on the agenda is The Gospel According To The Son by Norman Mailer, and the second Harry Potter book (not necessarily in that order).

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Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line, by Ben Hamper. Great book.

Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease. I must say the plot is a little dry.

Dr. J

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I’m reading “For your eye alone” : Letters 1976-1995, by Robertson Davies, as well as “French Relations” by Fiona Walker.

Sex appeal – Give generously

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Jodih, did you like 'Tis? I liked it a lot, but a friend was disappointed that it seemed darker than the first.

And Dr J, I dunno if you are aware of it or not, but Hamp has a link from Michael Moore’s webpage.

Waste
Flick Lives!

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I loved Rivithead. I had to read it for some Management class in college. Very funny very enjoyable book.

pat

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Just started Pratchett’s newest, The Fifth Elephant, have Who’s Afraid of Beowulf by T. Holt waiting in the wings. Elephant so far is excellent…

‘Get me all the information you can on Commander Vimes of the the Anhk-Morpork Watch.’
‘Why, is he a diplomat?’
‘No, he is the reason we have diplomats.’

>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<

—The dragon observes

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I just finished reading A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace and Barrel Fever by David Sedaris. Was reading both of them at the same time (Wallace in my free time and Sedaris to stay awake during classes). Both were great, especially the Wallace one.

I’m now reading A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick. So far I like it.

“I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.”
–Wayne Knight

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I love the book threads – there should always be one going, don’t you think? Always get great recommendations.

Loved Rivethead too, esp. since we have our own version of “Koala T. Bear” where I work. (And the drugs and job sharing too.)

Alias, Grace by Margaret Atwood is readable not only as a psychological did-she-do-it but also for the detailed picture of servant (unmarried female) life in the late 1800’s.

Recently read Incident at Twenty Mile by Trevanian, and if you like psycho killer/historical/romance/westerns, go for it. (I loved it.)

Am about half-way through “999”, an over-hyped collection of original horror fiction. It’s no “Dark Forces”, but if you want to check out the new horror writers, and see how some of the old ones are holding up, it’s okay.

Also, please read The Descent by Jeffrey Long if you’re looking for an original adventure story about the discovery of hell – not perfect, but better than it had a right to be.