Now Reading?

Travis Meekz · 08:09 PM

me: The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut

you?

spa ced · 01-01-2003, 08:06 PM

The Top 10 of Everything 2003.

This book rules.
I love top ten lists.

sarmatianus · 01-01-2003, 08:08 PM

The Western Canon - Harold Bloom
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges

jenniferkate · 01-01-2003, 08:14 PM

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Originally posted by sarmatianus
The Western Canon - Harold Bloom

<3 <3 <3 harold bloom.

- dear bunny, dear volodya: the nabokov-wilson letters, 1940-1971 / edited by simon karlinsky
- the ages of lulu / almudena grandes

Tessellation · 01-01-2003, 09:05 PM

the best military science fiction of the 20th century

Travis Meekz · 09:50 PM

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Originally posted by Tessellation
the best military science fiction of the 20th century

are you talking about The Sirens of Titan?

I didn't like it for a while, thought it was his worst book, but now that I'm close to the end i fucking love it

Ihaman · 01-01-2003, 09:44 PM

life of pi

MyAdviceIha · 01-01-2003, 10:00 PM

Let Me Call You Sweetheart - Mary Higgins Clark.

hereisnowhy · 01-01-2003, 10:44 PM

Just finished Prey by Michael Crichton. Worst. Book. Ever.

Travis Meekz · 01-01-2003, 11:15 PM

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Originally posted by hereisnowhy
Just finished Prey by Michael Crichton. Worst. Book. Ever.

I'm a big fan of his books and I thought that book looked really, really bad. Airframe was pretty bad too. He's gone downhill the past couple of years

Elvis The Naked Years · 01-01-2003, 11:20 PM

i don't really like reading

Travis Meekz · 01-01-2003, 11:24 PM

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Originally posted by Elvis The Naked Years
i don't really like reading

it is very overrated

Best Looking Boy · 01-01-2003, 11:27 PM

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Originally posted by Graveflower
The Picture of Dorian Gray

ARE YOU GAY?

Tessellation · 01-01-2003, 11:31 PM

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Originally posted by Travis Meeks

are you talking about The Sirens of Titan?

I didn't like it for a while, thought it was his worst book, but now that I'm close to the end i fucking love it

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...562003-7212755

Samsa · 01-02-2003, 01:29 AM

hard times by charles dickens

it's probably not one of his greater novels eh? it's still quite.. id on't know. it's dickens i can't explain. it's majestic just by being dickens and not in like a transcendent way i just. i can't explain. not even in a 'wow' way it's just...sort of like swimming or going to the ocean i can't explain. it's silly. his plot twists. i am assuming that old woman is mr bounderby's mom. yyyep. as for the bank robbery, did not see it coming but i cannot wait to see how it turns out. it's apparently one of his really dark novels so i am worried

i don't awnt poor tom blackpool or whatever his name is to go to jail

hereisnowhy · 01-02-2003, 01:32 AM

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Originally posted by Travis Meeks
I'm a big fan of his books and I thought that book looked really, really bad. Airframe was pretty bad too. He's gone downhill the past couple of years

Yeah, Jurassic Park was great. So much fun. Prey was just painful it was so bad. The only sort of cool part is the nonfiction introduction where he talks a bit about where our technology is.

SPZero · 01-02-2003, 01:40 AM

this topic... Genius!

Sepiae · 01-02-2003, 01:40 AM

I still haven't finished Atonement.

I am also working on a coffee table book about the history of the Oscars and We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates.

Travis Meekz · 01-02-2003, 01:56 AM

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Originally posted by SPZero
this topic... Genius!

well it's like now playing. I find it interesting what netphorians read. I think they have great taste in books. I understood this topic was not going to be exactly ground breaking when i made it but thanks for pointing it out

Tessellation · 01-02-2003, 01:45 PM

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Originally posted by hereisnowhy

Yeah, Jurassic Park was great. So much fun. Prey was just painful it was so bad. The only sort of cool part is the nonfiction introduction where he talks a bit about where our technology is.

I like "Disclosure" and most of his sci-fi books, but "Rising Sun" was incredibly offensive to me.

Travis Meekz · 01-02-2003, 02:06 PM

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Originally posted by Graveflower

and the time travel one after that.

I forgot about that one. Your right, that was a really good book

Tessellation · 01-02-2003, 02:08 PM

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Originally posted by Graveflower
I like Airframe.

and the time travel one after that. Prey is absolute shit, though.

"Timeline". Richard Donner just finished directing the celluloid version.

Tessellation · 01-02-2003, 02:16 PM

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Originally posted by Graveflower

Oh, ick.

I like the first couple Weapons, but...

well, at least he has some decent source material here.

yeah, but he's also responsible for "Ladyhawk" and the "Nightmare at 20,000 ft." Twilight Zone episode.

RobTheGood · 01-02-2003, 02:17 PM

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Originally posted by Hyperbole
i'm halfway through several books, but supposed to be reading The Stone Angel, by Margaret ******ce. I read the damn book back in grade 10, and have little care to read it again.

it's godawful.

Canadian authors are highly over-rated. I read this book in Can Lit last year and it was GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD AWFUL. Nothing - absolutely nothing - exciting happens in this book. Just thank the maker that you aren't reading Sinclair Ross...

Currently I'm reading "Game of Thrones" by George R. R. Martin. It's very very good.

Travis Meekz · 01-02-2003, 02:18 PM

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Originally posted by Tessellation

yeah, but he's also responsible for "Ladyhawk" and the "Nightmare at 20,000 ft." Twilight Zone episode.

http://www.netphoria.org/forums/show...threadid=10236

01-01-2003, 08:03 PM	#1
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Samsa Banned Location: A theater near you Posts: 7,929	hard times by charles dickens it's probably not one of his greater novels eh? it's still quite.. id on't know. it's dickens i can't explain. it's majestic just by being dickens and not in like a transcendent way i just. i can't explain. not even in a 'wow' way it's just...sort of like swimming or going to the ocean i can't explain. it's silly. his plot twists. i am assuming that old woman is mr bounderby's mom. yyyep. as for the bank robbery, did not see it coming but i cannot wait to see how it turns out. it's apparently one of his really dark novels so i am worried i don't awnt poor tom blackpool or whatever his name is to go to jail

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SPZero Apocalyptic Poster Location: Chicago Posts: 1,408	this topic... Genius!

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