Kythie

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Kythryne Aisling
Scarleteen Advocate

Anything by Anne Rice is great, like the mayfair witches or the vampire chronicles. I reallylike DragonLance too. Awesome stories.

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'I can't turn off the naked people. I am imagining everybody naked, it's automatic now!'-Jeff Murdock

'Steve, sex with two whole women, think of the advantages...they can't both fall asleep. If one of them suddenly leaves or punches you, you've still got one left. If one of them plays that old sneaking out of the window trick, there's someone there to untie you. It's total genius.' -Jeff Murdock

I don't know if I could choose one absolute favourite, but here are a few that come in at the top of the list:

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy- a very sad book, don't read it if you're depressed.

The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay- this is a book about the Spanish Reconquista, but it's set in a sort of parallel world- it follows the same basic course as our real world history, but has some elements of fantasy thrown in.

I didn't like the sequel though, that was written by another author- I made up my own story of how Scarlet re-won Rhett's heart, and no one is going to change it on me!

kill your tv

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ShAnNa's AmAzInG wEbSiTe

I'm writing a book at the mo, its about a girl growing up in an Irish Catholic school and she's coming to terms with her sexuality(sound familiar?) But um, I came up with a title and I'm wondering what you guys think,

"Wearing Pink, thinking blue."

And Beppie, what is that Jude book about, (i love books by that guy) because you said it was really sad and i was wondering if it's like this movie i saw a while back.

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'I can't turn off the naked people. I am imagining everybody naked, it's automatic now!'-Jeff Murdock

'Steve, sex with two whole women, think of the advantages...they can't both fall asleep. If one of them suddenly leaves or punches you, you've still got one left. If one of them plays that old sneaking out of the window trick, there's someone there to untie you. It's total genius.' -Jeff Murdock

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We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Have you read "the mayfair witches" series? It's really good.

You should check 'em out.

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'Steve, sex with two whole women, think of the advantages...they can't both fall asleep. If one of them suddenly leaves or punches you, you've still got one left. If one of them plays that old sneaking out of the window trick, there's someone there to untie you. It's total genius.' -Jeff Murdock

I just got a copy of The KGB Bar: The Poetry Book today and I'm really digging that. I just love modern poetry. I also found a copy of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, which a friend of mine has trying to get me to read for years (she knows that I'm one of those rare, male feminists) at a great book outlet store I discovered.

Add to that my usual list of novel favorites:

-- The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
-- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
-- The Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
-- Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
-- Justine, the Marquis de Sade
-- The Story of O, Pauline Reage
-- Peyton Place, Grace Metallious
... and the list continues. That's just what I can think of off the top of my head.

(Psst... Anne Rice fans! A friend of mine really wants me to read the Sleeping Beauty Trillogy. I'm thinking about it, but I want to know what some other people think, just for my curiosity...)

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Tim

I'm reading the mists of avalon right now. I'm not too far, a few chapters or so, but it's great so far, just my kinda book.

I haven't read the sleeping beauty books myself yet, but i really want to. Actually i'm having trouble finding them under the pen name she wrote them under.

Didja know she wrote them just after her 5 year old daughter died, because sleeping beauty was her daughters fave story. Sad stuff, but i've heard good things about the books.

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'Steve, sex with two whole women, think of the advantages...they can't both fall asleep. If one of them suddenly leaves or punches you, you've still got one left. If one of them plays that old sneaking out of the window trick, there's someone there to untie you. It's total genius.' -Jeff Murdock

anyhow, if you guys like mists of avalon, try reading another book by the same author.
its called "firebrand" and its the story of cassandra and the trojan war from cassandras perspective.
very well written, woman-centered book.
*grins*
i have a huge list of books that i love so i wont even start, but yeah. marion zimmer bradley kicks butt. so does JRR Tolkien and Isaac Asimov. *goes to read some more*

+Where the Heart is
+Catcher in the Rye
+To Kill a Mockingbird
+Ruby series (VC Andrews)
+Their Eyes Were Watching God
+I Know What You Did Last Summer

my "mixed" list. *hehe

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(heart) always, sarah

*Memories are the best souvenirs.*

*I thought I loved him, but he had to break my heart for me to know what true love really is.*

It's all I've read since November. I know it's pathetic and I should spreaded my choices but it's just not the same. Such as right now I'm reading The Joy Luck Club for a book report. I've had it for two weeks and I'm barely on the second story. *sigh* I should get to reading it's due on Thursday.

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"I get on my broom and make the bad guys go BOOM!" ~ From the wise words of a thespian on Harry Potter

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i love matt even through hes older

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Originally posted by entropie:
The Earths Children series by Jean M Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear etc) and anything by Jeff Noon

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Have you heard that Jean Auel has finally finished the fifth book in the Earth's Children series? It's coming out next month, I think. I'm so excited - I've been waiting for this for years.

Lately, I've been reading (and rereading) mostly nonfiction, especially philosophy and spirituality.
Conversations with God by Neale Walsch: excellent, even though I don't agree with everything he says.
Tuesdays with Morrie: I read this in one sitting, and cried the whole time.
The Tao is Silent by Raymond Smullyan: probably out of print by now, but beautiful.

I also like any of James Michener's historical fiction, especially "The Source" and "Poland". And I'll be reading Jean Auel's new book as soon as I can get a hold of a copy.

Here's my recommendation, it's:

Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don’t Look So Terrific Yourself

by Harlan Ellison. You can find it in his book Strange Wine.

Happy reading!

"The Great Betrayal" by Pat Buchanan

"What's Right for All Americans" by Ezola Foster

"The Death of the West" by Pat Buchanan

"The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel

"The Case for Faith" by Lee Strobel

"What's Wrong with the GOP?"* by Howard Phillips

JAD <><

*That one is actually a compilation of articles, but it should be a book.

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For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

i just finished "complications" by atul gawande. it's not anything heavy, but it was interesting. kind of a reflections-of-a-surgical-resident thing. my mom plopped it on my desk and said "read," so i did. i also am in the middle of "the enigma of arrival" by v.s. naipaul - slow, but hypnotic - and i'm rereading "the tin drum" by gunter grass. it's a very heavy book that makes you think (as any nobel prize winner will tend to do, lol), and i like it a lot. depressing tho.

my favorites: classics and modern classics.
"lolita" by nabokov. especially cool because english was his second language.
"labyrinths" by jorge luis borges. he was a blind librarian from argentina. his short stories are incredible.
"to kill a mockingbird" by harper lee. that passage when dill doesn't visit just kills me every time.
"one hundred years of solitude" by gabriel garcia marquez. damned if i know where my copy is, though.

the phantom tollbooth. :-D

favorite authors: salman rushdie (i am that dork who actually read "the satanic verses" instead of just talking about it), hemingway, tolstoy, chekhov. and of course kerouac. :-D

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Neil Gaiman: Anything by him. He's amazing. Especially The Sandman Series, and American Gods, which I'm currently reading.

Anything by Terry Pratchett.

The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Maurice by E M Forrester

Anything by Anne Rice

The Snow Garden by Christopher Rice (Anne Rice's son)

A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Attwood

Everything by Amelia Attwater-Rhoades

Everything by Francesca Lia Block

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

This is only naming a few. I love so amny books.

"A Very Long Engagement" (can't remember author)
"A Frozen Woman"

And there is a great Australian series by the author Robin Klein based around a family called the Mellings. "Dresses of Red and Gold" and "The Sky in Silver Lace" are two of the titles which I loved when I was younger.