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southbound
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Joined: Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:52 pm
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Really? Even in my jaded high school years I loved Moby Dick.
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| Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:41 pm |
 
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flipvanmorritz
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Joined: Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:46 pm
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Location: Bleak Dunelm, atop the seven peaks of maherblamaberg.
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Just finished The Robots of Dawn, my first Asimov, after being told he was dense and too dry for pure entertainment reading I am thoroughly pleased to announce that I loved it, a great bloody book and I'll definitely continue to read more.
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| Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:49 pm |
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trummer
Joined: Fri May 01, 2009 12:58 pm
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aye, most classic or older novels of that time i get about 50 pages in before tossing it, but moby dick was a great read ! _________________for your buying and selling alternative The Ol' Goatshed Swap n' Shop Facebook Group
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| Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:59 pm |
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lynDOOM
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Joined: Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:11 pm
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Location: 22 Acacia Avenue
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read my first Asimov too this year I ROBOT ...really really liked it and flowed so nice been reading too many books lately that are a chore started it together with ON THE ROAD which i promptly dropped for I ROBOT as i thought it was a piece of crap and was too hooked into the latter
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mictron3000
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Joined: Wed Dec 22, 2004 5:18 am
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Location: Crooklyn
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i've always thought asimov was a good read.
um, what the hell is the name of that book of essays he did...shoot. anyway, that one is really good.
** far as human eye can see.
good stuff.
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Orbo
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Joined: Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:59 am
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Location: US
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Black Rain by Ibuse Masuji
The Lost Universe by Gene Weltfish
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| Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:04 am |
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John2
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Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:06 pm
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Location: Dublin
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Pure fucking hellish doom. That book haunted me after I read it.
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iwokeinrelief
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Joined: Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:26 am
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Location: TX
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Richard Paul Russo's Carlucci trilogy (Destroying Angel, Carlucci's Edge & Carlucci's Heart) - Dystopic near-future noir. Good stuff.
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cranky messiah
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Joined: Mon Sep 22, 2003 7:32 am
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William Manchester - World Lit Only by Fire
great book about the Dark Ages and the Renaissance
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| Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:19 pm |
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noise is a friend
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Joined: Tue May 06, 2008 9:31 am
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I'm a sucker for true crime books, and have just finished re-reading "The Corpse Garden", about Fred and Rose West. My next novel should be "The Naked and the Dead", which I've been meaning to start for ages. I might avoid it and go back to Clive James' "Unreliable Memoirs", though.
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