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  1. Vellocet

    William Gibson

    I saw the Spook Country thread, which seemed to have affected this one. And thought what I had to say didn't really fit with Spook Country but with Gibson as a topic. While I agree that people identify themselves with the brands they buy, I do not agree with the system that encourages this...
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Neat tool, thanks.
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    I've read Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and Notes From the Underground. The Brothers Karamazov is actually next on my to read list and is sitting on my bookshelf next to another Dostoyevsky book titled "The Adolescent". I don't pick favourites really, I thoroughly enjoyed the three that...
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    Has anyone really read...

    I too have only started it. I read the first several hundred pages and I loved it. The reason I stopped reading it, is that it's just too darn heavy and I can't lug it to the coffee shop. For some reason I can only read one book at a time... /sigh maybe sometime this year...
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    William Gibson

    I love William Gibson's work. His novels have been a defining factor in my life. I started reading his books in 1994. I traded all of his books that I owned at the used book store once, only to re-buy them several years later. The only book of his that I have not read is Agrippa, but I saw parts...
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    Fantasty genre dead?

    Yeah I saw the Dragonlance DVD and thought it might be interesting to check out, but I can't really afford movies so much because of my voracious book appetite. I read a lot of the Dragonlance books when I was about 10, and I loved them, great literature they are not - I look at them like candy...
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    When looks are more important that content

    I understand that books have a certain aesthetic appeal. But using books to create a pseudo-intellectual atmosphere would be pretty... lame. I could see using them on a movie set or something, or in a shop of some kind. On the other hand, think of all the books you could chop the guts out of to...
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    Voltaire: Candide

    I really enjoyed Candide. I am by no means a philosopher. In fact I usually have a hard time reading philosophy without getting completely distracted or falling asleep. I found that Candide was refreshing. Up until Candide, I'd really only had experience with Kant and some others that bored me...
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    You know you're addicted to reading when...

    I'm glad I found people that are similar to me. I have done a number of things some of you have listed here. Too many to recount each tale really. When I was working at the college library I loved shelving the books, and shelf reading (making sure the book stacks are in order) because I got a...
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    The Return of the King question

    I would say no, Frodo and Bilbo do not die. I think Tolkien intentionally leaves this a bit vague. This is a simple question but there is a lot of information to take into account. I am typing this without referring to the books so I could be mistaken. At one point, I think it's when Pippin...
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    Fantasty genre dead?

    I agree and I would like to elaborate on this point if I may: I hardly think the fantasy genre is dead. I think most fantasy is rather formulaic - the Dragonlance novels, Forgotten Realms novels, anything by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Ed Greenwood or R.A. Salvatore, for example. These...
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    J.R.R. Tolkien: The Children Of Hurin

    I had this book put on pre-order and got it before they had even put the pre-order books on the shelf behind the counter at Borders. I read it in about 4 days. It was a most excellent read. I've read more Tolkien than is probably healthy for an individual. I liked the interplay between...
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    You know you're addicted to reading when...

    You've had many jobs in many different libraries. (College work studies in my case.) When you can't get any work done at the library because you're reading the books/articles that you're handling. You know exactly where all the sections in your library begin and end, and get disoriented...
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