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    Romantic book recommendations

    try this http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=171136&x1=Y a romance novel, of sorts, the entire book is a phone conversation between strangers..it strays into confession, phone sex, story telling,etc a good book
  2. J

    Fairy Tales..

    personal favorites godfather death the red shoes the mouse, the sausage and the bird keep house the sisters who danced with death the devil's sooty brother the boy who did not know how to shudder mother holle these have various names, but you should be able to find them with the ones...
  3. J

    Name a "Mainstream BlockBuster" you actually like!

    best seller Jonathon Strange and Mister Norrell by susannah clark..this is a nyt bestseller, and a reasonably well written book, as well as lots of fun, and thick as heck, which helps..i don;t know if it counts a s a blockbuster, but it is def. a bestseller, and still pretty good...
  4. J

    Ayn Rand

    capitalism is not the salvation of humanity, you know the only thing she ever wrote of any value was "anthem' and that is because it is allegorical story about individuality and written at a sort of "young adult" level, so flaws can be overlooked, and it remains vague enough in the definition...
  5. J

    An astonishing foreseeing author...

    futures Huxley, brave new world future where we enslave ourselves through our own stupidity, complacency http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=411508&x1=Y the diamond age a victorian revival, nanotech and balkanization of the world...
  6. J

    Inspiring books for teens

    i think people underestimate teens too much. I read 1984,brave new world and farenheit 451 when i was 11 and loved them
  7. J

    presenting new novel

    you were asking about promotion one thing you can do is list here:
  8. J

    Dissertation Topic

    try this a star called henry: first chapter excerpt: My mother looked up at the stars. There were plenty of them up there. She lifted her hand. It swayed as she chose one. Her finger pointed. —There's my little Henry up there. Look it. I looked, her other little Henry...
  9. J

    Need some help with some things

    you should read samuel r delaney "stars in my pocket like grains of sand" as soon as you finish with "the left hand of darkness" http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=1079735&x1=Y stars in my pocket is a romance, a sci fi story and gender is much much more fluid, with relationships in...
  10. J

    Christian Fantasy and Science Fiction

    seems a shame to get such joking replies so here are some serious ones first of all, the narnia books are christian as can be: http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=415125&x1=Y also try the screwtape letters and the great divorce...while not exactly fantasy or sci fi, they are...
  11. J

    I Need A Book

    his dark materials was pretty good...13 is old enough to read whatever you like, in my opinion..when i was 13 i liked tolkien, the amber books,those wretched david eddings books, heinlein
  12. J

    Children's Fantasy Book (I'm pulling my hair out about this!)

    there is a similar passage in john crowley's "little,big" but the protagonist is male...sounds like a bodice ripper to me..what exactly wheere they doing to live forever?
  13. J

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    without a doubt karamazov is the best...the idiot is pretty good as well..personally, i am not so much a fan of c&P..if you are looking for good russians you should read gogol and tolstoy as well
  14. J

    Suggestions for a melancholic

    try this: http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=634399&x1=Y this is one of the best damn books ever written, and as depressing as they come from day of the locust ""Their boredom becomes more and more terrible. They realize they’ve been tricked and burn with resentment...
  15. J

    of love and other demons murder

    sirmyk you are missing one of life's few good and true pleasures if you do not read this book. Marquez is amazing, and the central conceit of "of love and other demons" is brilliant you are really missing something here..your "i will probably never read this book' is dismissive and...
  16. J

    @ THE FORUM WITCHES - Tell me a SPELL Book

    enochian keys are a little obscure, don't you think?..also he is looking for something that "looks the part" maybe some of the more touristy books on voudon would do, come to think of it
  17. J

    Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials

    it never ceases to amaze me that the religous right is NOT in an uproar about these books. i liked them, thought the miltonic stuff was a little heavy handed sometimes, but i was amazed by how blasphemous they really are...anyone who thinks they are just directed against the church does not know...
  18. J

    Short Chapter Books?

    the sadness of sex..short dreamlike vignettes..some of the stories are only one page long,and you can skim around http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=85468 also, SOME of kafka. ( i am sure people will tell me i am crazy, and that books like the castle and the trial plod on...
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    @ THE FORUM WITCHES - Tell me a SPELL Book

    grimoires The Goetia the Lesser Key of Solomon the King Lemegeton, Book 1 Clavicula Salomonis Regis the grimoire of grimoire's, the lesser key of solomon is a medeival spellbook including the seals of 72 demons, their descriptions,offices and invocations...
  20. J

    Neil Gaiman's Marvel 1602

    I love Gaiman cheaper here http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=1394419&x1=Y
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