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    golden compass

    gonna watch the movie soon the film just opened in my country not long ago and i shall watch it soon... it's so sad that the ratings on imdb & metacritics are so low... anyhow i just feel that close-minded people who are upset with and reacting so strongly to "his dark materials" are only...
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    golden compass

    brilliant! :D
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    golden compass

    hello all... was wondering if it is true that emails encouraging people to boycott "the golden compass" are going around... i think some people feel that it promotes atheism... i personally thought the trilogy was great although the themes in it were a bit too difficult for children to...
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    The Best Book You've Ever Read?

    his dark materials im gonna cheat a little... this is actually 3 books... but i think it would be his dark materials by philip pullman. i thought the development of the character, lee scoresby, in book 2(subtle knife) was very good... (sorry i was very affected by what happened to him)
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    last/next concert ?

    last concert for me was ggggrreat! my last concert was Mogwai... they were fantastic... i really enjoyed myself lots... their music is so dramatic and so engaging... i really can't understand how some of the people in the audience left in the middle of the gig to pee... :confused: Mogwai...
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    Scariest Book Ever?

    Not really scary for some people i guess but to me it's the ultimate horror... The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien... I hate the feeling of being caught up in a dream where things don't make sense (e.g. the police station is out of proportion or something like that)... plus i hate the part...
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    Laugh Out Loud Funny

    Vonnegut, Foer, Heller for me, i would say Kurt Vonnegut... I love his way of interpreting the Third Law of Motion in Slaughterhouse five... :D Everything is illuminated made me laugh very badly... at the end of the book, i was both crying and laughing... oh my gosh... Catch-22 didn't...
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    Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses

    I wonder why it is banned in our country? i think the society here is mature enough to handle such stuff...
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    haha.... thanks for the support... i shall cut and paste this, and email it to my mom. she'll appreciate me more... :p but maybe i'll leave out the last part, in case she really asks and i don't wanna tell her the truth yet... :D
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    argh... u are so right.. it's so weird... books are really addictive! once i start, i can't stop. within a month, i bought one bookshelf of books. it doesn't help that sometimes rare books just pop up and it just feels so wrong not to grab them... Next, i'm buying: The Third Policeman by...
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    Classic Books

    thanks lots thank you all... i really appreciate your replies... and yes, i've decided to heed all your advice and read the particular book first then read other books/comments/reviews about it to understand it better... maybe even reading the book itself a second time... ;)
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    Classic Books

    animal farm sorry... i'm new here so i was reading through the old threads... i noticed that most (maybe everybody) found Animal Farm really good... My friend and i read it but he enjoyed it more than me(i think) because he studied history... So in order to enjoy "classics", must one...
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    Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting

    I just finished Trainspotting I cannot (i repeat, CANNOT) find the dvd for the film... Does it even exist? And i hope the subtitles are in standard english :p But I just finished the book and it was really good. I wouldn't have wanted the book in any other way. The dialect makes it...
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