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alexchuck
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by alexchuck » Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:50 am
RubiconMan wrote:just read "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatim.
awesome book.

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magma
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by magma » Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:44 am
kay wrote:Just started reading this a few nights ago:
Picked it up a while ago, wish I hadn't left it this long to read it. It been a good read so far and is probably one of the better books I've read on subject. If I remember correctly, she was one of the original proponents of M-theory. Seems to be a pretty good communicator, pity she doesn't seem to be generally as well known as the other physics bods.
Also, I find her vaguely hawt!

Lemme know how it is... looks good!
Meus equus tuo altior est
"Let me eat when I'm hungry, let me drink when I'm dry.
Give me dollars when I'm hard up, religion when I die."
nowaysj wrote:I wholeheartedly believe that Michael Brown's mother and father killed him.
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cogidubnus
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by cogidubnus » Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:52 am
It's about 8 years since I last read an IMB novel, very promising so far...
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by 86. » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:33 pm
Children of the Alley by Nagib Mafhouz
read it for the first time earlier in the year.
basically it's about 4 generations of gangsters in the slums of Cairo.
fuckin brilliant.
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x-ecutive
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by x-ecutive » Sun Oct 04, 2009 1:24 pm
knell wrote:coke, just because pepsi really hurts when you snort it
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king_laffa
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by king_laffa » Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:46 am
The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
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dreamizm
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by dreamizm » Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:56 pm
paolo wrote:Graham Greene - 'Brighton Rock'
I wanna re-read this. Sick book. Ultra dark.
Still working away on 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'- its a bit of a trudge.
silkie wrote:people are happy to be ur best friend n shit when they think they can get something out of u, then when they surpass u, they couldnt give a flying fuck about ya. that not dubstep thats life
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vivace
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by vivace » Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:24 pm
Currently reading De Dikke van Deelder by Jules A. Deelder and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. Yay!
Vivace
“Play the music, not the instrument.”
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cogidubnus
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by cogidubnus » Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:41 pm
dreamizm wrote:
Still working away on 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'- its a bit of a trudge.
I had to admit defeat on this one, couldn't get into it at all
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fitz
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by fitz » Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:43 am
David Seadris FTW
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sonnyIX
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by sonnyIX » Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:24 am
One Shot by Lee Child. Best crime/thriller author ever.
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the artful dodger
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by the artful dodger » Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:29 pm
magma wrote:the artful dodger wrote:Just started reading The hitchikers guide to the galaxy.
Almost certainly my favourite booky thing ever. I can never work out if I prefer the radio shows or the books, but they're both amazing.
Yeah im just reading through all of the books. I heard Eoin Colfer has made and another thing (the sixth book) thats coming out on the 12th, RIP Douglas Adams i hope its like his work.
contakt321 wrote:Are you the real Artful Dodger? As in the one that released all those amazing records?
''shoot for the moon, even if you miss you will be among the star's''
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alexchuck
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by alexchuck » Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:33 pm
just bagged this:
btw, that Lisa Randall book looks intriguing!
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by NilsFG » Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:31 pm
I'm juggling between Tom Morris' Philosophy for Dummies
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George Orwell's Animal Farm.
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kruptah
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by kruptah » Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:36 pm
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nousd
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by nousd » Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:07 am
Reg & Maggie"s
THE VOYAGE OF THE
GREAT SOUTHERN ARK
The 4 Billion Year Journey of the
Australian Continent
sounds grand & is
graphics largely convincing
Australia's plate,
recently broken
from Antarctica
is heading north
for the third time
possibly into coagulation again
in which case
as global sea currents are inhibited
heat distribution slows
moisture cools
ice age
possibly a long one
^not in the book but recent geoscience
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by bandshell » Tue Oct 13, 2009 7:00 pm
Pistonsbeneath wrote:
Got one of the seventies copies of this but haven't got round to reading it yet.
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SwordRaven
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by SwordRaven » Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:16 pm
John Dies At The End by David Wong.
Horror but also full of dick jokes, what's not to like?
Forever falling in love with old tunes that I will never hear dropped.
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pikeymobile
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by pikeymobile » Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:36 pm
Finally got around to reading the doors of perception after putting it off for so long. Made my trip to bristol much more interesting. Pretty fantastic read, wonderfully deep and complex without being up its own arse in pretentious philosophical ramblings.
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