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dgd1788
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25 Jan 2007, 9:29 pm

I am obsessed with 2001: A Space Odyssey

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25 Jan 2007, 9:32 pm

I've read "The Mothman Prophecies" at least 5 times. It fascinates me more each time.

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25 Jan 2007, 9:40 pm

I plan to read 2001: A Space Odyssey at least 100 times before I die.

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25 Jan 2007, 10:36 pm

George Orwell's 1984.

I used to bully other people in to reading it.

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26 Jan 2007, 2:07 am

Les Chants des Maldoror by Comte De Latreamont. Beautiful novel.

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26 Jan 2007, 2:49 am

American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies by Michael W. Kauffman

Very informative about John Wilkes Booths life.

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26 Jan 2007, 6:21 pm

maldoror wrote:

Les Chants des Maldoror by Comte De Latreamont. Beautiful novel.

i really want to read this!

for the past year or so i've been obsessed with flann o'brien's at swim-two-birds. i've read it four or
five times in the past year. i have yet to meet a single other person who's even read it. also, several
books by j.g. ballard, specifically the unlimited dream company and the atrocity exhibition, both of
which i would strongly recommend.

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26 Jan 2007, 8:38 pm

I am obsessed with Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange (granted the movie is one of my favorites..) but reading the book makes it worthwhile.

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27 Jan 2007, 5:20 pm

dgd1788 wrote:

I am obsessed with 2001: A Space Odyssey

I love that book too. I think it's the only time a book and a movie complemented one another. As for the other books in the series, well, if you haven't read them don't bother. I think Clarke just needed the money

. I'm pretty obsessed with House of Leaves. It's so weird, disturbing, and great.

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27 Jan 2007, 6:27 pm

Back in the day I read the Wayside School Stories by Louis Sachar a lot.

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27 Jan 2007, 9:09 pm

kelroy77 wrote:

dgd1788 wrote:

I am obsessed with 2001: A Space Odyssey

. I'm pretty obsessed with House of Leaves. It's so weird, disturbing, and great.

I just bought 2010

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27 Jan 2007, 11:59 pm

White Oleander.

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28 Jan 2007, 5:21 pm

dgd1788 wrote:

kelroy77 wrote:

dgd1788 wrote:

I am obsessed with 2001: A Space Odyssey

I just bought 2010

Well, 2010 is actually ok, and the movie was definately underrated. But 2061 and 3001 are pretty laughable in comparison to 2001. I think when he wrote those books science fiction was moving away from classic space exploration themes to post Apocalyptic cyber space themes. People were more interested in what the Internet had to offer rather than space exploration. Clarke tried to merge these two themes into 2061 and 3001, but it just didn't work for me. Time's Eye and Sunstorm, on the other hand, are great. He wrote them with Stephen Baxter and I think they merge the two genres perfectly. Anyway, enjoy 2010!

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28 Jan 2007, 10:37 pm

The Perfect Mile, by Neal Bascomb.

Books about cats with lots of pictures of the different breeds.

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28 Jan 2007, 10:48 pm

American Psycho

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29 Jan 2007, 11:16 pm

I read that Anthony Burgess once received medical treatment from Roger Bannister and once had a Siamese cat.

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