i keep starting it, leaving it for a while, reading other books, and coming back to it. i'm determined to finish it this time though...my friend wants it back.
What are you reading?
by Soozy » 1/22/2006, 9:06 am
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
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by clumsychild_ » 1/22/2006, 12:30 pm
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by its4am_isanybodyhome » 1/22/2006, 12:45 pm
i keep starting it, leaving it for a while, reading other books, and coming back to it. i'm determined to finish it this time though...my friend wants it back.
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member of the pokémon league
i wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
if i don't make it know that i've loved you all along
when you are with me i'm free
that hazy moon will be ash in the wind real soon
member of the pokémon league
i wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
if i don't make it know that i've loved you all along
when you are with me i'm free
that hazy moon will be ash in the wind real soon
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by Hope » 3/16/2006, 6:30 pm
I didn't know there was that much controversy over it... At first I was engrossed in the story but afterwards, in the second half or so of the book, the whole thing seemed too wild/crazy to be true. The bits about Lilly i didn't like, because it seemed almost contrived.
the part where Frey goes into the sketchy building to rescue Lilly was just insane. It made me doubtful, partially because it's obscenely dangerous and unlikely, and also because Frey didn't even stop once to reach out to the drugs once again (all for Lilly's sake, which is just weird.) It doesn't ring true to me how he was so single-minded about rescuing Lilly... but I guess it's possible.
Overall, it was a pretty intense read, but I'm not sure if everything in the book actually happened.
the part where Frey goes into the sketchy building to rescue Lilly was just insane. It made me doubtful, partially because it's obscenely dangerous and unlikely, and also because Frey didn't even stop once to reach out to the drugs once again (all for Lilly's sake, which is just weird.) It doesn't ring true to me how he was so single-minded about rescuing Lilly... but I guess it's possible.
Overall, it was a pretty intense read, but I'm not sure if everything in the book actually happened.
turn your head
come back again
to here knows when
come back again
to here knows when
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by Kathy » 3/16/2006, 6:36 pm
A lot of people were mad and felt conned when it came out that parts of the book were made up but passed of as the truth. He was extremely successful as a result of being chosen for Oprah's bookclub, and when the truth came out there were a lot of shows (incl Oprah and Larry King) confronting him on it.
http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0 ... 55,00.html
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/01 ... frey1.html
http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0 ... 55,00.html
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/01 ... frey1.html
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by magicseamonkey » 3/16/2006, 7:40 pm
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by its4am_isanybodyhome » 3/16/2006, 8:08 pm
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member of the pokémon league
i wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
if i don't make it know that i've loved you all along
when you are with me i'm free
that hazy moon will be ash in the wind real soon
member of the pokémon league
i wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
if i don't make it know that i've loved you all along
when you are with me i'm free
that hazy moon will be ash in the wind real soon
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by its4am_isanybodyhome » 3/16/2006, 8:16 pm
i'd heard good things about the series, and i'm a big fan of fantasy, so i bought the first one, and now i've got this one from the library...it's soo goood
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member of the pokémon league
i wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
if i don't make it know that i've loved you all along
when you are with me i'm free
that hazy moon will be ash in the wind real soon
member of the pokémon league
i wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
if i don't make it know that i've loved you all along
when you are with me i'm free
that hazy moon will be ash in the wind real soon
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by don't ask why » 3/16/2006, 9:37 pm
the hades factor by the guy who wrote the bourne series
and nelson mandela's photograph book or something like that. i'm really too lazy to get the title.
and nelson mandela's photograph book or something like that. i'm really too lazy to get the title.
When the consequence of rage comes through the living room floor.
http://seeyoufall.blogspot.com/
http://seeyoufall.blogspot.com/
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by Rusty » 3/16/2006, 11:11 pm
Queens Of The Stone Age-Someone's In The Wolf
Once you're lost in twillights's blue
You don't find your way, the way finds you...
Tempt the fates, beware the smile
It hides all the teeth, my dear,
What's behind them...
So glad you could stay
Forever
He steps between the trees, a crooked man
There's blood on the blade
Don't take his hand
You warm by the firelight, in twilight's blue
Shadows creep & dance the walls
He's creeping too..
So glad you could stay
Forever
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by tasha » 3/17/2006, 2:41 pm
i'm reading a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
it better be as good as everyone says.
it better be as good as everyone says.
you have to, you just have to trust me
whoever i was then i can't ever be again
the faith you've found i've never felt
the terror held in wedding bells
the comfort in "there's no one else"
the truth be told, i'm never going to know
whoever i was then i can't ever be again
the faith you've found i've never felt
the terror held in wedding bells
the comfort in "there's no one else"
the truth be told, i'm never going to know
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by magicseamonkey » 3/17/2006, 5:52 pm
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by Bandalero » 3/18/2006, 11:19 pm
.........i hate books. i know i've said that frequently on here, but i'm going to say it again.
that being said, i bought a bunch of books at a book giveaway/i went to waldenbooks.
i'm currently reading Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or survival: america's quest for global dominance.
i also bought Che.
and at that book giveaway i also bought the phylosophy of ayn rand.
that being said, i bought a bunch of books at a book giveaway/i went to waldenbooks.
i'm currently reading Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or survival: america's quest for global dominance.
i also bought Che.
and at that book giveaway i also bought the phylosophy of ayn rand.
Whenever death may surprise us,
let it be welcome
if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear
and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Nobody's gonna miss me, no tears will fall, no ones gonna weap, when i hit that road.
my boots are broken my brain is sore, fer keepin' up with thier little world, i got a heavy load.
gonna leave 'em all just like before, i'm big city bound, your always 17 in your hometown
let it be welcome
if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear
and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Nobody's gonna miss me, no tears will fall, no ones gonna weap, when i hit that road.
my boots are broken my brain is sore, fer keepin' up with thier little world, i got a heavy load.
gonna leave 'em all just like before, i'm big city bound, your always 17 in your hometown
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