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re-reading Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

probably my favourite book of the series
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Stephen King is my fav author, love him.

I am reading Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, it is a very good book. I am about 3/4's way through and I am very impressed with it. Highly recommend it to anyone.
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Bandalero wrote:and at that book giveaway i also bought the phylosophy of ayn rand.


or even philosophy.

i wanna read the Fountainhead.



currently reading Douglas Coupland's Hey Nostradamus!, as well as the journals of anais nin...
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the fountainhead's pretty good. i dont agree with a lot of what it stands for, but it's an interesting read.
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sorry, in my rage i have trouble typing.
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
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Life of Pi!

It's good but I want him to crash already.

Teeheehee, I kid.
I just wanna get out,
Stuck inside of this.
Waiting for something else,
:wte:
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-Jillian
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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
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Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

The Introduction:

"I never liked Jazz music because Jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked Jazz music.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened."
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The Hiram Key




WAY better then The Devinci Code, because it's not a fiction novel, but rather a book chronicalling two men's actual research.
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good

"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911

"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good

I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.

"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
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The First Vial by...some person. i just finished the book and didn't like it so didn't bother to remember the author.

now i am reading my play script.
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uncle toms cabin- harriet beecher stowe
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<b> "well i'm not sleeping, you're not here"</b><br>

"and the lonliness leads to bad dreams, and the <b>bad dreams lead me to calling you</b>, and i call you and say...<i>come here</i>"
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Post by Sonya »

1984.

it's apparently required reading for history 12, now. well, so my teacher says.
"if the nuremberg trials were applied to us foreign policy, every us president since 1945 would have been hanged." noam chomsky.

...and this is me hanging on / i'd burn our initials in the sun if it would shine / anxiety chokes me like razor wire / if hate's in your heart man, you'll take what you're given / wake up / i'm not the only one / it's never goodbye / go ahead and play dead / if everyone's a casualty, then take your time, there ain't no trouble / these wounds they will not heal / ambition can be a tricky thing / what the hell do i know about rape anyway? / this is not what i hoped for / ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon / who will be there to tell me how stupid i am? / those living for death will die by their own hand / and it's me that I am spying on / pick up the pieces and live with the stars / hurry up and wait / things have never been so swell / they're always the ones who slowly drift / be great / ...and this is my world.
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so many people hate that book but i quite enjoy it. not to mention whether you find it entertaining or not it's so essential to read, and has had such an impact on our world
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good

"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911

"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good

I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.

"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
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Post by Hope »

i hated it when i first read it in grade 8. i thought it was pointless. but then i read it again, and that was like WHOOSH of ideas.


+whoosh
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Post by Hope »

^ wow what a weird post that was.


i finished the catcher in the rye. it was good :nod:
now, onto franny & zooey.
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Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs on my lunch break at work every day.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman when I feel like it at home.
A Douglas Adams biography when I get around to picking it up here and there.

I remember enjoying 1984 quite a bit. I think I read it twice in HS. I enjoyed Animal Farm, too.
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its4am_isanybodyhome wrote:Image


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Status Anxiety.
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.
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the CM
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Garden of Beasts by Jefferey Deaver
-->The less you know, the more you believe<--
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