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I have a Brief History of Time, I only read the chapter about blackholes because it was the only part that interested me. That was a few years ago so I guess I shoulg go back and flip through it and see if there's anything new that I might want to read.
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Hope wrote:Im reading:
Brave New World
Sophie's World
Power of One
Lovely Bones


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And Sand - I really don't recommend reading Principia. But if you want to, feel free ... :sugar:
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Sallie Tisdale - "Talk Dirty To Me: An Intimate Philosophy Of Sex"
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I finished Brave New World today. twas weird + odd throughout. I like it.
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Pride & Prejudice
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I want to read a Brave New World and 1984 next.
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1984 is my favourite book. It's actually an adaptation of Zamyatin's "We" and I would suggest reading both books. Personally I think 1984 is a bit more realistic only because We occurs in more of a fantasy/futuristic setting.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.

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^ :nod:
i liked 1984 more than Brave New World also. BNW seemed more fantasy-ish.

maybe i should read it again soon.
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I did 1984 for a book-report this year (we chose our own novels). The only thing she asked us to do was setting. It was so not fair.
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Okay so I guess I'll read 1984 next. I've heard so much about it and the idea sounds really cool.
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1984 :drool:

Just started Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which I received for my birthday. Loving it so far.
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i want to read hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy! i've only heard good stuff about it
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Soozy wrote:
Hope wrote:Im reading:
Brave New World
Sophie's World
Power of One
Lovely Bones


:duncan:

And Sand - I really don't recommend reading Principia. But if you want to, feel free ... :sugar:


:sugar:
i'll hate it while reading it
i know
i hate physics as a whole
i just want to read it then read a brief history of time
go fuck yourself.
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i have some excerpts from it in a collection of scientific stuff. It's not nearly as confusing as everything else..
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i love physics though, so i guess that helps.
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happeningfish wrote:Sallie Tisdale - "Talk Dirty To Me: An Intimate Philosophy Of Sex"


Learn anything interesting?

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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Yes. Women should make more porn.
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I say we round up the CMettes and get them working to that effect.
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Make, not star in. ROBERT.

And right now I'm reading, oh.. what's this?! The Eolian Harp, for the eighty billionth time this evening? Maybe I should switch it up and give Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement its eighty billion and first run-through! :GASP:

*headdeskheaddeskheaddeskheaddeskheaddeskheaddeskheaddesk*
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