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Miss Tasty Princess
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading:  Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:27 am |
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Shit! I'm a vegetarian. Do I have to give up being an atheist and start practicing witchcraft? 'Cause that'd just suck. 
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:50 pm |
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No way! I'm vegan and say do whatever the fuck you want!
I think if you're anti-Christian you're more prone to being nicer to animals because you are more likely to recognize that you are an animal. If you are Christian, or a humanist, you think humans were put on this Earth to lord over it like the lord lords over humans. I know very few Xtians and humanists (well at all, but) who are vegetarian or vegan.
Sutekh what is theosophy? After attempting to read this garbage I feel as though I'll be repulsed or disinterested but my insatiable thirst for knowledge wins out.
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:16 am |
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Orchestruction wrote: Sutekh what is theosophy? After attempting to read this garbage I feel as though I'll be repulsed or disinterested but my insatiable thirst for knowledge wins out. Loosely speaking, a bad marriage between a watered-down interpretation of the Western mystical tradition, spiritualism and science with bits and pieces of whatever other religions its founders felt like chucking into the mix. Started in the 19th Century, but is still going - in fact there's a Theosophy reading room at the end of my street. A lot of the flakier bits of New-ageism and the dubious mystical basis of white supremacy can trace their roots directly to Theosophy. Go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophical_Societyand here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophyand here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blavatsky
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:32 am |
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OK....
Wow, it's like taking the shittiest aspects of different things and smushing them into a giant shit statue. And then taking it a step further in asking everyone to come up and have a lick.
Luckily I don't think it's a thing in the states!
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:24 am |
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Back to Dragonlance after a 3 month hiatus!  In about 9 chapters so far. I like that is one is paced up a bit faster than the previous ones.
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 5:38 pm |
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 P Craig Russell's The Magic Flute. I found the three Eclipse books at my LCBS yesterday and they are fantastic.
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:58 am |
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Recently finished:  and before that:  Now, moving on to: 
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:11 pm |
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 I started reading this book before I started the university, which is almost a year ago. Since then I almost didn't touch it due to the university. I hope that I'll finish this one together with a few more after the tests are over [September].
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:24 pm |
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The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious, Karl Jung
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:59 pm |
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Currently reading Children of Dune.
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 7:13 pm |
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Roger Zelazy - The Great Book of Amber- The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:49 pm |
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metaldragon wrote: Roger Zelazy - The Great Book of Amber- The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 I don't know whether to be impressed with your ambition or appalled by your taste - I thought the 1st book was good, the 2nd OK & I made it through the 3rd book before concluding I couldn't bear it anymore.
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 4:10 pm |
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Sutekh wrote: I don't know whether to be impressed with your ambition or appalled by your taste - I thought the 1st book was good, the 2nd OK & I made it through the 3rd book before concluding I couldn't bear it anymore. Hm. Read them back in highschool and loved them at the time. The baroque political intrigue aspect fascinated me. I find the characters a bit thinly sketched now. He'll throw out a name of one of this family of characters and then never explore who that character is or their impact on the family dynamic. Still, the way he created the Shadow multi-dimensional world system of Amber is unique and interesting.
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 10:38 pm |
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metaldragon wrote: Still, the way he created the Shadow multi-dimensional world system of Amber is unique and interesting. Perhaps not as unique as you might think. Zelazny's extremely close friend Phillip Jose Farmer published the extremely similar (albeit it more sci-fi) World of Tiers series. Since the first book of both series appeared in 1970, we'll probably never know who originally came up with the pocket universes concept first.
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:41 pm |
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JUDGE DREDD Complete Casefiles 01 I wish Brian Bolland was in here more, his later contributions are mind-blowing, but all the work in here is great. It has this urban dystopianism and punk sensibility that is all but lost in things now. 
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:11 pm |
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Vyldr wrote: Back to Dragonlance after a 3 month hiatus! In about 9 chapters so far. I like that is one is paced up a bit faster than the previous ones. Finally finished this since I haven't been working. It was a pretty good book. It described the sons and daughters of the original characters in the chronicles in 5 short stories and how they came to be. These siblings are known as the second generation! I am looking forward to the next one when they meet. The next one I just ordered and will be on reading hold till I get to my next destination.
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:23 pm |
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I just started Ringworld by Larry Niven. In general I am a huge sci fi nerd, and this is a classic that I somehow missed until now! 
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Post subject: Re: Now Reading: Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:37 pm |
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 Camelot 3000. Not Brian Bolland's best (is it Mike Barr's fault?), but him + Tatjana Wood still make my eyes drool. It is silly but great.
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