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You're right. It's way better. Sorry, that's just my opinion, feel free to disagree. (Isn't that someone's signature on IMDb?).

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

I am reading Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem.


My teacher asked us (The class) to pick a book by a polish author, in preperation for our trip in Poland in a couple of months.

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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

-H.L. Mencken


[url]http://www.madmanoz.blogspot.com[/url]

oh yes, the articles are killing me!! but surprisingly, every time we have a test, i ALWAYS get the perfect score, and i don't even study!! German is not really popular but Es ist kuehl 8) (i can't find an umlaut..)

and oh yeah, im competing on Foreign Language Day!!Ho0RaY!!

and i don't like french and spanish... i fart in the general direction of the language they call french

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

First of all i'm not religious or anything,
But has anyone read the Bible,
i've lost the last few pages of mine, can anyone tell me how it ends.

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Life is fun,
So Let's all die with a smile on our face.

Fires of Heaven

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Carpe aleae

Just some dude saying that it is a darn good book.

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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

-H.L. Mencken


[url]http://www.madmanoz.blogspot.com[/url]

Which version? the old testament, or the new testament? if you're talking about the old testament, you might wanna specify which book...

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Carpe aleae

on the New Testament, the last 3 chapters just describe heaven, then it ends like this...

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

I thought it ended, "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"

I think my reserved especially warm spot in Hell just got a bit warmer.

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It's terrible, but I guess songs are just interesting things to do with the air.
-Tom Waits

nope, sorry, you're going in the 9th ring

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

still reading "The Pearl" by that Steinbeck guy...and in the middle of "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"..

at least i finished the "Wide Window" third book of the "Series of Unfortunate Events", i want to read the books first in case i want to see the movie..

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

That is one hell of a book! They all are.

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If not at the hands of the Vogons, how will it end?

Just finished Mostly Harmless this morning. Boy, that ending SUCKED!!!!!

You mean even though you were right in there at the start you don't know how it ends?!!!

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Her mouth opened, her eyes patients, the variety of age and constitution as a pullets egg, with some gobbits of fat, and the heavy sand.

(... don't piss us off)

The ending kicks ass after you've read it for the like, fifteenth time, it's very profound. After all, it ended right where it started, who would expect anything?

What I really wanted to say, the books i am reading:

Sherlock Holmes: Sir Arthur Conyan Doyle

H2g2: DNA ( seventh time through i believe )

Animal Farm and Nineteen-eighty-four: George Orwell

The Phish Handbook: The mockingbird foundation.

Hokay.

told ya...it made me sad...

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

America (the book), A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction with a forward by Thomas Jefferson, by Jon Stewart

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yeah...there are rumors that somehow DNA was going to continue the series to another book b/c he wrote "Mostly Harmless" during a hard time in his life, and was not really satisfied with the way it ended.

Again....that is a RUMOR I heard...MJ should be able to confirm if ths is true or not...I simply do not know.

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My Birthday Moon.

the last few chapters of "Salmon of Doubt" contains the RUMORED 6th book, or another Dirk Gently book

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

Just got Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
Dunno where I read about it, but sounded pretty interesting.

Recieved my copys of Hell's Angels, Rum Diary and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in the mail today. Time for some re-reading.

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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

-H.L. Mencken


[url]http://www.madmanoz.blogspot.com[/url]

Am currently listening to the audiobook of Graham Chapman's A Liar's Autobiography. Its hilarious! He's mixed true details from his own life with wonderul bits of Pythonic nonsense. In fact, the whole thing reads like a very long Python sketch, one anecdote blending almost randomly into another. Plus, his recorded imitation of Terry Jones (in all his bizarre Welsh glory), is priceless! So far, its been a good read/listen.

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"Madness is the first sign of dandruff." - Dr. John "Winston O'Boogie" Lennon

"I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in imaginary violence." - Paul Rudd in Role Models

Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Fish.

I can't speak for the book, but that's a truly superb movie....the bat scene in the car is particularly hilarious

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My Birthday Moon.

...HTML in easy steps by MIke McGrath...

Trying to learn enough to modify some of those stock templates on Blogger...

Then you should read the book. That is even better, though the movie is pretty close, with only a few scenes from the book omitted and a few rewritten a bit.

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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

-H.L. Mencken


[url]http://www.madmanoz.blogspot.com[/url]

Offcourse, there is only one way to read to book: With Loud music playing, and in one sit, from the first page to the last, though Dr. Thompson recommends to be in some kind of altered state as well.

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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

-H.L. Mencken


[url]http://www.madmanoz.blogspot.com[/url]

That's some bad craziness.

Currently (re)reading In the beginning... was the command line by Neal Stephenson and Debono's Thinking Course by Edward Debono5

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

"L. A. Confidential".
quite good, once you get used to the slang.
And very soon i´m going to read it in a tub full of nice, hot water. that´s even better.
soaking... right now! bye!


*splash*

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

Ha! ... I just got out of a tub full of nice, hot, swirling water (with bubbles!) in which I started reading 'State Of Fear' again. The book's been a bit difficult for me to stick with as I'd been looking for a good story rather than a lesson on the environment and whether or not global warming is nothing more than a myth perpeutrated by the powers that be.

Ah well ... nice bath, at least.
I am a prune.

I just finished "The Pearl" (at last!)...and it sucks...

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

Well, I have just started a book called Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. I really liked The Tipping Point so I am digging this guy very much. Same book and style. Very easy to read: conversationa.

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If not at the hands of the Vogons, how will it end?

"Crime and Punishment."

(Busts brain out with a slice of lemon wrapped around a brick)

**Stab, stab, stabbage!**


In short, I am not enjoying it.


On the plus side, I'm going through "Good Omens" for the first time.

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Zombies make bad gifts.

"Zen: The History and Teachings" by Osho

Also, while taking breaks to let it all soak in, "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes"

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"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."--H.L. Mencken

www.campaignforliberty.com

So do not agree. Mostly Harmless was awesome. However, I did have to read it like five times before I really understood and appreciated the ending, so I guess I can fogive you. SORT OF. haha.

Too lazy to quote people, so here's just a few that have been mentioned:

Flatland--*vomit* Gah, deathly boring. Read this for Geometry. I barely survived.

His Dark Materials--Read them... five years ago or so, and wasn't really crazy about them. Like I am with some... other... things... *coughcough*

I have read... *freezes* I HAVEN'T read anything lately. That scares me. Tis sad. Really really sad. Oh, no, wait. I've been re-reading...

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants--Really good. Must go get third book sometime!

Hope Was Here--easy, but the best book ever. By Joan Bauer. Go read it.

Oh, and The Silmarillion, by Tolkien. yay, love that book! *hugs*

And just out of curiosity, has anyone heard of the Tortall series by Tamora Pierce, or the Redwall Series by Brian Jacques?

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I AM A RAMPAGING PIEGON!
One with a plunger, no less.

Today I finally went on a few chapters of Good Omens.

Great book! I searched around online bookstores over here and came to the conclusion that they never published anything from Terry Pratchett on Brazil. :o Or at least they're not selling it anymore, or so it seems.

Pity. This place is like the Milliways of sci-fi literature.

You're messed up: His Dark Materials rules and Sillmarillian sucks, I mean, belgium, man, but the Sillmarillian was hell to get into. Also, I have read the Redwall series by Jaques. The first three books were fine, but they got raeally predicatble after that. The only things that changed were the character names.

You...wha...hurh...guh...

WHAT!?!?!?! BORING?!!! BORING?!?!?:shock:

I'm going to take it easy on you since you and my mother share the same first names.

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

...i remembered when i was a Library Aide last year, i always have to read the shelves between science, math and language...there is this book (or more of the lines of 5) that's called "Flatland"

now, the library has 6 copies of it, and NOBODY..as in nobody checks it out, the last time it was checked out was 3 years ago! now, tell me, is this a good book to read? i read the summary of it, and i seem to remember it saying about a romantic summat...but then again, as i scanned the pages...disturbing drawings of isosceles and equilateral triangles haunted my mind thus enabling me to remember those pathetic times when i let my classmates do my homework for me...

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It's a charming little tale about dimensions. Very short read and gives one a fascinating perspective.

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

"charming little tale abnout dimensions"?? i somehow remember reading a sci-fi about dimensions and dozing off in the middle of the page while keeping my sanity by drinking some aspirins...

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

Different strokes, then.

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

Trying to get through Crime and Punishment has given me the best sleep I've gottn in weeks.

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Zombies make bad gifts.