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« Reply #60 on: September 09, 2008, 03:52:35 PM »


i recommend this for anyone no matter what they believe.

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« Reply #61 on: September 09, 2008, 04:40:19 PM »


I have it on audiobook. I'll send the file to anyone who wants it over AIM for free. Just send me a PM.

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« Reply #62 on: September 09, 2008, 05:15:08 PM »
The Natural Mind- Dr. Andrew Weil

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« Reply #63 on: September 09, 2008, 07:53:22 PM »
Lunar Park
by Bret Easton Ellis

this book got into my fucking head.
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« Reply #64 on: September 09, 2008, 08:19:57 PM »
has anyone here read "Choke", I was wondering whether or not it was worth reading before i saw the movie

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« Reply #65 on: September 09, 2008, 10:53:02 PM »


i recommend this for anyone no matter what they believe.

i need to go check that out..

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« Reply #66 on: September 09, 2008, 10:58:27 PM »
has anyone here read "Choke", I was wondering whether or not it was worth reading before i saw the movie
It's worth reading.

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« Reply #67 on: September 09, 2008, 11:09:02 PM »
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has anyone here read "Choke", I was wondering whether or not it was worth reading before i saw the movie
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It's worth reading.


It's true. Good little book.


I'd recommend a book called Hopscotch by a weirdo named julio cortazar.   

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« Reply #69 on: September 10, 2008, 05:21:34 AM »
apathy and other small victories by paul neilan, and shroud of the thwacker by chris elliot

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« Reply #70 on: September 10, 2008, 03:57:43 PM »
"Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon

"Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor

"Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce

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« Reply #71 on: September 10, 2008, 04:20:03 PM »
The old Man and The Sea was the worst piece of shit I have ever read. I just can't get into that style of writing. To each his own though.

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« Reply #72 on: September 10, 2008, 05:20:39 PM »
The Pianist, No Country For Old Men, and at some point I'll get going on Crime and Punishment.

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« Reply #73 on: September 10, 2008, 05:57:16 PM »
speaking of hemingway    for whom the bell tolls is really good , i havent read any of his other stuff tho

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« Reply #75 on: September 10, 2008, 07:49:34 PM »
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« Reply #77 on: September 10, 2008, 09:38:08 PM »
i need a non-fiction book over 150 pages for school. anybody have suggestions?

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« Reply #78 on: September 10, 2008, 09:48:36 PM »
i need a non-fiction book over 150 pages for school. anybody have suggestions?

I guess I'd put forth the one I mentioned I was reading, The Pianist. It's a memoir, and the whole WWII holocaust thing will give you plenty to write about if/when you have to do papers on it.

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« Reply #79 on: September 10, 2008, 09:49:24 PM »
the doors of perception
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« Reply #80 on: September 10, 2008, 09:53:30 PM »
i need a non-fiction book over 150 pages for school. anybody have suggestions?


alfred crosby, "ecological imperialism: the biological expansion of europe, 1000-1800"

modris eksteins, "walking till daybreak" or "rites of spring"

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« Reply #81 on: September 11, 2008, 01:01:18 AM »
i need a non-fiction book over 150 pages for school. anybody have suggestions?
A People's History of the United States

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« Reply #82 on: September 11, 2008, 05:48:50 AM »
"Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon



did you manage to finish it?  is it worth the struggle?

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« Reply #83 on: September 11, 2008, 08:10:41 AM »
i need a non-fiction book over 150 pages for school. anybody have suggestions?

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« Reply #84 on: September 11, 2008, 12:08:34 PM »
All of the David Pelzer books...

- A Child Called "It"
- The Lost Boy
- A Man Named Dave

All amazing books.

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« Reply #85 on: September 11, 2008, 01:07:14 PM »


An interesting look into a "hidden dimension" of American racism. If you have ever wondered why blacks tend to live in bigger cities and urban centers this book explains how it wasn't an accident. It also talks about how racist states like Illinois and Indiana really where and shows that the South really wasn't the center of racism in our country.
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« Reply #86 on: September 11, 2008, 01:49:40 PM »
have you ever read loewen's book "lies across america"?  such a promising topic, sbut uch an intensely superficial book...    hopefully his work has improved since then.    you might like to follow up with robert fogelson's excellent book on restrictive convenants in american suburbs:


http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300124170



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« Reply #87 on: September 11, 2008, 01:53:21 PM »


An interesting look into a "hidden dimension" of American racism. If you have ever wondered why blacks tend to live in bigger cities and urban centers this book explains how it wasn't an accident. It also talks about how racist states like Illinois and Indiana really where and shows that the South really wasn't the center of racism in our country.

Weren't you arguing that the South WAS the center of racism in the country just a few months ago?

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« Reply #88 on: September 11, 2008, 02:08:33 PM »
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An interesting look into a "hidden dimension" of American racism. If you have ever wondered why blacks tend to live in bigger cities and urban centers this book explains how it wasn't an accident. It also talks about how racist states like Illinois and Indiana really where and shows that the South really wasn't the center of racism in our country.
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Weren't you arguing that the South WAS the center of racism in the country just a few months ago?

I think that was the Gipper, also until I read this book I didn't understand how widespread racism was in the North.

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« Reply #89 on: September 11, 2008, 02:09:04 PM »
have you ever read loewen's book "lies across america"?  such a promising topic, sbut uch an intensely superficial book...    hopefully his work has improved since then.    you might like to follow up with robert fogelson's excellent book on restrictive convenants in american suburbs:


http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300124170


Thanks I will look into it.