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Thu Nov-06-03 11:31 PM
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I don't read any contemporary literature that features vampires. Ann Rice is persona non grata in my library. I am a Sherlockian and a lot of pastiche writers always want to write stories about Sherlock Holmes meeting Dracula. Very boring.
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| -The Worst Book You Ever Read |
GURUving |
Nov-06-03 10:48 PM |
#0 |
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Walker Percy's The Moviegoer |
BurtWorm |
Nov-06-03 10:49 PM |
#1 |
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what was the theme? |
GURUving |
Nov-06-03 10:51 PM |
#3 |
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I barely remember it. That's not a good sign. |
BurtWorm |
Nov-06-03 10:55 PM |
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Smilla |
GURUving |
Nov-06-03 10:56 PM |
#10 |
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I read the book while I was on vacation in Paris... |
MercutioATC |
Nov-06-03 10:59 PM |
#14 |
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I'll bet the fact that you were in Paris on vacation |
BurtWorm |
Nov-06-03 11:22 PM |
#30 |
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That's a possibility... |
MercutioATC |
Nov-07-03 06:01 AM |
#62 |
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I did too. :-) |
devilgrrl |
Nov-07-03 12:46 AM |
#49 |
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Ahhh...I'm guilty of liking Grisham. Not much substance, but a fun read. |
MercutioATC |
Nov-07-03 06:02 AM |
#63 |
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king of torts |
alarimer |
Nov-07-03 03:13 PM |
#117 |
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Not his best |
lunabush |
Nov-06-03 10:56 PM |
#9 |
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I know it's harsh. |
BurtWorm |
Nov-06-03 11:04 PM |
#17 |
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I recently reread it |
lunabush |
Nov-06-03 11:10 PM |
#21 |
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A friend of mine LOVED the Moviegoer, I read it and |
roughsatori |
Nov-06-03 10:58 PM |
#12 |
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all of Percy's novels are disappointing |
mitchum |
Nov-07-03 03:50 PM |
#123 |
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L. Ron Hubbard - Fear |
ZenLefty |
Nov-06-03 10:51 PM |
#2 |
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Consider yourself lucky |
GURUving |
Nov-06-03 10:52 PM |
#4 |
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Prey by John Crichton |
wtmusic |
Nov-06-03 10:54 PM |
#5 |
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What was a genuinely good Crichton novel? |
GURUving |
Nov-06-03 10:57 PM |
#11 |
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'Jurassic Park' was lousy. |
Gogi |
Nov-06-03 11:52 PM |
#38 |
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there aren't any |
Kellanved |
Nov-07-03 06:08 AM |
#64 |
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Sweet Valley Twins--the series |
AquariDem |
Nov-06-03 10:54 PM |
#6 |
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snarrrrrrf...LOLOL! |
smallprint |
Nov-07-03 08:15 AM |
#73 |
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I guess they painted this wonderful universe |
AquariDem |
Nov-07-03 06:14 PM |
#126 |
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tie between L. Ron Hubbard and Grant/Naylor |
BigMcLargehuge |
Nov-06-03 10:55 PM |
#7 |
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Mission Earth is sarcasm |
TrogL |
Nov-07-03 03:43 PM |
#119 |
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Confederacy of Dunces |
roughsatori |
Nov-06-03 10:56 PM |
#8 |
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I didn't find it particularly clever, though |
GURUving |
Nov-06-03 10:59 PM |
#13 |
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I agree...Dunces isn't great. |
CanuckAmok |
Nov-06-03 11:00 PM |
#15 |
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Seduction among the literate is a marvel |
roughsatori |
Nov-06-03 11:08 PM |
#20 |
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I once read Willard and His Bowling Trophies out loud |
lunabush |
Nov-06-03 11:11 PM |
#22 |
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I had a paramour who would read Mallarmé in French after sex |
roughsatori |
Nov-06-03 11:16 PM |
#25 |
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there's a Saturday Night Live sketch about you, I think |
Cocoa |
Nov-07-03 11:18 AM |
#97 |
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I'm not even going to bring up clever uses for NAKED LUNCH |
thebigidea |
Nov-07-03 12:29 PM |
#102 |
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met my girlfriend reading The Moviegoer |
foo_bar |
Nov-07-03 01:15 AM |
#52 |
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r.e. Gravity's Rainbow |
DisgustipatedinCA |
Nov-07-03 12:53 AM |
#50 |
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Like I say |
stanwyck |
Nov-07-03 06:50 AM |
#67 |
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It's not for bragging rights |
DisgustipatedinCA |
Nov-07-03 07:39 AM |
#70 |
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You're a better person than me |
stanwyck |
Nov-07-03 12:26 PM |
#101 |
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Vineland by Pinchon |
bif |
Nov-07-03 08:52 AM |
#86 |
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I tried reading it about once a year starting in college |
bif |
Nov-07-03 12:06 PM |
#98 |
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Ulysses? Out of 100 people 1 has read it. |
JanMichael |
Nov-07-03 02:19 PM |
#107 |
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You need to get further into it |
TrogL |
Nov-07-03 03:46 PM |
#121 |
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I was thinking of saying |
gate of the sun |
Nov-07-03 12:28 AM |
#45 |
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Ya Got That Right |
RobinA |
Nov-07-03 08:08 AM |
#71 |
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I agree |
youngred |
Nov-07-03 08:54 AM |
#88 |
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I don't want to punch you, but.... |
Cocoa |
Nov-07-03 10:53 AM |
#93 |
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A Confederacy of Dunces |
Maple |
Nov-06-03 11:02 PM |
#16 |
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Maple, now I know why I like you |
roughsatori |
Nov-06-03 11:12 PM |
#23 |
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yuck |
Cocoa |
Nov-07-03 10:57 AM |
#94 |
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Really? |
bicentennial_baby |
Nov-07-03 12:08 PM |
#99 |
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I dunno, I liked it. |
RandomKoolzip |
Nov-07-03 01:55 AM |
#54 |
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This book elicits strong opinions |
Catfish |
Nov-07-03 08:39 AM |
#78 |
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Gravity's (fucking) Rainbow. |
nownow |
Nov-06-03 11:04 PM |
#18 |
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You didn't get into the story of GR? |
markses |
Nov-07-03 12:33 AM |
#47 |
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I guess it was just Pynchon's writing style, I don't know. |
nownow |
Nov-07-03 03:45 PM |
#120 |
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Totally agree |
stanwyck |
Nov-07-03 06:48 AM |
#66 |
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The O'Reilly Factor |
Nailzberg |
Nov-06-03 11:06 PM |
#19 |
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Hope the new owners won't mind dried |
AquariDem |
Nov-06-03 11:17 PM |
#26 |
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Anne Rice |
WorstPresidentEver |
Nov-06-03 11:16 PM |
#24 |
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they bored the shit out of me too |
BigMcLargehuge |
Nov-06-03 11:17 PM |
#27 |
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I have a rule.. |
Gogi |
Nov-06-03 11:31 PM |
#34 |
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She should've stopped at one book. |
Cat Atomic |
Nov-07-03 12:32 AM |
#46 |
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Interview with the Vampire was pretty good |
Bridget Burke |
Nov-07-03 08:56 AM |
#90 |
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She had a dry spell |
TrogL |
Nov-07-03 03:50 PM |
#122 |
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Hillary's book |
monkeyboy |
Nov-06-03 11:19 PM |
#28 |
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Yep - that Hillary Schmenken book was forgettable |
GURUving |
Nov-06-03 11:22 PM |
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Spirit Lake by McKinlay Kantor. |
Gogi |
Nov-06-03 11:23 PM |
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Worst good book-- Ulysses |
jobycom |
Nov-06-03 11:27 PM |
#32 |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
BurtWorm |
Nov-06-03 11:33 PM |
#36 |
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Oh dear goodness, I'm an ex-English major, where to start? |
Interrobang |
Nov-06-03 11:28 PM |
#33 |
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What books do you like? |
Paul Hood |
Nov-07-03 12:03 AM |
#43 |
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Oh, tons and tons, but I've read tens of thousands of books... |
Interrobang |
Nov-07-03 02:13 AM |
#56 |
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Well, since you dissed many of my favorites, give us some of the others! |
jobycom |
Nov-07-03 08:23 AM |
#75 |
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I also have read "tens of thousands" of books.... |
SiobhanClancy |
Nov-07-03 08:55 AM |
#89 |
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That would make a good thread here |
BurtWorm |
Nov-07-03 02:33 PM |
#113 |
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"Battlefield Earth" by L. Ron Scamartist |
tom_paine |
Nov-06-03 11:33 PM |
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Cujo by Stephen King. Almost anything by Stephen King reeks |
maggrwaggr |
Nov-06-03 11:44 PM |
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Stephen King was once quoted as saying that |
Gogi |
Nov-06-03 11:56 PM |
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That's damn funny, because... |
Interrobang |
Nov-07-03 02:17 AM |
#57 |
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The Gormenghast Trilogy |
geniph |
Nov-07-03 06:09 PM |
#125 |
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I just hate the way he covertly bashes hippies |
AquariDem |
Nov-07-03 06:17 PM |
#127 |
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Ralph Nader's book.. |
SeveneightyWhoa |
Nov-06-03 11:53 PM |
#39 |
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Get a life, please |
NightTrain |
Nov-07-03 10:38 PM |
#135 |
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"Embrace the Serpent" by Marilyn Quayle & Nancy Northcott |
NightTrain |
Nov-07-03 12:00 AM |
#41 |
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Jane Eyre |
jiacinto |
Nov-07-03 12:00 AM |
#42 |
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Runaway Jury- Grisham. What a POS! |
Supply Side Jesus |
Nov-07-03 12:26 AM |
#44 |
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Moby Dick. Sorry. I hated it. I still hate it. |
Cat Atomic |
Nov-07-03 12:33 AM |
#48 |
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The Bible |
whirlygigspin |
Nov-07-03 01:02 AM |
#51 |
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The Bible...lots of in-out in-out and ultraviolence. |
BurtWorm |
Nov-07-03 02:23 PM |
#110 |
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Remember what Homer said about the Bible: |
SPQR |
Nov-07-03 03:10 PM |
#116 |
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"slapstick" by Kurt Vonnegut. |
RandomKoolzip |
Nov-07-03 01:17 AM |
#53 |
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It'a a tie |
kyrasdad |
Nov-07-03 01:59 AM |
#55 |
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"Naked Empire" by Terry Goodkind, or... |
DemXCGI |
Nov-07-03 02:18 AM |
#58 |
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OH MY GOD That was a horrible book!!!!! |
jobycom |
Nov-07-03 08:34 AM |
#76 |
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the bible |
leftofthedial |
Nov-07-03 02:33 AM |
#59 |
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Catcher in the Rye |
bezdomny |
Nov-07-03 03:04 AM |
#60 |
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I agree with you. |
GOPisEvil |
Nov-07-03 08:11 AM |
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But, that was the point |
jobycom |
Nov-07-03 08:38 AM |
#77 |
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Oh...ok then... |
GOPisEvil |
Nov-07-03 08:43 AM |
#82 |
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Wow, three posters keeping last night's thread alive |
SpikeTrees |
Nov-07-03 08:45 AM |
#83 |
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I think the "dirty words" in it made it "controversial" many years ago |
SpikeTrees |
Nov-07-03 08:40 AM |
#80 |
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Oh goodness. I'm finishing my PhD in English... |
tishaLA |
Nov-07-03 03:54 AM |
#61 |
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Shipping News |
peasfreak |
Nov-07-03 06:41 AM |
#65 |
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Haroun and the sea of stories |
Kamika |
Nov-07-03 07:03 AM |
#68 |
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Last of the Mohicans. |
libertad |
Nov-07-03 07:38 AM |
#69 |
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I can't agree, but only on technical grounds, since I couldn't finish it. |
jobycom |
Nov-07-03 08:39 AM |
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I had to finish it, I was in high school and it was our assigned book. |
libertad |
Nov-07-03 08:50 AM |
#85 |
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I could not finish "The Heart of Darkness" |
SpikeTrees |
Nov-07-03 08:49 AM |
#84 |
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I NEVER finish bad books |
bif |
Nov-07-03 08:18 AM |
#74 |
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I'm compulsive |
Catfish |
Nov-07-03 08:41 AM |
#81 |
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Great Expectations |
youngred |
Nov-07-03 08:53 AM |
#87 |
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Aw man, that's one of my faves! |
AquariDem |
Nov-07-03 06:19 PM |
#129 |
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The Old Man and the Sea |
DS1 |
Nov-07-03 10:10 AM |
#91 |
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Contact, by Carl Sagan |
Loonman |
Nov-07-03 10:15 AM |
#92 |
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the Pelican Brief |
Cocoa |
Nov-07-03 11:01 AM |
#95 |
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The No Spin Zone-by Bill O'reilly |
VermontDem2004 |
Nov-07-03 11:08 AM |
#96 |
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Me too, I feel your pain. |
Nailzberg |
Nov-07-03 10:21 PM |
#131 |
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"Friend of the Earth", by TC Boyle |
manco |
Nov-07-03 12:17 PM |
#100 |
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"Of Human Bondage" W. Sommerset Maughm.... |
BiggJawn |
Nov-07-03 12:31 PM |
#103 |
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The Celestine Prophecy |
nothingshocksmeanymore |
Nov-07-03 12:33 PM |
#104 |
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How to Keep your Kids on Your Team |
ChoralScholar |
Nov-07-03 02:09 PM |
#105 |
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Atlas Shrugged! Infantile writing, simple minded and dead wrong |
joeybee12 |
Nov-07-03 02:13 PM |
#106 |
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This book made me realize that I was a liberal. |
regularguy |
Nov-07-03 02:21 PM |
#109 |
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The truly scary thing is that there are people who worship this piece of |
joeybee12 |
Nov-07-03 02:26 PM |
#111 |
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I've never wasted a second reading an Ayn Rand novel. |
BurtWorm |
Nov-07-03 06:18 PM |
#128 |
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I read it just to inform myself about her whacko theories |
joeybee12 |
Nov-07-03 10:29 PM |
#132 |
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I can't remember - I quit reading after page 4. eom |
Bertha Venation |
Nov-07-03 02:20 PM |
#108 |
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3001 |
MisterP |
Nov-07-03 02:26 PM |
#112 |
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Gotta go with "Silas Marner" |
Snow |
Nov-07-03 02:51 PM |
#114 |
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My Turn- Nancy Reagan |
rustydog |
Nov-07-03 03:04 PM |
#115 |
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Anything by Gnid Blyton |
TrogL |
Nov-07-03 03:39 PM |
#118 |
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Pynchon's "V' is just a shaggy dog story for geeks |
mitchum |
Nov-07-03 03:54 PM |
#124 |
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From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe... |
Hand |
Nov-07-03 10:16 PM |
#130 |
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The Country Doctor. |
DrWeird |
Nov-07-03 10:34 PM |
#133 |
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this one book by Clive Clussler |
Mass_Liberal |
Nov-07-03 10:37 PM |
#134 |
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The Red Pony |
Ramsey |
Nov-07-03 11:03 PM |
#136 |
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