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    Registered User muhsin's Avatar
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    Violets Are Blue by James Patterson.
    The source of any bad writing is the desire to be something more than a person of sense--the straining to be thought a genius. If people would say what they have to say in plain terms, how much eloquent they would be.
    -S.T COLERIDGE

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    Cash, Johnny Cash (Autobiography)
    The Hippopotamus, Stephen Fry
    The Liar, Stephen Fry
    Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry (Autobiography)
    Touching from a Distance - Ian Curtis & Joy Division, Deborah Curtis (Biography)
    Shaun

    This is not an exit.

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    Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass
    the luminous grass of the prairie hides
    feet lovely and still as sleeping doves,
    porcelain bones strong enough to carry a life,
    but weighty and unmovable
    As black Dakota hills.
    ~ Riesa

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    The layout is beautiful. but haven't finished reading the book.

    feng shui your life

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    Alphonse Mucha, Masterworks ~ I love art books!
    "It's so mysterious, the land of tears."

    Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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    A complete collection of Kafka's short stories.Finally found it!
    Noću, u intimnom, poluglasnom razgovoru sa samim sobom, nikako ne mogu zapravo logički opravdati zašto se u posljednje vrijeme toliko uzrujavam zbog ljudske gluposti.

    Miroslav Krleža

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    i bought Durrell's vol2 and vol4 of his Alexandria Quartet in a used book store. Frustrating because you only get half of the quartet and you can't even start reading it at least. In a way I'm lucky because these books are rarities if you're living in my country.

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    My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
    Eve incurs God's displeasure.
    Passion.
    Odysseus and Penelope,
    Ulysses and Penelope,
    The Festival,
    In Hell.

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    The island of Doctor Moreau - H.G.Wells (worth every penny)

    'Half man. Half beast. All terror' lol. cracks me up everytime.
    We can never know what to want, because living only one life we can neither compare it with our previous lives, nor perfect it in our lives to come'
    Milan Kundera,The Unbearable Lightness of Being


    Parce que c'est toi, parce que c'est moi

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    The Poetry of Robert Frost
    On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan

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    Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck

    An absolute wonder!
    You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
    James Joyce

    It is a fatal miscarriage, so ill to order affairs, as to pass for a fool in one company, when in another you might be treated as a philosopher. Jonathan Swift

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    I know i shouldn't buy any more books (not until i finish the 100 un-read books i have already ) but somehow i couldn't resist buying

    "The magus" by J Fowles

    i have read the review here on litnet (i think it was by vheissu or scher) and today i saw the book on the shelf (of the bookstore which i wasn't supposed to enter anyway) and then something happened and everything went blank..next thing i remember was me carrying the book
    Through the darkness of future past
    the magician longs to see
    one chance out between two worlds
    'Fire walk with me.'


    Twin Peaks

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    "His Illegal Self" by Peter Carey.

    Aluno

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    Just ordered:
    For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway
    Ham on Rye - Bukowski
    Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
    "In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine."
    - Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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    Jane and the Barque of Fraility by Stephanie Barron. The 9th Jane Austen mystery. She's 35 at this point as Barron interweaves her real life with a mystery (usually with political ovetones related to the Napoleonic wars). I think the authoress might be able squeeze one or two more books out of her life as she tends to move each book up a year of so.

    A Jimgrim book by Talbot Mundy (Jimgrim and the Lady Ayisha) is on order but must wait until Monday of next week to be paid for. Due in this Tuesday.

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