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    Hands Off (a very cute manga)

    Why? Because I loved that book, however I lent my previous copy to a friend and she stole it!


    And another art book, I can't resist them.
    Shall these bones live?

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    Having a few hours to kill at a local shopping center, I purchased Russell's The Problems of Philosophy since it was short. simply written and could be finished whilst waiting.
    Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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    A few days ago I purchased "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexander Dumas because I understand that it is perhaps the finest revenge story in all of literature.
    Hell is other people.
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    The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.
    I'm the patron saint of the denial,
    With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.

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    I am reading that right now, and getting close to finnishing it

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    Le Spleen de Paris by Baudelaire.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Muse View Post
    I am reading that right now, and getting close to finnishing it
    I was told that it's a great book. Would you be kind enough to share your opintion DM ?
    I'm the patron saint of the denial,
    With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.

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    I would agree. I am really enjoying it. It is very interesting.

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    I bought The Red Tree because a picture from it was used in the picture poetry contest thread and when I looked it up it looked very interesting. So I bought that.

    My boyfriend just arrived home from Spain and brought with him a book for me- so I didn't buy it but he did, anyways it is The Complete Guide to Narnia by Collin Doriez, in Spanish. It's really great. I'm going to buy thhe english version just for comparison, especially since I can only understand about half of the book.
    "O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. "
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    I went to one of the big bookstores in Athens....Big mistake: I must have spent about 2 hours in there without realising it...and came out with only one book (I'm good at restraining myself ).

    Anyway, found Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse five for only 5 euros!! Shocking!! Unfortunately that seemed to be the only bargain of the day...

    Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain

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    Last week I accidentaly bought 5 books... I bought 2 at first because they were on offer: both Persuasion AND Mansfield Park for Ł3 seemed too good to miss.

    And then I went into Waterstones 3-for-2 offer, intending to get a birthday present for a friend, picked one for her out of the 3-for-2 so HAD to get 2 more... then chose another book for her and kept the three myself
    They are Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier, The Conjorors Bird by... someone... and A Hat full of Sky by Terry Pratchet. I have to stop spending so much on books!!!
    "The magic gave me insight, and you gave me a heart, but for all the heart and insight in the world, I am still a cat."

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    Quote Originally Posted by johann cruyff View Post
    Le Spleen de Paris by Baudelaire.
    which means? i think badelaire wrote totally two spleens included in the fleurs du mal.. but is possible iam wrong...
    The 21 century dislike of us is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a broke glass.

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    A Laodicean by Thomas Hardy.
    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
    -Goethe

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    Light in August by William Faulkner - my second copy. I'm writing my thesis on it this fall, so I needed a clean copy.

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    Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope
    Too Far Afield by Gunter Grass
    Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman
    Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
    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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