#20776 - 02/19/09 05:42 AM
Re: What are you reading right now?
[Re: Draculesti]
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PrinceOfBabalon
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Loc: London
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FYI, Prometheus Unbound was by Shelley. You're English, too, so you should know that. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
I knew that, I was just err..... testing you. 
If you're using the movies as the basis for your judgement, you will be missing out on some of the greatest vampire fiction ever written, at least in the 20th century. I'm partial to The Vampire Lestat, Queen of the Damned, and Memnoch the Devil. Honestly, you can't go wrong with these books.
I have not seen the movie of Queen of the Damned for the same reason that I have prolonged reading the sequals to Interview (the movie of which I adored). However I am now looking forward to making a start on the novels.
I finished The King in Yellow last night. Having done so it will - without a doubt - have a place among the best, and most genuinely frightening, literature I have read.
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#21046 - 02/23/09 07:34 AM
Re: What are you reading right now?
[Re: Zoid]
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Fabiano
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Registered: 09/06/08
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"The Prince" N. Machiavelli
... I'll be interested in your reactions to the book.
I'll not enter an academic analysis of it; there are plenty of such analyses it in the bookstores.
It made me having a more realistic view of the games of power. It helped me to realize how our political leaders have to think.
Now, what interests me the more in this, is that I'm currently facing a grand manipulator working in my team. I don't know how, but I'm sure having read The Prince helps me in "handling/controlling" him. During a chat with my manager, I was happy to learn that he bought The Prince and plan to read it...
I'm currently reading Utopia from Thomas More, a contemporary of Machiavelli. It gives some interesting "lightening" on The Prince... It's only a hundred pages long, I can only recommend this reading...
BTW, I followed Nem's in downloading Atlas Shrugged via torrent. I'll start it after Utopia.
Edited by Fabiano (02/23/09 07:51 AM) Edit Reason: grammar & link to Utopia
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#21727 - 03/08/09 01:21 AM
Re: What are you reading right now?
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Bacchae
Satan's White Trash Neighbor
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no one-liners. no single word replies.
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#22061 - 03/15/09 10:22 PM
Re: What are you reading right now?
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Rasha
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Registered: 03/05/09
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One of the books I am reading right now is "Why we hate- Understanding, curbing, and eliminating hate in ourselves and our world" by Rush W. Dozier, JR.
I found the chapters that discuss the scientific and subconcious elements of hatred in human beings very interesting.
Edited by Rasha (03/15/09 10:31 PM)
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