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Elvis_Christ 10-08-2011 11:07 PM

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Originally Posted by neverending (Post 903557)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut

Vonnegut ruled.

neverending 10-08-2011 11:14 PM

Yes, yes he did.

sfear 10-09-2011 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by neverending (Post 906597)
I don't think I'd use the term synonymous.

You can find used copies on Amazon. I recently got another copy there.

Yeah, I checked 'em out, one as low as four cents! I'll check around town first, we've got several pretty good used bookstores.

"Synonymous" might not be a bad term. Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines parapsychology as "a field of study concerned with the investigation of evidence for paranormal psychological phenomena" and paranormal as "not scientifically explainable: SUPERNATURAL." Of course, English is nothing if not a boxing ring canopied with various, often opposing, shades of meaning.

Doc Faustus 10-09-2011 01:33 PM

The study of something is not synonymous with the thing. If I read a cookbook, my stomach is not filled with food.

sfear 10-09-2011 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Doc Faustus (Post 906720)
The study of something is not synonymous with the thing. If I read a cookbook, my stomach is not filled with food.

Of course not. If you read a cookbook you are reading about how to cook food. If you study the paranormal you are studying the supernatural. SHADES OF MEANING! Parapsychology can be synonymous with the supernatural by "having the same connotations, implications, or reference (to runners, Boston is synonymous with marathon)." Not the marathon itself.

leezuki 11-22-2011 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by sfear (Post 906563)
Hope you enjoy any you might come across. These are literally books I did not want to end.

finaly finnished star kings, thanx for mention that i loved it.

wizard of gore 11-23-2011 10:30 PM

so far...

Jack Ketchum - Off Season
Clive Barker - Books of blood (all of them)
H.P Lovecraft - best of
Edgar Allen Poe - Tales Of Terror
Clive Barker - Cold hart canyon
Richard Laymon - Endless Night
Anne Rule - The stranger beside me
Stephin King - The Dome
Clive Barker - Sacrament
Clive Barker - Hellbound hart

it always changes though the more ya read ,and the more ya forget about the books ya read

The Villain 11-24-2011 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by wizard of gore (Post 910513)
so far...

Jack Ketchum - Off Season
Clive Barker - Books of blood (all of them)
H.P Lovecraft - best of
Edgar Allen Poe - Tales Of Terror
Clive Barker - Cold hart canyon
Richard Laymon - Endless Night
Anne Rule - The stranger beside me
Stephin King - The Dome
Clive Barker - Sacrament
Clive Barker - Hellbound hart

it always changes though the more ya read ,and the more ya forget about the books ya read

Good to know Under The Dome is good. I still havent started it yet and now im gonna have 11/22/63 to read as well.

leezuki 11-24-2011 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by The Villain (Post 910531)
Good to know Under The Dome is good. I still havent started it yet and now im gonna have 11/22/63 to read as well.

i brought the book after u mentioned it villain, the size of the book is daunting lol but i am going to get stuck into soon.

The Villain 11-24-2011 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by leezuki (Post 910543)
i brought the book after u mentioned it villain, the size of the book is daunting lol but i am going to get stuck into soon.

I got it last year for Christmas. Still havent started it yet. That thing is huge. I don't mind big books especially not his long ones but generally i like to carry books around with me places to read them. How the hell am i supposed to carry that with me? Never before have i thought so seriously about getting an ereader lol.


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