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thx1138
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The Islamist - Ed Husain
Rather interesting book about the authors experiences of becoming a radical islamist and then becoming a sane person again. It's interesting to compare the beliefs and attitudes of 1st generation immigrant muslims to some of the 2nd, 3rd generation british born muslims and the converts and how easy it is for the converts and young british muslims to be blinded by extremism. Great quote at the start too: "Beware of extremism in religion; for it was extremism in religion that destroyed those who went before you." Prophet Mohammed (570 - 632)
Seemed like a quote entirely relevant to today and to all religions and ideologies.
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dplastir
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I discovered the worst book ever "Sex & The City"
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Siphrodias
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HG Well's The Sleeper Awakes - Realistically Imaginative, Fans of George Orwell's 1984 should check this out.
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john93
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Joined: Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:55 pm
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Location: Liverpool
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Robert Bloch - The House Of The Hatchet
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Worm of Na'Ruq
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
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Nikolas Rose - Governing the Soul. (1999). Interesting reading, though probably not for people which are not obsessed with later Foucault...
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Sonic terrorism is too important to be left to ideological amateurs.
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Agix
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Our Final Century? by Martin Rees. I just started today, but it looks interesting. I have the dutch translation and when I translate the sub title (if that's the correct word) it says Will humans survive the 21st century? So that's what the book is about. But I think that was obvious.
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Spectre
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Joined: Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:00 pm
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Going to pick up "Achtung-Panzer" by Heinz Guderian soonish.
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sinOmerta
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I've just started to read "Four Past Midnight" by Stephen King.
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It's sad that in our blindness, we gather thorns for flowers...
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sinOmerta
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I'm reading "A Game of Thrones" by George R. R. Martin.
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It's sad that in our blindness, we gather thorns for flowers...
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muffin man
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started reading Stephen King's eye of the dragon last night and should be done by tonight.
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Drizzling Blur
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Just started The Birth of Tragedy - Nietzsche
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eternal_sin666
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Almost done with Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti. The book really wasn't what I was expecting but I still like it. It's a collection of short stories that are considered to be "horror". To be more exact, these stories are just very very bleak and nihilistic. It's a rather interesting read. Most of the stories are very good but there's 2 that I didn't really appreciate so far. If you want to read something different and that's very doom, try Thomas Ligotti.
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Khaooohs
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PP
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Herman Melville - Moby Dick
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Proud Sufferer
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George Orvel - 1984, for the second time.
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Life is just a dream... on the way to Death
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Doominion
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The Devil's of Loudun by Aldous Huxley
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Khaooohs
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Have just read "Vargsmal" by Varg Vikernes
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PP
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John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman
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The Flames Of Abraham
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Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
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PP
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Sarah Kane - 4.48 Psychosis
Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz and Guildenstein are dead
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