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For the techies on the site...

The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
written by Clifford Stoll (non-fiction)
It is his first-person account of the hunt for a computer hacker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The Soul of a New Machine
written by Tracy Kidder (non-fiction)
It chronicles the experiences of a computer engineering team racing to design a next-generation computer at a blistering pace under tremendous pressure.

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For anyone that loves Chuck Palahniuk(author of Fight Club)

Beautiful You
written by Chuck Palahniuk(fiction)
The classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of female pleasure.

Damned (this book is AMAZING! It sounds juvenile and silly, but it fucking fantastic)
written by Chuck Palahniuk (fiction)
The novel opens with 13-year-old Madison "Maddy" Spencer waking in Hell, unsure of the details surrounding her death. She believes she died of a marijuana overdose while her celebrity parents were attending the Oscars. Maddy quickly gets to know her nearby cellmates. The group (loosely modeled on the archetypes of characters from The Breakfast Club, i.e., a rocker, a nerd, a beauty and a jock) take Maddy on a tour of Hell.

Back to non-fiction because that's mostly what I enjoy reading...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
written by Laura Hillenbrand(non-fiction)
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. A man's journey to survive capture and torture at the hands of the enemy.

The House In The Sky
written by Amanda Lindhout (non-fiction)
The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity—an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace.

I could easily go on for hours, but those are the best!
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, of course. A classic book by Vladimir Nabokov: "Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Humbert Humbert's seduction is one of many dimensions in Nabokov's dizzying masterpiece."
FrankieDaBull
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Jessica-Jones nailed it with her recommendation of: Unbroken: A World War II Story... Absolutely, I was surprised at how compelling that book turned out to be--- movie too, both worthy of your time..

Another good read for all you Authors out there is: Stephen King's newest, I think anyway, Finders Keepers. About an Author famous for his series featuring 'Jimmy Gold' an Icon Boy Superhero of many, many readers, and a suspenseful, intense book of the power of storytelling and your duty to your fans to take good care of your characters! Guarantee to pique your interests if you are a writer of any kind stories.. fun, easy reading and enjoyable, a favorite for sure. Jimmy Gold had his supporters and they cannot handle anyone, even the Author diminishing him-- ever.
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I have never read anything quite like it! x
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Currently reading the first book in the chronicles of sleeping beauty The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
by A.N. Roquelaure aka Anne Rice.

I agree with NymphWriter.

it's the hottest, most hardcore erotica I've ever read.

soooooooooo much better than 50 shades
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Currently reading the first book in the chronicles of sleeping beauty The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
by A.N. Roquelaure aka Anne Rice.

I agree with NymphWriter.

it's the hottest, most hardcore erotica I've ever read.

soooooooooo much better than 50 shades



I haven't read that trilogy, but her vampire and witch novels definitely had a very sensual, often erotic, feel to the writing so it doesn't surprise me. I kind of tired of her writing in the nineties (along with Stephen King) but have been thinking about revisiting her.
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I haven't read that trilogy, but her vampire and witch novels definitely had a very sensual, often erotic, feel to the writing so it doesn't surprise me. I kind of tired of her writing in the nineties (along with Stephen King) but have been thinking about revisiting her.




She is an amazing writer. i think you might find a new appreciation to her work again. I have. biggrin

i highly recommend her
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She is an amazing writer. i think you might find a new appreciation to her work again. I have. biggrin

i highly recommend her


What really good of her later stuff (after about 1993 or so)? The last Vampire Chronicle I read was Tale of the Body Thief and that was probably the last Rice I read, to be honest. I started Memnoch but it did not click with me at all and I abandoned it after a few chapters.

The "New Tales of the Vampires", Pandora and Vittorio, appealed to me since they seemed to be more "standalone" and I was getting rather sick of Lestat and company but I've never tried them.
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What really good of her later stuff (after about 1993 or so)? The last Vampire Chronicle I read was Tale of the Body Thief and that was probably the last Rice I read, to be honest. I started Memnoch but it did not click with me at all and I abandoned it after a few chapters.

The "New Tales of the Vampires", Pandora and Vittorio, appealed to me since they seemed to be more "standalone" and I was getting rather sick of Lestat and company but I've never tried them.


I haven't read the new tales of the vampires but I'm told it's a great read!!!
Gillianleeeza
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"The Guest Room" by Chris Bohjalian, not sure if it's a recommendation but I had to finish it once I started. Read the whole book in an afternoon. I usually take a lot longer to finish a book. It's both sad and disturbing, but I felt a connection to most of the characters. I had to finish it.
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A great read.





The tenth in a series of stories taking place in Montreal and the Eastern Townhships in Quebec. Wonderful supporting characters reappear in this series about the head of the homicide unit of the Quebec police.
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A great read.




The tenth in a series of stories taking place in Montreal and the Eastern Townhships in Quebec. Wonderful supporting characters reappear in this series about the head of the homicide unit of the Quebec police.


I read a Jodi Picoulet novel several years ago, 'The Pact'. It haunted me for weeks afterwards. What an outstanding author, but I don't think I could read another.
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If anyone's seen the movie, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," the book series by Stieg Larson and Reg Keeland is much better.

As far as erotica, Kenny Wright's "Strip Poker Done Right" is at the top of my list, right alongside Ben Boswell's "Two Sides of Terri" the first of the 'Terri Trilogy'.
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Omg you guys simply have to read 50 shades of grey omg best book everrrr!!!!
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I checked my shelves. I have just two books of erotica, The Story of O and Kushiel's Dart. I've read the complete series of Kushiel and Naamah books by Jacqueline Carey, so that could be my recommendation.

While shopping for used books I may not remember what I have, so now I have two copies of Shogun, but with different cover colors.
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Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn was awesome. Finished it a week ago.

My last published story: Good For Nothing
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What really good of her later stuff (after about 1993 or so)? The last Vampire Chronicle I read was Tale of the Body Thief and that was probably the last Rice I read, to be honest. I started Memnoch but it did not click with me at all and I abandoned it after a few chapters.

The "New Tales of the Vampires", Pandora and Vittorio, appealed to me since they seemed to be more "standalone" and I was getting rather sick of Lestat and company but I've never tried them.



I never read Interview with a Vampire - found The Vampire Lestat in the school library and only looked back long enough to watch Cruise, Pitt, Dunst, and Banderez play the parts. I think it forever formed my perspective of the stories differently because Lestat was always the main character for me.

I've read everything through Prince Lestat and enjoyed it. Started realms of Atlantis last year but didn't get far before I got busy with other things.

I've not read Sleeping Beauty series, but it's on my short list.

Is there any chance that Sleeping Beauty and Anne's Christ the Lord series will have a crossover?

Should I not have asked that? ;)


I'm currently reading N.K. Jemison's The Fifth Season. It's a fantasy novel (trilogy) of the highest caliber. It's like the high word-art of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, but fantasy.
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Currently reading Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson, it’s sci-fi. I read another of his not long ago, 2312, that was really enjoyable too.
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Bret Hart's autobiography is absolutely fantastic.

Hitman: My real life in the cartoon world of wrestling.

My last published story: Good For Nothing
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There's a Sleeping Beauty series?? Dang I only read one.

And a wrestling book sounds exactly the cheesy shit I need to have a good laugh at when the day is done.
Thank you Carlton.

My little recommendation is the 7 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. Not a hint of smut but it was really gripping.
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There's a Sleeping Beauty series?? Dang I only read one.

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One was enough. There's only so much subservience I can digest before breakfast.

But the three volumes look very pretty on my shelves, bedded up and snug in their slipcase, the spines of volumes two and three each side of volume one yet to be broken.
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Life of Pi, In The Garden of Beasts, Into Thin Air, Lucky, Germs (Jared Diamond), The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Devil In The White City, Thunderstruck, Reservation Blues, Indian Killer...none erotica, per se, all amazing. And those are just off the top of my head, at 0630, with no coffee on board.

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Omg you guys simply have to read 50 shades of grey omg best book everrrr!!!!

Girl, we need to have a talk...I didn't make it past even ten pages, someplace where the female protagonist is crossing a street. In stilettoes. In Seattle. I knew the exact intersection the author was describing, and it's riddled with cracks--from neglect, from the Nisqually quake, from wear. So yah.
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Girl, we need to have a talk...I didn't make it past even ten pages, someplace where the female protagonist is crossing a street. In stilettoes. In Seattle. I knew the exact intersection the author was describing, and it's riddled with cracks--from neglect, from the Nisqually quake, from wear. So yah.

Yes, I didn't even make it to the sex, the writing was atrocious. Even as an untrained short erotica writer myself, with little talent, I could not continue the read.
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Here's something different. The author talks abut how relationships between men and women have changed since the introduction of the pill. He also cites how sex became literally became dirty with the decline of the Roman Empire.

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My story Oh Clodia was greatly influenced by the works of Steven Saylor, particularly his Rome sub Rosa (Rome under the nose, slang for on the sly) featuring the detective Gordianus the Finder and Cicero, Caesar, Claudia, Crassus, Sulla etc. Almost every Roman ever, exquisitely researched he takes you back to the late Roman Republic.

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Here's something different. The author talks abut how relationships between men and women have changed since the introduction of the pill. He also cites how sex became literally became dirty with the decline of the Roman Empire.

Did you write this? Just curious.

Tintinnabulation - first place (Free Spirit)
Comet Q - second place (Quick and Risqué Sex)
Amnesia - third place (Le Noir Erotique)
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First published one hundred years ago this year and still the greatest novel ever written.