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Heimdall
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posted August 23, 2004 17:34
    
Well, if there's a now playing thread, then why not.Just finished E.A.Abbott's "Flatland", now I'm into "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Heinlein. -------------------- The demons are so creative...
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Slaytanic
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posted August 24, 2004 13:02
Just read the newest Valhalla (local magazine). There's a nice interview with Tom Warrior regarding the future of Celtic Frost. Among the most shocking revelations, Reed St. Mark is no longer in the band (there's another drummer already rehearsing with the band), Probe is just a working title for the new album (he said he's already got a more "CF suitable" title), which, btw, in Tom's words, has a sound "not far from that on To Mega Therion". Just in case someone is interested, I can provide a translation of some interesting parts of the interview.-------------------- "Forty-five moments of perfection translated through a cautionary escape into the perils of the mundane, the inherent entropy in ultimate order, and the potential threats of eternal, unchecked apathy in civilization; all cloaked in musical expression so thoughtful, creative and forward thinking that almost a quarter-century later, few can even comprehend it, much less match it." (autothrall)
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Peter Nubile
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posted August 25, 2004 12:44
My two latest acquisitions are:"Hunting (Carlos) the Jackal - A special forces and C.I.A. ground soldier's fifty-year career hunting America's enemies" by Billy Waugh with Tim Keown and "Bobby Fischer goes to war - How the Soviets lost the most extraordinary chess match of all time" by David Edmonds and John Eidinow
This second book is an unexpected yet very joyous find which I made while perusing through the University of Nevada's bookstore a couple months ago in Reno. As soon as I put my sweaty palms on it I just knew that I had to have it! I'm always on the lookout for kind of offbeat yet colorful, entertaining, informative, fact based, and humorous books about unusual subjects. The chess match in question is the infamous 1972 world championship chess match between the reigning soviet world chess champion Boris Spassky - a "fun loving, sensitive and free spirit" who was the most un-soviet of soviet champions; and the american challenger Bobby Fisher - a "manipulative, dysfunctional genius who risked all to seize control of the contest as the organizers manuevered frantically to save it". This book is highly entertaining and a hard one to put down once you start reading it! 
-------------------- "Woah, ho, ho, and a pint of Hefeweizen!!!"
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Cthon
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posted August 26, 2004 20:33
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail...I have that but haven't read that yet. Is it good?
Just finished a book called Sunlight and Shadow. All based here in New Mexico and the woman who wrote it is in my water aerobics class. Impressive first novel. I will say it's definitely a 'chick book'.I need a new book.
ill tell you when i get through. hold your horses!!!! (but seriously) it starts out pretty hard and heavy, then halfway through it kinda drags. thats where im at, right now, the dragging part.  -------------------- www.myspace.com/mastersofpunkrock
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Mezcalhead
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posted August 27, 2004 09:33
bio on Thomas JeffersonGentleman's Blood (history of dueling) Chopin's Funeral all three excellent!
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posted August 24, 2004 07:47
