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  by golden_lady & 1 users

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Type: technical

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Walter Mosley

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Tags: writing read 2007 200708

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Description: Practical advice for new writers working on theirPractical advice for new writers working on their first long project, from an established writer....

2007-08-23

  by adili & 308 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: finished

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Author: unknown

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Tags: hebrew in read

2006-04-06

  by dynnuf & 19 users

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Type: fiction

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Author: Salman Rushdie

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Tags: read to be

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Description: He had to flee his country for writing it...do you need a better reason to read it? Ok, it'sHe had to flee his country for writing it...do you need a better reason to read it? Ok, it's wild and brilliant in a sort of raw way....

2006-03-26

  by aarron & 4 users

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Type: fiction

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Authors: Kevin J. Anderson Frank Herbert Brian Herbert

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Tags: read 2005

2006-01-07

  by willow & 3 users

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Type: fiction

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Author: Simon R. Green

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Tags: read 2005

2005-11-22

  by lewism & 64 users

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Type: scientific

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Jared Diamond

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Tags: read own

2005-10-27

  by lewism & 188 users

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Type: fiction

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Author: Aldous Huxley

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Description: ""Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian""Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come."...

2005-10-27

  by lewism & 228 users

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Type: fiction

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Authors: George Orwell Robert W. Taylor Tom G. Field blair

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Tags: fiction read

2005-10-27

  by lewism & 350 users

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Author: George Orwell

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Description: In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the ThoughtIn a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be....

2005-10-27

  by kemitix

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Type: fiction

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Author: Neal Stephenson

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Tags: cyberpunk sciencefiction nanotechnology read

2005-10-24