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« Reply #420 on: March 27, 2008, 08:53:23 AM »
Serial Killers - Rodney Castleden
Caring for your Cat
& Kafka - Collected Stories

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« Reply #421 on: March 27, 2008, 10:54:56 AM »
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #422 on: March 27, 2008, 11:23:25 AM »
Serial Killers - Rodney Castleden
Caring for your Cat
& Kafka - Collected Stories

i was going to get that castleden book - it's part of a series, yes?

now reading "wineburg, ohio" by sherwood anderson.  it was recommended by one of my students, and i'm gripped already: it's really a collection of interrelated short stories, and utterly compelling.  each story/chapter concerns one of the inhabitants of winesburg, and they are all (inthe author's own words) grotesques.  amazing stuff.

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« Reply #423 on: March 27, 2008, 12:19:29 PM »
Serial Killers - Rodney Castleden
Caring for your Cat
& Kafka - Collected Stories

i was going to get that castleden book - it's part of a series, yes?


I'm not sure actually. I think he has a few others of the same nature out: "Cannibals", "Assassins" that sort of thing.
Don't know if it's any good, I've just started it.

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #424 on: March 27, 2008, 12:23:42 PM »
Serial Killers - Rodney Castleden
Caring for your Cat
& Kafka - Collected Stories

i was going to get that castleden book - it's part of a series, yes?


I'm not sure actually. I think he has a few others of the same nature out: "Cannibals", "Assassins" that sort of thing.
Don't know if it's any good, I've just started it.
I only like fictional serial killers - reading about the real ones freaks me out.  :(

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« Reply #425 on: March 27, 2008, 03:13:39 PM »
I love reading about serial killers.

Wanted to be a criminal psychologist once.

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« Reply #426 on: March 27, 2008, 03:14:50 PM »
I did a presentation on serial killers a few years ago

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« Reply #427 on: March 27, 2008, 03:15:06 PM »
It was meant to be on 'Lord of the Flies'

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« Reply #428 on: March 27, 2008, 03:18:18 PM »
We watched the film when we were studying the book.  Hilarious.  They had such high pitched voices.  Especially when they're pushing/pulling a rock or something and all of them go "Heeeeave!" Or maybe I'm just immature.  Felt sorry for Piggy though.

I did a presentation on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints  :zoinks:

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« Reply #429 on: March 30, 2008, 10:08:22 AM »
A web comic.

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« Reply #430 on: March 30, 2008, 01:47:34 PM »

I made the boss print out my studies. I can only access them when I am on the clock, but I convinced him that I need a better way, like over the toilet, to really relax with the program.

I had him print out a whole folder full of pdf documents off the ftp site. It's almost a ream. I wasn't really expecting the whole thing, (expected him to edit) but he's an overachiever, go-getter, earning the nickname, Tiger or Sport or similar.

Maybe it's a test.

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« Reply #431 on: March 30, 2008, 06:40:10 PM »
Deviant by Harold Schechter

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« Reply #432 on: April 09, 2008, 08:21:06 PM »
"Roadside Geology books of Arizona and Texas."   :green:

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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #433 on: April 10, 2008, 12:19:21 AM »
took a break from !winesburg, ohio" - it's great, but i wanted something to get my teeth into, and all those short vignettes left me a bit unsettled, if you know what i mean.

so...

read "gods in alabama" by joshilyn (stupid name) jackson, which was fab; then "a quiet belief in angels" by r.j. ellory (good, but not sure it's not a third too long).  am now reading "unforgiven" by jules hardy, which is as brilliant as she usually is.  i :heart: jules, and i reckon i should email her to tell her.  :laugh:

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« Reply #434 on: April 10, 2008, 11:59:45 AM »
Reading lots of job-related stuff. :P
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