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Jolly Roger West Forum
From Charleston to Los Angeles, from poetry to physics, all will be covered.
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Introduce yerself! An anything-goes hangout. Grab a Guinness and talk philosophy, politics, literature, and rock. Based on the NY Piano & Poetry Pub. |
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05-22-2009 12:03 PM
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Discuss a new Great Book each month!
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08-21-2009 01:42 AM
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Dr. Elliot McGucken sounds off with regular updates.
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08-21-2009 02:05 AM
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Applying common sense and classical wisdom to current events: news, politics, and more.
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08-21-2009 01:36 AM
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Talk about contemporary books and literature.
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08-21-2009 02:12 AM
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What're your favorite video games? Are video games as profound as books and movies? Will they ever be? What constitutes storytelling in games?
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08-21-2009 12:49 AM
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08-21-2009 02:09 AM
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From Citizen Kane to the Oulaw Jose Wales to Braveheart to the Dukes of Hazzard, discuss!
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08-21-2009 01:10 AM
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The state of the contemporary publishing industry, literature, books, and technology.
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08-20-2009 11:50 PM
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Forum for discussing the life and works of Derrida, Foucault, and the venerable Dr. Marlow. Deconstruction only. No plot, no character, no faith in God.
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08-21-2009 01:48 AM
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From the world's greatest rock band ever, Guns & Roses, to Kid Rock, to the Stones, to Beethoven and 50 Cent, discuss!
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08-21-2009 01:20 AM
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Some of Dr. E's poetry, and a bit of photography now and then too. Post your own! Just make sure it rhymes and approximates iambic pentameter, or something.
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08-21-2009 02:03 AM
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The Classics of All Classics: SHAKESPEARE & THE BIBLE Forum
Lincoln, Churchill, Melville, Jefferson, and Thoreau all drew upon these.
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Shakespeare, William: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, As You Like It, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well That Ends Well, The Tempest, King Richard
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08-21-2009 01:42 AM
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The Bible
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08-21-2009 02:15 AM
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Great Books Forums Forum
Great Books Forums
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What're the fads and fashions, and what's fading? Why the Great Books are coming back.
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08-21-2009 01:54 AM
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From Plato to Artistotle to Nietzsche, all philosophies and philosophers are fair game! Long live killdevilhill.com!
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08-21-2009 02:10 AM
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Books, Books, and More Books
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08-21-2009 01:21 AM
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Science & Religion
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08-21-2009 01:51 AM
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Classical Art
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08-21-2009 01:48 AM
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Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, C.S. Lewis
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08-21-2009 02:06 AM
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Camping, Hiking, The Great Outdoors
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08-21-2009 12:46 AM
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Literary Generation X and Generation Y
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08-21-2009 01:46 AM
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Astronomy
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08-21-2009 12:45 AM
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Treasure Island Children's Literature
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08-21-2009 01:11 AM
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The Great Books & Classics
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08-21-2009 01:47 AM
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Physics & Astronomy, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Classical Mechanics
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08-21-2009 01:33 AM
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King James Bible, KJV, NKJV
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08-21-2009 01:48 AM
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The Great Books, Great Books & Classics
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08-21-2009 01:57 AM
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American History
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08-21-2009 01:17 AM
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American Revolution, Revolutionary War
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08-21-2009 01:43 AM
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World War II, WWII
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08-21-2009 01:04 AM
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Greek Mythology, The Iliad, The Odyssey
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08-21-2009 12:08 AM
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Religion, The Judeo Christian Heritage
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08-21-2009 01:37 AM
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Mountain Biking: Mountain Biking
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08-21-2009 02:02 AM
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Constitutional Law, The United States Constitution, The Federalist Papers
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08-21-2009 01:16 AM
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The Beat Poets, Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac
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08-21-2009 02:14 AM
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Alternative Music
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08-21-2009 01:47 AM
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Dog Lovers
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08-21-2009 12:40 AM
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Used, Antique, and Rare Books
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08-21-2009 02:13 AM
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The World's Religions: Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam
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08-21-2009 01:46 AM
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Postmodernism Campfire
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08-20-2009 11:48 PM
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Advanced Philosophy
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08-21-2009 01:56 AM
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Art History & Art Gallery
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08-21-2009 02:06 AM
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Used Books: Buy, sell, & trade used and rare books.
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08-21-2009 12:39 AM
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Christianity
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08-21-2009 01:25 AM
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Civil War: Gettysburg, Lincoln, Grant, Lee
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08-21-2009 01:38 AM
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Gibbon, Edward: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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08-20-2009 11:49 PM
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Windsurfing: Ahoy to the TBC!
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08-21-2009 01:08 AM
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World War II, WWII
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08-21-2009 01:28 AM
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GREAT INDIVIDUALS, AUTHORS, SCIENTISTS, POETS, ARTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS & THOUGHTS Forum
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St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
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08-21-2009 01:01 AM
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Aristotle, Ethics, Poetics
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08-21-2009 01:55 AM
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St Augustine: The Confessions of St. Augustine, The City of God
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08-21-2009 01:53 AM
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Austen, Jane: Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice, Emma
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08-21-2009 01:25 AM
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Blake, William: Tiger, Tiger, Buring Bright
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08-21-2009 01:37 AM
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Ray Bradbury, Farenheiht 451, The Martian Chronicles
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08-21-2009 01:18 AM
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: The Rhime of The Ancient Mariner
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08-21-2009 01:41 AM
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Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim, The Heart of Darkness
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08-21-2009 01:59 AM
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Dante's Inferno, The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, Paradisio
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08-21-2009 12:15 AM
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Dickens, Charles: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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08-21-2009 01:58 AM
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Charles Darwin: The Theory of Evolution, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man
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08-21-2009 01:32 AM
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karazmov, The Death of Ivan Ilych
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08-21-2009 02:08 AM
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Albert Einstein, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity
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08-21-2009 12:28 AM
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Eliot, T.S.: The Wasteland, Essays, Christian Literary Criticism
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08-21-2009 12:46 AM
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William Faulkner: The Sound and th Fury, Absolom
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08-21-2009 02:15 AM
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise
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08-21-2009 02:13 AM
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Frost, Robert: Two Roads, Mending Wall
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08-06-2009 12:47 PM
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Goethe & Faust
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08-21-2009 02:09 AM
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Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
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08-21-2009 01:59 AM
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, House of The Seven Gables
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08-21-2009 02:08 AM
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Joseph Heller, Catch 22, Something Happened
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08-21-2009 01:29 AM
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Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey
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08-21-2009 02:11 AM
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Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises
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08-21-2009 01:18 AM
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Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
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08-21-2009 12:19 AM
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James Joyce, Dubliners, Ulysses, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
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08-21-2009 01:34 AM
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King, Martin Luther: Martin Luther King Jr.: I Have a Dream
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08-21-2009 12:37 AM
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Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind
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08-21-2009 02:01 AM
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Limbaugh, Rush: Rush Limbaugh, The Way Things Ought to Be
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08-21-2009 01:58 AM
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C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity, The Chronicles of Narnia
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08-21-2009 02:12 AM
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Jack London, The Call of The Wild, White Fang
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08-20-2009 11:49 PM
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John Locke, Natural Rights, Enlightenment
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08-21-2009 01:56 AM
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Mann, Thomas: Death in Venice
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08-21-2009 12:16 AM
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Melville, Herman: Herman Melville & Moby Dick
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08-21-2009 01:27 AM
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Machiavelli, The Prince
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08-21-2009 01:44 AM
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St. Thomas More
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08-21-2009 01:31 AM
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Nietzsche, Frederich: Frederich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, The Anti-Christ
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08-21-2009 01:19 AM
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George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1984
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08-21-2009 12:32 AM
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Poetry Lovers Favorite Poetry, Poems, & Poets
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08-21-2009 12:34 AM
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Plato: The Republic, The Apology, The Dialogues, The Laws
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08-21-2009 01:52 AM
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Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, The Pit & The Pendulum
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08-21-2009 01:39 AM
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Environmental Physics, Solar Power, Wind Power
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08-21-2009 01:38 AM
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Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Objectivism, The Romantic's Manifesto, Capitalism, Anthem
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08-20-2009 09:37 PM
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Forum devoted to discussing J.K. Rowling & Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order o
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08-21-2009 01:26 AM
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J.D. Salinger Catcher in The Rye, Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories
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08-21-2009 01:07 AM
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Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
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08-21-2009 12:09 AM
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John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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08-21-2009 02:02 AM
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Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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08-21-2009 02:11 AM
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
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08-21-2009 12:53 AM
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J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings
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08-20-2009 09:59 PM
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Mark Twain & Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer
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08-21-2009 12:37 AM
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Whitman, Walt: Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
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Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
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08-21-2009 02:00 AM
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Wordsworth, William
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