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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 11:03 AM
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Discuss a new Great Book each month!
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08-21-2009 12:42 AM
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Dr. Elliot McGucken sounds off with regular updates.
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08-21-2009 01:05 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 12:36 AM
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Talk about contemporary books and literature.
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08-21-2009 01:12 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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08-20-2009 11:49 PM
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08-21-2009 01:09 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 12:10 AM
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The state of the contemporary publishing industry, literature, books, and technology.
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08-20-2009 10:50 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 12:48 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 12:20 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 01:03 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 12:42 AM
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The Bible
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08-21-2009 01:15 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 12:54 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 01:10 AM
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Books, Books, and More Books
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08-21-2009 12:21 AM
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Science & Religion
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08-21-2009 12:51 AM
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Classical Art
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08-21-2009 12:48 AM
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Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, C.S. Lewis
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08-21-2009 01:06 AM
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Camping, Hiking, The Great Outdoors
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08-20-2009 11:46 PM
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Literary Generation X and Generation Y
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08-21-2009 12:46 AM
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Astronomy
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08-20-2009 11:45 PM
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Treasure Island Children's Literature
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08-21-2009 12:11 AM
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The Great Books & Classics
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08-21-2009 12:47 AM
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Physics & Astronomy, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Classical Mechanics
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08-21-2009 12:33 AM
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King James Bible, KJV, NKJV
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08-21-2009 12:48 AM
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The Great Books, Great Books & Classics
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08-21-2009 12:57 AM
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American History
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08-21-2009 12:17 AM
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American Revolution, Revolutionary War
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08-21-2009 12:43 AM
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World War II, WWII
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08-21-2009 12:04 AM
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Greek Mythology, The Iliad, The Odyssey
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08-20-2009 11:08 PM
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Religion, The Judeo Christian Heritage
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08-21-2009 12:37 AM
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Mountain Biking: Mountain Biking
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08-21-2009 01:02 AM
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Constitutional Law, The United States Constitution, The Federalist Papers
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08-21-2009 12:16 AM
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The Beat Poets, Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac
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08-21-2009 01:14 AM
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Alternative Music
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08-21-2009 12:47 AM
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Dog Lovers
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08-20-2009 11:40 PM
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Used, Antique, and Rare Books
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08-21-2009 01:13 AM
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The World's Religions: Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam
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08-21-2009 12:46 AM
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Postmodernism Campfire
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08-20-2009 10:48 PM
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Advanced Philosophy
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08-21-2009 12:56 AM
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Art History & Art Gallery
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08-21-2009 01:06 AM
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Used Books: Buy, sell, & trade used and rare books.
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08-20-2009 11:39 PM
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Christianity
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08-21-2009 12:25 AM
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Civil War: Gettysburg, Lincoln, Grant, Lee
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08-21-2009 12:38 AM
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Gibbon, Edward: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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08-20-2009 10:49 PM
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Windsurfing: Ahoy to the TBC!
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08-21-2009 12:08 AM
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World War II, WWII
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08-21-2009 12:28 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 12:01 AM
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Aristotle, Ethics, Poetics
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08-21-2009 12:55 AM
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St Augustine: The Confessions of St. Augustine, The City of God
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08-21-2009 12:53 AM
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Austen, Jane: Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice, Emma
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08-21-2009 12:25 AM
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Blake, William: Tiger, Tiger, Buring Bright
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08-21-2009 12:37 AM
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Ray Bradbury, Farenheiht 451, The Martian Chronicles
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08-21-2009 12:18 AM
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: The Rhime of The Ancient Mariner
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08-21-2009 12:41 AM
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Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim, The Heart of Darkness
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08-21-2009 12:59 AM
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Dante's Inferno, The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio, Paradisio
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08-20-2009 11:15 PM
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Dickens, Charles: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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08-21-2009 12:58 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 12:32 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 01:08 AM
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Albert Einstein, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity
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08-20-2009 11:28 PM
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Eliot, T.S.: The Wasteland, Essays, Christian Literary Criticism
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08-20-2009 11:46 PM
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William Faulkner: The Sound and th Fury, Absolom
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08-21-2009 01:15 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 01:13 AM
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Frost, Robert: Two Roads, Mending Wall
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08-06-2009 11:47 AM
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Goethe & Faust
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08-21-2009 01:09 AM
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Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
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08-21-2009 12:59 AM
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, House of The Seven Gables
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08-21-2009 01:08 AM
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Joseph Heller, Catch 22, Something Happened
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08-21-2009 12:29 AM
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Homer: The Iliad & The Odyssey
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08-21-2009 01:11 AM
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Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises
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08-21-2009 12:18 AM
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Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
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08-20-2009 11:19 PM
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James Joyce, Dubliners, Ulysses, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
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08-21-2009 12:34 AM
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King, Martin Luther: Martin Luther King Jr.: I Have a Dream
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08-20-2009 11:37 PM
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Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind
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08-21-2009 01:01 AM
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Limbaugh, Rush: Rush Limbaugh, The Way Things Ought to Be
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08-21-2009 12:58 AM
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C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity, The Chronicles of Narnia
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08-21-2009 01:12 AM
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Jack London, The Call of The Wild, White Fang
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08-20-2009 10:49 PM
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John Locke, Natural Rights, Enlightenment
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08-21-2009 12:56 AM
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Mann, Thomas: Death in Venice
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08-20-2009 11:16 PM
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Melville, Herman: Herman Melville & Moby Dick
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08-21-2009 12:27 AM
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Machiavelli, The Prince
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08-21-2009 12:44 AM
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St. Thomas More
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08-21-2009 12:31 AM
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Nietzsche, Frederich: Frederich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, The Anti-Christ
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08-21-2009 12:19 AM
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George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1984
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08-20-2009 11:32 PM
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Poetry Lovers Favorite Poetry, Poems, & Poets
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08-20-2009 11:34 PM
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Plato: The Republic, The Apology, The Dialogues, The Laws
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08-21-2009 12:52 AM
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Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, The Pit & The Pendulum
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08-21-2009 12:39 AM
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Environmental Physics, Solar Power, Wind Power
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08-21-2009 12:38 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 08:37 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 12:26 AM
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J.D. Salinger Catcher in The Rye, Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories
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08-21-2009 12:07 AM
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Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
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08-20-2009 11:09 PM
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John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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08-21-2009 01:02 AM
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Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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08-21-2009 01:11 AM
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
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08-20-2009 11:53 PM
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J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings
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08-20-2009 08:59 PM
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Mark Twain & Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer
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08-20-2009 11:37 PM
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Whitman, Walt: Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
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08-21-2009 12:31 AM
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Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
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08-21-2009 01:00 AM
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Wordsworth, William
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08-20-2009 09:57 PM
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