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    Favorite Quotes

    Heres another one from the same book "The Subtle circumstances surrounding how we say things may matter more than what we actually say", its from a portion of the book talking about how a study showed that nonverbal cues were more effective than verbal ones.
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    Great Lyrics

    Wake Up- The Arcade Fire Somethin' filled up my heart with nothin', someone told me not to cry. But now that I'm older, my heart's colder, and I can see that it's a lie. Children wake up, hold your mistake up, before they turn the summer into dust. If the children don't grow...
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    Favorite Quotes

    The key to getting people to change their behavior, in other words, to care about their neighbor in distress, sometimes lies with the small details of their immediate situation. -Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point a recent quote I liked
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    Brick & mortar bookstores- R.I.P. & good riddance

    I like my kindle... books are hella cheap for 100 bucks I could leave with atleast 10 books ez.
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    Amazon remotely deletes books from the Kindle

    thats why I back up all my book files on my laptop and on an external harddrive.
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    José Saramago: Death With Interruptions

    this is on my list of books to read along with beijing coma, and 1984.
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    Roberto Bolaño: 2666

    /start rant I hate when people try to tell me whats "right" and wrong to read, or watch, especially when they themselves haven't read the book that they claim is blasphamy "I was told the Divinci Code was blasphamy by an older person I know" and I was like... its fiction......FICTION meaning...
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    Are you ready for school?

    Well when I paid my enrollment ahead of time about a month ago it was $20 a unit now its $26 "its only a jc", im only taking 10 units because I have a job, what really made me mad was that I had already paid with the old price and yet I get a notice saying I owe $60 for something passed a month...
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    I am in New York city in an apacolyptic war to save the gods and to save the world from titanic rule. I am among my best friends and the bravest souls I have ever met, we have sustained multiple casualties, and the worst part is I fear that I might be amongst the dead at the end of this battle...
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    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    In the last week or so ive bought all 5 books in the Percy Jackson Series, along with The Tipping point, I love my kindle lol, and those percy jackson books were addictive!!! right when I finished one I downloaded the next one from amazon.com.
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    Are you ready for school?

    Im ready to start college, not to excited to buy books and such , and the enrollment fee hike here in california, but glad nonetheless.
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    Do You Have a Story Idea (Novel or Short Story) in Your Head Right Now?

    I've had ideas flooding into my brain about a book on the topic of government and how the government is allowed to do things to us regular people that wouldn't be thinkable vice versa. It's a book of injustice, crime, corruption, and the search for equality and true fairness. I don't have a...
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    My Amazon Kindle review....finally!

    I back up all my books onto my laptop and external harddrive just in case, amazon decides to go psycho again.
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    Disagree with ending?

    Kind of SPOILER ALERT ah man I loved the Giver all the way through, the ending was a little abrupt I guess they could have gone a little more into detail by saying how the world changed and how the people reacted.
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    Books you were forced to read at school!

    Not sure of the authors just the titles Elementary School 1.The Giver- Lois Lowry One of my favorite books to this day 2.Where the Red Fern Grows 3. Some Shakespeare read by My 5th grade teacher Middle School 1.To kill a mockingbird 2. Why the caged bird sings 3. The...
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    Censorship & Book Burnings, Oh My!!

    Book burning? Are you serious? I wonder how many people who are so offended by these works of literature actually READ the books that have scarred them mentally and threaten to tear down their town brick by brick and destroy there youth lol. Maybe the parents should acutally enter into some form...
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