<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>50 Best Cult Books : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>59641</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/59641/1/</url><title><![CDATA[50 Best Cult Books]]></title><description><![CDATA[A selection of history's most notable cult writing. Some is classic. Some is catastrophic. All of it had the power to inspire.]]></description><comments>14</comments><score>303</score><crdate>4/25/2008 10:07:32 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T10:07:32+01:00</atomdate></link><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%' style='padding-top:5px;margin-bottom:0px;' class='trh'><tr valign='bottom'><td><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'><tr valign='bottom'><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabs lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-comments'><a href='/plime-com/l/59641/1/' class='plime2 td mn'>comments (14)</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-related'><a href='/plime-com/l/59641-related/1/' class='plime td mn'>related</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-share'><a href='/plime-com/l/59641-share/1/' class='plime td mn'>share</a></td><td class='minitabspc' style='font-size:7px'>&nbsp;</td><td class='minitabd lg'  nowrap="nowrap" id='tab-history'><a href='/plime-com/l/59641-history/1/' class='plime td mn'>edit history (0)</a></td></tr></table></td><td class='minitabspc' style='width:100%' valign='middle'><table width='100%'><tr class='regular'><td align='right'> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&lt;</a><span> <b><a class='page-selected td' href='/plime-com/l/59641/1/'>1</a></b> <a onclick='return false' class='page-dull td'>&gt;</a></span></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><comment><id>248015</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59641/1/xml_widget.rss#q15</url><title><![CDATA[imnotyoo @ 4/27/2008 7:18:48 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/plime-com/l/59641/1/#q14"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>pocksucket</b> : I've never read The Hitchhikers Guide To DEP.  Is it any good?</i></div>I added italics just for you.<br/><br/>Look, it's a man, eating chicken!<br/><br/>Look, it's a man-eating chicken!]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/27/2008 7:18:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-27T19:18:48+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>247994</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59641/1/xml_widget.rss#q14</url><title><![CDATA[pocksucket @ 4/27/2008 7:00:44 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/books/l/59641/1/#q11"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>imnotyoo</b> :I'll send pictures of myself immensely enjoying the Guide to DEP </i></div>I've never read The Hitchhikers Guide To DEP.  Is it any good?]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/27/2008 7:00:44 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-27T19:00:44+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>247397</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59641/1/xml_widget.rss#q13</url><title><![CDATA[dOntEAtpOOp @ 4/25/2008 6:47:40 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/plime-com/l/59641/1/#q11"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>imnotyoo</b>&#160;:&#160;Maybe I should read it again. I'll send pictures of myself immensely enjoying the Guide to DEP to show him how much fun it is is and make him sad that he isn't having as much fun. </i></div>Maybe you should. <br/><br/><br/><br/>..You still read in the nude, right?]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/25/2008 6:47:40 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T18:47:40+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>247367</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59641/1/xml_widget.rss#q12</url><title><![CDATA[rambler @ 4/25/2008 6:16:45 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/plime-com/l/59641/1/#q10"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>dOntEAtpOOp</b>:(and I still utterly detest the Hitchhikers Guide...)</i></div>For years I just chuckled in a know-it-all, superior sort of way when people suggested that I should read the Hitchhikers Guide - it sounded like a stupid theme, and the first chapter of the first book was not really inspiring.  But sometime during the third attempt, it suddenly clicked, I got my mind up to (down to?) the right level of ridiculous humour, and now I feel like reading it again and again.  Just like the other 3 books in the four-part trilogy.<br/><br/>I mean, just knowing the ultimate misery of the paranoid android, hearing about the planet-shattering performances of Disaster Area, not to mention the tremendous achievements of Slartybartfast, fjord-designer, has made me a better person.  Well, at least it has made me grateful for my relatively normal life.]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/25/2008 6:16:45 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T18:16:45+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>247337</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59641/1/xml_widget.rss#q11</url><title><![CDATA[imnotyoo @ 4/25/2008 5:34:53 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[I own two and I've read four and I love the <i>Hitchhikers Guide</i>; it's freaking hilarious. I read it in high school. Maybe I should read it again. I'll send pictures of myself immensely enjoying <i>the Guide</i> to DEP to show him how much fun it is is and make him sad that he isn't having as much fun. <br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>..Did that make any sense?]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/25/2008 5:34:53 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T17:34:53+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>247279</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59641/1/xml_widget.rss#q10</url><title><![CDATA[dOntEAtpOOp @ 4/25/2008 2:40:25 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[I have read 9 of these.<br/><br/>So nyah.<br/><br/>But I'm definately going to pick some of these up the next time I hit Borders.<br/><br/>(and I still utterly detest the Hitchhikers Guide...)]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/25/2008 2:40:25 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T14:40:25+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>247232</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59641/1/xml_widget.rss#q9</url><title><![CDATA[arsphidius @ 4/25/2008 1:22:25 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[I work in a public library, and I've only read 4 of them.  I'd better expand my reading list to more than just serial killer novels.]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/25/2008 1:22:25 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T13:22:25+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>247215</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59641/1/xml_widget.rss#q8</url><title><![CDATA[shep182 @ 4/25/2008 12:37:40 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[LOL... didn't realize Douglas Adams was a cult fav :)    I wanna print this list and buy every title just so I can seem &quot;edgy&quot; when people come over for beers]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/25/2008 12:37:40 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T12:37:40+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>247209</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59641/1/xml_widget.rss#q7</url><title><![CDATA[rambler @ 4/25/2008 12:31:15 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[How can there not be any books by Isaac Asimov (especially from the Foundation series) on a list of cult books?]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/25/2008 12:31:15 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T12:31:15+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>247206</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59641/1/xml_widget.rss#q6</url><title><![CDATA[rambler @ 4/25/2008 12:27:26 PM]]></title><content><![CDATA[I've read 8 - actually 7 and 1/2, gave up halfway through The Celestine Prophecy.<br/><br/>And there are quite a few that I still want to read...]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/25/2008 12:27:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T12:27:26+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>247191</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59641/1/xml_widget.rss#q5</url><title><![CDATA[Skippii @ 4/25/2008 11:54:43 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[Zen is the only one of those I've read. :(]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/25/2008 11:54:43 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T11:54:43+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>247158</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59641/1/xml_widget.rss#q4</url><title><![CDATA[hypersapien @ 4/25/2008 11:01:18 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[I've read:<br/>Dianetics (thankfully didn't get involved in the stupid cult)<br/>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<br/>Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid<br/><br/>I own but haven't read yet:<br/>A Confederacy of Dunces<br/>The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail<br/><br/><br/>I can't believe the Illuminatus Trilogy isn't on here.<br/>For that matter, the Discworld series]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/25/2008 11:01:18 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T11:01:18+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>247145</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59641/1/xml_widget.rss#q3</url><title><![CDATA[MeMe @ 4/25/2008 10:31:26 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[Oooh... new reading list!]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/25/2008 10:31:26 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T10:31:26+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>247144</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59641/1/xml_widget.rss#q2</url><title><![CDATA[Bandit @ 4/25/2008 10:30:41 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[I'm surprised that there are no Chuck Palahniuk or George Orwell books there.]]></content><score></score><crdate>4/25/2008 10:30:41 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-25T10:30:41+01:00</atomdate></comment></items></xml>