BooksWe love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Avoid: The Corrections, Jonathan FranzenThe worst sort of self-absorbed, upper-middle-class navel-gazing drek. Books awards should be treated like cold sores: don't pick up anything that has one.
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madrabbit is fully prepared, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 22:29,
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I lived by that ruleuntil I read Cloud Atlas. I love it and it won, I'm ashamed to admit, the Richard and Judy award.
I feel sick.
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DisagreeOf course there are books with awards that are dreadful, but some are are top notch. Wolf Hall and The White Tiger are both Booker winners, both top notch.
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