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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My favouritesIn no particular order:
"House of Leaves" by Mark Z Danielewski
"Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami
"Weathercock" by Glen Duncan
"Little Hands Clapping" by Dan Rhodes (absolutely anything by Dan Rhodes to be honest)
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time" by Mark Haddon
"The Woman Who Walked Into Doors" by Roddy Doyle
"Concrete Island" by JG Ballard
"The House of Sleep" by Jonathan Coe
"Room" by Emma Donoghue
Ones to avoid? Too many. I particularly loathed "McCarthy's Bar" by Pete McCarthy though - the only book I've ever finished reading and torn to shreds before putting it into the bin.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 12:23, 6 replies)
Did you not like it?(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 12:39, closed)
According to some, Janet doesn't like any sort of cock.(
scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 13:40,
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"House of Leaves" by Mark Z Danielewskiwas that one with all the typological crap wasn't it? Bit low on story though ;)
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That's the oneIt may have been low on story but I thought it was brilliantly well done, and it is the only book that has ever scared me.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 13:15, closed)
Fine bookRead it in southern Spain in a hot summer, and went to bed every night feeling frozen to the bone.
Genius.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 21:42, closed)
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