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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I'm reading it now......currently on about page 580, and it's brilliant!
If you're desperate for a book to bundle you through the plot without ever putting you down then IJ will be a major disappointment. But if you enjoy prose just for the sake of it then IJ is full of funny, touching, occasionally shocking, sometimes informative, always excellent writing. Perhaps it helps that I haven't got much time so I'm reading it verrrry slowly but, to me, each little meander or footnote seems like a short story in itself rather than a distraction from the main plot.
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I'm by no means a plot-monkey.I love good writing for its own sake.
But this isn't good writing. It's not even close. Reading IJ is like jousting with ennui. I may have missed the jokes, I admit. I hope I have. I'd hate to think that corporate sponsorship of the calendar, and a list of films, are representative.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 22:03,
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