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# Book
Can anyone recommend any good books. I got nothing to read and no inspiration of what to buy.

Was someone mentioning some book called 'The madness of oyster boy'? If the book is as good as the title then we could have a winner...
(aneraseroflove excuse me...i have to go to space now, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 5:51, archived)
# Three Louis de Bernieres books
The war of Don Emmanual's Nether parts.
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman.
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord.
(I helped save b3ta! PeterSeychelles, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 5:55, archived)
# Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas is a winner - better than the film
"Iced" by Ray Shell is good.
What kind of books are you into?
"Freaky Dancing" autobiography by Bez is quite amusing if you're into them
(Nacho, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:15, archived)
# Bez
Funnily enough, Freaky Dancin' is the book I just finished, and I really enjoyed it.

As to what I like, I'll read just about anything although my recommendations are all on the surreal side of quirky

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller, The Magus - John Fowles, Gormenghast Trilogy - Merrvyn Peake, A 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marques...

Cheers
(aneraseroflove excuse me...i have to go to space now, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:41, archived)
# Surreal?
Babylon - Victor Pelevin,
Hard Boiled Wonderland & the end of the world - H. Mazukami
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman - Bruce Robinson
(I helped save b3ta! mrbrong, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:49, archived)
# I've just finished
reading the Beano Annual 1987, I heartily recommend it although Roger The Dodger isn't up to his usual standard
(twelveways, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:21, archived)
# Where the Wild Things Are -
Crab Bloke is one of the few people I know who remembers this book
(Nacho, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:49, archived)
# I remember that
Well, I remember something about a bedroom turnong into a jungle.

www.puppetartists.com/storybook_htm/The%20Wild%20things.htm

only $275

The Iron Man is another great kids/anyones book.

And I used to own one which told the story of a hamster that goes into a factory. It was illustrated by photographs and was well funny. I'd love to know what that one was called.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:55, archived)
# If I had $275 to waste I'd buy them
do you remember a book called "How to Eat Fried Worms?" My workmate thinks I'm trying to wind him up. I'm gonna do a search
(Nacho, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:13, archived)
# the description sounds a bit like me
....has happily repulsed children since its original publication in 1973 (ish)...
a ghastly gastronomical treat that will dazzle young listeners.


(Nacho, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:17, archived)
# WOW!
I read that in school, fantastic, you are the only person I have ever met to have heard of it, congratulations.
(twelveways, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:19, archived)
# Although...
I only read it in case I was doing it wrong in the first place...
(twelveways, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:23, archived)
# Was the Hamster
called Hannibal? I had a book called Hannibal at the Circus about a Hamster who visited the circus. It was a Ladybird book.
(james, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 8:07, archived)
# it could well have been
did that use photographs?
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 8:37, archived)
# I remember that!
I must have read it a hundred times.
(I helped save b3ta! PeterSeychelles, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:03, archived)
# I remember it,
a fantastic book.
(james, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:07, archived)
# Try
Breakfast Of Champions by
Kurt Vonnegut jr
for total anti-capitalist mentalism.
(I helped save b3ta! Stella_R_Twa, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:46, archived)
# B o C
I'd recommend anything by Kurt Vonnegut, but that is easily my favourite by him. The film came up a while ago but I didn't dare go and see it in case they'd fucked it up.
(aneraseroflove excuse me...i have to go to space now, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:51, archived)
# I've seen it...
not bad considering how fucked up the plot is in the book, but still nowhere near as good. They missed out all the stuff about the author and concentrated on Dwayne Hoover. Can't really blame them though as it is pretty unfilmable.
(I helped save b3ta! Stella_R_Twa, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 8:58, archived)
# Bizarre
We both recommended a book about things that happen at the same time at the same time.
(I helped save b3ta! mrbrong, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:54, archived)
# Nether Parts
I've only read the first one. It was super, so maybe I'll go for another!
(aneraseroflove excuse me...i have to go to space now, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:48, archived)
# They're all great.
You might also enjoy. Tibor Fischer, "Under a Frog's Arse" and "The Thought Gang".
(I helped save b3ta! PeterSeychelles, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 8:42, archived)
# I recently read Cat Watching by Desmond Morris


Fantastic. Questions/Answer format. Why do cats roll on their backs? Why do many black cats have a white patch? Every page a revelation. Every page another cute picture of a cat. This is a book designed to be read in small chunks, with the reader going "Woo! Amazing fact! Woo! Cute picture!" It's publishing crack.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 5:56, archived)
# We've got that at work
And also illustrated dog watching too.
They're great, although Furtive Bear watching is missing.
(I helped save b3ta! mrbrong, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:07, archived)
# ever read people watching by desmond morrris?
quite interesting but exceptionally sexist actually.
(I helped save b3ta! pep, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:44, archived)
# yes
I like the bits like when a person passes someone in a crowd..

*) Women turn away to protect their breasts
*) Men turn towards to present their penises.

This has left me uncertain of how to behave in a crowd. Will turning away make me a lady? Will turning towards make me a rapist?
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:59, archived)
# Hmmm
In order not to offend anyone, it is probably best to slowly rotate in all gatherings of five or more people, though be sure to change the direction of rotation every five minutes or so.
(aneraseroflove excuse me...i have to go to space now, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:44, archived)
# micheal marshall smith
Bizzare wording form a good writer.

try "only forward", "spares" or his book of short stories "what you make it".

he's a sound guy, and also lives in north london.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 5:58, archived)
# Sure it wasn't The Melancholy Death of Oyster boy?
It's poems and illustrations by Tim Burton. V nice.
I just read a book called Deadkidsongs, toby litt.
It was unbelievably sinister.
(I helped save b3ta! pep, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:08, archived)
# Oh I got that for Christmas
I'll get round to it next then.
(I helped save b3ta! PeterSeychelles, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:11, archived)
# The Toby Litt book?
read it now and tell me what you think - i dunno anyone else that's read it and i thought it was amazing...
(I helped save b3ta! pep, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:25, archived)
# what's the basic
premise - I usually like sinister books.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:26, archived)
# it's about a group of four boys,
who are all friends and part of a gang.
Somethig happens to one of them, and they take revenge. Can't say too much more without ruining it, but i thought it was really sinister. Lots of bit's made me flinch, alot, when i was sitting on the tube, which was a bit embarrasing.
(I helped save b3ta! pep, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:46, archived)
# This is good


Or, Death and the Penguin by Somebody Kurkev.
(I helped save b3ta! mrbrong, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:11, archived)
# Irving and Muktuk: Two Bad Bears
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:19, archived)
# 'The Boy Who Kicked Pigs'
by Tom Baker

is fantastic and very funny.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:11, archived)
# Try
Charles Bukowski - Ham on Rye
(james, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:15, archived)
# anything
by edward gorey too.

www.goreyography.com/west/master/master.htm

you can only actually buy about 5 of these, more's the pity.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 6:29, archived)
# Surely
this book has to be top of the pile for all b3tans...



Alternative covers featuring cakes and mulleted football players please......
(TommyTheMuff is a new dad and luvvin it, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:00, archived)
# Check this....
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(Slacker, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 9:37, archived)
# We got ourselves a reader
"Holes" by Louis Sachar isn't what you'd think, but made me smile all the way through - remember the way good books made you feel when you were a kid?

"Freak Like Me" - an autobiography of Jim Rose (of Jim Rose Circus fame): fantastic freak show frolics.

Or "Are You Dave Gorman?" - laugh-out-loud, piss-yourself-on-the-train funny.
(I helped save b3ta! CarlosTheJackal, protector of innocence, taker of liberties, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 7:06, archived)
# Robert Rankin
The Brentford Trilogy (The Antipope, East of Ealing, The Brentford Triangle and The Sporuts of Wrath - 4 books in all)

or anything by Iain Banks (Fiction/macabre) , or Iain M.Banks(Sci-fi, epic), except Canal Dreams. I recommend Complicity, The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road for the fiction, and Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons and Excession from the Sci-Fi.
(I helped save b3ta! grinfish redux I can remember when all this were eels, Wed 23 Jan 2002, 13:55, archived)
# Good Beuk
This is a fantastic graphic novel
(Aids, Thu 24 Jan 2002, 4:58, archived)
# Fantastic book/comic
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid in the World - Chris Ware
(Aids, Thu 24 Jan 2002, 6:25, archived)