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# Best novel ever.
(Depending on how much you laff at A Confederacy of Dunces).
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Fri 15 May 2009, 0:06, archived)
# Aha!
Last week I re-re-re-re-read Slapstick, each time I see more things in it.
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Fri 15 May 2009, 0:25, archived)
# Wonderful book.
Try Hocus Pocus if you're in the depressive frame of mind.
Or even if you're not!
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Fri 15 May 2009, 0:35, archived)
# I love that book!
I read a lot, but only certain authors : Vonnegut, Pratchett, Palahniuk.

I try other authors but never seem to finish the book.
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Fri 15 May 2009, 0:39, archived)
# Neil Gaiman.
A storyteller. Not highbrow, but always inventive and determinedly fantastical.

His short stories are possibly the best extant (apart from those of HG Wells), but his novel 'American Gods' will rock the socks off your socks, and please you immensely.

In my opinion.

(Hmmm, not many members in the new midnight b3ta book club so far...)
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Fri 15 May 2009, 0:43, archived)
# ta!!!
I'll give him a go. The novel he did with Pratchett was brilliant, I can't believe I haven't investigated his writings before.

American Gods it is then, assuming I can find it in digital form. Since my accident involving head trauma I can only read in the dark with no noise whatsoever, easily distracted with a terrible memory span.

I appreciate the recommendation, if you have more please tell me NOW!
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Fri 15 May 2009, 0:51, archived)
# Reading in the dark with head trauma complications?
Surely it can only be anything by HP Lovecraft.

And I want someone to second me on this. I'm no doctor.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Fri 15 May 2009, 0:54, archived)
# HA!
Reading in the dark = .lit files on an old PDA.

Lovecraft, I'll give him a go. I know I've read his stuff 'cos I've got some of his books in my bookcase, but 1989 to 2002 are a big blur of things which may or may not have happened.
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:01, archived)
# Same here, oddly enough.
I came out of it with a useless degree and an almost-entirely withered sense of purpose.

(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:04, archived)
# Sense of purpose
I remember that, along with pert breasts and No.73
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:24, archived)
# There you go again with your bizarre Sandi Toksvig obsession.
(Some things are perhaps best left unremembered.)
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:45, archived)
# Margaret Atwood
Jeanette Winterson
Alice Sebold

these are about the only people whose new titles I am actually excited to read
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:18, archived)
# I read "The Almost Moon" on mother's day
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Almost_Moon

LOL
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:20, archived)
# ROFL
*edit*
shit, it's real. i actually thought i'd been directed to uncyclopedia
(I helped save b3ta! deodar ant trois minutes douche compris, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:25, archived)
# GOODBOOK
 
I haven't read The Lovely Bones yet though there is a copy in my lounge tempting me
Lucky was bloody good
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:47, archived)
# They sound like Mills & Boon writers
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:25, archived)
# academic feminists
 
so rather the opposite.
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:29, archived)
# ooh, new one coming out this year?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood

kind of a sequel to Oryx and Crake
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:34, archived)
# Sounds far too serious, fuck that
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:36, archived)
# THAT'S GOOD WRITING
 
and no shortage of sex, violence and humour.
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:39, archived)
# Ahhh, now you've got my attention
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:49, archived)
# also: lesbians
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Fri 15 May 2009, 1:54, archived)
# they're 2 a penny
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Fri 15 May 2009, 5:09, archived)