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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Good books, and I heartily recommend them all. . . I'm not going to yammer on too much about any of these, but give them a go. Especially the ones near the top of the list . . .
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Obviously.
John Dies at the End - David Wong - Never have I read a book as funny as this (I was crying with laughter on the tube, many times) while simultaneously being genuinely terrifying (I was seeing things in the shadows for the week or so I was reading this). So funny, you’ll ruin the front of your underpants. So scary, you’ll ruin the back of them.
Slaughterhouse Five / The Sirens of Titan / Galapagos / Cats Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut.
Choke / Invisible Monsters / Lullaby / Diary / Survivor / Rant - Chuck Palahniuk. Chuck Palahniuk and Kurt Vonnegut have such a lovely way of telling stories.
Kiss Me Judas - Will Christopher Baer - Excellent ‘detective’ noir, a gritty and psychedelic decent into love’s chaos. And what love. And what chaos!
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson - Awesome literature. Great story. Fantastically written.
World War Z - Max Brooks - Cool. Zombies!
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch - Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in a Dickensian fantasy world. Magic.
One of Us - Michael Marshall Smith - To anyone who likes Douglas Adams’ HHGttG, this is the next best thing. Hilarious and brilliantly surreal sci-fi detective story.
The Algebraist / Transition - Iain Banks - Beautifully written, it’s like reading gorgeous art.
A Chemical Fire - Brian Martinez - The best ‘twist’ in literature I have ever read. A junky struggles in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Cows - Matthew Stokoe - infantile, but just SO sick and twisted. Car crash literature.
Apeshit - Carlton Mellick - Reads a bit like a screenplay, but WHAT fun. A ‘cabin in the woods with over-sexed teenagers’ tale. Gorenography.
(, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 16:47, 3 replies)
if you liked snow crashI'd suggest giving the diamond age a bash.
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Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 18:52,
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Tried it.Lost interest after a bit, then gave up. Can't remember why...
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I agree with most of your choices...But world war Z is one of the worst books i have ever read. Appalling. It's like 'Dan Brown does zombies'.
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