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We 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.
( , Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
We 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.
( , Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Two for me...
Although I read A LOT, only two books really stand out for me among modern literature that I've read:
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
These are the only two books I have ever read in one sitting.
Sorry for lack of funnies.
( , Fri 6 Jan 2012, 0:42, 5 replies)
Although I read A LOT, only two books really stand out for me among modern literature that I've read:
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
These are the only two books I have ever read in one sitting.
Sorry for lack of funnies.
( , Fri 6 Jan 2012, 0:42, 5 replies)
try
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy if you have not yet - great book easily a one sitting read...
( , Fri 6 Jan 2012, 0:48, closed)
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy if you have not yet - great book easily a one sitting read...
( , Fri 6 Jan 2012, 0:48, closed)
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card is OK, too.
It's too big for one sitting, though.
( , Fri 6 Jan 2012, 1:10, closed)
It's too big for one sitting, though.
( , Fri 6 Jan 2012, 1:10, closed)
All the Enderverse novels are excellent, but...
the first one is still the best.
( , Fri 6 Jan 2012, 16:21, closed)
the first one is still the best.
( , Fri 6 Jan 2012, 16:21, closed)
I love McCarthy
but Scott-Card is a nasty, racist homophobe and I can't read him for that alone. Well, that and the fact that the Ender books are almost terminally tedious.
( , Fri 6 Jan 2012, 8:56, closed)
but Scott-Card is a nasty, racist homophobe and I can't read him for that alone. Well, that and the fact that the Ender books are almost terminally tedious.
( , Fri 6 Jan 2012, 8:56, closed)
Each to their own....
To be honest I know nothing about him as a person, the attitudes you refer to don't come across in the book I referenced above.
On the other hand, I've read lots of books about and by people I find objectionable in real life.
( , Fri 6 Jan 2012, 16:25, closed)
To be honest I know nothing about him as a person, the attitudes you refer to don't come across in the book I referenced above.
On the other hand, I've read lots of books about and by people I find objectionable in real life.
( , Fri 6 Jan 2012, 16:25, closed)
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