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 loved Blood Meridian, but fuck me, its dense. There's a run-on sentence that lasts almost two pages at one point. The Road is excellent, but one of the most depressing things I've ever read. The rest of his stuff is really good, too, but I can completely understand why people have a hard time with it, and indeed, why they don't like it.
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Watching Children of Men, was a similar (though less gruesome) experience.If I wanted to be bludgeoned over the head with the bleak, depressing, futility of it all, I could probably just watch Eastenders*, and condense my suffering into easily managed, 30-minute chunks.
*Or the news, Celebrity Big Brother, ITV2, or whatever your chosen poison might be.
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 9:50,
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