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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Hated itWell, maybe that's a little too strong. I loved "Black Swan Green", liked a fair bit of "Ghostwritten", and adored "Number9dream", but "Cloud Atlas" took me about 5 attempts to get into and when I eventually finished it it frankly wasn't worth the effort. I enjoyed maybe two of the storylines - the one about the journalist and one of the others - but really despised the central one ("Sloosha's Crossing" or something like that) and the one that wrapped around it ("Omni 5" or suchlike). Hugely overrated.
Oh yes, and "Jacob de Zoet" was complete rubbish too, in my opinion at least, but we can't all like the same things, eh?
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