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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Kurt VonnegutPretty much all his books (apart from Player Piano) are brilliant.
The best are Slaughter House Five and Cats Cradle.
They can really change the way you view life, death and time, but they are not nerdy sci-fi.
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Player Piano isn't bad,it's just nothing like his other work, as it's a pretty straight story, in the Farenheight 451 mold.
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 22:15,
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That's funny, everyone I speak to about KV rates "Timequake" as his worst.(I still rather like it)
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 23:31,
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Yeah, I liked it too.Although it was only the second of his I read, maybe if I'd read it later I may have not liked it as much in comparison.
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scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sat 7 Jan 2012, 8:35,
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GalapagosI read this for the first time this year on holiday and it blew me away, a fantastic piece of literature.
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YepIt was the first one I read
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