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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)
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Not Cloud Atlas, anyway
Over-written, self-indulgent pretentious shite.
(, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 9:43, 11 replies)
spot the dog
more your kind of thing?
(, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 12:31, closed)
The Hungry Caterpillar, actually
and your mum, etc.
(, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 12:50, closed)
oh
you went there.

bravo sir... bravo.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 16:13, closed)
Yes, albeit reluctantly
your dad's so sexy.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 21:22, closed)
dead people
generally are
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 11:58, closed)
Not to worry
my microwave is massive.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 18:55, closed)
as i imagine
is the pile of speg encrusted tissues by your computer.
(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 12:52, closed)
Stop looking through my windows, you filthy pervert
also, "speg": whit? Is that some sort of weird East Kilbride-ism?
(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 19:00, closed)
It's alright.
I said pretty much the same thing down there somewhere.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 2:15, closed)
I see your point
While my feelings aren't that strong, I was rather disappointed by it given the hype. Nowhere near as clever as it was made out to be.

However, don't overlook David Mitchell entirely because of it. I read Black Swan Green beforehand and thought it was excellent (another reason Cloud Atlas may have failed to please). It's a semi-autobiographical story about a young boy growing up with a stammer.
(, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 13:06, closed)
agreed
Number nine dream however...
(, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 13:44, closed)

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