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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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandI often re-read it as it is such a ripping yarn.
Ayn Rand is a fecking right wing nutter and the book goes into great detail of her right-wing theories.
Her world is very black and white, her arguments are seriously flawed and a lot of people in the book are nothing but caricatures but I put all that aside because it is a gripping story.
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Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 14:24,
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I just couldn't hack through all the extraneous crap to get to the story.I tried it once, on the very enthusiastic recommendation of a friend, and got about a hundred pages in before giving up. It doesn't even pretend to be a novel. It's so black-and-white a manifesto that the very colours of black and white themselves look a muddy grey in comparison.
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.Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Mon 9 Jan 2012, 16:33,
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Overly longwhat happened to the editor?
Try some of John Steinbeck's if you like a decent looking yarn. highly recommended.
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