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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No mention yet of Norman Mailer?Don't know if I'm surprised or not...
But maybe all those "Playboy" features he wrote were before your time?
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blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 0:57,
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The Fight by Norman Mailer was enjoyable. It is a good piece of journalism and quite insightful into in Muhammad Ali and the rumble in the jungle.
I do prefer Hunter S Thompson and Tom Woolfe's style of writing though
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sutit only the crumbliest, flakiest posts, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 1:17,
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If he were alive today I'd like to ask him why he didn't get round to continuing Harlot's Ghost...Before he died.
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blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 1:27,
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I have not read thatbut I think I will now after reading about it on wiki. Any good?
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sutit only the crumbliest, flakiest posts, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 1:39,
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Slow to get going but stick with it.If I remember rightly it's about 1300 pages?
Years and years of research combined with decades of refined skill multiplied by the daddy of all American conspiracy theories.
Yeah, pretty good ;)
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blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 1:48,
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^ ThisI was pretty damn disappointed when I found out he hadn't got round to writing the sequel. Rippingly good read.
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.Yeti., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 11:59,
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The first thing I did when I heard he'd died was check his bibliography to see if HG had been continued.The second thing I did was gnash my teeth in fury!
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blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 12:51,
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The Executioner's Songwas good. Spoiler: he gets shot in the end.
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