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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I read the 'how to read this book' bookHopscotch by Julio Cortazar.
Multiple endings, only the first 36 chapters, just the last 52 chapters (or something) every other chapter, every other paragraph, every other page... Christ its bloody stupid/clever/poncey.
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 12:50, 2 replies)
I think it was B.S JohnsonWho wrote a novel which came as loose pages in a box to be randomly mixed and then read in any order. Sounds like a lot of work.
Also wondered if the B.S Johnson in discworld was a sly dig by Pratchett?
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 12:59, closed)
I always thought it was an "antonym" for Capability Brown...but you may have a point
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:50, closed)
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