I can't wait for part 14.
This is edge-of-the-seat stuff.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:48, 2 replies)

I'm hoping it ends with a dramatic suicide.

(Spleep Shit, or get off the internet., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:55, closed)

YES!

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 14:00, closed)

I'm actually hoping the suicide is a dramatic twist after chapter eight, but I think I'm going to be disappointed.

(Spleep Shit, or get off the internet., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 14:09, closed)

i must have missed the memo where rob asked for unclestinky's dissertation on literature through the ages.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 14:15, closed)

I'm sure Rob asked for windy ballbags to endlessly list every book they've ever read in painful detail.

(Spleep Shit, or get off the internet., Tue 10 Jan 2012, 14:30, closed)

oh well in that case, carry on, unclestinky.
ooh! i hope part 9 is 'agrarian monarchy in the late 12th century'!
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 14:36, closed)

Tell us about your favourite books.....and why they are so good
Well tough shit on those of you who don't read very much. I have to read all the crap from other qotws where I have very little to input as I won't just make up some old bollocks. (Also I don't get out much)

Favourites and why was the question so that's what you are getting. This is just a bare sampling, if I listed every book I ever read we'd be here till next Christmas.
(unclestinky, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 15:18, closed)

If you want
I could post my masters dissertation but that does seem a bit outside the scope of the question.
(unclestinky, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 15:21, closed)

Hahahahahahaha.
Oh dude. You really should have kept your keyboard closed.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 15:40, closed)

i would, but other people talking about their favourite books is like people telling you about their dreams.
i read an inordinate amount. for example, i've just started 'the kindly ones' as recommended by someone here this week. but hey, nobody really cares about that but me, right?

oh, but thanks for taking the opportunity to point out that you have a master's degree.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 15:57, closed)

You're very welcome
Not much more now in any case, Some non-fiction, biographies, maybe some SF although that's been pretty well covered already and what academics condescendingly label ephemeral fiction.

All this attention, however, may go to my head and we can do sports books, underground comics, science, history and many more.

(Probably not though)
(unclestinky, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:16, closed)

Fuck me. It's professor self awareness.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:26, closed)

rather raises the question of what you expected
When the question was Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good.
(unclestinky, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:47, closed)

and another thing
If you are so deeply uninterested in hearing about the which and the why of other folks bibliophila then how is it you have taken a recommendation on that basis?

Logically inconsistent?
(unclestinky, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 20:04, closed)

because some people can just say 'this is a good book'
without doing 'my literary thoughts, part the 8th'
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 22:36, closed)

'agrarian monarchy in the late 12th century'
is fucking awesome
(cs1ca, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 20:59, closed)