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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Oh, and...Dispatches, by Michael Herr. Changed my understanding of how writing works.
He went on to do the screenplay for Full Metal Jacket.
Read all abaaaaaht it
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dysonology "You get an 'ology', you're a scientist!", Tue 10 Jan 2012, 20:47,
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top read that's for sure if you haven't already, you must read Bright Shining
Lie: John Paul Vann. Pulitzer prize winner,lengthy but incredibly well researched and what an insight into the colossal fuck up that was the Vietnam war.
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Best last line of any book ever, too.(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 10:11, closed)
tisa ruddy good book.
Try also: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.
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