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We 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.

(, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Nobody does "oh fuck oh god oh no" quite as well as Ian McEwan in his prime.

(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 22:29, 1 reply)
Absolutely!!!
Have you read anything after 'Saturday'? I started it but found it quite dull and was gutted, but I am happy to have my mind changed. (I can't even think about Atonement without wanting to cry)
(, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 23:32, closed)
On Chesil Beach is an inexorable spiral down into "oh god no you fucking idiot"
And Solar is almost upbeat and about the best fictional depiction of the workings of science that I've ever read.
(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 8:52, closed)
I shall put them on my list Dr.S.

(, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:40, closed)

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