
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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part 9
Conan-Doyle- Sherlock Holmes
Read any of them. Feeling lazy, just watch Jeremy Brett instead. Perfection
Raymond Chandler- Read any of them
Like reading a film noir."When things slow down, bring in a man with a gun" enough said.
Loads more but getting a little flak for sesquipedelianism and procrastination so Hammett, Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosely, Sara Paretsky etc ad infinitum
( , Wed 11 Jan 2012, 0:51, 6 replies)

Elmore Leonard and Walter Mosley. Top notch crime.
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I'm yet to meet someone who uses the word 'sesquipedelianism' unironically and who isn't a massive wanker.
( , Wed 11 Jan 2012, 8:26, closed)

Due to a slew of adverse reactions and was definitely not without posh sarcasm (irony often seems so to me)
( , Wed 11 Jan 2012, 21:51, closed)

Nobody is giving you any flak. They're just pointing and laughing at you for being a charmless autism.
( , Wed 11 Jan 2012, 8:54, closed)
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