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Are you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.

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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)

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A few various authors to check out
Christopher Brookmyre
George Orwell
Iain Banks (avoid Iain M Banks if you don't like Sci Fi)
Sebastian Faulks
Tom Sharpe
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:52, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

A good list
apart from Sebastian Faulkes who should be put up against a wall. Birdsong was unbelievably shit
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 11:58, Reply)

I am halfway through Birdsong at the moment & enjoying it.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:03, Reply)

I guess we're all different
but I'm right

Have you got to the worst sex scene in literature yet?
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Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)

Yes.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:12, Reply)

Also Tom Sharpe just isn't funny.

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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Correct.

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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:19, Reply)

Wrong. Everything up to The Midden is very good.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:30, Reply)

I need more info Battered, I want to know why they're good
and which books in particular. Come on, do my research for me.
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Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:20, Reply)

Amazon have this amazing thing on their site called reviews. Try them.
But a couple to get you started...

1984 by George Orwell
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Any of Brookmyre's.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Wed 13 Oct 2010, 12:32, Reply)

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