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John Updike dead.
US novelist John Updike has died of cancer aged 76 - thoughts, feelings and memories of his work here.
:: STARTED BY Poke it with a stick
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:26 27.01.09
Sacher-Masoch; "Venus in Furs" (and other works?)
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's most famous work; "masochism"; consent; power, sex and love; gender. Questions.
:: STARTED BY Lugue
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:59 25.01.09
J.G. Ballard
Condensed novels, computerised sex and charges of outright nihilism.
:: STARTED BY GogMickGog
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:50 19.01.09
2008: What are you currently reading?
New thread for a new year. Discuss your current book obsessions.
:: STARTED BY Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
:: 218 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:53 30.12.08
Short Story Request (or what are your favorite short stories?)
Help me put together a reading packet for a class I'm teaching this summer.
:: STARTED BY Tamayyurt
:: 67 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:05 24.12.08
Looking for a short story
In which I describe a short story I read in high school and ask if anyone here knows what it is called or who wrote it.
:: STARTED BY SMS
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:42 27.11.08
Tom Robbins....with two moth bobbins
"Our Similarities bring us to a common ground; Our Differences allow us to be fascinated by each other"...the great and glorious world of Tom Robbins
:: STARTED BY moonweaver
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:53 13.11.08
Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park novels
Have you read them and what do you think of them?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:18 05.11.08
Burroughs - opinions please?
What's the best Burroughs work to start with and is any of his stuff really worth reading?
:: STARTED BY gentleman loser
:: 79 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:18 03.11.08
My anti-Harry Potter rant
A home away from home for people who have reservations about J.K. Rowling's work.
(Spoilers for entire series)
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 171 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:34 03.11.08
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
The new novel from Bret Easton Ellis, the author of "American Psycho" and "Rules of Attraction" comes out August 16th, 2005. Come on in to discuss.
:: STARTED BY matthew.
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:00 03.11.08
Thomas Pynchon: Against the Day
The new book by Pynchon is out, so here is the place to discuss or otherwise over-complicate an already complicated book. Spoilers possibly within.
:: STARTED BY Tsuga
:: 49 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:26 01.11.08
The Shock Doctrine
No Logo's Author has grown up and become wiser and even more jaded.
:: STARTED BY Eek! A Freek!
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:52 14.10.08
Book cataloguing sites/applications
Using book sites or applications. Elucidate why you like them, why you don't use them, if you might try them out...
:: STARTED BY Anna de Logardiere
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:24 14.10.08
Dan Simmons
Discuss the award-winning sci-fi, fantasy, horror, crime, etc writing.
:: STARTED BY matthew.
:: 88 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:59 08.10.08
Jonathan Carroll
New book release
:: STARTED BY MrKismet
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:11 04.10.08
Diana Wynne Jones - House of Many Ways and The Pinhoe Egg
A thread for discussing recent books by Diana Wynne Jones.
:: STARTED BY museum in time, tiger in space
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:46 02.10.08
The Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Human Events Online ("The National Conservative Weekly") has published *their* list of the most harmful books of the modern age, so what are ours?
:: STARTED BY Phex: Dorset Doom
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:12 01.10.08
Shibumi
Come let us adore him! Of course I'm talking about Nicolai Hel in this brilliant & transcendant spoof of the spy genre.
:: STARTED BY Ticker
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:46 30.09.08
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is the greatest living American novelist.
:: STARTED BY calgodot
:: 137 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:55 25.09.08
On the road...
"And this was really the way that my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell."
Keywords: Jack Kerouac / Dharma Bums / Visions of Cody, Ginsberg / William Burroughs / Charles Bukowski / The Beat Poets .
:: STARTED BY Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
:: 27 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:44 24.09.08
No Question Will Be Mocked
A place to ask questions about books that may have bamboozled, confused you or just plain slipped your mind - questions that may warrent a short answer or start a discussion!
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 33 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:31 20.09.08
Pelecanos, Price, Lehane, The Wire & Brit Crime Fiction
So, I've been reading Pelecanos, Price and Lehane as a side project to S5 of The Wire - thoughts on that? And why can't I shake the feeling UK crime genre craftsmen are somehow lacking, now that I'm immersed in the worlds of their US counterparts?
**Spoiler Policy**
I have one ep of S5 of the TV series to go. One. Then it's over. So please please please don't post anything to do with what happens in the last ep. Til Sunday night.
:: STARTED BY Trudy Kockenlocker
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:13 17.09.08
David Foster Wallace and the Illuminatus vs. Bright-Eyed Undergraduates
Help save a plucky undergrad from crushing defeat at the hands of the finals examiners by talking to his weary tutor about 'Infinite Jest' and whether or not it bears anything but a passing resemblance to the 'Illuminatus!' books.
:: STARTED BY ginger
:: 22 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:55 14.09.08
Dexter in the Dark
The third Dexter book by Jeff Lindsay
:: STARTED BY lille christina
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:20 07.09.08
Derek Raymond
Derek Raymond. Opinions?
:: STARTED BY STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:50 28.08.08
Is Chuck Palahniuk getting old?
Chuck Palahniuk discussion
:: STARTED BY Rage
:: 74 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:48 28.08.08
Malazan book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson
Prolific and clever. Discussion of the rich world of Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memorie of Ice, House of Chains, and Midnight Tides. Forthcoming: The Bonehunters, Reaper's Gale, Toll of Hounds.
:: STARTED BY nyarlathotep's shoe horn
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:43 25.08.08
Virgil and Homer: who was more influential?
Two important classical authors. Which do you think has influenced proceedings more?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:09 22.08.08
Michel Houellebecq 'Atomised'
Discussion, dissection, etc. of 'Atomised' by Michel Houellebecq.
Arguments as to the quality of the work will doubtless ensue, also.
:: STARTED BY The Falcon
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:28 13.08.08
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