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1984, and all that
Novels, short stories, and so forth, of a small band rebelling against the totalitarian government of a dystopic future. What's your favourite, and what's just plain awful?
:: STARTED BY lonely as a cloud...
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:43 21.04.06
J.T. Leroy -Sarah
Author J.T. Leroy and his book "sarah".
:: STARTED BY Ethan Hawke
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:26 19.04.06
Milestone novels and the gender divide
A discussion of a study into the books that men and women cite as life-changing.
:: STARTED BY Smoothly
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:17 17.04.06
How to read Hemingway
I find the works of Ernest Hemingway difficult and frustrating. Can you help? Or do you dislike them for reasons other than finding them difficult and frustrating? Do tell.
:: STARTED BY Jack Vincennes
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:28 17.04.06
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize. Considered a good example of postmodernism in action. It appears on an AQA test.
:: STARTED BY matthew.
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:03 15.04.06
George Orwell
Threads, books and stuff
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:35 15.04.06
Luther Blissett/Wu Ming
Italian Luther Blisset/Wu Ming publishing collective gets their big bestseller translated and distributes it for free
Q, '54, Bologna collective.
:: STARTED BY BioDynamo
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:22 13.04.06
DBC Pierre's Vernon God Little - Spoilers
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, which won the Booker in 2003. What did you think of it?
:: STARTED BY Jack Vincennes
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:32 12.04.06
Help me find a book on China
I'm looking for a book on modern China, how it's developing, that also includes a bit of history.
:: STARTED BY Ariadne
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:39 11.04.06
Stanislaw Lem is dead
Stanislaw Lem - Russian Science Fiction - Psychology
:: STARTED BY A fall of geckos
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:05 08.04.06
Online Sharing Library
What do you think: A site enabling people to share their treasured but mouldering book collections, and to expand their already dangerous levels of knowledge with others' books.
:: STARTED BY Leidan
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:12 07.04.06
Vice, Bizarre and others
"Extreme Journalism"- what do you think?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:28 06.04.06
Paris Hilton's lifestyle seems to have infected young adult literature
A very interesting article by Naomi Wolf reveals an avalanche of current young adult books that feature fairly unrepentant teen sex, drug use, petty cruelty, and consumerism.
:: STARTED BY gridley
:: 41 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:16 05.04.06
Fake Someone
Dan Brown, James Frey, JT Leroy. One tricked Oprah, the other Winona Rider and the other tricked...well, lotsa people. Let's ask the question: is it nice to fool people when it comes to non-fiction and also, is JD Salinger really a 70 year old Armenian dental hygienist from Bulowayo?
:: STARTED BY tituba
:: 22 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:53 31.03.06
How to read academically
A guide.
:: STARTED BY creation
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:54 27.03.06
Journal collections
Journal lovers, where does one aquire academic journals?
:: STARTED BY creation
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:32 27.03.06
How accurate are your books
A thread about accuracy in non-fiction books published today.
:: STARTED BY sleazenation
:: 28 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:23 25.03.06
Format and readability
A thread for people to discuss which formats and other factors effect their reading experience
:: STARTED BY sleazenation
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:14 21.03.06
Re-reading books
How often should you re-read books, and should you re-read ones you read as a teenager?
:: STARTED BY Olulabelle
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:33 21.03.06
Octavia Butler is dead
Science Fiction Writer Octavia Butler dies aged 58.
:: STARTED BY semioticrobotic
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:44 16.03.06
Volumes
How many books do you read in a year?
:: STARTED BY Logos
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:54 16.03.06
Class and identification
A working-class protagonist is something to be. Or is she?
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:04 13.03.06
"The Line of Beauty" - is it "gay fiction" or beyond labels?
A novel by Alan Hollinghurst about a gay houseguest and a Tory MP's family that hosts him. Is this "gay fiction" or simply a "classic"?
:: STARTED BY matthew.
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:33 07.03.06
What novel should I buy?
Recommend a novel to me... or anthology of short stories... or something other to what I'd normally read.
:: STARTED BY sleazenation
:: 31 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:43 07.03.06
"Bookish" People
Assumptions of superiority on the part of people who read books?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 49 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:16 06.03.06
Saving Dracula
Finding the art in the trash that was once art.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:58 26.02.06
The Forging of Good Fantasy. (+1 story of resonance)
Good fantasy, like good myth, encourages and inspires. Let's take a gander at the books that have done so, and even figure out how they did it.
And take the piss out of those that fall shot of the mark.
:: STARTED BY Digital Hermes
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:14 26.02.06
You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers
Dave Egger's travels the world with Brad Pitt (Sort Of) and gives away money he made from a lightbulb siloutte. And then he dies, but it says that on the first page.
:: STARTED BY Jawsus-son Starship
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:34 20.02.06
Siri Hustvedt: What I Loved
Anyone read this? Come and discuss it here.
:: STARTED BY Loomis
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:26 20.02.06
Poker Books
Poker Books - Good thing or bad thing? Is Super Systems the best thing in the Poker World, or the nonsense ramblings of a deranged Texan who's eaten way too much pork rind... Keywords; Poker Books, Doyle Brunson, Super Systems etc.
:: STARTED BY Jawsus-son Starship
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:30 20.02.06
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