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Book buying habits
A thread for discussion of book purchasing habits
:: STARTED BY illmatic
:: 33 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:47 14.11.05
The Homeward Bounders (SPOILERS, of course)
Diana Wynne Jones is TEH GODDESS and this is her best book. We should start lobbying to get it made into a film, a la 'Howls Moving Castle' who's with me!?
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:58 09.11.05
Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
A quick inconsequential question, but it'll settle an argument.
:: STARTED BY Poke it with a stick
:: 40 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:54 09.11.05
Identifying with characters of the opposite sex...
I identify more readily with young men in modern literature than with women... why?
:: STARTED BY Tryphena Absent
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:23 08.11.05
Harry Potter and the Canon
Does Harry Potter belong in the Literary Canon, as espoused by critics such as Harold Bloom?
:: STARTED BY matthew.
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:52 08.11.05
Young Adult Fiction?
I take issue with it, your views?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:58 08.11.05
Iris Murdoch (Contains clearly marked spoilers to some of her books)
1919-1999. British novelist, Booker prize winner, author of The Sea The Sea, A Severed Head, The Bell, etc.
:: STARTED BY Loomis
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:47 06.11.05
A.E. van Vogt- "The Black Destroyer" and others
Has anyone read any of this man's work?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:37 03.11.05
In a station of the metro
A haiku by Pound /
Will this make for a neat thread? /
Not if no one posts.
:: STARTED BY Rosslyntemplar
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:50 03.11.05
Mclaren-Ross/Hamilton
Stories of Soho Past..
:: STARTED BY GogMickGog
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:13 29.10.05
Interview with Baby Jesus - Anne Rice writes a novel of Christ as a child.
Was Jesus a vampire? We may soon find out, as Anne Rice is writing a trilogy of novels, based on scripture stories.
:: STARTED BY Mistoffelees
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:54 28.10.05
Tabloid Broadsheets
newspapers, broadsheets, tabloids, Independent, Times, Guardian, Berliner
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Has Left the Building
:: 28 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:34 24.10.05
Illustrated Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow -- illustrated!?
:: STARTED BY buttergun
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:56 24.10.05
Jack Vance
Sci fi and Fantasy author
:: STARTED BY Jack_Rackem
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:59 14.10.05
How do you read? (The mechanics of reading)
Do you scan ahead, focus on centre of page, loyally read one word at a time.....?
:: STARTED BY modern maenad
:: 34 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:51 14.10.05
Turning the Pages
The British Library's digitized versions of several rare manuscripts.
:: STARTED BY *
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:25 09.10.05
Books About Body Modification
Know of novels, accounts, or critical texts dealing with body modification?
:: STARTED BY feathered_up
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:02 07.10.05
Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby is a friend of Helen Fielding, arguably the originator of "lad-lit", and the author of such works as "About a Boy", "Fever Pitch", "High Fidelity", "How to be Good" and "A Long Way Down". Like Neil Gaiman, he has his fair share of haterz on the 'lith, but also at least one staunch defender. Come along and join the discussion.
:: STARTED BY Margin Walker
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:41 05.10.05
Koji Suzuki
The Japanese author of Ring, Spiral and Dark Water.
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:03 04.10.05
Ethnicity and genre
Why are there so few horror writers of color? Are there?
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:04 03.10.05
David Mitchell
Nominee for last year's Booker Prize and author of the rather superb 'Cloud Atlas' (amongst other things).
:: STARTED BY Jack Vincennes
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:04 28.09.05
Has anyone read Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town?
I found it quite excellent- any other opinions?
:: STARTED BY hazylium
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:26 27.09.05
American Scientist or New Scientist
Play Devil's advocate and tell me which magazine to subscribe to
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:19 26.09.05
Grade my Essay
On Charles Bukowski
:: STARTED BY Ender
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:03 23.09.05
Ganesh's Karmic White Elephant Book Stall
Gettt yer free novels an' textbooks! Four for a paaahnd! Of, erm, karma...
:: STARTED BY Ganesh
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:15 16.09.05
Black Britain - literature & memoirs
Memoirs of Black Britons - conspicuous by their absence?
:: STARTED BY illmatic
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:56 14.09.05
It's the end of the world reading list!
Actually not as cool as it sounds. I may start another topic on end-of-the-world reading list, rather like Desert Island Discs. Anyway, what I need is science fiction novels about overpopulation. Basically.
:: STARTED BY Whisky Priestess
:: 25 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:55 11.09.05
Does anyone remember b. s. johnson?
bryan stanley johnson (1933-1973),
author of Albert Angelo, House Mother Normal, and others. does anyone still care?
:: STARTED BY nyarlathotep's shoe horn
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:38 09.09.05
Man Booker Prize 2005
Discussion of this year's nominations.
:: STARTED BY Loomis
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:20 09.09.05
Jon Courtenay Grimwood
A thread for discussion of SF author Jon Courtenay Grimwood, who also reviews SF/F for The Guardian's Review section on Saturdays, and didn't do a piece on Sax's novel Hinterland, although we won't hold that against him here. Much.
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:10 07.09.05
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