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How do you read?
When, where and how do you read books?
:: STARTED BY Mourne Kransky
:: 23 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:31 05.09.05
Airport fiction.
Thread for the recommendation of (and guilty celebration of) airport fiction. You know, those chunky things that there's about a thousand of in any second-hand bookshop.
:: STARTED BY The Return Of Rothkoid
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:39 04.09.05
God Jr.
Dennis Cooper's newest book.
:: STARTED BY --
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:05 04.09.05
Werewolf Novels
Looking for recommendations (or warnings). Um, grrrr.
:: STARTED BY Chiropteran
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:11 03.09.05
Recommend me some William Vollman
William T Vollman reading recommendations.
:: STARTED BY rakehell
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:58 26.08.05
Free books.
Have some free books. Yum.
:: STARTED BY Ex
:: 58 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:46 22.08.05
Ciphers, by Paul Di Filippo
Discussion on this "thematic sequel" to Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, published in 1997
:: STARTED BY buttergun
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:30 20.08.05
Big Gay Read
Big Gay Read - do you have a favourite 'gay' fiction author, and what do you think of separating out gay fiction as a genre?
:: STARTED BY Ariadne
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:06 20.08.05
Sven Hassel
World War Two, german soldiers, war stories, recommendations.
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:45 19.08.05
Dead McBain
Crime writer Ed McBain, 87th precinct author, RIP
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:40 16.08.05
I Take Issue With 'IT'
Your views?
:: STARTED BY Regrettable Juvenilia
:: 45 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:02 15.08.05
Get your name in a book
These "guest appearances" are being auctioned off for a good cause. Authors include Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Lemony Snicket, others....
:: STARTED BY gravitybitch
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:35 15.08.05
Adrian Mole Diaries.
Pandora/I adore ya/I implore ye/Don't forget me.
:: STARTED BY +#'s, - names
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:27 15.08.05
Ayn Rand: WTF?
Wanted: some idea of what controversial thinker Ayn Rand thinks about. Controversially.
:: STARTED BY Phex: Dorset Doom
:: 42 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:35 12.08.05
Breakthrough Decodes 'Classical Holy Grail'
Previously illegible works of Sophocles, Euripides, Ovid and Aeschylus Emerge: Find also includes series of Christian Gospels
:: STARTED BY ericb
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:51 11.08.05
Barbelith Book Swap Central Clearing House
A thread for people to list books that they want second-hand copies of.
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:37 09.08.05
Historical Illuminatus
Robert Anton Wilson, Earth Will Shake, Widows Son, Nature's God, Historical Illuminatus, a thread to discuss this trilogy, possible spoilers
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:41 05.08.05
Riders of the Purple Wage
Discussion of the classic Philip Jose Farmer novella
:: STARTED BY buttergun
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:24 05.08.05
The Forbidden Library
It's forbidden! You shouldn't even be reading this, really.
:: STARTED BY Lord Morgue
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:23 31.07.05
Civil War Alternate History?
Request for counter-factual novels about the American Civil War
:: STARTED BY delacroix
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:01 28.07.05
Margaret Atwood - Oryx And Crake and others (minor spoilers)
Margaret Atwood's Oryx And Crake: I've just read it and I'm not sure how much I liked it. What did you think? What about her other books?
:: STARTED BY Jack Vincennes
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:25 26.07.05
Recommend me some satire..
Wherein Mick Scrabbles desperately for something new to write about
:: STARTED BY GogMickGog
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:32 25.07.05
A life of Dickensian jollity
Dickens, works of, jolly chat and analysis relating to. Spoilers welcome - from my point of view at any rate, I read ahead all the time in Dickens anyway - but should perhaps be flagged if anyone raises major objections.
:: STARTED BY Kit-Cat Club
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:49 20.07.05
Harry Potter Book Six
According to JK Rowling's Site the title for the next book will be Half Blood Prince. Also, according to a friend who has a computer that can cope with flash sites much better than I can, the title does not refer to Harry or Voldemort ...
:: STARTED BY Multiple Man
:: 72 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:41 15.07.05
Happy Bloomsday!
It's totally Joycecore!
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:25 14.07.05
Better than Will Self
Will Self's the greatest writer that this language lately knew. That opinion can't be righter. Does it resonate with you? Give reasons for your theorem, tell us why your champion's good. Say why we don't revere 'em, and why you think we should.
:: STARTED BY Haus about we all give each other a big lovely huggle?
:: 37 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:23 13.07.05
Over-rated books
Tell us about the books that everyone else lauds but you secretly loathe.
:: STARTED BY Loomis
:: 59 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:12 13.07.05
Pullman wins Whitbread
The Whitbread Prize was seized by Will and Lyra, whose epic tale won many an admirer. The Northern Lights illumine what fine art the Amber Spyglass shows in Pullman's cart. God, marzipan and sex before we marry? No subtle knife would carve this shit from Harry.
:: STARTED BY Kit-Cat Club
:: 22 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:15 06.07.05
What would you read on Jackanory
Jackanory is coming back, so what story would you read if you were on there?
:: STARTED BY invisible_al
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:56 06.07.05
Simon Bolivar
Book advice concerning Simon Bolivar and South America
:: STARTED BY LykeX
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:14 02.07.05
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