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Thomas Bernhard
Discussion of Thomas Bernhard, the excellence or lack thereof of various translations, suggestions of other authors to read if one likes this sort of thing.
:: STARTED BY HCE
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:03 22.06.05
Recommend Me Some Fun Sci-fi
I need sci-fi with some fun and adventure.
:: STARTED BY Tamayyurt
:: 69 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:39 21.06.05
Rachel Caine's "Warden" novels
Started reading the third novel, "Chill Factor" the other day. Wondering if anyone else has read them, and what they thought when finished. There will probably be SPOILERS.
:: STARTED BY Bard: One-Man Humaton Hoedown
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:00 19.06.05
Steph Swainston
Author of well-received fantasy/New Weird novels The Year of Our War and No Present Like Time
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:31 16.06.05
Foucault's Pendulum
One of the best book I've read, sneakily making it's way to my top choice..
:: STARTED BY The Prince of All Lies
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:07 16.06.05
Orange Prize 2005
What have you read from the long/shortlist for this year? What did you think?
:: STARTED BY Ariadne
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:03 14.06.05
And the award for lifetime achievement in literature goes to...
you've read the rest, now who's the best..?
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 31 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:09 13.06.05
In The Belly Of The Beast
Jack Henry Abbott, Norman Mailer, prison violence. Is Abbott the real deal or is he feeding Mailer bullshit? Assuming anybody's read it.
:: STARTED BY P. Horus Rhacoid
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:11 13.06.05
The Da Vinci Code
You know, the one that's been topping all those best-seller lists!
:: STARTED BY Thirteen
:: 28 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:15 08.06.05
The Turning, by Tim Winton
Tim Winton's new book, The Turning. Any chop?
:: STARTED BY matsya
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:04 03.06.05
Robert Sheckley Relief Drive
Sci-fi author Robert Sheckley needs assistance with medical bills.
:: STARTED BY Grey Area
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:15 24.05.05
Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections
One of the best books of the past decade, or overly hyped?
:: STARTED BY matthew.
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:45 24.05.05
Test Card F
Has anyone read the book King Mob mentions in The Invsibles, "Test Card F"? Any comments on it? Something that caught your eye in a special way? I couldn´t conceive why in the hell he would "only watch the ads" on tv, after having read the book.
:: STARTED BY Mug Chum
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:54 24.05.05
Fiction Fast
I decided to go one year without fiction and am regretting it deeply. Can you recommend some good nonfiction to a deeply bored individual?
:: STARTED BY lekvar
:: 52 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:23 19.05.05
Origin of dramatic use of from the grave narrative voices
dramatic techniques, from-the-grave narrative, dead voices
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:00 10.05.05
The International Front -- AKA "The If"
Grant Morrison's long-delayed novel
:: STARTED BY buttergun
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:35 07.05.05
Unknown Pleasures
Theres just too much good stuff floating around on various zines etc. So I made this thread. If you stumble across a work of great splendour, be sure to link it here.
:: STARTED BY agvvv
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:00 05.05.05
White Teeth
There are many Smiths, but only one Zadie; it appears she is a most talented lady; Her book's set in London, not Glasgow or Neath; It was out quite a while ago, it's called White Teeth.
:: STARTED BY Foxxy Feminist Fury
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:55 26.04.05
Book Club: The Aeneid
How inconsiderate of Virgil (or, as the search function politely adds, Vergil) to write an epic with a title for which there are no decent rhymes in English. This thread is to discuss holding a joint reading of the Aeneid.
Here we discuss the brave Aeneas,
Who's dutifully known as 'pius'.
An inspiration to Anchises,
But somewhat floppy faced with crises.
As we observe his lusts and manias,
You might feel sorry for Ascanius.
Though little won't the brave boy dare,
He'll soon be taken into care.
:: STARTED BY Kit-Cat Club
:: 39 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:01 21.04.05
Is there a napster like ebook file sharing site?
I'm kinda broke, but I want to read and I owe the library $30 or so. Is there a secret ebook filesharing place?
:: STARTED BY Jack Denfeld
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:46 19.04.05
Choosing between Pussy and High School
Can you recommend me an Acker?
:: STARTED BY Ruchbah me, Armaduras
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:35 18.04.05
DFW's Oblivion
Oblivion, by David Foster Wallace, author of Inifinite Jest and other, shorter, books for young men who wish to be clever.
:: STARTED BY iconoplast
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:49 18.04.05
Stranger In A Strange Land
No summary available
:: STARTED BY Harold Washington died for you
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:42 16.04.05
Recommend me some web writers
There's heaps of them out there, the little geniuses (genii?), putting their work up there on the intramanet, and I want to read their work. I'm thinking of the people who tackle the more creative aspects of blogging
:: STARTED BY matsya
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:05 14.04.05
Annotations, the book club & the wiki
Could we possibly use the wiki for a mutation of the Barbelith Book Club ?
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 23 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:09 14.04.05
2/15 The Day The World Said NO To War
On February 15th (2003) the world witnessed, and participated in, the greatest global peace protest ever.
:: STARTED BY unheimlich manoeuvre
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:19 10.04.05
Book database?
Resources for looking up literature on the internet
:: STARTED BY elpis eutropius
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:15 03.04.05
Non-fiction?
So, what non-fiction have you been reading recently, why were you reading it and what did you think of it?
:: STARTED BY sleazenation
:: 23 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:24 28.03.05
His Dark Materials: SPOILERS, and then some
So, last week I finished The Amber Spyglass, the third and final book of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials. Deva summed it up pretty nicely: I too felt "bereft" because there's no more of it to read... And also because the ending packs quite an emotional punch...
:: STARTED BY Regrettable Juvenilia
:: 42 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:17 23.03.05
Recommend me some journals
There's heapsa great web journals out there with magnificent short fic and poetry on them. Which ones do you visit reg'lar?
:: STARTED BY matsya
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:59 21.03.05
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