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George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series
I've read a lot of fantasy genre books in my day, and this series is, hands down, TOP 3 in my opinion.
:: STARTED BY Mike Phillips
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:33 11.04.08
Craig Davidson
A contender for Palahniuk’s belt? Let’s talk about the Canadian author of Rust and Bone and The Fighter, and maybe boxing and male violence in literature in general as well.
:: STARTED BY Blake Head
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:04 09.04.08
Transgressive literature
To follow on from the Sotos thread, lets discuss transgressive literature. Pointless arse written by (mostly) men who wear too much black, or the terminal documents of the late 20th/early 21st century?
:: STARTED BY lord nuneaton savage
:: 23 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:16 08.04.08
Steven Hall: "The Raw Shark Texts"
A 2007 thriller featuring a conceptual shark from the depths of un-space. Also: thirty pages of flip-book!
:: STARTED BY Raw Norton
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:14 29.03.08
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke has died. A thread to discuss his work
:: STARTED BY Axolotl
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:04 26.03.08
Satanism and the French Decadent Literature movement
Looking for good, informative books on Satanism and how it related to the writers of the 19th-century French Decadent movement
:: STARTED BY --
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:26 24.03.08
Hinterland - SPOILERS
A book what Sax wrote. It's about big cats on the moors, mass-produced paintings which leave people dead, two lost and lonely girls living on an island in the middle of a park duck pond, and sinister black cars which watch the streets.
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 248 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:03 04.03.08
The Secret History (with spoilers inside!)
Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Euripides trousers, Eumenides trousers. Whaddayasay?
:: STARTED BY ONLY NICE THINGS
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:29 29.02.08
Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer
Mailer's gargantuan novel of ancient Egypt
:: STARTED BY buttergun
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:51 23.02.08
Spook Country- William Gibson [SPOILERS but tagged somehow please]
Finally, William Gibson releases his follow-up to Patern Recognition. It's called Spook Country and it's really rather good imo.
:: STARTED BY STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:14 19.02.08
You can Bet on Bukowski
TRIBUTE
TO A GREAT POET
:: STARTED BY Ender
:: 38 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:12 11.02.08
Computer books - Help needed
Trying to find the right book on computers.
:: STARTED BY lille christina
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:57 28.01.08
Online short story of the day
In which we provide links to our favorite short stories.
:: STARTED BY deja_vroom
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:03 25.01.08
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?
Kurt Vonnegut beginner's guide
:: STARTED BY Tamayyurt
:: 67 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:27 17.01.08
Gravity's Rainbow
In equal parts it's an incorrible, impenetrable horror of a book, and in others it seems inspired, evanescent, ridiculously intelligent, moving... does anyone else feel the same? Opinions seem divided about GR between seeing it as genius or obscure pap.
:: STARTED BY Dee Vapr
:: 45 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:52 16.01.08
Soon I Will Be Invincible!
A novel from the perspective of a supervillain...
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:08 08.01.08
Film and Music Writing
new magazine launched - need contributors and feedback.
:: STARTED BY sandro.
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:27 02.01.08
The Sexual Life of Catherine M
Catherine Millet and The Sexual Life of Catherine M. Orgies galore. Has anyone read it?
:: STARTED BY Ariadne
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:16 26.12.07
2007: What are you currently reading?
You know the score by now. What you have/are/will be reading and how it's going for you.
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Has Left the Building
:: 346 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:18 25.12.07
The silly lovely delight that is Maira Kalman
Maira Kalman illustrates and writes books for children. You should strongly consider purchasing these books for yourself and never letting any children get their grubby sticky hands on them.
:: STARTED BY HCE
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:26 10.12.07
Help me stock a feminist store
If you were setting up a feminist bookstore, what would you put on the (virtual) shelves?
:: STARTED BY Jester
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:36 05.12.07
The End of the Hardback?
Picador announce they will no longer publish new titles in hardbacks. Is this something that should have happened ages ago?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Has Left the Building
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:41 27.11.07
Christopher Priest
The author of The Prestige, The Glamour, The Extremes, and no one else.
:: STARTED BY Blake Head
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:26 27.11.07
College Magazine
I've recently joined a poor college magazine commitee, in the hope to improve the magazine. Any ideas how I can achieve this?
:: STARTED BY Opheliac
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:41 23.11.07
The Martin Amis Thread
Come to praise / bury the author of, among novels, The Rachel Papers, Money, London Fields, The Information and House of Meetings. Keywords/ phrases might include: Masculinity, class, race, gender, style, criticism, Stalin, 'Islamism', Bellow, Nabokov, Daddy issues and telling Julian Barnes to Fuck Off.
:: STARTED BY Glenn Close But No Cigar
:: 59 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:37 22.11.07
David Peace
David Peace, crime fic's his game, is blessed with an inappropriate name; for in his books you'll find no calm, but plenty panic and alarm.
:: STARTED BY STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
:: 25 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:28 16.11.07
Who's Philip K. Dick?
Philip K Dick 101 and general discussion
:: STARTED BY Tamayyurt
:: 128 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:42 14.11.07
Sergei Lukyanenko: Night Watch, Day Watch, Dusk/Twilight Watch, Final Watch.
Night Watch! Everyone step out of the the Twilight!
:: STARTED BY Feverfew
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:17 09.11.07
The Blair Years
Tony Blair's powerful press secretary Alastair Campbell has published his diaries of his time in Downing Street.
:: STARTED BY Fist Fun
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:29 07.11.07
Elementary. my dear Conan Doyle.
A fan of Sir Arthur, Doctor Watson and that other bloke requests pointers for decent pastiches and heads for anthologies.
:: STARTED BY DavidXBrunt
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:10 05.11.07
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