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Martin Amis's House of Meetings
It's Martin in Moscow and Amis above the Arctic Circle. Anyone read this attempt at a contemporary Russian novel?
:: STARTED BY Janean Patience
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:31 10.10.06
Thrillers for the PhD crowd
From Eco to Tartt, Dan Brown and that awful Rule of Four thrown in... art history meets knife-wielding crazies!
:: STARTED BY wembley can change in 28 days
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:20 06.10.06
Voltaire, "Candide"
Satire on war, death...well, everything bad, really.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:13 05.10.06
Fact and Fiction: Spot The Difference.
What are the key differences between Academic & Fictional writing?
:: STARTED BY StarWhisper
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:53 05.10.06
Peter Sotos
Awhile back, I mentioned Peter Sotos' name on a thread in the music forum and someone said that there should be a thread about his work in the book forum one day. Well, I finally got around to doing that thread now, for better or worse... So disgusting pervert or genuine writer? Or both?
:: STARTED BY --
:: 44 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:56 04.10.06
Sam Selvon, "The Lonely Londoners"
"At Waterloo station, hopeful new arrivals from the West indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London."
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:12 29.09.06
Logue's Iliad
Discussion of Christopher Logue's decades-long work-in-progress Iliad translation
:: STARTED BY buttergun
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:50 27.09.06
Is there any good fantasy anywhere?
I'm running out of decent fantasy authors. Are there any more?
:: STARTED BY at the scarwash
:: 87 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:01 26.09.06
Ezra Pound's translation of "The Seafarer"
Bittre breostcares hath Ich.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:50 23.09.06
Kill Your Darlings
Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Colin Dexter, What makes some authors kill of their main characters?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Has Left the Building
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:39 23.09.06
20th Century's Best Characters
Book Magazine's 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900
:: STARTED BY casemaker
:: 61 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:22 21.09.06
The Dread Poet Millay
In which the poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay and perhaps sonnets generally are discussed. Come help breathe fresh life into a dusty corpse!
:: STARTED BY HCE
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:22 17.09.06
Hooray! Daniel Pinkwater's Neddiad is online for free!
Daniel Pinkwater is really keen, and now his prose is free. He's put it on the in-ter-net, and that fills me with glee.
:: STARTED BY MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:25 10.09.06
Jeff Vandermeer: Strange Fictions
Saints, Madmen, Squids, Mushrooms & Architecture
:: STARTED BY Mark Parsons
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:29 31.08.06
That big old page of numbers in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
help me pierce the postmodern veil of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
:: STARTED BY matsya
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:43 29.08.06
"Mutant and Cyborg Images of the Disabled Body in the Landscape of Science Fiction"
Seeking an essay, apparently written in 2004 by one Lydia Fecteau, of the above title.
:: STARTED BY Hydra vs Leviathan
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:20 21.08.06
Macabre Musings
Macabre, dark humour, is there anything else out there that parallels the liked of an Edward Gorey ?
:: STARTED BY 33
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:34 17.08.06
What are the most important books of all time (to you)?
Fiction, non-fiction, scientific tracts or religious texts, it doesn’t matter- anything and everything goes.
:: STARTED BY Matrixian
:: 41 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:43 16.08.06
LITTLE big by J. Crowley
Reading an "unknown" classic.
:: STARTED BY Henningjohnathan
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:01 16.08.06
Homofactus Press: Self-Organizing Men
Homofactus press is coming out with its first anthology, and I get a sneak peek, which I share with you (as part of an insidious marketing ploy— yay!) Keywords: grassroots press, self-publishing, gender, collaboration, anthology, marketing, FTM, promotion.
:: STARTED BY *
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:09 13.08.06
J K Rowling voted best living British writer by The Book magazine.
Best living British writer? Kill me, kill me now.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 112 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:36 11.08.06
An Underworld Reading List
Tell me about hell
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:35 03.08.06
Who's this Rheinhardt cat?
Who is the Rheinhardt referred to in the forum summary, and what has ze written?
:: STARTED BY iconoplast
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:35 01.08.06
Benjamin Zephaniah
The fantastic poet and performer who refused an OBE, his work.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:02 20.07.06
Direct Action and Invasion
Both to be educational and worthy of a read.
:: STARTED BY Dragon
:: 37 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:30 20.07.06
Your Local Library
Do you use it? What for? Is it any good? Library discussion here.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 34 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:46 14.07.06
Doctor Who novelisations
Just what it says on the tin which is bigger on the inside than the outside.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:59 13.07.06
Pratchett, Rankin, Holte, Adams, Fforde (?) - product authors? And the Capsule library?
Is there a monolithic group of authors with a precise and highly similar appeal, such as Adams, Pratchett and Robert Rankin? Who else fits into this category? Douglas Adams? Fforde? Thomas Holte? Piers Anthony?
How do authors like this differ from and resemble each other? If somebody likes the Discworld, would the "Myth-takes" series be a good bet?
Can you guess form one book what other authors a person will like, in what genres? And with how much accuracy?
:: STARTED BY ONLY NICE THINGS
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:28 13.07.06
Self-Improvement Books
Self-help, personal growth, not so much inspirational, certainly not Matrix Warrior.
:: STARTED BY Smoothly
:: 42 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:02 10.07.06
Christopher Fowler
The British author of quirky urban fables and gritty horror/ghost stories.
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:58 09.07.06
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