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Virgil and Homer: who was more influential?
Two important classical authors. Which do you think has influenced proceedings more?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:01 10.01.06
Harry Potter and the Ounce of Sense - SPOILERS TO EVERY BOOK PUBLISHED SO FAR
How would you protect Harry Potter if you were not being increasingly absurdly written as a series of straight-down-the-line school stories with a Hardy Boys gloss and some magic? Includes speculation on the last two books in the series.
:: STARTED BY West Baltimore Hausing Project
:: 68 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:13 10.01.06
Fortean Times
The magazine of strange phenomena. Any readers here?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:32 06.01.06
How do you decide what to buy next?
More importantly, how do you find new authors and stay on top of new releases?
:: STARTED BY Loomis
:: 23 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:45 03.01.06
Temple Grandin
Autistic author writes about autism and animal husbandry.
:: STARTED BY ibis the being
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:30 03.01.06
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came ... finally
Stephen King's The Dark Tower VII is finally out, causing much a'singing and merriment in the Puritan household. Spoilers to come at a later date, most likely. Thankya big-big.
:: STARTED BY Laughing
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:20 29.12.05
James Joyce's Mystique
I think I drop it.
:: STARTED BY ziparrow's Flex On K9 Crack
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:52 27.12.05
Garth Nix - Is he (lazy generalisation alert!) the new Philip Pullman?
Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, The Creature in the Case, The Old Kingdom, Ancelstierre, magic and fire, Australian SF, it's all good.
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:58 23.12.05
Guillaume Apollinaire
Give some tips as to and who knows, maybe discuss the work of French author Guillaume Apollinaire.
:: STARTED BY Fervi, Folia!
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:34 23.12.05
Wilkie Collins
Have you read any of his work, and can you help me find out more? Keywords: Wilkie Collins, Moonstone, Armadale, gothic novels
:: STARTED BY Ariadne
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:00 23.12.05
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The ultimate Christmas ghost story.
Keywords: Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, the Ghosts of Past, Present and Future, Mr and Mrs Fezziwig.
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:11 22.12.05
2005: What are you currently reading?
A thread to list what you're currently reading, with notes on how it's all going.
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake
:: 299 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:06 22.12.05
Tom Robbins....with two moth bobbins
"Our Similarities bring us to a common ground; Our Differences allow us to be fascinated by each other"...the great and glorious world of Tom Robbins
:: STARTED BY moonweaver
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:38 22.12.05
Malazan book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson
Prolific and clever. Discussion of the rich world of Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memorie of Ice, House of Chains, and Midnight Tides. Forthcoming: The Bonehunters, Reaper's Gale, Toll of Hounds.
:: STARTED BY squib
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:31 20.12.05
Finnegans of All Sorts
Finnegans Wake, iterations and excerpts and general questions, theories, and requests
:: STARTED BY Decadent Daytripper in Love
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:14 20.12.05
Pirates!
Pirates. Anyone have some recommendations?
:: STARTED BY Locust No longer
:: 22 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:12 07.12.05
Recommend a Bookshop.
Bookshops. Recommendations. Make one.
:: STARTED BY Shrug: Butcher Boy
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:27 06.12.05
When Editors Go Bad
There are times when an author clearly probably knew what they were doing and someone else - I'm presuming editor, here - stepped in and fucked things up. I kinda think the writer is almost always in the right as to how their material should be portrayed/framed/typeset and spelled, but maybe not. Any examples of this, ever really annoy you? Who did you blame?
:: STARTED BY Decadent Daytripper in Love
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:30 06.12.05
What's The Deal With The Lord Of The Rings?
Come one and all to discuss rhedking's/Problems with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings./What were the reasons for the bad guys' actions?/And what became of the various factions?
:: STARTED BY rhedking
:: 39 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:46 27.11.05
Status or Contract?
Franzen, Marcus, Gaddis and others argue the reason for fiction. Is it to entertain (Contract) or is it for art's sake (Status)?
:: STARTED BY matthew.
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:28 22.11.05
Diana Wynne Jones - Conrad's Fate
Thread for discussion of the first new Chrestomanci novel in, like, fifteen years or something.
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:12 15.11.05
Chain-criticism bad?
Discussion on the effects both good and bad of the big bookshops on the areas they move into and inhabit, their staff and the people that shop at them.
:: STARTED BY The Return Of Rothkoid
:: 33 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:25 15.11.05
Book buying habits
A thread for discussion of book purchasing habits
:: STARTED BY Rex Feral
:: 33 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:47 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 11:58 09.11.05
Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
A quick inconsequential question, but it'll settle an argument.
:: STARTED BY Captain John's Lipgloss
:: 40 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:54 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 18:23 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 12:52 08.11.05
Young Adult Fiction?
I take issue with it, your views?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:58 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 20:47 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 01:37 04.11.05
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