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The Flashman Thread
In which we discuss George MacDonald Fraser's carousing poltroon Harry Paget Flashman, anti-hero of a series of (arguably politically suspect) comic novels.
:: STARTED BY Glenn Ponder & Lazarus
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:40 17.10.07
2007 nobel for literature
doris lessing has been awarded a nobel. discuss.
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:44 12.10.07
Books as objects.
In which we decide that you CAN judge a book by the cover.
:: STARTED BY DavidXBrunt
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:39 11.10.07
Succulent Baudrillard
The search for really beautiful writing in non-fiction.
:: STARTED BY Nick's Experimental Wrongness
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:51 09.10.07
In Praise of the Poet Geoffrey Hill
The writer of Mercian Hymns, Tenebrae, Orchards of Syon; a thread about his new book and for discussion.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:57 07.10.07
Poetry & The Planets
A search for poetry pertaining to the 7 planets of antiquity.
:: STARTED BY Fulcanelli
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:38 05.10.07
The Joy of Browsing.
Art, skill, or hobby?
:: STARTED BY DavidXBrunt
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:53 05.10.07
How many basic plots?
Unexamined ramblings about the contention that there are only so many basic plots. Contrary opinions welcome.
:: STARTED BY Dusto
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:08 05.10.07
J. M. Coetzee
South African novelist. Double Booker winner, Nobel Prize 2003, Life and Times of Michael K, Disgraced, Youth, etc.
:: STARTED BY Loomis
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:16 05.10.07
Douglas Coupland strikes again
new novel, jPod, now in stores
:: STARTED BY eargang
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:03 05.10.07
Is Chuck Palahniuk getting old?
Chuck Palahniuk discussion
:: STARTED BY Rage will BOP YOU UP
:: 65 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:21 04.10.07
Diana Wynne-Jones rocks harder than J.K. Rowling.
A miscellany of DWJ discussion
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:: 31 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:43 03.10.07
The Master and Margarita: SPOILERS
Nothing at all to me is sweeter /
Than a thread on 'The Master and Margarita'
:: STARTED BY Baz Auckland
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:56 02.10.07
Professor Bernice Summerfield and the miraculous literary afterlife
Her friends call her Benny.
:: STARTED BY DavidXBrunt
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:11 02.10.07
Best SciFi book ever
What science fiction book do you consider as the best of all times? Judge the book on the grounds of its relevance nowadays, originality, intelligent researched science, and influence on nowadays writers of scifi - and not just because it's a classic of one hundred years ago...
:: STARTED BY The Photographer in Blowup
:: 110 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:36 30.09.07
Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Wizard of the Crow
I just started into this... anyone else reading it?
:: STARTED BY *
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:17 27.09.07
James Ellroy
James Ellroy--great writer, uptight rich square-ass WASP motherfucker or both?
:: STARTED BY Margin Walker
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:33 25.09.07
House Of Leaves
Discussing Danielzewski's House of Leaves. Warning to the curious: This thread is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
:: STARTED BY casemaker
:: 34 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:54 22.09.07
Mason & Dixon
Discuss Pynchon's novel here.
:: STARTED BY casemaker
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:02 20.09.07
My Tiny Life
A thread discussing Julian Dibbell's book about the LambdaMoo, and MUDs in general.
:: STARTED BY The Strobe
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:25 18.09.07
The Journalism of David Simon
Discuss Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (co-written with Ed Burns)
:: STARTED BY pfhlick
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:54 17.09.07
Michael Crichton's State of Fear
Wherein a quick bit of post-summer reading gets my back up for some reason. keywords: global warming scam, environment, fearmongering
:: STARTED BY icicle life
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:32 17.09.07
China Mieville
Is this guy ace or what? (China Mieville, I mean). Has anyone else read this guy? Or one of his books, namely 'King Rat', 'Perdido Street Station', 'The Scar', 'The Iron Council', 'Looking for Jake & Other Stories' or 'Un Lun Don'? Maybe you've seen him talking at political meetings?
:: STARTED BY Stoatie's power level is >9000
:: 153 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:57 15.09.07
Literature and Sexism, and me.
Considering taking up a point, and need to tread carefully.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:49 14.09.07
Found Micro-Fiction
Single sentences which, taken out of context, tell an entire story of their own.
:: STARTED BY Chiropteran
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:37 12.09.07
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
Ellis writes a book with no damn pretty pictures in it AT ALL! Shit and heroin fly; USA dissected and consumed by leprous pigs; will the veep be anally violated or merely censured? Stay Tuned!
:: STARTED BY Mark Parsons
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:24 12.09.07
Post-Colonial Sci-Fi
Science fiction which explores post-colonial themes of identity, oppression and resistance, orientalism/"Otherness", imperium versus indigenous populations, etc. (Feel free to use this thread for both recommendation and debate...)
:: STARTED BY Hydra vs Leviathan
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:10 12.09.07
Do you think it would be possible to make a genuinely entertaining non-misogynous, non-chauvinist, non-xenophobic, non-embarassingly condescending men's magazine?
Should/could etc
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:38 12.09.07
What the hell was That Book called? You know, the one where That Stuff happened in it...
Read a book ages ago, want to find it again, but can't remember its title and/or author? Post about it here, and see if anyone on Barbelith can figure out what book you're on about. Sort of like the "Identify That Tune" thread, but for books.
:: STARTED BY Hydra vs Leviathan
:: 103 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:13 11.09.07
Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides
The new-ish book by Jeffrey Eugenides, author of 'The Virgin Suicides'
:: STARTED BY Our Lady of The Two Towers
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:07 11.09.07
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