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Douglas Coupland
What do you think of him? Love him? Hate him? Love his fiction, hate his non?
:: STARTED BY Baz Auckland
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:50 24.07.02

Classics Continued.
No summary available
:: STARTED BY Trijhaos
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:27 22.07.02

Glamorama!
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:: STARTED BY Ethan Hawke
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:42 19.07.02

Math books
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:: STARTED BY tSuibhne
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:24 15.07.02

HELP: £70 Book Tokens to Spend
Please suggest books of any type: philosophical, informative, factual, fictional or just plain bizarre...
:: STARTED BY ephemerat
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:21 11.07.02

Sci-fi: Are you happy nobody likes it?
Do sci-fi fans really want no-one to read it?
:: STARTED BY Our Lady of The Two Towers
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:33 07.07.02

Fictional/Real Settings for Novels
Do novels read better with fictional or real settings, or a mixture of both?
:: STARTED BY Loomis
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:41 04.07.02

On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm
Michael Ableman wrote "On Good Land" about his farm, surrounded by the city on all sides. He has to fight not only the weather and the soil, but also heedless developers and selfish suburbanites, to get a crop to market. And he's remarkably placid and patient about it.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:40 03.07.02

World Bank and IMF
imf and world bank book recommendations
:: STARTED BY passer
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:09 03.07.02

Achilles Heels of Otherwise Okay Writers
A sort of pointillist look at writers and writing. A look at writers' flaws, and perhaps at interesting things that have been made from those flaws.
:: STARTED BY Persephone
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:21 03.07.02

Clockwork Orange
heh, more text and less Malcolm McDowell, is it still good?
:: STARTED BY Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:28 29.06.02

Is there a right time to read...
Are certain books easier to read a certain points during one's life?
:: STARTED BY Kit-Cat Club
:: 37 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:31 28.06.02

World Cup (Facts/Quiz) Book
not very intellectual. read it in the bath.
:: STARTED BY Shortfatdyke
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:54 27.06.02

Stalking Non-fiction
I need factual books about stalking. And I know where you live.
:: STARTED BY Who Is Grumpy-Pants, Anyway?
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:05 25.06.02

Can We Have Our Ball Back? (online poetry project)
online poetry one project: "can we have our ball back?" other projects? new verse forms online?
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:03 21.06.02

All-New Biblioteca Barbelith: BOOK PERSONALS
New Book Club experimentation - post here to advertise for reading partners.
:: STARTED BY Kit-Cat Club
:: 46 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:40 21.06.02

Fiction about China
No summary available
:: STARTED BY Cloudhands
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:46 19.06.02

Intellectual bankrupcy and American standardised testing...
The words of famous authors stripped and distorted so as not to offend or upset students in American standardised testing...
:: STARTED BY Tom Coates
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:17 14.06.02

Who is Cordwainer Smith?
Well, who is SHe?
:: STARTED BY BioDynamo
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:55 13.06.02

Harlan Ellison: my tiny hero...
Harlan Ellison is my hero. Look at the thread title, for fuck's sake...
:: STARTED BY Jack The Bodiless
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:37 12.06.02

Donald Wandrei
No summary available
:: STARTED BY Trijhaos
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:51 12.06.02

Book Personals: Ulysses - are we still going?
trying to resurrect the Ulysses chat - please join in.
:: STARTED BY Ariadne
:: 27 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:35 11.06.02

BOOK CLUB: Illuminatus!
No summary available
:: STARTED BY Not Here Still
:: 71 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:16 30.05.02

Martin amis + jane austen = miramax?
these contemporary rewrite movies just keep on coming...
:: STARTED BY lolita nation
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:36 24.05.02

Jack Williamson
discussion about Darker Than You Think author jack williamson
:: STARTED BY Mystery Gypt
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:43 21.05.02

Illuminatus Trilogy and Slow Chocolate Autopsy - Cheap in London
Alert : cheap books !
:: STARTED BY DaveBCooper
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:44 15.05.02

Book Personals: Ulysses Ch 4-7
A thread to discuss chapters 4-7 of James Joyce's <i>Ulysses</i>.
:: STARTED BY The Return Of Rothkoid
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:04 13.05.02

Ricardo Pinto
Seeking advice...
:: STARTED BY Ganesh
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:19 12.05.02

Book Personals: Ulysses Ch 1-3
A readers' discussion of chapters 1 through 3 of James Joyce's <i>Ulysses</i>
:: STARTED BY The Return Of Rothkoid
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:58 10.05.02

Book Personals: Foucault's Pendulum. NO SPOILERS PLEASE.
Jolly post-as-you-read-a-thon on Umberto Eco's <i>Foucault's Pendulum</i>. Please be careful not to post spoilers - we're reading this in 'real time'.
:: STARTED BY Kit-Cat Club
:: 27 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:03 10.05.02

 
  

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