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BRICK OUTHOUSE: A Jack Reacher novel
About the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child. Their spare prose. Massive hero. Men want. To be him. Women? To bed him. No foe he cannot defeat. No female colleague? He cannot BED. The books: should suck. But... they rock.
:: STARTED BY miss wonderstarr
:: 163 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:10 10.09.07
James Morrow
Discussion of noted fantasy author's works.
:: STARTED BY the andromeda mouse
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:33 10.09.07
Carlos Ruíz Zafon - Shadow of the wind
About a book about a book. Yes, it might be a literary mystery, but it has me cheering Zafón's writing and not really questioning whether I'm crazy for thinking it. Who else had read his work, thought it bad or good?
:: STARTED BY Dutch
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:24 10.09.07
Graham Greene
Graham Greene, a writer who /
Can leave me feeling sad and blue /
A thread where we discuss the man /
Who wrote 'The Quiet American'
:: STARTED BY Vincennes: Bringing Sassy Back
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:56 07.09.07
Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
A great Russian novel.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:39 03.09.07
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Just a thread to talk about this amazing book and favourite moments, quotes and also the choices made in turning it into a film starring Johnny Depp. Any opinions on this and the rest of the book.
:: STARTED BY Tumi
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:39 01.09.07
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Umberto Eco and his illustrated novel, 'The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana' and discussion thereof. Will probably at some point involve spoilers.
:: STARTED BY Decadent Daytripper in Love
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:40 01.09.07
Harry Potter And the Deathly Hallows - Speculation and SPOILERS Thread
Discussion of the final book in the series. Discussion of the book starts halfway down page two, so beware of spoilers if you haven't read it yet...
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake
:: 157 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:26 28.08.07
Salman Rushdie: A Knight's Conundrum
What do you make of the controversy that has sprung up around the Queen's birthday honours list, and specifically the knighthood conferred upon the author?
:: STARTED BY Sebastian Flyte
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:15 27.08.07
Books and Message Boards Online.
A general thread for listing Booksellers, literature related blogs, and internet communities and discussion boards for book lovers.
:: STARTED BY Zibarro In the Real
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:26 16.08.07
Short Story Request (or what are your favorite short stories?)
Help me put together a reading packet for a class I'm teaching this summer.
:: STARTED BY Alex Thoth
:: 62 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:12 11.08.07
'A Canticle for Leibowitz': and other post-apocalyptic fictions (possible spoilers)
No summary available
:: STARTED BY Kit-Cat Club
:: 28 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:01 07.08.07
Give me interview tips
No summary available
:: STARTED BY TeN
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:06 25.07.07
Edward Whittemore
Underappreciated author of the 70's and 80's whose work has been compared with Pynchon, Vonnegut, and Nabokov.
:: STARTED BY Dusto
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:57 08.07.07
What should a fourteen year old girl read?
How should Barbelith's Most Handsomest Member(tm) get his snot-nosed sibling into reading? What books will prepare a young mind for the big wide world? Should he even bother or is this just fraternal paternalism?
:: STARTED BY Phex: Dorset Doom
:: 30 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:51 02.07.07
The Line Of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
I didn't really like it - did you?
:: STARTED BY DrNick
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:22 24.06.07
Don DeLillo
Discussion of DeLillo's fiction
:: STARTED BY buttergun
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:34 24.06.07
"It's just like taking over the Family Pub"
Being the child of a major literary figure, if you're planning on entering the business yourself - is it a good thing, or is it a bad thing?
:: STARTED BY Alex's Grandma
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:33 23.06.07
The Etched City
Along with VanderMeer and Mieville, I've been told that K. J. Bishop completes the trinity of the New Weird. Any opinions on her book?
:: STARTED BY Dusto
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:09 16.06.07
We Need To Talk About We Need To Talk About Kevin (Spoilers)
Discussion of the novel by Lionel Shriver which won the 2005 Orange Prize. With spoilers.
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:04 16.06.07
Eggers, McSweeney's et al.
Dave Eggers, McSweeney's mag, art v. commerce, indie aesthetics in big time publishing, etc.
:: STARTED BY Ethan Hawke
:: 30 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:43 14.06.07
AL Kennedy; A space for discussion
It's been 5 years since the last thread about her, so I thought... 'why not?'.
:: STARTED BY Sebastian Flyte
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:43 13.06.07
Ian McEwan's new book 'On Chesil Beach'
stone-stealer has a new novel. information sought - worth the $s?
:: STARTED BY astrojax69
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:01 09.06.07
Jonathan Carroll
Have YOU read Jonathan Carroll?! NO? Then, what are you waiting for?!
:: STARTED BY johnnymonolith
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:34 08.06.07
The Manuscript Found at Saragossa
Discuss Jan Potocki's 18th Century story of stories within stories
:: STARTED BY Dusto
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:41 08.06.07
Greatest living female novelist?
Discuss why no females have yet been mention as alternatives to Cormac McCarthy (in the thread of that name) as "the greatest living American novelist."
:: STARTED BY Dusto
:: 23 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:42 05.06.07
The College Novel
The Rules of Attraction, The Secret History, The Big U...
:: STARTED BY Sypha has left the building
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:11 03.06.07
The worst book you have ever read?
Whether gleefully, joyfully dreadful or grindingly, horribly rank, share your tales of fucking atrocious books here...
:: STARTED BY West Baltimore Hausing Project
:: 122 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:30 01.06.07
Thomas Pynchon, result of gene project fusing F. Scott Fitzgerald and A. Crowley.
If there are any Pynchon aficionados out there, begin yapping, but the floor is also open to those who seem drawn to monstrously-sized 'novels' (more like epics) by those such as D.F. Wallace, or N. Stephenson. (Or whoever else fits under this large, vague, umbrella shape.)
:: STARTED BY Digital Hermes
:: 25 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:36 28.05.07
New Gibson: "Pattern Recognition"
New William Gibson novel, called "Pattern Recognition"
:: STARTED BY fridgemagnet
:: 59 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:00 27.05.07
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