Books

[Huevos y Bacon]

Naff prose?

Edited June 20, 2009 by Huevos y Bacon

[worm]

Seems iffy to me. I am perhaps old-fashioned.

[Macaque]

Funnily enough, when I worked there I tried to get American Psycho onto the 'staff recommend' cards that get dotted around. Strangely, it wasn't quite what they were looking for.

Currently; Charlie Brookers Dawn of the Dumb and Glamorama

Last Book; Music of the Primes (masters dissertation)

Favourite author; Kerouac

Favourite book; Catch 22

Can't read; anything too fantasy based. Or quite a few of the 'classics'.

[philipsteak]

Currently reading: A Crack in the Edge of the world. About the San Francisco earthquake. Bit heavy on the science, but still readable

Last Book: Paddling the Pacific by Paul Theroux. Big fan of his travel writing, not so much his fiction

Author: John Irving

Favourite Book. Impossible to choose

Cant read: Tolkein. Just awful

[ste4_20]

Catch 22 is an awesome book and is also one of my favourites. Have you read any other Heller? I tried to read Closing Time but couldn't get into it.

I would also have to agree about Kerouac. Given that we appear to have similar tastes can you recommend any other authors? I reckon you would like Charles Bukowski and John Fante

[Shinny]

Cant read: Tolkein. Just awful

[bunique]

+1

I hate Shakespear and most of the "classics" too...

[Purple Monkey]

+1

I hate Shakespear and most of the "classics" too...

[Atlanteanlost]

Shakespeare should be seen before it is read

[worm]

Other than that, I'd say Easton-Ellis is one of the better POST modern writers to search out.

[worm]

"Let me have men about me that are fat" - Julius Ceasar - how is this not relevant to today?

[Katster]

Should have just left it at 'can't read'.

[worm]

What's that supposed to mean?

[Katster]

I enjoyed learning Macbeth despite the best efforts of the national curriculum to remove all of the fun from it.

[Katster]

A laugh at your expense?

T'was a joke my dear. Fry is a brilliant author and that book you found unreadable is rather compelling. Hence, you can't read.

[worm]

I tried, and I did enjoy it at the start....I just got a bit fed up of all the boys school talk. It's my own fault really, I'd wanted to learn more of his bi-polar, and hadn't realised Moab was an autobiography only of his first 20 years. Perhaps now I know what it's about I'll read it another time.

Edited June 22, 2009 by worm

[Katster]

Comedy, wit, linguistic magic and philosophy. That's what that book's about. His own life is just a superficial context really. It's all about his insights. Someone who can actually tell anecdotes without being an illiterate nobody with a crap ghost writer.

[Greeny_Musicchild]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Half way through this at the moment and really enjoying it

[Shinny]

Allthe torchwood books

Fantastic.

[nightcrawler13]

just finished Vernon God Little, the last quarter is tenssssssssssssseee!

[Purple Monkey]

Re-reading Nineteen-Eighty-Four. Class.

[Katster]

Is it just me or are 'classics' generally shite, or over-rated at the very least?

The Wasp Factory - I worked out the ending :angry:

The Catcher in The Rye - If you're going to write a book about someone having some sort of nervous break down, can you please actually make it feel like that's what it is?!

Please please please can someone recommend me a DECENT classic?

I'm currently reading The Red Room by Nikki French.

[The Nal]

Is it just me or are 'classics' generally shite, or over-rated at the very least?

The Wasp Factory - I worked out the ending :angry:

The Catcher in The Rye - If you're going to write a book about someone having some sort of nervous break down, can you please actually make it feel like that's what it is?!

Please please please can someone recommend me a DECENT classic?

I'm currently reading The Red Room by Nikki French.

Edited August 4, 2009 by The Nal

[Katster]

:angry:

Catcher in the Rye!!? A TOTAL classic.

[The Nal]

It was ok, but it wasn't a life changing read. Perhaps I'm wanting too much?