Your favorite book.
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Have you read Espedair Street?Furburt said:
Utterly different but still great. He deals with the darker, rawer human emotions very well.
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Sorry to be unoriginal but it's LOTR.
1. The Lord of the Rings
2. A lot of other stuff, including everything by Arthur C Clarke, RA Salvatore, Brian Jacques, Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen Colbert, and much, much more!
2. A lot of other stuff, including everything by Arthur C Clarke, RA Salvatore, Brian Jacques, Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen Colbert, and much, much more!
Ones which have been previous favourites:
1)The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy
2)Catch 22
3)Winnie-the-Pooh
Currently? Haven't a clue. I am enjoying Tom Sharpe novels, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries, any of Bill Bryson's works, and the war memoirs of Spike Milligan.
If I was going to recommend any off the top of my head? The first two Gormenghast books. Now that is fantasy done right - original, with deep yet grotesque and charicature characters, and doesn't feel the need to stick a fucking dragon or magic in it, like most fantasy works.
One which I hate? I'll list Anne Rice, and Chuck Palahniuk, but the one in particular I disliked recently was Doug Coupland's J-Pod. I wasn't convinced by the main character (he's supposed to be a bona-fide geek, yet he keeps making mistakes, like saying "degrees Kelvin" instead of just "Kelvin"), the specific references to pop-culture like the Simpsons was irritating, but worst of all was the gratuitous use of post-modernist writing techniques. Lots of stream of concious, and author avataring. Very annoying and pretentious.
1)The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy
2)Catch 22
3)Winnie-the-Pooh
Currently? Haven't a clue. I am enjoying Tom Sharpe novels, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries, any of Bill Bryson's works, and the war memoirs of Spike Milligan.
If I was going to recommend any off the top of my head? The first two Gormenghast books. Now that is fantasy done right - original, with deep yet grotesque and charicature characters, and doesn't feel the need to stick a fucking dragon or magic in it, like most fantasy works.
One which I hate? I'll list Anne Rice, and Chuck Palahniuk, but the one in particular I disliked recently was Doug Coupland's J-Pod. I wasn't convinced by the main character (he's supposed to be a bona-fide geek, yet he keeps making mistakes, like saying "degrees Kelvin" instead of just "Kelvin"), the specific references to pop-culture like the Simpsons was irritating, but worst of all was the gratuitous use of post-modernist writing techniques. Lots of stream of concious, and author avataring. Very annoying and pretentious.
Didn't read it, and trust you so won't bother.Furburt said:
Edit: Then again I am very drunk, so anything I say should not be taken seriously
God, gotta love him. I have to say, those books were slightly depressing. To bad his Cirque du freak series ending was batshit stupid.Disaster Button said:Darren Shan's Demonata Series. Anything in their is pure gold.
How can something with a cover like this be bad?
Whilst googling the title I managed to typo it into Hell's Herpes. Needless to say the results were less than pleasent.
I am currently in the middle of Clockwork Orange. While it is damn near impossible to read, it is pretty compelling
