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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 Adam A.
:: 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
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 Old dear. Gin. Problems
:: 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 --
:: 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 A Haus of Minions
:: 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
Dystopian Short Stories
list of dystopian short stories
:: STARTED BY zarathustra_k
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:29 19.05.07
Book Signings and Events Diary - UK
A thread to note book related events in the United Kingdom that Barbeloids may well be interested in.
:: STARTED BY Our Lady in Her Haus
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:08 15.05.07
Under-rated books
It's not in the 3-for-2 in Borders, it's not been reviewed in the mainstream press or nominated for any awards - yet it's a good book! Tell us about it here, and we will go forth and buy it in droves, prompting a major distributor to get hold of it and turning it into the new Shadowmancer (except good). Or if it's out of print, we will spearhead a campaign to get it republished, possibly even starting a small press ourselves in the manner of Girls Gone By.
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 30 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:43 01.05.07
Fiction or non-fiction?
What do you read more often? And why?
:: STARTED BY jmw
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:22 01.05.07
Hannibal Rising
The new novel from Thomas Harris, the fourth to feature Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lector. There is a possibility of spoilage.
:: STARTED BY Colonel Kadmon
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:49 28.04.07
Talbot Munday rocks my (conspiratorial) world!
Talbot Munday, adventure novels, turn of the century, India based, spy and secret society stories, Jimgrim
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:44 24.04.07
Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1849
Aristocratic Madmen, Self-tormented murderers, Nuerasthenic necrophiliacs, Ethereal women with arcane knowledge.
:: STARTED BY Shrug: Butcher Boy
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:41 15.04.07
Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park novels
Have you read them and what do you think of them?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:09 08.04.07
Richard Ford
The American writer and Frank Bascombe, his alter-ego. Author of The Sportswriter, Independence Day and The Lay Of The Land. Winner of the Pen/Faulkner and the Pulitzer for one book.
:: STARTED BY matthew.
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:45 03.04.07
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