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Who is your favourite author ? alive or dead
umbeto eco has to be among mine
:: STARTED BY mashedcat
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:11 26.07.08
Vacation time, what books should I take along?
Sjaak is going on holiday. Please help me select my reading list!
:: STARTED BY Sjaak at the Shoe Shop
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:21 26.06.08
World War Z by Max Brooks, and future histories in general
A look at multi-perspective future histories, from Warday to Larry TurtleDove, with specific reference to World War Z, which is shortly to be made into a movie.
:: STARTED BY Happy Dave Has Left
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:34 19.06.08
Jack Kerouac
Kerouac
:: STARTED BY weepy_minotaur
:: 21 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:06 15.06.08
The Checks in the Mailer...
Following on from the news that (possibly) one of the great angry voices of modern (?) America has died, and overview and general thread about the life and works of Norman Mailer - views Barbelith, please...
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:52 14.06.08
'A Canticle for Leibowitz': and other post-apocalyptic fictions (possible spoilers)
No summary available
:: STARTED BY Kit-Cat Club
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:21 12.06.08
D.H.Lawrence - Nightmare or Paradise
Radio documentary on an interesting incident from the life of the novelist D.H.Lawrence.
:: STARTED BY DavidXBrunt
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:14 09.06.08
James Morrow
Discussion of noted fantasy author's works.
:: STARTED BY gamma globulins
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:42 06.06.08
Deleuze/guattari and literature
Thoughts in "using" theory - posthumanism and modernist texts - problems in reading and working with D/G.
:: STARTED BY posthumous parvenues
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:09 01.06.08
New ideas in sci fi
New ideas in sci fi. Chris Nakashima-Brown. Charles Stross. Others?
:: STARTED BY glitch
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:50 31.05.08
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Who else is currently reading this excellent book, care to discuss?
:: STARTED BY ORQWITH
:: 70 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:55 22.05.08
Heart Of Darkness
A controversial book. Has anyone here read it? general discussion of the book and various issues therein. Keywords: Joseph Conrad / Colonialism / Post-Colonialism / Chinua Achebe / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 32 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:31 21.05.08
Gore Vidal
Discussion of author's work, beginning with "Julian"
:: STARTED BY buttergun
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:14 18.05.08
Dune
All things Dune by Frank Herbert.
:: STARTED BY quinine92001
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:43 18.05.08
Corporeality and the grotesque in women's fiction: what's happening now?
From Rabelais to Rimbaud, Hoffman to Kafka and Poe, the tradition of the grotesque in literature - the grotto-esque sproutings of uncanny physicality - is a fascinating one. Gargoyle talk to follow...
:: STARTED BY posthumous parvenues
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:56 17.05.08
Alexander Theroux
Literary pariah, older brother of Paul, author (most recently) of "Laura Warholic: or the Sexual Intellectual" and (many years ago), "Darconville's Cat."
:: STARTED BY Dusto
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:17 17.05.08
Searching for Zen/Buddhist adventure Biography
A book I read long ago, lent, and lost...
:: STARTED BY Eek! A Freek!
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:51 08.05.08
The Alternate History of The Yiddish Policemen's Union [SPOILERS, more'n likely]
The new Michael Chabon novel is a noir mystery set in an alternate timeline. I'm curious about what happened in that world before the events of the novel took place.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:27 06.05.08
Can u Camus?
Albert Camus / The Stranger / The Outsider /
The Plague / The Fall / Discussion .
:: STARTED BY wembley can change in 28 days
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:34 05.05.08
Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem
Discuss Jonathan Lethem's short story collection Men and Cartoons, all real life and superheroes and comics, like.
:: STARTED BY matsya
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:18 30.04.08
The Magus by John Fowles(r)
Discussing the above book.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:50 15.04.08
What the Dickens?
Oliver Rudge, Nicholas Copperfield, Great Cities, A Christmas Expectation and stuff.
:: STARTED BY DavidXBrunt
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:22 11.04.08
George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" series
I've read a lot of fantasy genre books in my day, and this series is, hands down, TOP 3 in my opinion.
:: STARTED BY Mike Phillips
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:33 11.04.08
Craig Davidson
A contender for Palahniuk’s belt? Let’s talk about the Canadian author of Rust and Bone and The Fighter, and maybe boxing and male violence in literature in general as well.
:: STARTED BY Blake Head
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:04 09.04.08
Transgressive literature
To follow on from the Sotos thread, lets discuss transgressive literature. Pointless arse written by (mostly) men who wear too much black, or the terminal documents of the late 20th/early 21st century?
:: STARTED BY lord nuneaton savage
:: 23 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:16 08.04.08
Steven Hall: "The Raw Shark Texts"
A 2007 thriller featuring a conceptual shark from the depths of un-space. Also: thirty pages of flip-book!
:: STARTED BY Raw Norton
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:14 29.03.08
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke has died. A thread to discuss his work
:: STARTED BY Axolotl
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:04 26.03.08
Satanism and the French Decadent Literature movement
Looking for good, informative books on Satanism and how it related to the writers of the 19th-century French Decadent movement
:: STARTED BY --
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:26 24.03.08
Hinterland - SPOILERS
A book what Sax wrote. It's about big cats on the moors, mass-produced paintings which leave people dead, two lost and lonely girls living on an island in the middle of a park duck pond, and sinister black cars which watch the streets.
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 248 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:03 04.03.08
The Secret History (with spoilers inside!)
Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Euripides trousers, Eumenides trousers. Whaddayasay?
:: STARTED BY ONLY NICE THINGS
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:29 29.02.08
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