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Old 02-06-2009, 12:47   #721 (permalink)

 
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I really hate 'fantasy' or whatever the genre is called with magical far off lands and mythical beasts etc. Lord of the Rings style stuff, hate it hate it hate it.
I'm with you there. NAE. INTEREST. I don't care what deeper meaning it has or whether it is an allegory of human civilization, christianity, the World Wars etc. Wizards and hobits can fuck off.

Recently read Dead Famous by Ben Elton (nae bad), Paranoia by Joseph Finder (pretty good for a "Corporate Thriller"), The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Excellent, recommended to anyone, particularly if you have an interest in India), The Women Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle (pretty good if a little heavy on turgid drearyness at times) and am now reading Stephen Fry's first novel The Liar, which is, unsurprisingly, about a privately educated, eccentric, homosexual intellectual......
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Old 02-06-2009, 19:17   #722 (permalink)

 
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Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal.

this is absolutely fecking brilliant.

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Has anyone read Barack Obama's books? I'm thinking of buying his first one, but just wondering if anyone actually recommends it?
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Old 02-06-2009, 22:59   #724 (permalink)
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this is absolutely fecking brilliant.

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Damned straight. I've read all the Hrabal that's available except Letters to Dubenka. You read anything else by him or seen either of the film adaptations by Jiri Menzel?
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I'm with you there. NAE. INTEREST. I don't care what deeper meaning it has or whether it is an allegory of human civilization, christianity, the World Wars etc. Wizards and hobits can fuck off.

Recently read Dead Famous by Ben Elton (nae bad), Paranoia by Joseph Finder (pretty good for a "Corporate Thriller"), The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Excellent, recommended to anyone, particularly if you have an interest in India), The Women Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle (pretty good if a little heavy on turgid drearyness at times) and am now reading Stephen Fry's first novel The Liar, which is, unsurprisingly, about a privately educated, eccentric, homosexual intellectual......
On a slightly related note I recently read 'The Gun Seller' by Hugh Laurie. Cracking book, his only fiction novel as far as I'm aware tho which is a shame. It was written years ago, but somehow I can't picture the main character as anyone other than House! definite similarities in attitude
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finished Donnie Brasco, nae a bad read.

Shame the film was so incredibly inaccurate.

Now reading "Our Band Could Be Your Life" again.

Great book.
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[QUOTE=Shaki;751221]I'm with you there. NAE. INTEREST. I don't care what deeper meaning it has or whether it is an allegory of human civilization, christianity, the World Wars etc. QUOTE]

No, thats Sci Fi, you're thinking of, Fantasy just mines the allegories of having nae mates.
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