wow!

LoLth

This board is actually good for something!

I was stuck trying to decide what book to buy next, then I remembered someone mentioning that Player of Games was pretty good. So I gave it a go. I'm about 3/4 way through it (after one evening! too short!) and I have to say, it is excellent...

reckon Iain M Bainks is the new flavour of the month for me.. What people reckon about his other books? I was thinking of that 'something PHlebas' next...

J.

Slosh

Gemmell's got a new one out.....

DeViant

LoL,
ANYTHING by Banks is Kewl.
Consider Phlebas is V.good.
I have "The Excession" at home, Must read it.

"The Use of weapons" is another great one.
I love his ideas and his writing style.
You should try his Fiction,
"The Crow Road" Very Good
"The Wasp Factory" Shiver!!
"Complicity" _EXCELLENT_
"The Bridge" Amazing, still dont understand it, but amazing
He is a definite MUST read

Baz

MiCr0

****
Bought the thomas harris book
was very good(ish) for about 300 pages and then the last 5 chapters when very quickly downhill
steer clear
****
there is also the new
thomas harris book...
hannibal
meant to be good

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Draco

I just finished the Wasp Factory...really really strange...definitly one I would recomend.

Draco

LoLth

Hey Karl!

Can I borrow the Wasp Factory this weekend?

I'm just finishing up the Magician rewrite. Absolutely excellent. I believe an ad for a film before was 'The Best just got Better'. The rewrite was definitely worth it. Only prob is.. now I think he should rewrite the rest. Too many gaps and tidy little wrap ups for my liking.

J.

Cheez

There's a Banks book i think its something to do with a palace of glass thats supposed to be really freaky a hence good.
And that bloke who wrote Naked Lunch William
Burroughs hes ****ed up all together
my m8s reading a book ,i think its called God Knows read the few pages and its fookin weird ill try and see who wrote it.
oh and i just read Fear and loathing in Las Vegas and wow that rules.It's small enough ye'd read it in a day but wow Hunter s Thomson rules can't wait to buy some more of his stuff.
I heard Burroghs who wrote naked lunch and others writes the book in a certain way and then cuts it all up and reassembles it so it'd be a pretty weird read id say.

Graysonn

Have you read Maribu stork murders yet. By Irvine Welsh. The guy who wrote Trainspotting. I borrowed it of Earthworm Jim. Amazing book
Twisted

Cheez

funny u say that my m8(jesus there's alwasy someone i know isn't there)loves welsh and read it on holidays oh fuc haveta leave back a liberary book,and he said it was deadly as all welshs books are.
I think its cool the way they're all written in scottish all the "uns" and "achs" etc

Graysonn

Try reading Robbie Burns some times.
There are still whole passages of his that I'll never have a chance of understanding.
Scot's hae we a gra a gra.
I think that's right.

Radovar

Cheez, get The Great Shark Hunt Vol.1. It's so good. About 50 of his articles from magazines and whatever. Some of them ****ing hilarious.

Cheez

read that marabou stork book graysom
and woo what an ending.gets ya thinkin
alot - a trifle sick i might add
great shark hunt eh interbreasting!

Shiminay

I just finished the Rift War trilogy (Magician, Silverthorn and Sethanon). Wow...

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