BooksWe love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Few more I've remembered."K-PAX" - plus the second and third books.
"This perfect day" by Ira Levin.
"Earth Abides" by George R Stewart - written in 1949 and follows the story of one man who's left alone after the death of civilization from a plague.
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Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 20:06,
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Earth Abides fucking rocks!That is all :)
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Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 22:37,
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I remember picking it up and thinking, this'll be shit but it's something to read.I ate my words over that one.
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Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 23:19,
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Also try:Pavane by Keith Roberts -- alt-history 1968 England.
and The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling {took me a good long while to realize that Sterling was the one whose work I really liked. An Old Fashioned Future is quite droll.
So is Tim Powers's The Anubis Gates.
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Squilliam but . . . . *I'm* the one with all the talent!, Sat 7 Jan 2012, 3:11,
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