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Because I'd initially removed Rebekah's posts, to which she somehow responded with a bizarrely titled new thread. I like it: there's something profound about it.

Apropos the story, I'm reminded of a song based on it by a Canadian metal band from the late eighties or early nineties. The band was - is? they may still be going - Annihilator, and the song was just called Ligeia. Not heard it for years, but I can certainly still recall the tune.

Threads like this get closed because what's the point in being able to make threads on individual books and opt to have thoughts on them all clustered away in a single thread? If you want to say what you thought of a book then why not do a quick search to see if there's a thread on it (some of...

Nicholas, looks like we need to show you what happens to people who use deceit to try and put their book out there? No more posts about No More Ramen, please.

Damn, that's cutting, Rebekah. You really know how to hurt a guy when he's down. I can understand why you would be embarrassed if you were me: to go from such ineptitude to be able to use a comma properly: you'd be out of your league. But wouldn't you like to answer the charges of deceit and...

Rebekah, This is why your threads were deleted. There are ways to promote a book, especially when the odds are against you, as they are when you take the self-publishing route. Posting on a book forum and not being upfront with members about who you are - indeed, recommending a book that you...

I've merged the thread I think you mean into this one. Is that the one?

Excuse me? What had this to do with Crime, Thrillers and Mystery?

You go first. ;)

It's not out in the UK until next month, but it's precisely because of the hype that I'm unlikely to want to read it. I mean, the hype started around Christmas when I received a small booklet with the Sei, the Glassblower's Apprentice story. Perhaps, in time, when the hype has died down, I may...

No, and at the prices that self-publishing outlet is pricing the thing at, I reckon only Rebekah's friends and family will get the privilege.

The Pathseeker, Kertész Imre Customer Service, Benoît Duteurtre The North Of God, Steve Stern Close To Jedenew, Kevin Vennemann Shop Talk, Philip Roth Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees

Ghost Town, Patrick McGrath Bahia Blues, Yasmina Traboulsi Two Brothers, Bernardo Atxaga One Morning Like A Bird, Andrew Miller The Hakawati, Rabih Alameddine The Bookshop, Penelope Fitzgerald Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolaño Towards Another Summer...

Girl In A Blue Dress, Gaynor Arnold From A To X, John Berger Hothouse, Brian Aldiss Three Drops Of Blood, Sadeq Hedayat The Question Of Bruno, Aleksandar Hemon The Mortgaged Heart, Carson McCullers Zoo or Letters Not About Love, Viktor Shklovsky Monsieur, Jean-Philippe Toussaint Theatre Of...

:eek: Then you must go directly to Borges without collecting $200. Knowing a bit about him and his themes would inform a better reading of Eco's The Name Of The Rose. As for If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, you can get it here, with free postage to anywhere in the world. The Book Depository...

Nabokov isn't all that postmodern, is he? I've only read Mary and Lolita and neither struck me as being postmodern, although I suppose the opening to Lolita, before Humbert starts telling the story, pushes it into the realms of metafiction and therefore postmodern. Other works, I'm sure, revel...

Natural Novel, Georgi Gospodinov?

I have Threshold by her, which I never finished. Also, lying around somewhere, is Candles For Elizabeth, the slimmest little volume of three short stories. If she was better known it may actually be worth something. Ah well!

If you haven't heard of them already, you may like Apoptygma Berzerk.

Sparky: Doughboy To GI?