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  1. saliotthomas

    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    Saul Bellow-Size the day ,strongly recommended by a fellow B&Rist. If Culsser is top notch lit and Bellow pretentious,i just might give it a try.
  2. saliotthomas

    I Almost Died Last Night

    Now you go and get a big piece of tender liver and few prawn for that cat of yours.The lad saved your nuts,he deserves a medal. And Polly ,all that time i wanted to take you on a date,now i know i'd better bring an helmet.
  3. saliotthomas

    Tragedy=reading less?

    Sorry for your loss man. As for reading,maybe it is also a question of which books.I doute you could read anything light or casual. I read last year Joan didon -The year of magical thinking about loss(not self help or any of that crap) and fond it very clever and true.She is a bit of a beat...
  4. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In England,my father just told me i could live to be 220 years old with the injection he gave me since i'm 16. The trouble with the lichen-John Wyndham
  5. saliotthomas

    Recently Finished

    Peter Cameron -Someday this pain will be usefull to you :stars4:+ Very good,sharp,a complete surprise.I'm very curious to read more and see how he deals with different subject.
  6. saliotthomas

    What did you read in October?

    Lawrence Durrell-Balthazar 5 Alice Munro-The view from castel rock 4+ Yannis Xanthoulis-A Turk in the garden-abandonned Jim harrison-A good day to die 5 Per Petterson-To Siberia 3+ Turgenev-House of the gentry 4 Gerald Durrell-My familly and other animals.4 Bruce Chatwin-In Patagonia 5 Jim...
  7. saliotthomas

    Book Villains

    Bernard Cornwell is specialy good with villans,revenge is one of the deep engines of his writing.Often i was desapointed by the mild ending of the terrible ones.Lancelot in the winter king is someone you feel like strangling on each apparition.
  8. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In Budapest in my hotel room with a girl who just striped before me but i'm in no mod for it. The man who went up in smoke-Sjomall/Wahloo
  9. saliotthomas

    Miapolis Will Change the Face of My City:

    Tree huggers spoiling Miami.....Tssss
  10. saliotthomas

    Mysteries in translation

    Thanks for the info BG,it is very good indeed.
  11. saliotthomas

    Mysteries in translation

    I'm reading The man who went up in smoke by Sjowall/Wahloo,very good so far. I'm complitly sure it's a translation,the authors,husband and wife, are Swedes but they might have written in English.It would go in cerebral mystery then.
  12. saliotthomas

    Recently Finished

    The strain-Guillermo del Toro/Chuck Hogan :stars3: good vampires story.
  13. saliotthomas

    Jon Ronson: The Men Who Stare at Goats

    For the first third of the book,i though it was a joke,a piss taking about conspiraty theorie,but no,it seem to but quite true(if a bit pulled by the air at times). The all story is about a special unit of Psychic warrior,the first earth battalion and Jedi warriors created after the trauma of...
  14. saliotthomas

    Recently Purchased/Borrowed

    A good and eclectic selection.Is this an book embargo?You know they always fail... Jim Harrison - The Summer He Didn't Die Karen Armstrong - Muhammad - A Prophet for Our Time Martin Beck The Man Who Went Up In Smoke Herman Melville - Typee Alexis Q. Castor - Between the Rivers - The...
  15. saliotthomas

    Are you happy with this forum?

    Just few things i noticed about BAR. First ,a strong inclination for genres,like crime,fanatsy,horror and so on,which i like a lot along with true literature. The little circle of aficionados has meltted in the last years due other forums more strongly literary orientated and with strong...
  16. saliotthomas

    FF News: The Presidential Box--December 2025

    Hummm,Aquablue you should read this,it might boast your hopes about the qualities of your own writing.
  17. saliotthomas

    What's Wrong With my Writing?

    Just one question ,when you write Is this metaphorical or is it some sort of robocop related sequel?
  18. saliotthomas

    Swine Flu Concerns?

    That is the most interesting piece of real information i read in a while.Thank you Mister Bunny.
  19. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In New York Airport,inspecting a plane where everybody died,apparently peacefully 6 minutes after landing.190 passengers. The Strain -Guillermo del Toro /Chuck Hogan
  20. saliotthomas

    Recently Finished

    House of the gentry-Turgenev:stars4: In Patagonia-Bruce Chatwin:stars5: The man who stare at goat-Jim Ronson :stars3:- Cloud someone with access correct the spelling in the tilte please?
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