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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel won it.

A potential blind spot on KSR's argument is that sf books are eligible, provided they meet the publication window and the publisher is willing to put forward promotional cash, but publishers probably don't submit sf titles, for whatever reason, and therefore will never know. If they do, and...

It's the first Pynchon, after abandoning three previous titles, I've been able to follow. It's extremely coherent, A -> B -> C, and the only thing jarring me from fully enjoying it is that the characters, as is standard Pynchon, are stupidly named, yet I can never remember who is who. All part...

No, I never did. There's a copy in my local store. But if I do get it, I'll no doubt order in the nicer Canadian version.

He died last Friday.

Yes, explain adopted behavior.

Modern book? 70,000 to 130,000 words.

It really depends on what you want to write, doesn't it? The trick is just to stop thinking about idea and just get on with writing. It doesn't matter what you write - write about the time you were standing at the bus stop, write about when you last went to the cinema - as long as you are...

Post the text here. It's a showcase forum for people to show their prose, not to promote themselves and channel some traffic their way.

I had a look at the book today, won't be buying it. Never was, right enough, but it didn't grab me at all. That voice that's supposed to be Holden Caulfield, wasn't. Just simply wasn't.

Given that a few of them are quite short, you may be best served to read as many as interest you.

Make it 229, I found one I'd missed. I've just went through the list to count those I've actually read. A measly 58. Poor show. But if I'd counted those I've at least started, we'd be over two hundred again.

Not really. I've just went through which of those I own, and I've 228 of them on my shelves. Some are read, others - not counted - I've since given away.

He makes the biggest, most subtle mistake in the very last line of the book that hints that he's even more like his father than first thought. ;)

Gifts, yes. That's what it is. :rolleyes:

One for me, one for a future plan. ;)

Some recent purchases from the last week or so: Two copies of James Kelman's Kieron Smith, Boy Beijing Coma, Ma Jian This Is The Life and The Breezes by Joseph O'Neill Ghosts, Cesar Aira The Lucky Country, Donald Horne Hiroshima, John Hersey Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro Briar Rose, Robert Coover...

Well there you go then. It's all very well to have some extreme opinions of your own, that's free speech, but in encouraging others to take up his stance and perhaps act upon it then it would probably seem a worthwhile ban.

It's a book discussion and therefore participants are assumed to have read the book. Participants who haven't read the book should either stay clear or expect spoilers.

There is no summer school here.