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What's wrong with being a book snob?

The Day of the Triffids A Canticle for Liebowitz Earth Abides (with a bit of 1950s eugenics) The Postman (I agree, it IS better than the film) best of all: A SCIENTIFIC ROMANCE, by Ronald Wight (or is it Wright?). Definitely worth reading: a man with human variant CJD discovers that...

Stiff's good: one of those 'well, I didn't know that' books.

I will plunge in then. It can't be any worse than 'Ulysses'.

I enjoyed 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' - a bit slow at the beginning, but it soon gets going. It isn't worth the hype though (don't get me wrong: it IS a good book, but I don't understand the level of praise). Lisbeth Salander is interesting, although she has some way to go before she...

I've seen this one in my local Waterstones, and I'm pondering picking one up to read it. Is it any good (beyond the 'clearly enigmatic' [shiver of dread])?:sad:

It would make a terrible film: no director could really get to grips with it.

Is it very mysterious? Or is it only mildly mysterious? It's important to define these things.;)

What this is, is the end of the big (and small) publishing firms. Very soon, all published novels will be published using only freeware. Literary agents, publishers, will all be out-of-business, and there will be no more slush piles, or hopeful submissions, or wannabe-authors, as every writer...

Sounds like fun. Zombies and the end-of-the-world (or Britain, which for some is pretty much the same thing).

You are the king of comedy, Bill.

Too true. Katherine Mansfield's work is criminally over-looked these days, although Oxford Classics have a volume of her best out.

Oh, and I like the Bastard from 'King John' - he rocks. It's an excellent play, much better than most give it credit for I think.

And while I'm on the subject, Arkangel's 'The Tempest' is interesting. Bob Peck as Prospero. Remember the epilogue? Some say it's Shakespeare's farewell to the stage. Bob Peck died not long after and the credits (I think read by Colin Salmon) includes a dedication to the actor. If you're...

I have a copy of the Arkangel Shakespeare 'Henry IV' (both parts), part of an audio set from 1998. Richard Griffiths as Falstaff is hard to beat, and Julian and Jamie Glover are, as to be expected, excellent. From the moment Julian comes on, it's poetry in drama form. I agree that to truly...

Isn't that the one with Sean Bean in it?

The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen I can't stand, but I agree on: The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood; The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver; The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy (oh, yes); The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco; Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf; The...

WOW, great cover. I like it.:stars5:

'A Scientific Romance' (Ronald Wright) is good. He actually explores the post-apocalyptic world, which so few ever seem to. And I know many of the locations (London, Edinburgh, the route between them).

I prefer 'Saramouche'. Transformation, acting, buckle-swashing, the French Revolution, and the fastest learning of fencing in the history of literature.:)