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  • Re: WRITEWORDS TOP 100 BOOKS
    by Account Closed at 20:39 on 30 March 2009
    Ellroy, check, Ballard, check.

    JB

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    Thompson, check.
  • Re: WRITEWORDS TOP 100 BOOKS
    by NMott at 00:01 on 31 March 2009
    Ooh, I've just remembered a few more -

    Frederick Forsyth's The Odessa File
    Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice
    Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

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    Plus

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Re: WRITEWORDS TOP 100 BOOKS
    by Account Closed at 11:28 on 31 March 2009
    Philip K.Dick. Check.

    JB
  • Re: WRITEWORDS TOP 100 BOOKS
    by Bookologist at 23:12 on 01 April 2009
    FYODOR DOSTOEVSKI- The brothers Karamazov.

    ALAIN FOURNIER- Le Grand Meaulnes.

    MIKHAIL BULGAKOV- The master & Margarita.

    NIKOLAI GOGOL- DEAD SOULS

    LOUIS DE BERNIERES- Birds without wings.






  • Re: WRITEWORDS TOP 100 BOOKS
    by Harry at 04:04 on 15 April 2009
    It's nice to see One day In The Life... mentioned. Fantastic Book.

    I'd add:

    The Owl Service - Alan Garner
    The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
    A House For Mr Biswas - VS Naipaul
    The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
    Black Swan Green - David Mitchell

    Did anyone mention 1984? Oh, crap I've had my five already...

    Harry





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    I have to mention, The Seventh Sanctuary by Daniel Easterman. A great Thriller, sadly out of print.
  • Re: WRITEWORDS TOP 100 BOOKS
    by BifferSpice at 13:36 on 11 May 2011
    beginners - raymond carver
    ham on rye - charles bukowski (was torn between this and post office)
    young hearts crying - richard yates
    catch 22 - joseph heller
    the stand - stephen king
    high fidelity - nick hornby
    of human bondage - w somerset maugham
    atonement - ian mcewan

    if it's top five only, then take the top five

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    forgot to add:

    three men in a boat - jerome k jerome
    day of the triffids - john wyndham
  • Re: WRITEWORDS TOP 100 BOOKS
    by MPayne at 16:36 on 12 May 2011
    Ooo good thread. But really hard to name just 5. The problem I have is that for all of the writers I mention below it could pretty much be any of their works. But with that disclaimer I'd go for:

    The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter

    Mr Palomar, Italo Calvino

    The Whole Story and other stories, Ali Smith

    Orlando, Virginia Woolf

    Collected works, Sylvia Plath (is poetry allowed?)

    Kim Addonizio, What is this thing called love (more poetry)
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