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Recent content by Tom

  1. Tom

    Why Can't Female Writers Write?

    Well, the main reason for a lack of female classics is because of role women had in society through much of history. But I sort of agree with you here and I do prefer male writers to female writers, though that may just be because I am a guy.
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    funniest lines in a book

    While I can't name one paticular line, Clevinger's trial in Catch-22 probably contains my favourite.
  3. Tom

    What books have you read more than once?

    The New Testament is only the book I've read more than once, but there are plenty of books I'd like to read again, but my to-be-read pile is ever-growing so I never have the time.
  4. Tom

    steal this book !

    I'm stealing this thread to stop capitalism once and for all
  5. Tom

    The Counterculture Canon

    Whoa, this thread is old. Anway, I would say that the such a canon does indeed exist but rather just as an era or another evolution of the western canon.
  6. Tom

    Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf

    You probably be able to find a much cheaper copy somewhere, such as at a second hand shop.
  7. Tom

    She's never gonna write another Book, again

    Whoa, that article is pretty harsh. I agree with your thoughts on James Frey though, what does it matter if its embellished? Why ruin a good story with truth, after all.
  8. Tom

    Current Trends: Yea or nay?

    The way every novel must have some new great schematic structure and the way every chapter must be named after a saint and begin with an obscure quotation. The constant and often pointless and obscure wordplay found in some texts is also a bit irritating, as well as the poor attempts at stream...
  9. Tom

    Current Trends: Yea or nay?

    The general use of postmodern gimmicks in literature today annoys me a bit.
  10. Tom

    Any really, really, really long books that you would recommend?

    Ugh, I gotta check these post dates from now on.
  11. Tom

    Any really, really, really long books that you would recommend?

    If you're looking for super long I recommend In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust and The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil. I've also heard good things about Joseph and his brothers by Thomas Mann, which is very long.
  12. Tom

    I'd rather read Dan Brown than......

    Not Proust! SFG surely you cannot mean it!
  13. Tom

    Long novels or short novels?

    Short - I just get bored with the long uns.
  14. Tom

    Last Great Book You Bought

    Hamlet. I'm reading it now for the first time and so far its living up to the hype.
  15. Tom

    J.D. Salinger: The Catcher In The Rye

    I love Catcher in the Rye, it always manages to crack me up.
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