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Therapy - Sebastian Fitzek. Incredibly complicated psychiatric thriller told in a rather flat style. Is that oxymoronic? Yes, but seems so.
 
Electric Barracuda, by Tim Dorsey.

Anyone read him? He's like Carl Hiassen on acid. His books feature a loveable serial killer called Serge Storms, who travels around Florida with this stoner sidekick, Coleman and gets mixed up with various drug dealers, mafiosos, developers and other lowlifes and usually ends up killing them in various creative ways.
 
The Big Bang - Joseph Silk. "The creation and evolution of the Universe."

Detailed and comprehensive (as of 1980). Superior beyond excellent, although there may be more up-to-date treatments by now that I am unaware of.
 
The first volume of Mircea Cartarescu's Orbitor, which is absolutely astounding. A huge, messy, laser-guidedly sprawling autobiographical novel that shifts seamlessly from realistic depictions of growing up in communist Romania to Lovecraft-meets-Cronenbergian horror with enough physical themes to make Freud's head explode. :star5:
 
soonerthebetter said:
Electric Barracuda, by Tim Dorsey.

Anyone read him? He's like Carl Hiassen on acid. His books feature a loveable serial killer called Serge Storms, who travels around Florida with this stoner sidekick, Coleman and gets mixed up with various drug dealers, mafiosos, developers and other lowlifes and usually ends up killing them in various creative ways.
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Yup. Dorsey is always entertaining, and these books are hillarious and also (thanks to Serge) packed with interesting bits of Floridian trivia.
 
How Late It Was How Late - James Kelman. I don't usually fare well with Booker books, this was a delight. Stream of consciousness. Scottish dialect. Originality.
 
Jean Giono - Hill Of Destiny :star4:

One of those books that's probably better than I give it credit for if read in context. But as early ecological eschatology goes, it's fascinating and gets a lot done in 150 pages.
 
Yellow Dog - Martin Amis

Horrible, really horrible. Amis just doesn't pull it off at all. A jumbled mess of irrelevant side plots and predictably "sexually charged" themes that have all been done to death already.
 
libri vermis said:
D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover (sometimes beautiful, sometimes ridiculous) :star3:
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This is one of those books that I always seem to be attempting to finish.

I read that you've recently finished Jane Eyre and given it 5 stars, I totally agree with your approval.
Can I ask what you liked about Jane Eyre? Favorite parts? Characters? Scenes?
 
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