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This is the back cover text of The Ice Man, as kindly provided to me by Peder. It's secondary to this discussion, and I've placed it in its own 18-certificate thread to ensure people have adequate warning before reading it. Myself, I don't think it particularly warrants such certification, but...

Not always, it depends on the publisher giving them permission. In this case there isn't (yet) the capability to read the back cover or extracts on Amazon.com - this is what I was referring to earlier. I should add that my own interest is not 'prurient' (I can't speak for Stewart...) nor am...

Thanks Peder, I'd appreciate it if you would do that.

I do hope you don't sincerely mean 'sincerely' Peder, as the tone of your response (and your earlier response to Zolipara) is rather chilly, particularly for a member of the forum widely regarded as one of the nicest. Or perhaps you are impersonating a cold-blooded gentleman of the Humbert or...

I don't know about Zolipara, Peder, but I and many others here can't read the back cover because (a) it's an American publication which we don't have access to, (b) Amazon doesn't provide a back cover image, and (c) you won't reproduce its content for us! To anyone like me who came into this...

It's interesting to watch the recent film Capote in conjunction with reading In Cold Blood, as it depicts the period in Capote's life when he was writing the book. Also a good companion piece is George Plimpton's oral biography Truman Capote, which has interviews with the police involved and so...

He's actually self-published, and almost mythic on the internet for his virulent self-promotion of his books, which includes faking illness and manipulating photographs of other author events. Crazy name, crazy guy. I bought one of his books out of curiosity but I can't get past page 1 without...

Thank God! No offence, sirmyk, but that was really horrible, and I don't mean that in a twisted-compliment way... I'm not notably squeamish, but this just read like gore-porn. However that's just a question of my tastes I suppose. On a more structural note, it felt as though the delay in...

Maybe Chris - like me up until a few minutes ago - thought stigmata meant only the palms of your hands, like that fella in that book...

I usually do bold them as well, Stewart, but sometimes that can make it look like random emphasis. I think a different colour is needed. I should say that on my computers (work and home), links aren't automatically underlined and the underline only appears when the mouse is moved over them...

I was reminded of this issue by this thread. And if you didn't realise that the word 'this' in my previous sentence was a link to another thread, then you've got the problem in a nutshell. Most forums make hyperlinks a distinguishing colour from the rest of the text so that they're easy to...

Good, abc! Aside from the usual outrage over people so blinkered and thick that all they see in a classic are the profanities, isn't it appalling that people are challenging books designed to help children understand puberty? Ironically - and this is generally the case - it's the children of...

I'll second The Master and Margarita. I read it several years ago and can't remember much about it, but it seems perennially popular so I'd like to rediscover why. (Off-topic: how are you finding McGrath's Asylum, theoptimist? I think there's a thread for him somewhere if you care to share...

"I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday Cause you're evil and you lie..." ;)

Yes, I take your point. I should say that I remain a big fan of Winterson's adult fiction, but a more critical friend now than I would be in the past (avoid, for all our sakes, her novels Gut Symmetries and The Powerbook, for instance). I still think Sexing the Cherry is wonderful, and her...

Tanglewreck, just published,demonstrates effectively that Jeanette Winterson's most notable features as a writer - lyrical prose, and a lofty disdain for straightforward storytelling in favour of impassioned 'spiral narratives' - don't necessarily lend themselves to the demands of children's...

Well quite, but my interpretation of tallwhitegirl's request was that it shouldn't even refer to any arguably immoral acts, lest the maiden aunts/teenagers in her book group throw the book out of the window in disgust/run off and try all those immoralities themselves. Some people really think...

This is straying off-topic, but isn't one of the aims of a book group to get people reading stuff they might not try otherwise, or that they think might not be to their taste?

Thanks for flagging this up, bg. I'll have to look out for it.

No abc, I haven't read it - and now I don't need to! I remember seeing it when it appeared in English language translation in - what? - the early 90s. I thought it must be a wacky, lightly comic, magic realism sort of book. Was I wrong?