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Sorry Gem, I misunderstood the earlier posts when someone said "Not many people seem to have read this one" I thought they meant The Unconsoled. Not sure why. Anyway, there are some more detailed thoughts (by someone who can remember it! :o) here.

Catch-22, as far as I remember, doesn't really get going until page 100 or so, though it's still over-long anyway. Heller ranked so high for me simply because his second novel, Something Happened, is one of my all-time favourites. It's very black though and powerfully bleak, and in a way quite...

Anamnesis, I would say that Orlando is one of Woolf's more accessible novels, particularly compared with the others written around the same time (To the Lighthouse, The Waves), so if you didn't like it, you may not fare better with her other stuff either. But don't let that stop you...

Hm, as a member, Sofia, or just a guest?

Just here and Palimpsest. Bren: we had no idea! Speak up one of these days!

Thanks, blueboatdriver. I've read Edward St Aubyn's Mother's Milk and James Lasdun's Seven Lies, and highly recommend both. I hope they make it to the shortlist (announced 14 September). I have Howard Jacobson's Kalooki Nights here waiting for me; I've loved his last four novels and this is...

As it happens I have read The Unconsoled - see post 7 in this very thread. If you're having difficulties with Ishiguro's other works, I wouldn't really recommend it. It's for converts only.

Yes, it is hard. As I indicated above, most of my middle-ranking choices are more or less randomly placed. Orwell or Lee? Who knows? For me, I just haven't really liked any of Atwood's stuff, with the exception of her story collection Wilderness Tips, which I did love. Other than that I've...

I've read Dahl's adult works. He's not a horror writer.

Or Jack Ketchum and Robert McCammon! Hahahahahaha!!

Is that the best you've got as a comeback, eyez0nme? We're very tolerant of children in this forum, but in your case we can make an exception. :D

I'd be surprised if Stewart is interested in the literary recommendations of the person who gave us this thread <--- link

Richard Yates Joseph Heller John Updike George Orwell Harper Lee Jeffrey Eugenides Saul Bellow Aldous Huxley William Golding John Steinbeck Marilynne Robinson John Kennedy Toole J.D. Salinger Margaret AtwoodHaven't read Bradbury, Jones or Saramago. And the only things I'm certain of in my...

While you're there, you might let us know what you make of The Known World. I've looked at it a number of times, based on the Pulitzer thing. Good luck with Bellow and Updike. For me, if it's possible to concentrate on language too much at the expense of story, those boys excel at it.

I must admit that this is a view I have secretly harboured. To create an entirely new world seems to me actually less imaginative than creating genuinely novel and interesting ideas for fiction set in the real world. However it sounds as though Perowne (and McEwan) is talking about the likes...

Steffee: But you really should read to the end: it's worth it!

Can you explain what you mean by a business novel, WoodYouLike? Did you try to get it published through a normal publisher first?

I was confused by this, Shelly/Wayne, until I realised what you meant was that you had just finished writing Redemption.

Well that's a matter of opinion. Having lived through the IRA's paramilitary campaign, I can see parallels. Hizbollah is a terrorist/'resistance militia' organisation which does not recognise Israel's right to occupy the land it does, adjacent to Lebanons's border. The IRA is a...

I've read through this thread with interest, Samerron, and am glad you're OK - physically at least. Keep on reporting. I'm interested to read your perspective on things as a Lebanese citizen. It may interest you to know Hizbollah is seen generally in the western world as a terrorist...