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I agree too. Would Moto be running it?

16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six - Tom Waits

Thanks Kenny, another writer I haven't heard of! Oddly that link provides less information about her later novels than your post above. I see though that her 'masterpiece' (according to that site) Ice is to be reissued next week, and an Amazon reviewer also likens her to Murakami. Not that...

House insurance policy That book Stewart loaned me that I haven't returned yet iPod a change of trousers any remaining unmelted chocolate What was the last photograph you took?

Blockbuster - Sweet (If anyone sees my 'variant' contributions as disrespectful to the game, that's not my intention at all. I just want to make it a little more interesting!)

I know what you mean, and I could level this accusation at many writers I love, including Paul Auster and Martin Amis. (Though the fact I continue to love them must make me a little more tolerant.) For what it's worth, one writer whose endings, for me, match if not exceed the rest of his work...

Seeking Whom He May Devour, Fred Vargas. I didn't like it but you might.

Like angerball, I didn't finish The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, though even to say that is overstating the very brisk reading I gave it. The question is not so much 'how far did I get' as 'how near'. I may just not have been in the right frame of mind for it, but I gave up early on, increasingly...

See, I didn't get any of that when I read it... :o Interesting that you mention People Like Us, novella, which wasn't even that well watched by people in the UK (er, like me, for example, though I keep meaning to get acquainted with it), let alone the US. I'll see your Wodehouse and raise you...

( :rolleyes: ) Stars of CCTV - Hard-Fi

(Come on folks, if we don't twist things a little, this game could get old pretty quick...) Eye Level: Theme from Van der Valk, The Simon Park Orchestra

again. Suddenly Caesar reappeared.

Fantayzee Island - Tight Fit

It seems not - this guy is a truck driver when he's not being a judge...

Dancing on the Celine - Lionel Richie

Could it be 'e' by Matt Beaumont? By the way for a great email-based novel I would recommend Amanda Prantera's Capri File...

Heard him on Jo Whiley's show the other day and he seemed pretty good, but not enough for me to take the plunge!

Ooh, I love a good satire. Of course, it's necessary first to understand what's being satirised, which is probably why I didn't like Kurkov's Death and the Penguin cited by Kenny above. What about George Saunders? Armando Iannucci has been a great modern satirist on British TV and radio, from...

As a stalwart of Palimpsest, I would tend to agree with this. The books under discussion there tend to form a subset of those under discussion here: sort of like (Palimpsest) = (TBF - A-format paperbacks). I'd love to see more discussion there of obscure stuff such as Kenny has mentioned...

I didn't watch it, but aren't his videos usually pretty ropey? And it's par for the course for him to release a weak song for the first single. Alma Matters, anyone?