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The first book of Cerebus is very different from the rest of his work. It starts out as a pure Conan-parody (Book1) but it soon grows into something very different. The first book introduces many of the characters so it might still be smart to start there, but you could also start at the second...

The readers list had a lot of wierd choices. The Ayn Rand fans have been good at voting.

Thats a great movie.

In fantasy they can spend 10 000 pages doing exactly that. :)

I agree. Yes i'm Norwegian. Sure i can recommend lots of good books, but when i try to find them in amazon it seems few of them are translated. When looking at norwegian literary history you cant get past"The four greats", Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Jonas Lie, Henrik Ibsen and Alexander...

Yes in the early days before he was really famous he tried to organise some lecture tours without much success, but he published several articles on writing. In 1891 he had got his breakthrough, and finally managed to get a successful lecture tour. He talked about his ideas on writing, and what...

The little quirks tend to annoy me immensly. Very often in not so good literature you find characters with a pecualiar quirk put in to make the character seem more alive. However, a huge amount of authors tends to repeat this quirk on pretty much every page, and then i very quickly get tired of...

I realised that, but i just found it an odd choice when you were supposed to pick just one book from that country. But as you say its safe. Well you can see many of the same themes repeated in many of his works, but i found the similarity between the August-triology and Women at the Pump to...

Its pretty much impossible to choose one book to represent the country, but its possible to just mention one good book written by an author from that country.

Perhaps not, but i dont think any of his other books really will prepare you for Hunger. I notice you suggested "The women at the pump". Its good, but in my opinion its just a condenced version of the story/theme in the August triology. He has other books i would recommend before that one...

Just a few from my bookshelf. All from europe so not that exotic. Norway: Knut Hamsun - Hunger Czech: Karel Čapek - War with the newts. Germany: Siegfried Lenz - The german lesson Sweden: Per Olov Enquist - The royal physicians visit Denmark(/Norway): Ludvig Holberg - Jeppe of the Hill...

Wham - Last Christmas.. :)

I find that there are good and bad sides to every country including my own. I lived a couple of years abroad when i was a student, and liked it a lot, but in the end i went back home because most of my friends still live here. I'm more attached to people than places.

Since geeks fell in love with this book.

Hmm i've read 9 of those.

Not that christians tend to be any less sadistic than the rest of the population.

While its not a book you should see "Der Untergang", a very good german movie about the last days of Hitler.

I liked that her lawyer argued that she is "too pretty for jail". I think she got off easy because of her looks. How many male sex offenders get their own "free insertnamehere" website like Debra did?

The dads are likely to try and sell their teens to Gary as well.

What career?