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Interesting - I actually gave up on this book early on because I thought it was boring! Will have to look it out again...

The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Dan Brown The Da Vinci Code by Vladimir Nabokov Lolita by Gary Glitter The Leader of the Gang by John Kerry

My Struggle by John Updike

Just read my first Raymond Chandler, The Long Good-bye (1953), which was his last-but-one novel. (Though many commentators on Amazon etc seem to view the last one, Playback, as a poor thing, and it's rarely mentioned in blurbs etc.) Anyway. The Long Good-bye. Ooooh. I thought it was one of...

The Bonfire of the Vanities?

Peder is right re the notion that Lolita was in part lifted from Patricia Highsmith's Carol. The books have nothing in common. Highsmith, while an excellent suspense writer (try the 'Ripleiad' or The Cry of the Owl), wrote Carol - or The Price of Salt as it was originally titles - in an almost...

Stewart will no doubt respond in his own inimitable way, but for me the reason that mentioning Mein Kampf was risible is because, as I said earlier, it's not a novel, and this is a thread about serial killer novels. Mein Kampf is a bad and misleading 'example' to cite because it's written by...

I know you haven't read American Psycho, Doug, so I won't hit you over the head with this point, but, although the novel is most definitely satirical, the violence is all presented extremely graphically and unironically. The novel is not a satire of serial killers but a satire of the 1980s...

Thanks tamsine. I've just begun The Accidental Tourist. I'm only a few pages in but it's fluent and amusing. So far so good.

Sorry Josh, I backed you up over the Hitler thing, but this is one of the silliest things I've read on this forum.

I know what you mean. I keep hoping someone else in the world will cotton on to the idea of writing down words one after another to make a story and then binding the pages together between covers to make a - what shall we call it? - a 'book'. But until that happens you're right, Dan Brown is...

I disagree that it should be banned, keks. I think it's important for people to be able to see and read what Hitler himself thought, however wrong or twisted those thoughts might be. It's also important for anyone who supported him (or still follows his ideologies) to know that the reason they...

Kook, I have to disagree. I don't think people who write in their spare time for the fun of it can call themselves writers. What we understand by someone saying "I'm a writer" (as with "I'm a dentist") is that it's their profession. By definition that means they get paid for it, or make (at...

Welcome to Book and Reader, Paul. (Thanks, Stewart!) You need to be aware however of the Membership Agreement, which prohibits (Rule 3.2) advertising your own products in the body of a post (doing it in your sig is OK), or (Rule 3.4) linking to your online store. So if your post gets...

If we're doing a head count, I bought American Psycho and loved it. Mein Kampf isn't a novel.

For what it's worth I agree with the policy that stands. If people want to find out more about the books, there are plenty of reviews and opinions out there, on Amazon and elsewhere.

Steve Martin's The Pleasure of My Company pretty much fits the bill. It's not brilliant but it's not a bad read either.

Cody, I think your writing is good in places, but my overwhelming response is: Less is more! What we have here is little more than soft porn of the Jackie Collins school. Ease up on the relentless sensual detail a little, or at least balance it better than by having all this long build-up and...

Now at work, using IE and 800 x 600, I see that many of the sidebar menu items run over onto two lines (eg Book Discussion, Book of the Month), making it look rather messy and the bullets to become misaligned. Comme ca:

That's OK Castroz. I've read quickly through the whole story, and the paragraph you quote definitely does not appear in that form in the English translation. The closest I can get is this, from the paragraphs before the first one I quoted above. As you can see, this contains some elements of...