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hello, I am interested in discussing this novel. has anyone else read it? here is my review of the novel. ***minor SPOILERS ALERT*** TALKING IT OVER was a really fast and entertaining read. Stuart, a rich, seemingly boring and straight laced banker marries the soft-spoken and adorable Gillian...

Anyone like the work of this cartoonist/illustrator writer? I have been buying volumes of THE COMPLETE CRUMB. His early comics were hilarious, playful and slapsticky with a lot of social commentary. His later work had more of the social commentary and some of it is really dark. Especially his...

I dont simply mean favorite books. I mean the books whose characters and settings and dialogs are like friends of yours. You identify so much with the feelings of the characters and the situations they find themselves in, you feel like you are reading about characters who could be your friends...

Any fans of this great but somewhat unknown American writer? He writes the most melancholic crime fiction - especially the ones featuring the character Hoke Moseley. MIAMI BLUES is a police procedural with existential elements. The Hoke Moseley character always cuts a sorry figure. The villains...

I found this forum today morning and decided to join. I am in India and like to read American fiction. Glad to be here and the Authors section looks good. Hope to discuss writers and books regularly.

Any fans of this great controversial man? I finished A HOUSE FOR MR.BISWAS today. As an Indian I could identify with a lot of the characters and their circumstances in the novel. It is easy to dismiss Naipaul as a vicious man who was looking down upon his own culture. In doing so, Naipaul...