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Originally Posted by Campestral  i don't read much at all but the best i would say is les miserables which had me crying and laughing and getting all philosophical, and 2nd best is 'how late it was, how late' by james kelman an unbelievable piece of writing. oh yeah and 'the little prince'! brilliant short story. |
That Kelman one was a weird one, I enjoyed it but by the end he hadn't answered ANY of the questions raised in the novel. What the fuck HAD happened to his girlfriend?
I wondered if we were sposed to draw the conclusion he'd killed her when pished, but that didn't seem to gel with the rest of the novel. Also, it made me crave lots and lots of tea.
My favourite books:
Milan Kundera - Immortality
Laura Hird - Born Free
Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories
Kate Atkinson - Human Croquet
Paul Auster - Moon Palace
I'm sure I've outlined the reasons in a thread like this ages ago. There's a few I've read in the past two years or so that I think *will* make my favourites list (Coupland's Life After God, Greene's The End of the Affair and The Shadow of the Wind) but I don't like to chuck them on the list having only read 'em once.
