tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874013862434397626.post6091082617675306087..comments2023-08-22T13:59:23.795+01:00Comments on Slide23: Fifty Book'thsAlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05140345209343325701noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874013862434397626.post-4686995505389606922011-03-28T08:35:46.562+01:002011-03-28T08:35:46.562+01:00Twenty three of those I've read. There's t...Twenty three of those I've read. There's that number again.<br /><br />I've not read Stieg Larsson purely because the main character is (I've read) a writer. I get for-no-good-reason niggly when the protagonist is such. Stephen King does it a lot. Necessary in Misery, irrelevant in Salem's Lot.Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05140345209343325701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874013862434397626.post-66543175169594828402011-03-27T21:53:57.018+01:002011-03-27T21:53:57.018+01:00My 50:
The Magus – John Fowles
American Psycho – ...My 50:<br /><br />The Magus – John Fowles<br />American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis<br />If On A Winter's Night A Traveller – Italo Calvino<br />Faust – Robert Nye<br />Grendel – John Gardner<br />London Fields – Martin Amis<br />The Secret History – Donna Tartt<br />The Swords of Lankhmar – Fritz Leiber<br />Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell<br />1982 Janine – Alasdair Gray<br />Red Nails – Robert E Howard<br />The Drowned World – J G Ballard<br />Cities of the Red Night – William Burroughs<br />The Final Programme – Michael Moorcock<br />The Arabian Nightmare – Robert Irwin<br />Logan's Run – William F Nolan and George Clayton Johnson<br />Fugue For a Darkening Island – Christopher Priest<br />Kite World – Keith Roberts<br />Live and Let Die – Ian Fleming<br />A Taste For Death – Peter O'Donnell<br />Damnation Alley – Roger Zelazny<br />The Eyes of the Overworld – Jack Vance<br />A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess<br />The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch – Philip K Dick<br />The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov<br />High Fidelity – Nick Hornby<br />The Broken Sword – Poul Anderson<br />The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester<br />The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter<br />The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco<br />Dune – Frank Herbert<br />The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson<br />Delirium's Mistress – Tanith Lee<br />Milk, Sulphate & Alby Starvation – Martin Millar<br />The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin – David Nobbs<br />Bug Jack Barron – Norman Spinrad<br />The Shadow of the Torturer – Gene Wolfe<br />Mythago Wood – Robert Holdstock <br />The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon<br />The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts - Louis de Bernières<br />Imajica – Clive Barker<br />The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureshi<br />Catch 22 – Joseph Heller<br />Slaves of New York – Tama Janowitz<br />Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S Thompson<br />Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk<br />Madrigal – John Gardner<br />Caracole – Edmund White<br />Women – Charles Bukowski<br />I Am Legend – Richard MathesonRob Nnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6874013862434397626.post-41208457476905408232011-03-27T21:12:50.198+01:002011-03-27T21:12:50.198+01:0021 that I've read. 1 that I own but have not y...21 that I've read. 1 that I own but have not yet read and 4 others on my 'need to buy' list. :)Rob Nnoreply@blogger.com