voice
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Post by voice on Jan 28, 2009 5:32:34 GMT
US novelist Updike dies of cancer Pulitzer-prize winning novelist John Updike dies of lung cancer at the age of 76, his publisher has announced. Wrote some cracking stuff, a sad loss news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7854554.stm |
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flatandy
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Post by flatandy on Jan 28, 2009 10:03:03 GMT
To my shame, I've never read anything by him.
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Gort
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Post by Gort on Jan 28, 2009 10:05:50 GMT
Never heard of him. Rabbie Burns is the worlds most famouse bard dont you think voice?
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Post by silkbreeze on Jan 28, 2009 11:27:47 GMT
yes, he wrote some good stuff - i read quite a lot of it, many years ago...very evocative descriptions of the time and location he was writing about...
forum should have a 'what are you reading' post like in the old house.....
i've just finished 'the darkness of things' by harry thompson - a novel about some of fitzroy's and darwin's journeys and have started haruki murikami's kafka on the shore......
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Post by radge on Jan 28, 2009 11:30:02 GMT
Rabbie Burns!!! Too true!!  never heard of this guy. but then again poetry is for poofs. ahahahaha |
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flatandy
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Post by flatandy on Jan 28, 2009 11:54:53 GMT
Not read Kafka on the Shore (it's had some mixed comments), but I absolutely love Murukami.
Right now I'm reading Redemption Falls by Joseph O'Connor which seems to be, basically, a bit of a western. Underwhelming.
Read JG Ballard's utterly fantastic autobiography before that. He really is my favourite modern British author.
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