Your favourite book genre?

[Dayvo]

if there's any books on 'highbrow chick-clit' then that's enough to get me to read the first few pages at least.

bonj! You cracked a joke!

 

[Melvil]

ABSOLUTELY with you there!!! I also love Truman Capote, Paul Auster, Jay McInnery and Armistead Maupin. I also very shamefully admit to adoring Bret Easton Ellis, even though I wouldn't tell that to my Mum!!

But 20th Century European fiction is fabulous too!! I love Gunter Grass, Kundera, Boris Vian and Italo Calvino!! The last century was FABULOUS for writers!!!

I'm with you on Bret Easton Ellis, Cathryn, well if only for American Psycho. That book is simply amazing. Disgusting, also, but still amazing. Also, it has a five page endorsement of Genesis that is pretty hilarious.

As for me, generally, I try and combine a bit of highbrow stuff, a fair dollop of sci-fi and, for my sins, I recently read the last Harry Potter to complete the set (not really worth the effort). I should also have put poetry down as I think Faust (Part I at least) is excellent and surprisingly witty.

 

[Cathryn]

Glamorama was brilliant as well and not quite as nasty!!

 

[Melvil]

Glamorama was brilliant as well and not quite as nasty!!

Do you know there is an unofficial 'sequel' to American Psycho in the form of Emails written by Patrick Bateman:

http://www.briankotek.com/psycho/movie/am2000.cfm

I think Easton Ellis wrote them to coincide with the release of the film!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

i call on all men who read romance novels to put their hands up…

Up where exactly??

Afraid I mostly read sciencey kind of books. Occasionally nature or history and sometimes sci-fi. My daughter likes Harry Potter so I've read those so I sort of know what she's on about.

I have wondered about Biogs. I've read some of Lance's books and that one by Paul Kimmage. Maybe I should read some others not necessarily cycling related ones.

 

[Melvil]

Up where exactly??

Afraid I mostly read sciencey kind of books. Occasionally nature or history and sometimes sci-fi. My daughter likes Harry Potter so I've read those so I sort of know what she's on about.

I have wondered about Biogs. I've read some of Lance's books and that one by Paul Kimmage. Maybe I should read some others not necessarily cycling related ones.

Bertrand Russell's Autobiography is pretty hard going in parts but a very rewarding and entertaining read. Also Alan Sillitoe's autobiography 'Life without Armour' is very interesting. A bit of a Sillitoe fan, me.

 

[papercorn2000]

Crime, SF, history, classics - oh, hell, I am a geek!

 

[Cathryn]

Do you know there is an unofficial 'sequel' to American Psycho in the form of Emails written by Patrick Bateman:

http://www.briankotek.com/psycho/movie/am2000.cfm

I think Easton Ellis wrote them to coincide with the release of the film!

I had no idea. How exciting. Off to read them.