The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera: Lifechanging
Underworld by Don DeLillo: Long
The Long Firm by Jake Arnott: Bespokearsebanditgangster
Trainspotting by Irvine Welch: Pishflaps
Beloved by Toni Morrison: Phantasmagoric
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: Clammy
Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth: Memberable
The Tales of the Brothers Grimm: Grim
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Grimmer
**********UPDATE***************
realdoc has chimed in with these:
The Da vinci Code - Bollocks
Pride and Predjudice - *Would* [I added the *s, btw - it's what she would've wanted...]
A Brief History of Time - Eh
Excellent stuff Realster!!
.....and a couple more from me:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov: Jamesmasonlysmarmingkiddyfiddler
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis: flahybrevelcooT
The World According to Garp by John Irving: Inpenetrablefellatiomishap
Come on - let's be 'avin you. More please, Swipesters - you know it makes sense....
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Cancer Ward - painful
ReplyDeleteJane Eyre - perfect
Women Are From Venus Men Are From Mars - uttershit
The one about food written by William Leith - unbearabletosh
Anything by Alice Munro - compulsory
LP Hartley - The Go-Between - Middling
ReplyDeleteErskine Childers - The Riddle of the Sands (unfinished) - Perplexing
John O'Farrel - Things Can Only Get Better - Wrong
PS Bob, justleavingoutthespaceischeating!
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence: whatacarryonmissus
ReplyDeleteTo The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf: unreadable
Middlemarch - George Eliot: panoramic
Backstage Passes - Angela Bowie and some ghost writer: sheputitaboutabit
Stories And Poems Of Edgar Allen Poe: goth
Quicksilver et al, Neal Stephenson - Doorstops
ReplyDeleteThe Rotters Club, Jonathan Coe - Brum
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace - Footnotes
American Pastoral, Philip Roth - Angry
Messiah, Boris Starling - Bloody
Mansfield Park - Prim
ReplyDeleteUlysses - Odyssey
ReplyDeleteFinnegans Wake - lotsofnewwordsandthingummyjigs
A Clockwork Orange - droogy!
Up the Junction - howsyerfather?
A la Recherche du temps perdu = divine
Wuthering Heights - Oy Cathy! Lerrusina'yourwindow!
'We Need To Talk About Kevin' Lionel Shriver - Archery.
ReplyDelete'Experience' Martin Amis - Dentistry.
''A Long Way Down' Nick Hornby - Gravity.
'The Fermata' Nicholson Baker - Invisibility.
The Remains of the Day: buttoned
ReplyDeleteWhite Teeth: Benetton
American Psycho: drycleaning
Heart of Darkness: noit'snotsetinVietnamactually
The Quiet American: thisoneisthough
The Satanic Verses: senseofhumourfailureperhaps
the later works of Haruki Murakami: handjobs
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.: Unhygienic
ReplyDeleteAbout a Boy by Nick Hornby: Batch.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: Spinny
Funeral Rites by Jean Genet: Poovery
War & Peace by Tolstoy: Russia
Bob, Lionel Shriver was on Newsnight last night - very exciting.
ReplyDeleteThe Fermata doesn't have any invisibility in it if I recall correctly.
JD Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye: phoney.
ReplyDeleteHenry Miller, Tropic of Cancer: cunt.
Was she gloved or nude Billster?
ReplyDeleteBilly. You are correct. There is no invisiblity in The Fermata per se. It's there as a subliminal desire. I may be the only one that saw it.
ReplyDelete"I may be the only one that saw it"
ReplyDeleteLet's get this straight Dickster - not only did you *see* invisibility - but it was subliminable too.....like, *good* eyesight, or what??
Carrots?
Or abstinence??
OK I will explain. I read 'The Fermata' on several levels. Pure filth of course...good for a wank. A Proustian attempt to intellectualize pornography. And then I asked myself...what is this fellow really up to? It's voyeurism taken to the extreme of course. He wants to be invisible! That's my take on it anyway. I'm sure there are others....Dick.
ReplyDeleteOne word reviews for you Bob
ReplyDeleteAnything by AA Gill- Wankfest
Mein Kampf- Fascist
Little Red Book- Chinese
Iain Banks Complicity- Yeeeeuucch
Janet and John- Monotonous
Rupert Bear- insufferable
Salam Rushdie Satanic Verses- Careful
Bollocks..I meant Salman...no wonder I got sacked as book editor for Gollans, Gollanz...shit
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