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Test of Obscurity
EddJC Started conversation May 3, 2003
Hmm a casual glance at my bookshelf - I wonder if anyone else knows these (obviously, I am also including my favourite of the more mainstream - this is not really a test of obscurity):
Umberto Eco - In the name of the rose (am reading at the moment)
Austen, Jane - Emma, Persuasion, Pride and Predjudice, various others
Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveller, Invisible Cities
Jean Boches - Fictions
Will Self - The Quantity Theory of Insanity
Benjamin Hoff - the Tao of Pooh
Terry Pratchett - Various
Stephen King - The Body
Tolkien, R - The Lord of the rings trilogy
Patrick white - Voss
Adams, Douglas - all.
Carrol lewis - Alice and Wonderland, and Throught eh Looking Glass
Winnie the Pooh (excellent holiday reading)
Asimov - foundation trilogy, various short stories
Shakespeare - the complete
Stephen Fry - The Liar
Ben Elton - Inconceivable, Popcorn
Thomas harris - Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs
...and various others I can't remember or don't have in my bookshelf.
the worst book I have ever read I think is Thomas Harris's "Hannibal" which is even worse than the film. Most apppaaaalling book (and don't get me wrong - it's nothing about shock value, it's merely very very poor in terms of plot writing, characterisation, basically everything. He completely ruins the brilliant character he created in the Dr. Lectar of the two earlier books).
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