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ATTACK! Books I have seen the future of English Literature, and its name is Tits-Out Teenage Terror Totty. A new line of books "that makes Finnegans Wake read like Janet And John dumbed down for dyslexics. On crack. OFFICIAL!" Updated 12/12/1999
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Bog Book Bonanza What did you get for Christmas 2002? If it was a book, there's a fair to middling chance it was one of the nine gift books reviewed here, and it'll probably be used as toilet-side reading before spring is out. Hence the name. Updated 01/03/2003
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Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Fernanda Pivano, writing in Corriere della Sera, once called Tom Robbins 'the most dangerous writer in the world'. I am so there. Updated 06/05/2001
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The Iliad Homer's epic tale of the Trojan War has inspired a recent movie, Troy, and inevitably people will be drawn back to the original literary source to see what all the fuss was about. Last time I read it was over a quarter of a century ago for an exam, but let's give it another shot. Updated 01/07/2004
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Lullaby Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too... Chuck Palahniuk's new novel starts out with five cot deaths, and builds towards the prospect of global annihilation by poetry. Cheerful as ever, then. Updated 01/10/2002
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Our Dumb Century A crash course in the last hundred years of American and world history, plus a couple of thousand sicko laffs thrown in as a bonus, courtesy of legendary spoof newspaper The Onion. I don't swear in this one, but one of the pictures does. Updated 19/07/1999
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Steppin' On A Rainbow Kinky Friedman, when he's not writing and performing songs like Ride 'Em Jewboy, is the author and hero of a series of hilarious detective novels. Meet the man Willie Nelson called "the best whodunnit writer to come along since Dashiell what's-his-name." Updated 07/10/2001
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The Talk Of The Town "You know me, Ted, I'm a very cynical man," said Father Dougal Maguire once. Trouble is, he may be right, judging from Ardal O'Hanlon's first novel. Updated 18/07/1998
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Ulysses It's been voted the best book of the 20th century! It's back in the bestseller lists 76 years after its first publication! But is it any good? Under controlled laboratory conditions, we find out. Beware, Ulysses is rude in parts, and so is this page. Updated 16/08/1998
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You Are Here Is Kyle Baker's new masterpiece a glorified comic? Or is it a proper novel that just happens to have a lot of pictures? I haven't had a new book review on here for ages, so I'm saying the latter. Don't argue. Updated 08/12/1998
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