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The Official Unofficial Book Group Book Discussion thread

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McGoohan
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So... when you woke up this morning did you find you'd been ... etc?
Diogenes
Diogenes
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Wouldn’t you like to do something different for a change?
Badger
Badger
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Wondering if this means that, along with all her other skills, Linds speaks cockroach?
Diogenes
Diogenes
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Has anyone else been affected by the issues in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis? I'm just putting out feelers.
Chrisull
Chrisull
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Read 10 ( well 11 but two were unfinisheds at half way) of that list. Some great books in there, stone cold classics.
Mouseytongue
Mouseytongue
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7 for me on that list plus several different books by some of the authors. I'm intrigued by John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy
Mouseytongue
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"Receding into the detritus of failed experiments in American fiction", calling it "little more than an inflated translation game ... so brittle a cleverness that it constantly reveals the tediousness of the novel's informing conception." - Robert Alter

"Morally empty but well-made husk." - John Gardner

"A very bad prose-work" - Gore Vidal
McGoohan
McGoohan
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Just wanted to wave my mandibles in appreciation of Dio’s joke up there
Little Nemo
Little Nemo
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I'm surprised to find I've read 5 as I normally try to avoid these sorts of books. In fact I don't think 2 of the ones that I've read really count as postmodern: PopCo and The Blind Assassin.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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[I stole it from someone funny on Twitter]

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Unofficial books, underground discussion, MASSIVE SPOILERS.

Some of the most discussed books include:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
(mind-bending mystery with halls and statues)
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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (geriatric murder mystery from Britain's tallest comedic brainbox)
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The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
(Memoir of a homeless couple walking the SWCP)
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Milkman by Anna Burns
(Superlative prize-winning fiction)
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The Player Of Games by Iain M. Banks (Sci-Fi)
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (weird steampunk)
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