Awful, awful, awful books....

[RosieH]

Yes, I had an english teacher at primary school who was obsessed with teaching us grammar (separate a rat, crocodile smiles anyone?)

but suddenly I'm unsure and might need to go and look it up

do you already know Orwell's five rules? the sixth being the barbarous thing I mentioned above? for anyone who doesn't, it's well worth a read - inspirational

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

"Thursdays in the Park" by Hilary Boyd

Crap, crap, crap, CRAP!

[Captain Marvel]

Tancredi by James Palumbo, only surpassed in pretentious, stupid, you-can-fool-all-of-the-people-all-of-the-time drivel by its predecessor Tomas.

Stick to yer past it nightclub

[EDLove]

'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf.

Tripe.

[El Pibe]

Was talking about Neal Stephenson with someone and they suggested if I like his scatterbrained, everything including the kitchen sink approach then I might like Thomas Pynchon, so tried GRavity's Rainbow.

What could go wrong, world war 2, spies, V2 rockets.....

It arrived on my doorstep and I excitedly deboxed it, a quick glance at the blurb revealed the words 'ulysees' and 'moby dick'

*klaxons blare*

Sure enough what starts as an apparent parody of the Monty Python 'bally Gerry' sketch soon turns into a 6 page stream of consciousness about a giant adenoid's 30 year invasion of London.

I'm not planning on gettng any further, but would it be worth perservering?

[fernado]

John Lanchester's 'Capital'. Plod, plod, plod. So dull.

[wee quinnie]

Anything by Kathy Lette.

URGH!