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For a debut book. Iain Banks 'The Wasp Factory' takes some beating.

Janszoon

I just skimmed the Wikipedia entry about it, sounds really interesting.

For some reason it made me think of Bereavements by Richard Lortz, another book I loved.

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MoonlitSunshine

I just read



I enjoyed it, though it will be interesting to see what his other books are like.

As for my Favourite book, that's a horrible choice, but it would be one of these I think:

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Astronomer

My absolute favourite book in the world is the original Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. So, so many themes to explore. It's also really sad.



I also love Lolita (which adidasss already mentioned), The Catcher in the Rye (yes I loved it okay), and absolutely anything by Virginia Woolf.

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Janszoon

I read that one a couple years ago. I really liked the concept but the structure of the book seemed off balance to me. I thought the first two thirds of the book were way longer than necessary while, strangely enough, the last third felt kind of rushed and I wished it was a little longer. Have you ever read The Handmaid's Tale?

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Janszoon

Great book! One of my favorite books I ever had to read for school.

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Astronomer

Aw you got to read it for school?! I wish I had good books to read in school. We always got assigned shitty contemporary stuff.

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Janszoon

That's funny, when I was in school it seemed like most of what I had to read was pretty old (Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Homer, etc.). The only books we read that could be remotely described as contemporary were still several decades old.

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Astronomer

I think by the time I reached high school they tried to modernise the curriculum in an attempt to 'connect' with teenagers. But the truth is I love the classics over contemporary stuff any day. Dickens, Shakespeare, Joyce... love them to bits. Not Jane Austen though. Haha.

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Fruitonica

I liked Sirens, but I think I prefer Vonnegut when he is slightly less whimsical.
Although just refreshing my memory on wikipedia is reminding me how much I liked it.

I think as far as awesome quotes go, you can't really beat Vonnegut.