I've just finished "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which is a good read if you like something a bit out the ordinary.
My two cents on Irvine Welsh who was mentioned earlier - couple of years back I read a book "The Farm" by Clarence Cooper Jr. - an excellent prison novel about a guy in a drug rehabilitaion unit. Welsh had written the preface for this particular edition. The book had a very distinctive style the most noticable part of which was the way at certain points
he would take a new line like this to highlight something important
ignoring conventional paragraph structure.
Low and behold around the same time Welsh brings out a book and what do you know - he uses the exact same technique in it.
The guy is totally over rated imo - the best Scottish writers are Banks and Brookmyre.
Deadly
reading?
Re: reading?
When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
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deadly wrote:
> he would take a new line like this to highlight something important
> ignoring conventional paragraph structure.
Something other Scots authors such as James Kelman and Janice Galloway
Had been doing for quite some time.
> he would take a new line like this to highlight something important
> ignoring conventional paragraph structure.
Something other Scots authors such as James Kelman and Janice Galloway
Had been doing for quite some time.
"Let's do it..."
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> Something other Scots authors such as James Kelman and Janice
> Galloway
>
> Had been doing for quite some time.
>
Now thats interesting - so he probably stole it from them then?
When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
Re: reading?
Maybe he could yeah.
Maybe you could try not getting wide with people just cos they have different opinions while he does?
Maybe you could try not getting wide with people just cos they have different opinions while he does?
When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.
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I just finished reading hitchhikers and it's a good book. I can relate to the humor and can't wait to read the rest