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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

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.

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> Something other Scots authors such as James Kelman and Janice
> Galloway
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> Had been doing for quite some time.
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Now thats interesting - so he probably stole it from them then?

Maybe he could yeah.

Maybe you could try not getting wide with people just cos they have different opinions while he does?

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