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Has anyone read On The Road by Jack Kerouac. I've heard it's an American cult classic and meant to be good.

I'm not sure though :suspect:

I keep meaning to get it :(

The Da Vinci Code :amazed:

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Originally Posted by Shaun (Post 4363928)

I keep meaning to get it :(

I know me too, might go look in Waterstones or see the prices online lol I only heard about it after I saw that Russell Brand doc on it

Hi InOne. Don't know if biographies are your thing but I recently read Dannii Minogues and am now onto Michael McIntyres. I have varied tastes in reading. Fave fiction authors include Louise Bagshawe,Adele Parks, Mike Gayle, Jill Mansell and I have read nearly all Agatha Christies.

The Hunger Games.

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Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.

It's excellent, imagine Battle Royale with a reality TV angle.

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Originally Posted by Dezzy (Post 4364317)

The Hunger Games.

It's excellent, imagine Battle Royale with a reality TV angle.

That sounds interesting actually, sounds a bit like that film Game

The Recruit - Robert Muchamore. Very cool novel! Its a series of novels though. Like the next one is called Class A

Room- Emma Donoghue is a good book...

Jack isn't very likable though... IMO anyway but due to his backstory etc, I could understand his situation.

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Palahniuk's audacious ninth novel tells the story of Cassie Wright, an aging porn queen who intends to put an exclamation point on her career by having sex with 600 men in one day on film. The story begins with Mr. 600—the pornosaur who introduced Cassie to the business—as he describes the other 599 actors awaiting their moment on screen. The perspective then shifts to Mr. 72, an adopted Midwestern 20-something who is one of the many young men claiming to be Cassie's long-lost son. Mr. 137, a has-been television star hoping to revive his career, wants to ask Cassie's hand in marriage so that the two can star in a reality TV show. But for a novel centered around a gargantuan gangbang, there's surprisingly little action; the small amount of narrative movement takes place backstage, where the characters attempt to get a sense of one another while waiting for their number to be called. There are sharp moments when Palahniuk compassionately and candidly examines the flesh-on-film industry, but mostly this reads like a cross between the Spice Channel and Days of Our Lives.

He wrote Fight Club. This one is getting made into a movie next.

omg... I bought a Chuck Palahnuik novel on Amazon thinking it was this because I suddenly remembered this post, and it turns out I got it wrong :bawling: I bought 'Choke'.