Has anyone seen The Reader?

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  1. Jay

    Jay Well-Known Member

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    Ooooh, a book I've read

    Did you like The Wasp Factory? Iain Banks is a favourite of mine.
     
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    Loved Wasp Factory

    I'm a huge fan of Iain Banks, but cannot take to Iain M. Banks.

    His best book for me and one of my favourite reads of all time is Complicity.

    Crow Road also excellent.
     
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    RE: Loved Wasp Factory

    Complicity is excellent. Just a great story. I also love Dead Air.

    I'm a fan of Iain M Banks too, which is strange because I don't read any other science fiction. I'm secretly hoping that Diziet Sma will come down to earth and take me to live in the Culture.
     
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    Also 'The Cap (or the price of life)'

    Really brutal stuff but incredibly honest.

    About a lad who was in his early and mid teens during Holocaust.

    At one point he is told to work with a privileged Jewish worker who is skilled at making chess pieces for the guards. This guy is also a paedophile who buggers his young assistans and then steals their cap, which means instant death for them at the next roll call and ensures they can never tell anyone of their mistreatment. This young lad steals someone elses cap, even though he knows what it will mean, hence the title of the book.

    The guy ends up working for Robert Maxwell in the early nineties, so he didn't escape without some scars.
     
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    RE: Ooooh, a book I've read

    About 100 pages in, really enjoying it. Very dark!!

    Read To Kill A Mocking Bird before that which I thought was brilliant (although to quote Homer Simpson, "sure it taught me not to judge a man because of the colour of his skin, but nothing about killing mocking birds").
     
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    Wasp Factories are ****

    I've got a worm farm.

    Great, I had to edit my spelling, we've dropped another place in the world education rankings.
     
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    RE: Loved Wasp Factory

    I've tried hard to like the sci fi stuff but it just doesn't speak to me. Not that much SF does though.
     
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    RE: Wasp Factorys are ****

    You might think Worm Farms are the best, but until you've tried a Slug Manufactury you've never lived.
     
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    RE: Also 'The Cap (or the price of life)'

    Wow that sounds pretty horrific. Sadly there the kind of books everyone should have to read to try and appreciate man's capacity for inhumanity.
     
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    Great review by Homer

    Shows you how to kill rabid dogs though. Get Atticus to do it.
     
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    RE: Great review by Homer

    It certainly does! Great book. Takes 2nd place for me behind Catch-22
     
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