Rate all of their books (2 Viewers)

[Jim Daniels]

The few people I know that read Black Swan Green didn't like it at all, but I really liked it too.

Yeah, I think fans of his more complicated narratives were let down by how straight it was written. I thought it was great, really nailed that school age experience. While it was more straight-forward, it was still very well written.

“These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.”

 

[hugh]

Yes, I thought Black Swan Green was good too. The point where he stopped messing about with the smart-arsery and just tried to write a good novel. It's his Jackie Brown.

 

[Jill Hives]

There are very few authors where I have read many of their books. I have a huge backlog to get through this summer because I keep writing down books that Shaney, Jim, Scutter and Lomax mention.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I guess "rate all their books that you've read" will have to do. I don't seem to have read all of anyone's books.

 

[IFF]

Glen Duncan

Hope - 9
Love Remains - 5
I, Lucifer - 8
Weathercock - 10
Death of An Ordinary Man - 6
Bloodstone Papers - 8
A Day and A Night and A Day - 4
The Last Werewolf - 9
Talulla Rising - 8

 

[IFF]

DBC Pierre

Vernon God Little - 8
Ludmillas Broken English - 2
Lights Out in Wonderland - 1

safe to say i won't read him again.

 

[rettucs]

I guess "rate all their books that you've read" will have to do. I don't seem to have read all of anyone's books.

thats what was keeping me from posting a bit more.

this thread has embarrassed me by highlighting the gaps in my reading.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

We're not here to pass judgement, Scutter*


* of course we are

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Glen Duncan

Hope - 9
Love Remains - 5
I, Lucifer - 8
Weathercock - 10
Death of An Ordinary Man - 6
Bloodstone Papers - 8
A Day and A Night and A Day - 4
The Last Werewolf - 9
Talulla Rising - 8

Loved Weathercock and The Last Werewolf. Must check out some of his other stuff

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Cormac McCarthy

Haven't read the first three but

Suttree - 8
Blood Meridian - 10+ (i'ts my favourite book)
All The Pretty Horses - 9
The Crossing - 10
Cities of the Plain - 9
No Country For Old Men - 10
The Road - 10

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Bret Easton Ellis

Less Than Zero - 7
The Informers - 5
Rules of Attraction - 7
American Psycho - 10
Glamorama - 8
Lunar Park - 9
Imperial Bedrooms - 4

 

[David Kronenbourg]

James Dickey

Deliverance - 10
To The White Sea - 10
Alnilam - not read but on my list

 

[hugh]

Damn! Someone got to Cormac McCarthy before me. Would agree on Blood Meridian being the best.

 

[Jim Daniels]

thats what was keeping me from posting a bit more.

this thread has embarrassed me by highlighting the gaps in my reading.

Same here! But rate the ones you have read. Its more reliable than the reviews on Amazon or Goodreads.

 

[washingcattle]

Same here! But rate the ones you have read. Its more reliable than the reviews on Amazon or Goodreads.

I don't do many of the same author so all I have to offer is

Don Delillo

Underworld -10
White Noise - 10
Libra - 10

Yeah, I'm basically just a fan boy. On the other hand I have it on good authority that Mao II is great and the rest are hit and miss.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Don Delillo

• Americana (1971) - 4
• Ratner's Star (1976) - 0
• The Names (1982) - 3
• White Noise (1985) - 10
• Mao II (1991) - 5
• Underworld (1997) - 10
• Falling Man (2007) - 6
• Point Omega (2010) - 4.5

I cant remember why I hated Ratner's Star so much, maybe it was just the wrong time for me and that book, or I didn't get it. I should give Libra a go.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Donna Tartt

The Secret History - 10
The Little Friend - 8.5

 

[IFF]

Same here! But rate the ones you have read. Its more reliable than the reviews on Amazon or Goodreads.

ah those self published books on amazon that have 10 reviews, all giving them 5/5

 

[Jim Daniels]

ah those self published books on amazon that have 10 reviews, all giving them 5/5

Even worse are the positive blurbs on the book's covers, which in actuality refer to a previous book.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Can someone do Iain Banks (R.I.P). I only ever read

The Crow Road: 8.5
Complicity: 7