Cane by Jean Toomer. Fantastic.
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An Idiot Abroad - The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
It's on my Christmas list! 
An Atheist's Guide To Christmas
In preparation for a meeting with a producer next week, I am reading The Devil's Guide to Hollywood by Joe Eszterhas. My plan is to repeatedly punch the guy in the balls whilst calling him a "motherf**king asshole whore", take a shit on his desk, then coolly demand $3 million for the optioning rights to my (as-yet-unwritten) sitcom pilot. 
Dead Air by Iain Banks. I haven't read any of him for yonks.
Just read Mark Billingham's Death Message. Now reading his book Buried.
Feel a bit like a traitor to our Mr. P... 
Quote: zooo @ December 14 2010, 10:12 PM GMTJust read Mark Billingham's Death Message. Now reading his book Buried.
Feel a bit like a traitor to our Mr. P...
It's ok 
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/browse/ebooks/crime/4294964553/
And I bet you aren't named in his books!
Quote: Marc P @ December 14 2010, 10:15 PM GMTIt's ok
http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/browse/ebooks/crime/4294964553/
Coooooooooooool!
Billingham is like, so last week.
And I bet you aren't named in his books!
I bet. That selfish bastard.
I did hear that he often names characters after comedians. There was a Skinner and a Yashere that I noticed.
Quote: zooo @ December 14 2010, 10:12 PM GMTJust read Mark Billingham's Death Message. Now reading his book Buried. Feel a bit like a traitor to our Mr. P...
I can't really get into British crime fiction, it always seems so small and provincial. I prefer the American stuff. It's bigger and more expansive. P should set his stuff in the States!
London isn't small and provincial!
I rather like to read both, really. The English stuff is more scary 'cos it's so much easier to imagine it happening.
Quote: chipolata @ December 14 2010, 10:19 PM GMTI can't really get into British crime fiction, it always seems so small and provincial. I prefer the American stuff. It's bigger and more expansive. P should set his stuff in the States!
Yeah well you live in Birmingham and not Birmingham Alabama and my next book has a bit of a states connection. Out next June!
Quote: Marc P @ December 14 2010, 10:25 PM GMTYeah well you live in Birmingham and not Birmingham Alabama and my next book has a bit of a states connection. Out next June!
I DO NOT LIVE OR WORK IN BIRMINGHAM YOU CHUNDERHEADS! 
Quote: chipolata @ December 14 2010, 10:48 PM GMTI DO NOT LIVE OR WORK IN BIRMINGHAM YOU CHUNDERHEADS!
Has it come up before 
Quote: Marc P @ December 14 2010, 10:48 PM GMTHas it come up before
Stott made the accusation.