#2495
  1. Emily Brontë
  2. China Mieville
  3. Iain (M) Banks
  4. JG Ballard
  5. Joseph Heller
  6. Virginia Woolf
  7. Philip Pullman
  8. Franz Kafka
  9. Neil Gaiman
  10. Philip K Dick
  11. JRR Tolkien
  12. Kazuo Ishiguro
  13. Don DeLillo
  14. David Mitchell
  15. Roddy Doyle
  16. Michael Chabon
  17. Alan Moore
  18. James Baldwin
  19. Oscar Wilde
  20. Jose Louis Borges
  21. Douglas Adams
  22. William Burroughs
  23. Thomas Pynchon
  24. Valdimir Nabokov
  25. Toni Morrison
  26. Magnus Mills
  27. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi
  28. F Scott Fitzgerald
  29. Jon McGregor
  30. Richard Brautigan
  31. Ernest Hemingway
  32. Marlon James
  33. Zadie Smith
  34. HP Lovecraft
  35. Paul Auster
  36. Shirley Jackson
  37. Anne Tyler
  38. Octavia E Butler
  39. Elena Ferrante
  40. David Foster Wallace
  41. Charles Bukowski
  42. Henry Miller
  43. Agatha Christie
  44. Donna Tartt/Herbert Spellerman
  45. Italo Calvino
  46. Harper Lee
  47. Terry Pratchett
  48. Graham Greene
  49. Jeanette Winterson
  50. Hillary Mantel
  51. George RR Martin
  52. Mikhail Bulgakov
  53. Jeffrey Eugenedies
  54. David Peace
  55. Raymond Carver
  56. Douglas Coupland
  57. Doris Lessing
  58. Jonathan Safran Foer
  59. Flann O’Brien
  60. Herman Hesse
  61. Malorie Blackman
  62. Albert Camus
  63. Hunter S Thompson
  64. Patrick Leigh Fermor
  65. Jose Saramago
  66. J D Salinger
  67. Samuel Beckett
  68. Patti Smith
  69. WG Sebald
  70. Roberto Bolano
  71. James Joyce
  72. Sarah Moss
  73. Willy Vlautin
  74. Primo Levi
  75. Erlend Loe
  76. Isaac Asimov
  77. William Gibson
  78. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  79. Robin Hobb
  80. Michel Faber
  81. Angela Carter
  82. Jack Kerouac
  83. Edgar Allen Poe
  84. George Saunders
  85. Dan Rhodes
  86. Jim Dodge
  87. Becky Chambers
  88. Denton Welch
  89. Homer
  90. Tove Jansson
#2496

Top ten let’s go!

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#2497

Ahwoo! Is this getting finished today?

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#2498

Robin Hobb, Robin Hobb, writing through the glens
Robin Hobb, Robin Hobb, with a desk of pens!

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#2499

Saunders, Asimov and Shirley Jackson all too low imo. #novoterregrets

#2500

pls tinygif

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thread for small gifs (rolling)
#2501

yaaaas

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#2502

No. 10

Roald Dahl

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • The BFG
  • Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
  • Matilda
  • George’s Marvellous Medicine
  • James and the Giant Peach
  • Danny the Champion of the World
  • Skin
  • Boy
  • Fantastic Mr Fox
  • The Twits
  • Other
  • None
  • Heard of, not read
  • DKWYA, P

0 voters

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#2503

Nice.
A bird in the hand is better than At Swim Two Birds in a bush I always say

#2505
  • Watched more Dahl films than read
  • Read more Dahl books than watched
  • IT’S A DRAW CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!

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#2507

Anyone else read the short story about a naive young man who gets fed tea laced with arsenic by a kind old woman and taxidermied for a display in her house?

Probably won’t read that one to my kids.

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#2508

That the most terribly worded poll I’ve ever done?

  • It isn’t not!
  • I disagree with not saying it’s not not the worst

0 voters

#2509

I read Skin when I was 15/16 and loved it, some stories would make good TV adaptations.

For me :
DannyTCOTW > The BFG > Matilda > CharlieATCF > George’s Marvellous Medicine

I find JamesATGP and CharlieATGGE to be a bit dull tbh

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#2511

I read many of the Tales Of The Unexpected short stories when I was in my early teens and loved them. Might revisit

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#2512

The Twits is a nice allegory about not being a dickhead

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#2513

Spoilers!

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#2514

Does his adult stuff have bums and willies and tits in them?

#2515

I’m really bad for just constantly checking my phone so when I really want to get stuck into a book, if I’m at home, I’ll put my phone out of reach so I can’t compulsively pick it up every 5 minutes.

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#2516

That whole bit about “Nice people have nice faces, nasty people have ugly faces” is a bit hmmmm

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#2517

He was prone to a bit of this at times

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