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>> No. 2336 Anonymous
24th February 2010
Wednesday 6:16 am
2336 Books like this one
So I just got this book, halfway through it and I think it's brilliant. /r/ moar in the style of this one - not too old preferably for I can't connect to stories that take place at a time I haven't even lived.

Oh yeah, and just for the sake of making this thread a little more interesting: My name is Bernd. I'm from Krautchan :3

(A good day to you Sir!)
>> No. 2337 Anonymous
24th February 2010
Wednesday 6:48 am
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>>2336
For those of you who have not read it, here's a list of short reviews which I believe should make it clear what type of book I am looking for:

‘Stelfox is a creation of unparalleled awfulness, chronically sexist, racist, and everything else-ist.’
- Independent

‘Brilliant. It made me ill with laughter. The filthiest, blackest, most shocking, most hilarious debut novel I've read in years.’
- India Knight

‘One of the evilest, most vicious, despicable characters ever. I couldn't put it down.
- James Dean Bradfield, The Manic Street Preachers’

‘It's extraordinarily vicious, deeply cynical and thoroughly depraved, but it is also bed-wettingly funny, often at the times when it is most outrageous.’
- Scotsman
>> No. 2338 Anonymous
24th February 2010
Wednesday 7:17 am
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>>2336
Welcome Bernd, it's nice to have you here.
>> No. 2339 Anonymous
24th February 2010
Wednesday 12:18 pm
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>>2336
I saw a review comparing the book to American Psycho, and the book's cover seems to be deliberately echoing the movie version. So i'd recommend American Psycho if you haven't read it yet.
>> No. 2340 Anonymous
24th February 2010
Wednesday 5:23 pm
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You might also enjoy The Wasp Factory and Complicity by Iain Banks.
>> No. 2341 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 9:50 am
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>>2336
Judging by the reviews, I think you might like a bit of Will Self. He's very 'wordy', so you might need too read it with a dictionary in hand (Like I do), but you're rewarded with unrivalled filth.
I don't like comparisons, but the content and style is like William Burroughs, minus the gayness.
Pick up a book of his short stories or 'My Idea of Fun' to start off with.
>> No. 2342 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 1:13 pm
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>>2341
The stars have aligned. You mentioned Will Self, the OP is a German. Will Self recently gave a very impressive lecture about WG Sebald a German writer who lived the last 30 years of his life in the UK. I really don't think Sebald is the kind of author that OP is after (I saw Rings of Saturn described as an "elegiac rumination", and I think that's about right) but others may enjoy the transcript of the lecture: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7003221.ece or a recording of it: http://www.bclt.org.uk/index.php/events/sebald_audio
>> No. 2343 Anonymous
25th February 2010
Thursday 2:25 pm
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ban was a mistake, sorry
>> No. 2374 Anonymous
8th April 2010
Thursday 10:30 pm
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Got any moar?

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