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Ernest Hemingway - For whom the bell tolls.

Revisiting Scoop by Waugh. Fantastically funny - Gives a humorous insight into the Fleet Street of the late 1930's.

Currently PG Wodehouse - Righty Ho, Jeeves. Light intermittent reading from the master himself - there isn't anyone who comes close to Wodehouse.

Baffling stuff, mate. It's one of those that i re-read and interpret it entirely differently from the previous readings.

I certainly appreciate the context, however, it doesn't grab me and fully absorb me in the way I know it does for others. It is, for sure, an important era in literature that has to be valued for that very fact but it doesn't appeal to the senses the same way other prose does. A matter of taste...

I'm not an advocate of 'beat generation' literature. I find the poetry created in 1950's counter culture America dull and unappealing however revealing it certainly is. The first novel I read from this demographic was Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs and it confirmed my theory that i've...

I mean to read Wheen's Karl Marx book. It received good reviews.

Indeed

Let us expand the topic slightly. Compile a short list of 10, or so, novels that you personally feel are your 'favourites'. A tough task no doubt, however, i'll go first. PG Woodehouse - Code of the Woosters (There has not been and never will be anything that comes close) Martin Amis - Money...

It is an absorbing piece of literature that, once the context is taken into account, the content is exquisite. It provides a critique of the 'American dream' written in a style that forms a near perfect piece of prose. In my top ten for sure.

Scoop and Decline and Fall come close(ish)

PG Wodehouse.... Nothing comes close.