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Originally posted by Melusine:
Oh, did anyone see Quills? Was quite disappoiting.
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I haven't read any de Sade myself but I got cajoled into going to Quills by a friend of mine. I really liked it, although he thought it was a bit over the top. To be honest I don't know what he was expecting from a film about the Marquis de Sade if not a large amount of sex. But anyway, I thought it was quite good.
As for books I like myself I have to start with Rankin. Robert Rankin's Armaggedon Trilogy and Brentford Trilogy are both amazingly funny. I also agree with a lot that has gone before in putting Pratchett up there in a close second. I also really liked the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson and the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake.
Actually, anyone read any Robert Llewelyn?. He is famous for playing Kryten in Red Dwarf but he is a very good novelist and playwright as well. The Man on Platform Five is particularly good.
Gaaaah! Too many good books around...