Kurt Vonnegut RIP / April 12 2007
How sad I am to learn of the death of Kurt Vonnegut.
One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature and of 60s and 70s western counterculture, the writer has died aged 84 in New York.
He has long been one of my favourite authors and indeed, my erstwhile band Slaughterhouse 5 was named for his [...]
Napoleon Fantastic’s top 5 novels / September 21 2006
Of course I couldn’t help rising to the challenge…
My all time, no.1 favourite work of literary fiction is The House At Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne. Why? Well I don’t have to describe the book as it’s so well known and universally loved, but to explain my choice, I will say this: never have I come across a [...]
Favourite novel / September 19 2006
OK guys, what’s your favourite novel ?
Let’s have a list of say, 5, and tell us why you love them so much - especially your #1 top book of all time. I think it best to keep this restricted to works of fiction at present, I don’t think it would be wise to enter [...]
