I'm sorry but.... I find Gibson pretty much unreadable. I really struggled to finish this book as I just don't care about any of the characters. His style of writing seems much better suited...
Of no literary worth. Reviews are by nature subjective. That said, their should be a common element, an underlying current that runs through all reviews which peg the book (in this instance...
On The Road, the most famous of Jack Kerouac's works, is not only the soul of the Beat movement and literature, but one of the most important novels of the century. Like nearly all of Kero...
Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, JG Ballard still lives far ahead of his time. Called his "prophetic masterpiece" by many, The Atrocity Exhibition practical...
Brett Easton Ellis established a reputation as the enfant terrible of American fiction in the 1980s with his controversial novel Less than Zero, but with the publication of American Psycho h...
Michael Moorcock's Mother London is perhaps his best known literary work and for good reason. Shortlisted for the Whitbread fiction prize this has the feel of a novel by a writer at the acme...
The emperors new clothes. I read Junky and really enjoyed it, it is written by a man in control of his thoughts, reflecting on times when he wasn't.
I bought this book and quite literally t...
Brilliant even though lots of people say so. Relentlessly aggressive and pornographic in a psycho-geographical kind of way. Brilliant even though lots of people say so. Deeply unsettling and...
The Last Third. This very original and dynamically written novel should be read for its final third.
Starting (and continuing) as a rather pedestrian travelogue, it eventually transcends to...
Blood and guts in high school - kathy acker. I read this novel by kathy acker when it first appeared on the scene in the 1980's, not only did i revel in the literary style of this new y...
