After going on holiday and reading a tremendous book.... I have decided to become more cultured and delve into the world of literacy (and drink less).. anyway the book i read was

The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Buklgakov



I thought it was a truly amazing piece of creative writing....

In the past i have only really been bothered with factual writing... sports biographies and crime/war books etc.... but now I am branching out to embrace the world of fiction.... I am currently reading 1984 by George Orwell.

Anyone else know of any brilliant fiction work?

Anything by James Herbert- a master of his art.

If you enjoy 1984, try "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. More recently & completely different either of Mark Haddon's books "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime" or "A Spot of Bother".

Dean Koontz: Odd Thomas trilogy

Odd Thomas

Forever Odd

Brother Odd

Odd Hours

In Odd We Trust

In that order, spot on

anything with pictures in for me, Daily star, Sport, Nuts or Loaded

Can I offer the following?

Milan Kundera: The Joke, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (don't be put off by the title), Laughable Loves.

Any of the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly books by Paul Howard

Roddy Doyle: The Commitments

Gunter Grass: The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years (Cat and Mouse is the best, and shortest, but they all fit together and can be read in any order)

Heinrich Boll- The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

Amelie Nothomb- Fear and Trembling

Antal Szerb- Journey by Moonlight

Tom Wolfe- The Bonfire of the Vanities

The world is your oyster. Urmston Wire's collection has some gems (the Gunter Grass is hard, but worthwhile).

Try some other Roddy Doyle too.

Tell me about it, I sat a three-hour exam on his work at my university finals!

Crime and punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky
To kill a mockingbird- Harper Lee
Catch 22- Joseph Heller
The Throwback- Tom Sharpe



Avoid at all costs The catcher in the rye, just a load of self-indulgent drivel. A massive let-down.

I have catch 22 at someone's recommendation... im going to read that after 1984

East of Eden- John Steinbeck....In fact, anything by Steinbeck

oooh yeah red pony.

that's short but great.