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9. Zoe Heller - Notes on a Scandal
Absolutely brilliant. A skilled study into human psychology, and the way the mind works. Heller manages to bring across Barbara's loneliness excellently, and allows you to identify with what could otherwise be a blindly evil character. I often enjoy books which have an unreliable narrator, as it allows you to investigate and analyse the character, and see what may be really behind motives.
I enjoyed the book a lot, lot more than the movie, partly because it's so much harder to pull off an unreliable narrator on screen.
10. George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
I don't have to say much about this, you all know what it is. I thoroughly enjoyed it, mainly because it wasn't just a scare book of what could happen if... etc etc, and it very much has a human side to the story. I always find that important - human emotion is vital to allow you to identify with a book, and consequently to deliver the message.
New Top 10:
1. Zoe Heller - Notes on a Scandal
2. George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
3. Toby Litt - Finding Myself
4. Michael Crichton - Disclosure
5. Matthew Collins - This is Serbia Calling
6. Michael Crichton - Airframe
7. Douglas Coupland - Miss Wyoming
8. Jennifer Donneley - A Gathering Light
9. Imogen Edwards-Jones - Air Babylon
10. David Gerrold - Encounter at Farpoint
Absolutely brilliant. A skilled study into human psychology, and the way the mind works. Heller manages to bring across Barbara's loneliness excellently, and allows you to identify with what could otherwise be a blindly evil character. I often enjoy books which have an unreliable narrator, as it allows you to investigate and analyse the character, and see what may be really behind motives.
I enjoyed the book a lot, lot more than the movie, partly because it's so much harder to pull off an unreliable narrator on screen.
10. George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
I don't have to say much about this, you all know what it is. I thoroughly enjoyed it, mainly because it wasn't just a scare book of what could happen if... etc etc, and it very much has a human side to the story. I always find that important - human emotion is vital to allow you to identify with a book, and consequently to deliver the message.
New Top 10:
1. Zoe Heller - Notes on a Scandal
2. George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
3. Toby Litt - Finding Myself
4. Michael Crichton - Disclosure
5. Matthew Collins - This is Serbia Calling
6. Michael Crichton - Airframe
7. Douglas Coupland - Miss Wyoming
8. Jennifer Donneley - A Gathering Light
9. Imogen Edwards-Jones - Air Babylon
10. David Gerrold - Encounter at Farpoint