Book club
I love a good book, classics, contemporary fiction, popular science, philosophy, sci fi, crime novels, satire, all sorts.
So how about a thread where we can recommend favourite books, or chat about ones we love?
This is inspired by nands asking me for a book recommendation and me typing out an essay in a visitor message, recommending about a year's worth of books!
So, i'll get the ball rolling, with my favourite atheist author for fiction; Iain Banks (both with and without the middle "m").
Writes fantasticly dark and twisted fiction (as Iain Banks), and amazing sci fi (as Iain M Banks)...
Quite often tackles big stuff, 9/11 and the "war on terror" (Dead Air), death and atheism (The Crow Road), religion and cults (Whit)...
With his sci fi stuff he invented the secular and decidedly socialist future society of The Culture... If we could get to that kind of a future there's hope for us yet...
Anyone else a fan? I thoroughly suggest checking out his stuff.
Any other recommendations?