Anything by George Saunders

Anything by Tobias Wolff

'High Rise' by JG Ballard. "Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing
reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge
apartment building during the previous three months." That's the opening line!

Oh, and if I can convince you of anything please let it be that the Larry McMurtry westerns in the Lonesome Dove series are so awsomely good that you will figuratively shit yourself when you read them.

Hoo, boy! This is a bloke thinks he's got Richard Dawkins rumbled with his 'hilarious' 'parable' 'Does Richard Dawkins Exist'?

Even more hilarious is his site The British Centre for Science Education: Revealed

Here's my fave quote from it so far. It's from someone he describes as a 'qualified scientist' who 'really knows what he's talking about'. (Nutjob 2 is writing about an actual scientist here.)

"Roger seems to think that God
individually created species such as mammoths, tigers, lions,
sabre-tooths, etc from the very beginning. In fact, creationists regard
these species as having arisen by the diversification of the created
kinds after the Flood. For example, lions and tigers are varieties of
cat probably descended from an ancestral pair of cats taken on the ark."

Well, thanks for clearing that up! For a second there I was worried you might be crazy!

Nearly missed this one!

"He says of creationists: "The Majority believe that all live was zapped into existence on a single day, within a few hours, 6,000 years ago." On a single day? You'd think that the term "six-day creationist" would be a giveaway even to the BSCE!"

Six days is still too short! You lunatic!