 | The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Ponderous post sixties idealistic nonsense ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.91 / Used from: £0.89 Possibly thought provoking and prophetic if you are age twelve otherwise Holden Caulfield is just a very silly boy!
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £0.20 Comes with a big reputation this one. The characters are forgetful, the satire out of a Jim Davidson joke book
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £4.85 / Used from: £2.56 Violence for violence sake, and if you think the book is bad wait till you see the film!!!
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 | Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.20 Gang war in Brighton (no laughing at the back)
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Buy used from: £0.01 Characters you will care about, where the stench and lack of empathy, hallmarks of the 18th Century are so vivid, a modern classic....... yes Ingenious Pain (Andrew Miller) is the place to go.
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 | Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Buy used from: £0.01 Depressing woe is me finger pointing. Responsible for a deluge of similar pity me books.
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Pocket Penguin Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.59 Ah yes, another book from the kings new clothes school of humour (see Catch 22) there's an occasional glimpse...Ignatius Reilly's attempted coup of Levy Pants is one, but overall readers......AVOID!!!
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 | The Sea by John Banville
Buy new: £4.59 / Used from: £0.01 Booker Prize winner so approach with caution. Recently widowed Max Morden returns to a sea side town searching for something/ someone from his childhood and fails..................yes it is that good
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 | The Book of Evidence by John Banville
Buy used from: £0.21 First in a trilogy. The Prose is wearysome, the characters empty and soulless, the plot mindless and dull. My second and my last Banville.
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 | The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £3.00 The prose (apparantly) is written in such a way as to make the reader feel as helpless as Josef K. Well Franz...............................SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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