What did you just call me?!?

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1christiguc
Aug 4, 2007, 7:32 pm

2thatbooksmell
Aug 4, 2007, 7:58 pm

Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud (but that might be a compliment to some...LOL)
A Maggot by John Fowles
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
The Idiot by Dostoevsky
and for something modern, The Yellow Bastard by Frank Miller

(The first four were from the 1001 must-read books list. ;o)

8sadiebooks First Message
Aug 5, 2007, 2:52 pm

The Junky by Wiliams S Burroughs
Virgin Soil Unturned by Mikhail Sholokhov
The Unpossessed by William H. Fielding
Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno
The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

12bookcurious
Aug 5, 2007, 8:06 pm

13aviddiva
Aug 9, 2007, 10:42 pm

A Great Big Ugly Man Came Up and Tied His Horse to Me by Wallace Tripp
Greenwitch by Susan Cooper
Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge
Wicked Widow by Jayne Anne Krentz
The Man Without a Face by Isabelle Holland

16christiguc
Aug 10, 2007, 12:11 am

I know I've already done my 5, but I just thought of this one. And I think it's a great insult. :)

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

17dihiba
Aug 13, 2007, 9:01 am

When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home by Erma Bombeck

this one is also under compliments:
Her Mother's Daughter by Marilyn French

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James

Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson

and from the mouth of a city-slicker:
Small Town Girl by LaVyrle Spencer

18tropics
Aug 27, 2007, 7:53 pm

Why You're Dumb, Sick And Broke - Randy Gage
The Catastrophist- Ronan Bennett
A Problem From Hell - Samantha Power
Word Freak - Stefan Fatsis
The Bad Daughter - Julie Hilden

19Nikkles
Feb 2, 2008, 2:44 pm

The Crow by Alison Croggon
Vortex by Chris Bunch
Terrier by Tamora Pierce
Stiff by Mary Roach
Dark Apprentice by Kevin Anderson

21ostrom
Edited: Feb 3, 2008, 3:25 am

The Octopus, by Frank Norris

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
White Noise Don DeLillo
Barfly by Charles Bukowski
Lord of the Flies by William Golding

22pscindy
Feb 4, 2008, 10:47 pm

Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Sarah Jane Gilman
Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
The Liar by Stephen Fry
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

23legxleg
Feb 5, 2008, 10:37 am

A Broken Vessel by Kate Ross
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Tin Princess by Philip Pullman
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

24alk290
Feb 22, 2008, 2:06 am

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Cunt by Inga Muscio and Betty Dodson
Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

25reconditereader
Feb 22, 2008, 2:18 am

Much Ado About Nothing
Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
Interstellar Pig by William Sleator
The Changeling by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
It's Obvious You Won't Survive by Your Wits Alone by Scott Adams

26RidgewayGirl
Feb 23, 2008, 2:18 pm

Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
Crud by Lynda Barry
Devil in the White City by Eric Larsen
A Dangerous Woman by Mary McGarry Morris
Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino

27mcamiel
Mar 3, 2008, 1:25 am

Big Trouble by Dave Barry
Lucky at Cards by Lawrence Block
Ratking by Michael Dibdin
Easy Meat by John Harvey
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-up Artist by Dan Jenkins

29ostrom
May 12, 2008, 10:59 pm

A Generation of Swine Hunter S. Thompson
Fiasco Thomas E. Ricks
Pincher Martin William Golding
Fledgling Octavia Butler
Mildred Pierce James M. Cain

30extrajoker
May 13, 2008, 12:18 pm

Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl
Dear Rat by Julia Cunningham
The Stinky Cheese Man by Jon Scieszka
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewelling

31Joles
May 18, 2008, 10:44 am

32lakingston
May 29, 2008, 7:46 pm

Hypocrite in a Poofy White Dress
Unravelled by Robyn Harding
Death Comes for the Fat Man by Reginald Hill
Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson
Scared to Live by Stephen Booth

34Rubbah
May 31, 2008, 4:35 pm

Abomination by Robert Swindells
The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
Firmin : adventures of a metropolitan lowlife by Sam Savage
Piggies by Nick Gifford
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The Twits by Roald Dahl

39Carrotlady
Feb 17, 2010, 11:09 am

Wallflower by William Bayer
The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett
Lazy Bones by Mark Billingham
Black Dog by Stephen Booth
The Doll Who Ate Its Mother by Ramsey Campbell