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I don't do summer reading - I just read.


Recent recommendations:

Life Class - Pat Barker (WWI and artists),

Restless - William Boyd (WWII - spies and families and lies),

Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan (all a bit premature),

Rogue Male - Geoffry Household (Assasination thriller first published 1940's I think),

Anything by Patrick O'Brian (Master & Commander series - great series of novels about early 19th naval life in Napoleonic wars),

Anything by Jane Austen - always worth returning to.


I may return to The Magus - last read as a student in the 70's, thanks for the reminder Jah.

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Can I suggest the following recent reads:


Arthur & George - Julian Barnes

This Book will save your life - A M Homes

Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka

Temptation - Douglas Kennedy

Vanishing Acot of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell


Order online at Waterstones - cheaper than buying at the store.

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Bleep Wrote:

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> I'm reading The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann at

> the mo.



God, i'm reading it too, or was until i gave up as most of it was going over my head - i think i got about 300 or so pages in. any clues as to what is going on (aside from the life-love-death thing) would be appreciated.


Recommended can't-put-downs:


Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky

The Secret Agent - Jospeh Conrad

Jekyll and Hyde - Stevenson

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Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Intrigued Bleep - I though reading on the loo was

> a fairly safe occupation - did you tear out pages

> as an emergency measure?


I was reading it on a street at some point last year, and a ruffian barged into me, making me drop the book into an inconvenient large pile of dog poo.

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I adored "Confessions of a chat room freak" by Mr Biffo. I love books that I can read in short bursts and get back into again quickly - I only get to read on the bus or in between outings with the children. This book had me laughing out loud on the bus (and I mean that seriously - I'm not choosing that phrase because it is trendy). I had people changing seats to get away from me because they clearly thought I was mentally ill!


That book is so very funny it should have a warning printed on the cover. It is the chat room dialogue of this guy who posed in as "Loopy Lisa 21" and was continuously being chatted up by men with one thing on their mind. On one occasion I almost inhaled my coffee in Starbucks it was so hysterically funny. I have bought two copies of it for friends in the last month.

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Mogadishu?


Have read 'are you experienced' a long while back but do remember it being a good, entertaining, quick read.


Other top reads from recent times (as in I've read them recently, not they've been written recently necessarily) are:

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

A History of Tracktors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka (not read 2 caravans yet Ladygooner!)

The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Sophie's bakery for the broken hearted by Lolly Winston.

Have also read several Douglas Kennedy books and really enjoyed them (as per Ladygooner recommendation above)


All really well written, great characters but yet easy to read.

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Recently read the following


Half of Yellow Sun - really very good -would highly recommend

A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini- great book

Restless -William Boyd -first one of his I've read, and enjoyed it a lot

Douglas Kennedy -love all of his except the last one -The Woman in the Fifth -really good until the end -didnt much like it

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