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Lit Fic for ME please

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Hullygully · 28/06/2013 08:38

Any recommendations? Need lots of books for hols. I want lit fiction eg I do not want Khaled Hossein, Harold Fry, JoJo Moyes etc etc (nothing wrong with them, but I don't want them).

I want Mantel/Mitchell/Houllebecq type stuff please and thank you.

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TheRealFellatio · 28/06/2013 15:33

The Outcast, well I liked it, it's accessible-ish but quite dark, but we don't all like the same thing so...who knows? It's one of those books where you don't really like any of the characters, but I quite often like those. Grin

magimedi · 28/06/2013 15:32

Also Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra.

www.amazon.co.uk/Sacred-Games-Vikram-Chandra/dp/0571231217/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372429911&sr=1-2

So much more to it than the brief description given on Amazon.

EldritchCleavage · 28/06/2013 15:32

A ragbag of favourites:

The Red of His Shadow by Mayra Montero. Amazing, poetic, intense story set in Cuba about Voudon priests.

Any book by Antonio Trabucci

The African Child by Camara Laye: beautiful, lyrical account of a rural West African childhood.

The Spanish books by Laurie Lee: As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning; A Rose for Winter; A Moment of War.

The Spanish Farm Trilogy, by R. H. Mottram: beautiful, old-fashioned story of a Flemish farm girl and the effect of WWI on her life.

The Last of the Templars and The Knight on the Bridge by William Watson. Superior, literary, haunting Middles-Ages set novels.

TheRealFellatio · 28/06/2013 15:30

Blimey. OK Have to stop now. Grin

magimedi · 28/06/2013 15:30

Paul Scott's Jewel in The Crown quartet.

The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif

Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishigurio

Anna Karenin - Tolstoy - I was just amazed by this, thought I knew the story but I didn't & was blown away.

SconeRhymesWithGone · 28/06/2013 15:28

Oh yes, I agree with Hully on that, Fell. Accidental Tourist might be a very good one to start with, incidentally another fairly faithful film adaptation.

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Hullygully · 28/06/2013 15:20

Fell - you have no idea how lucky you are that you haven't read Anne, so many joys ahead.

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Hullygully · 28/06/2013 15:19

yy how could I forget Accidental Tourist?

Must have

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Hullygully · 28/06/2013 15:18

don't like kipling

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SconeRhymesWithGone · 28/06/2013 15:18

TheRealFellatio,

Anne Tyler: Ladder of Years and The Accidental Tourist are my two of my favorites.

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Hullygully · 28/06/2013 15:18

suspicious - I don't know, I don't like the cut of its jib

is it good then?

Restoration v gd too

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TheRealFellatio · 28/06/2013 15:14

OK, in the free list what about Riki Tiki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling?

'This is the story of a boy and his weasel, a bird and a snake, India and the British Empire. Rudyard Kipling's dramatic tale, here excerpted from the greater volume of The Jungle Book, is the story of the loyal mongoose, Rikk-Tikki-Tavi, and the lengths to which he must go to protect his adoptive human family.'

SconeRhymesWithGone · 28/06/2013 15:11

Hully, my favorite Rose Tremain is Restoration; I am a history geek and Tudor-Stuart is my period. I also think the film of Restoration could be in the running for a most-faithful-to-the-book adaptation award, right up there with To Kill a Mockingbird.

TheRealFellatio · 28/06/2013 15:07

Why suspicious?

TheRealFellatio · 28/06/2013 15:07

those were the ones I was tempted by! Ta.

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Hullygully · 28/06/2013 15:06

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Searching for Caleb

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Hullygully · 28/06/2013 15:05

Ooo, let me look.

Oh, Breathing Lessons is HILAIRE

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Hullygully · 28/06/2013 15:05

No, I feel suspicious about it (Outcast)

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TheRealFellatio · 28/06/2013 15:05

Right, I like the look of Anne tyler but I don't know which one to go for. help please.

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Hullygully · 28/06/2013 15:04

The thing about Anita, the comforting thing, is that every book is exactly the same.

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greenhill · 28/06/2013 15:04

YY Les Mis is free on Kindle too.

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Hullygully · 28/06/2013 15:04

Bummel on the download

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TheRealFellatio · 28/06/2013 15:03

Have you read The Outcast by Sadie Jones?

Catmint · 28/06/2013 15:03

Anita Brookner

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Hullygully · 28/06/2013 15:03

Fave Anne?

I love Searching for Caleb

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