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can you reccmoned some novels fo me please( esp modern ones)

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:45

htink i need bossykate - she likes books i do

ok have liked int he past:
secret history
Mitford biog
piers moron
that zoe heller
margaret forster
isabel allende
last king of schotland

etc

NO chick lit

NO dead babies or kids in horibel circstmancces( is we need to tlak abotu kevin terrible?)
no indian books
no farking grails

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Swizzler · 20/05/2007 11:58

William Boyd The New Confessions one of the best modern novels I've read. Most of his stuff is good.

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:57

si the gryff rhys JOnes book good?

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Swizzler · 20/05/2007 11:57

I have it but haven't read it

Swizzler · 20/05/2007 11:57

I have it but haven't read it

Lilymaid · 20/05/2007 11:57

Anne Tyler - sets virtually all her books in Baltimore - don't know about any pilots' wives!
IMO Joyce Carol Oates is ghastly - but that's only based on having to read The Falls for reading group.
Restless by William Boyd is good

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:57

oh abortionists dd was crap

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:57

shudder at link what are these like
iso that hislop one good

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Swizzler · 20/05/2007 11:56

Anything by AS Byatt or Margaret Attwood
Recently loved In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon but perhaps a bit travelly?
Jonathan Coe's The Rotters Club supposed to be excellent

Taylormama · 20/05/2007 11:56

strong motion - jonathan franzen
Better than the corrections - really oddly powerful

pinballwizard · 20/05/2007 11:55

memories of my ghost brother heinz insu fenkl

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:55

oh i liekd the line of beauty

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:55

go on

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lizyjane · 20/05/2007 11:55

The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies.

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:54

i can

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:53

really?
the cover looks odd

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suzywong · 20/05/2007 11:53

it's not bleeding harry potter, cod. Tut

Cappuccino · 20/05/2007 11:53

Ali Smith good

would be able to do far better tomorrow when am in work

can you wait?

pinballwizard · 20/05/2007 11:53

hideous kinky

pinballwizard · 20/05/2007 11:52

yes i like water for chocolate too

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:52

yes love shiedls
and proux
i DID liek the secret bees htign which suprised me

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CODalmighty · 20/05/2007 11:52

hmm
am suprised i liek allende tbha s i hate all that magic crap

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suzywong · 20/05/2007 11:51

the oter one of which I speak is set in Mexico in 19th C and is Magic Realism about a daughter who's cooking casts spells and induces flights of fancy

vair good

Taylormama · 20/05/2007 11:51

a prayer for owen meany by john irving
a widow for one year by john irving
maggie o' farrel - my lover's lover, after you've gone
zadie smith - on beauty
eden close by anita shreeve
blonde - joyce carol oates
anything by carol shields or e annie proux

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Cappuccino · 20/05/2007 11:51

oh used to like Jenny Diski

but characters always ended up institutionalised

Anne Tyler clever chicklit, did like that one where she ran away from her family for a year