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What can I read next please?

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janeite · 27/03/2009 23:21

Have just read a fictionalised version of Scott's bid for the pole - fab;
'A Study In Scarlet' - good but I realised after a few pages that I'd already read it;
Terry Pratchett's 'Nation' - ok;
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - didn't like it much;
The Gargoyle - quite liked this one.

I have just abandoned:
The Glass Book Of The Dream Eaters - over written and tedious;
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer - too much like very hard, not very satisfing work.

I have a Peter Carey waiting, something about Troy but can't remember what it's called and then I will be bookless again.

I am not a happy bunny when I am bookless!

Tia

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janeite · 28/03/2009 23:11

Love the Ladies' Detective Agency books but couldn't get on with the others of his.

Must admit I don't much like memoir type books.

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thumbbunny · 28/03/2009 23:01

Tick Bite Fever? True story about a boy growing up in Kenya
love it.

What about Alexander McCall Smith books? I prefer his Botswana lot to the Edinburgh ones though.

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janeite · 28/03/2009 22:58

Ah picked that up and put it down again in Smiths a few weeks ago. Will have another look. Thanks.

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Cadelaide · 28/03/2009 22:57

Just finished Secret Scriptures, Sebastian Barry.

Beautifully written imo.

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janeite · 28/03/2009 22:49

Well I have enjoyed being reminded of how lovely Brideshead is. But what to read next?

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janeite · 28/03/2009 20:40

I love TKAMB. Will look out for the other one in the library - had never heard of it but everybody on Amazon loves it!

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maamajullah · 28/03/2009 20:14

have u read Rohinton Mistry's a Fine Balance?
to kill a mockingbird?

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janeite · 28/03/2009 19:48

Hopeful evening bump?

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janeite · 28/03/2009 15:18

That was about Diana G and The 3 Of Us - am googling History Of Love now.

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janeite · 28/03/2009 15:15

Sorry but I don't think I would like either of those. I am definitely a book snob.

Sorry to be a pain but do please keep 'em coming.

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emmabemmasmom · 28/03/2009 14:59

The Diana Gabaldon series is great if your into that kind of thing (history, love, war ect...). It starts with 'Outlander'. But they are a million pages each...yet I would recommend to anyone! Even my FIL read them and was addicted lol

Just finished 'The History of Love' by Nicole Krauss which is a really good book too...and short!

izyboy · 28/03/2009 14:43

'The three of us' by Julia Blackburn. In my opinion this is a beautifully written book. Very sad in places but I was also incredibly moved.

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janeite · 28/03/2009 14:41

KHS - I'm afraid I really hated 'Fingersmith' - enough to make me not want to try another of hers. Sorry.

Will google your other suggestions - don't really 'do' thrillers though.

Oh I have 'Brideshead Revisited' to re-read too but that will only take an evening.

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janeite · 28/03/2009 14:39

Read the Darwin one - it's fab. It's called 'This Thing Of Darkness'. Have also read a non-fiction one about Jeremy Button which was also really interesting, the more so for having read the novel.

The Peter Carey one I mentioned is actually by Peter Akroyd and is therefore likely to be completely inpenetrable.

Any more folks - am suffering here!

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tigerdriver · 27/03/2009 23:55

You've probably read it, and I can't quite remember the title but Harry Thompson's book about Darwin - something like the "darkest night??. Brilliant, long book, lots of adventure and actually made Darwin quite interesting (unlike the endless tedious BBC stuff about him at the moment).

KHS · 27/03/2009 23:55

Asleep? Shurely not, when there's still wine to be drunk!

Have you read Fingersmith by Sarah Waters? Highly entertaining historical fiction with a twist - fan-bloody-tastic. Her novel Affinity is also a bloody good read.

Just read Terrorist by John Updike - an amazing book if you're in the mood for a more modern thriller.

Joyce Carol Oates is a very prolific American author who has written some great books - We Were The Mulvaneys is an engrossong family saga, and The Falls and Black Girl/White Girl are very cool.

And The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields.

Want more? I shall sip some wine and ponder...

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janeite · 27/03/2009 23:43

Have all the other readers gone off to bed with a good book?

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janeite · 27/03/2009 23:32

Ahh now I have read a few of Rose T's but can't remember that one - will google. I tried Hilary M's latest one about the mediums and couldn't get on with it.

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Biccy · 27/03/2009 23:30

Here's a couple of ideas:
A Place of Greater Safety, Hilary Mantel (fictionalised french revolution - I was inspired to read a proper history book after that one)
Music and Silence, Rose Tremain; a great story, with some interesting history woven into it.