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i need a good book - i am book less and am pacing around like a caged lion

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NoahFence · 10/09/2009 10:05

i enjoyed recently ( rather guiltily) the dreaded " theisland"
19th wife
american wife
road home etc
senators wife( that was odd)

that one about the shopping centre

tell me some more.

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mollyroger · 13/09/2009 20:46

noah you nob, do you want a book or not?

mollyroger · 12/09/2009 16:53

Currently enjoying tudor detective books by CJ Samson - revelations nicely visceral and thrilling

mollyroger · 12/09/2009 16:51

noah - will happily lend/send you engleby - just re-read it and won't want to read it again. you don't have to return it, either. Pass it on.

bibbitybobbityhat · 10/09/2009 21:18

[just back after rummaging frantically upstairs for Lynn Barber book]

op - assume you have read the Patrick Gale NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION that was heavily touted by Mumsnet recently?

I loved that. And all his other stuff. LITTLE BITS OF BABY, THE AERODYNAMICS OF PORK or something like that. Very talented young writer Mr Gale (I say he's young as he was born same year as me).

TheFoosa · 10/09/2009 20:56

I used to have that book!

no idea where it is now, godammit

bibbitybobbityhat · 10/09/2009 20:52

If your dparents do have the Lynn Barber book get them to sell it on Amazon not pass on to you ... yikes at the prices

Overmydeadbody · 10/09/2009 20:46

Everyone

Overmydeadbody · 10/09/2009 20:45

Read Doris Lessing's Mara and Dann

Wvweyone should read that book.

TheFoosa · 10/09/2009 20:42

oh, no wa I mean?

noahfence better

NoahAmin · 10/09/2009 20:24

oh yes
now my parents read some book of interviews recently
what wAs it...

bibbitybobbityhat · 10/09/2009 20:24

I don't know if its still in print but I have just recently read and loved DEMON BARBER which is a collection of Lyn Barber's interviews from The Observer and she is such a beatch (subtly) but really gets to the interesting little nub of a person. Perhaps someone will be selling 2nd hand on Amazon.

NoahAmin · 10/09/2009 20:21

its only you erudite lot who ever like my names.

thank you
Idi was a bit of a family let down shall we say

janeite · 10/09/2009 20:20

I get your name btw!

Have you read the Matthew Shardlake ones?

NoahAmin · 10/09/2009 20:19

i didint get on wiht winter in madrith
am willing to accept that It Was Me

janeite · 10/09/2009 20:16

Oh yes, Noah - do read Max Tivoli - tis lovely.

Also - This Thing Of Darkness - about Darwin's trip to Tierra del Feugo (sounds weird but is bloomin' brilliant).

Did you finish Guernica and do you rec? Tis on my pile.

have you read Winter In Madrid?

hotcrossbunny · 10/09/2009 20:12

TheFoosa - you need to say it out loud a couple of times

Pielight · 10/09/2009 20:11

Is actually called The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Pielight · 10/09/2009 20:10

omg CIS - that's reminded me

EVERYONE must read Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon.

immediately. get to it

CatIsSleepy · 10/09/2009 20:06

more wonder for you
am reading this at the moment
v. entertaining

brimfull · 10/09/2009 19:55

bloody hell can't believe you like the island!

engleby is fab

plague one is also good

TheFoosa · 10/09/2009 19:49

I don't get your new name

is it a Real Person

Jajas · 10/09/2009 19:44

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Pielight · 10/09/2009 19:33

oh okay

NoahAmin · 10/09/2009 18:52

but then you want it back adn so prob cheaper to just buy psotage wise
but htanks for offer

NoahAmin · 10/09/2009 18:51

lol
they werent in stock in quarterstones

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