Help Remus find more books please

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HOW can I have nothing to read again (and no, Cote, I still haven't read Cloud Atlas!).

I fancy a big fat, rip roaring read akin to The Woman In White OR some crazy post-apocalyptic but really well written stuff OR something sparse and modern and a bit 'out there' like a modern Clockwork Orange maybe. Or something like 'Touching The Void' perhaps.

Please help!

Read all of Rosemary S and E Nesbit. Both just my sort of thing!

Gosh, that was quick, haven't you found a book to read yet?

More children's books to ask about,

historical - Geoffrey Trease

dystopian - Peter Dickinson's Changes trilogy, starting with The Weathermonger

travel writing - Sara Wheeler, Dervla Murphy

What about Wally Lamb - I Know This Much is True? It's a big old book and a big story and a heartbreaker. I couldn't put it down.

Didn't get on with Sara Wheeler at all. Will deffo check out Peter D. Thank you.

Is S&A a children's book?

Yup. It's a classic - can't believe it's taken me until now to read it!

Interesting premise but I can't stand children's books because I'm old.

I like to read children's books in the bath before bed - they help me to switch off and make me feel all cosy!

Ah, I just realized that in your OP you say you want "modern and a bit 'out there' like a modern Clockwork Orange".

I dare say that you might be ready for J G Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition It is a profound and disturbing book that is also a masterpiece. Amazon blurb doesn't do it justice, possibly because it is so weird and twisted that it can't be easily summarised into a neat little paragraph.

It starts with this sentence:

"A disquieting feature of this annual exhibition - to which the patients themselves were not invited - was the marked preoccupation of the paintings with the theme of world cataclysm, as if these long-incarcerated patients had sensed some seismic upheaval within the minds of their doctors and nurses."

Enjoy!

Have you read the other Ransome books - Coot Club, We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea, etc? They're all fab.

They are on my list, Viva.

Cote - The Drowned World is on my list too. Haven't read any Ballard yet and that's the one I fancy most, I think.

I'm a big Ballard fan and couldn't finish The Drowned World. It is not one of his better books.

I would recommend starting with Super Cannes or Cocaine Nights (where there is only a one-sentence mention of narcotics - I don't know who selects titles for these books).

Ta. Will see what the library has to offer tomorrow.

Really enjoyed 'Black Swan Green' by the way. V superficial and nothing much happens but nicely written, funny and some good dialogue.

By the way, Watchmen is Amazon.fr's Kindle special today, and here I am reading it for the first time. It is surprisingly good & sure to tickle your dystopian fancy.

Ta. The library didn't have a single Ballard book today. Grrr.

I bought 'White Moghuls' from the charity shop for 50p. And dp got 'The Kinkler Question' so I will try that too.

Who is Watchmen by? I've found a few on amazon with that title.

Remus, have you read This Game Of Ghosts by joe Simpson? I honestly think its his best book and I love them all. You don't have to be a climber at all to enjoy it though for me it does bring back many memories of been a uni student hitching lifts to The Alps, The Lakes, etc to climb. That book changed my lives in many ways, I wouldn't be married to dh or have dd if it wasn't for the book.

I haven't but will certainly do so. I recently read the book by the man who had to amputate his own hand when it got trapped whilst he was canyon walking - can totally recommend it.

I'll have to read that one, I remember seeing a clip of the film and feeling a bit faint!

Watchmen Found it for you :)

Thanks duchess.

I'm still reading Watchmen and still really enjoying it. The story is really well constructed and its visual conception is quite impressive. Dystopian, too. It's got your name written on it, Remus

This is completely random and I have never read it and have no idea what it's about but a lady on a train recently recommended The Night Circus to me. I'd like someone to tell me if it's worth reading.

Remus it's a very obvious choice so you've probably already read it, but in the dystopian vein have you tried The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Attwood? Fantastic stuff and a modern classic.

Will deffo try The Night Circus because it's got a nice cover! (Shallow, me?)

Read and like 'The Handmaid's Tale' but am now having a v anti-Attwood phase as the last couple I've read of hers were v silly.