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4 OR 5 BOOKS FOR MY HOLIDAY

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hifi · 15/06/2008 16:47

going away with dh for 5 days, no dd. can usually do one a day.

any recommendations?

No chicklit
dont like the davinci code types
no childhood horror stories
love historical
love stories set in north and south america
tia

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popsycal · 15/06/2008 16:48

I love John Irving. Re-reading The Hotel New Hampshire for the millionth time at the moment. Set in USA. Been quoted as a modern 'Dickens'

popsycal · 15/06/2008 16:49

Quite like Paul Auster too - The New York Trilogy

FAll at my feet (I think) is a good historical one - chunky though!

List some book sthat you have enjoyed to give us a better idea

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hifi · 15/06/2008 16:50

love irving also, havent read that one in years, still got it somewhere. goes to look.

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hifi · 15/06/2008 16:51

i have read all steinbeck
cormac mccarthy
kathryn harrison, a thousand orange trees
tracy chevallier
i like antonia fraser
loved the duchess of devonshire and marie antoinette

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popsycal · 15/06/2008 16:52

garp?
son of a circus - all irving

You might like paul auster then - recommended to me by another Irving fan...

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hifi · 15/06/2008 16:53

i will look up auster thanks.

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popsycal · 15/06/2008 16:55

oooh oooh have you read owen meany???

Secret history - Donna Tartt?

popsycal · 15/06/2008 16:55

will look on my bookcases later

popsycal · 15/06/2008 16:55

sorry get unnecessarily excited!

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hifi · 15/06/2008 16:59

dont know about tartt?
ooh i like war stories aswell, all quiet on the western front, regeneration, seb faulks etc.
i get all unnecessarily excited about books, especially for dd.

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popsycal · 15/06/2008 17:00

have you read the ladies detective agency series?

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hifi · 15/06/2008 17:01

are they a bit mushy?

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popsycal · 15/06/2008 17:02

I found them readble but not, erm, unputdowable

popsycal · 15/06/2008 17:02

the dexter books are good if you havent seen the tv series - though you said not crime....

popsycal · 15/06/2008 17:03

oooh
love at the time of cholera - gabriel garcia de marquez

and another by him

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hifi · 15/06/2008 17:04

ooh love dexter, series 2 is on soon. just googled auster, sounds good.

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hifi · 15/06/2008 17:04

love marquez and isabel allande

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janeite · 15/06/2008 17:05

A Town Like Alice?

Have you read "The Book Thief"?

"Love In The Time Of Cholera"?

Isobel Allende - mostly set in Chile. Her biography type ones are fab - Paula / My Invented Country

Have you read "The American Boy"?

janeite · 15/06/2008 17:06

Oops - crossed posts! I was on the right tracks then?!

popsycal · 15/06/2008 17:06

humourous light read - the wrong boy by willy russell (I think)

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hifi · 15/06/2008 17:08

just looked at auster moon palace, is he a little like annie e proulx? coincidence and such?
have just looked a book thief, good?
never read town like alice, good one.

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hifi · 15/06/2008 17:09

read zorro by allande on last holiday, think i have done most of hers now.

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janeite · 15/06/2008 17:10

Isabel Allende has a new one out too:

here

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hifi · 15/06/2008 17:10

right tracks janeite.

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hifi · 15/06/2008 17:12

definitely getting that one, thanks j.

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