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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 09:40

Has anyone else read this?

It is over and above my favourite book of the year. Highly reccomended.

It reduced me to tears in parts which happens rarely with books for me.

I have two others by him but found them very hard to get into.

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 10:08

Middlesex by erm euginie something

ANYTHING by TC Boyle. His short stories are great too.

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orangina · 10/12/2009 10:08

Salman Rushdie, Fury?
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex?
Anything by Wally Lamb, or Barbara Kingsolver?

SCargot · 10/12/2009 10:08

LOVED Middlesex

Mistletoesnowman · 10/12/2009 10:08

I can't really remember what happened in it but I loved The Corrections when I read it.

Loved the Lynn Barber book too SCargot but then I love her interviews and am gutted she has left the Observer for the Sunday Times.

orangina · 10/12/2009 10:08

SC, we are reading the same books (while x-posting).....!

SCargot · 10/12/2009 10:08

love kingsolver
lamb?
boyle?

ooh

orangina · 10/12/2009 10:09

Yes to TC Boyle as well.

SCargot · 10/12/2009 10:09

i think lyn barber is raunchy ersion of my mum emotion wise

SCargot · 10/12/2009 10:09

ooh have never heard of TC ( apart from in the cartoon ba boom tish)
laters!

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 10:09

Hanif Kureishi too

especially Intimacy and Something to tell you (another dysfunctional families one)

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orangina · 10/12/2009 10:10

Have you read the Steig Larssen books yet? They are next on my list....

SCargot · 10/12/2009 10:10

yy all of em

love em

orangina · 10/12/2009 10:10

Oh yes, that last Hanif Kueishi bok (slightly annoying and self conscious, but still enjoyed it....)

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 10:11

I'm ordering A Million Little Pieces now.

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orangina · 10/12/2009 10:12

Independence Day, by Richard Ford. Kind of John Updike-y

orangina · 10/12/2009 10:12

I also enjoyed the follow up to a Million Little Pieces (can't remember now what it's called...)

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 10:13

I like Bukowski too - especially when 'm in a man hating frame of mind.

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ahundredtimes · 10/12/2009 10:13

Should read The Sportswriter before Independence Day though (don't think she'll like it though)

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 10:14

We have the exact same taste in books - odd!

I'm TDWP btw under a new (soon to be shod) guise.

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ahundredtimes · 10/12/2009 10:15

You hated Carter Beats the Devil?

Hmm.

orangina · 10/12/2009 10:16

Aha! Yes, v much the same taste in books....

Yes, The Sportswriter, couldn't remember what it was called. Loved it too.

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter?
Dona Flor and her two husbands?

orangina · 10/12/2009 10:17

Jay McInerney too....

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SmoothCriminal · 10/12/2009 10:18

David Mitchell

What do you think of Zadie Smith? I wasn't so sure.

My friends constantly moan at me that all my favourite authors are male. So hit me wth some good female authors?

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orangina · 10/12/2009 10:21

i like some of ZS's stuff. Quite enjoyed the last one I read, set partly in new enland and partly in wilesden.... but didn't enjoy ther second book n(must be more specific)...

orangina · 10/12/2009 10:22

(shite typos, sorry)