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FunkyHouseKitten

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Book Club???
After reading everybodies hobbies it seems like a lot of people are avid readers so maybe we can swap recomendations?
I'm into authors like Irvine Welsh, Alex Garland, Martin Amis, Graham Greene and a lot of contemporary stuff.
Although ill read almost anything- have just read the 'his dark materials' trilogy aimed more for kids (in kind of the lord of the rings vein) and it was really good.
I am keen to hear any recommendations of good reads?
 
FunkyHouseKitten said:
Book Club???
After reading everybodies hobbies it seems like a lot of people are avid readers so maybe we can swap recomendations?
I'm into authors like Irvine Welsh, Alex Garland, Martin Amis, Graham Greene and a lot of contemporary stuff.
Although ill read almost anything- have just read the 'his dark materials' trilogy aimed more for kids (in kind of the lord of the rings vein) and it was really good.
I am keen to hear any recommendations of good reads?
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am currently hal-way through gazzas biography.....does that count??
 
FunkyHouseKitten said:
Book Club???
After reading everybodies hobbies it seems like a lot of people are avid readers so maybe we can swap recomendations?
I'm into authors like Irvine Welsh, Alex Garland, Martin Amis, Graham Greene and a lot of contemporary stuff.
Although ill read almost anything- have just read the 'his dark materials' trilogy aimed more for kids (in kind of the lord of the rings vein) and it was really good.
I am keen to hear any recommendations of good reads?
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You should try any of the south-americans. You brits seems to forget about them and are extremly good and really different from the anglosaxon literature. I recommend A hundred years of solitude by García Márquez or any Cortazar tales book. And Funky, you porbably would enjoy Eva Luna from Isabel Allende, very feminine lecture ;)
 
good idea - normally we used to talk about favourite beans no favourite authors - how cultural are we getting?????
 
Got to admit, I haven't tried any South American stuff, but it does have a higher profile than it used to, that is to say it has a little bit of a profile rather than none at all. Didn't Garcia Marquez win the Nobel prize a few years back?
 
gingerfreak said:
Got to admit, I haven't tried any South American stuff, but it does have a higher profile than it used to, that is to say it has a little bit of a profile rather than none at all. Didn't Garcia Marquez win the Nobel prize a few years back?
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Gingerfreak, remember using telettubie english in any post where I'm involved ;) :lol: :lol:
What's that profile thing you are talking about?

Yes, García Marquez won a Nobel years ago. He just released his first book in ten years and it's first book that it appeared in the black market before than in the bookshops. 8O
He is just a geniuos.

I recomend the south-americans cos it's completly different to the European literature (nothing to see with the spanish neither), it's all about magic realism.
I love them and I have read lots of sout americans. I'm open to give any suggestion about, novel or poetry
 
:lol: :lol:

Profile in this sense just means you hear more about South American literature than was previously the case, and there's a lot more of it on the shelves now rather than being stuck in the 'funny foreign books' section :P
 
gingerfreak said:
:lol: :lol:

Profile in this sense just means you hear more about South American literature than was previously the case, and there's a lot more of it on the shelves now rather than being stuck in the 'funny foreign books' section :P
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Understood ;)
Go for them for a change. García Márquez has a little book called Chronicle of a Death Foretold, only 120 pages, but it's a master piece. You know from the first sentence how is going to end, you can't do anything else than read it but you don't want it to finish. It's fantastic and it's a good start.

And by the way, nothing like a south-american love story 8)
 
Silv hon you've mentioned these books before, i'm going to give it a whirl.

What would you recommend? I love a good love story ;)
 
I read "love in the time of cholera" - was that by García Márquez?

I think it was. I'm reading A Passge to India at the moment. To be fair it ain't lighting my fuse yet. I think it needs some more work.

Martin Amis is great though.

A book that came highly recommened to me was "The Alchemist" which started well but it ended up losing itself up it's own bottom towards the end.


Any reccommendations for a good holiday read?
 
MARKB said:
I read "love in the time of cholera" - was that by García Márquez?

I think it was. I'm reading A Passge to India at the moment. To be fair it ain't lighting my fuse yet. I think it needs some more work.

Martin Amis is great though.

A book that came highly recommened to me was "The Alchemist" which started well but it ended up losing itself up it's own bottom towards the end.


Any reccommendations for a good holiday read?
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Yes, it's Garcia Marquez. Did you like it Mark? :D

The ALchemist and any Coelho books are really bad, it's all demagogy, you can predict the end in the second line and it's all that cheap pseudo philosphy. But he has a great succes tho
 
silvia said:
MARKB said:
I read "love in the time of cholera" - was that by García Márquez?

I think it was. I'm reading A Passge to India at the moment. To be fair it ain't lighting my fuse yet. I think it needs some more work.

Martin Amis is great though.

A book that came highly recommened to me was "The Alchemist" which started well but it ended up losing itself up it's own bottom towards the end.


Any reccommendations for a good holiday read?
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Yes, it's Garcia Marquez. Did you like it Mark? :D

The ALchemist and any Coelho books are really bad, it's all demagogy, you can predict the end in the second line and it's all that cheap pseudo philosphy. But he has a great succes tho
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Yeah I did like it . My mother is a huge fan and she gave me the book.

You've summed up Coelho perfectly. "Cheap Pseudo Philosophy". :roll:

I may give "A hundred years of solitude" a try after your comments. :)
 
silvia said:
FunkyHouseKitten said:
Book Club???
After reading everybodies hobbies it seems like a lot of people are avid readers so maybe we can swap recomendations?
I'm into authors like Irvine Welsh, Alex Garland, Martin Amis, Graham Greene and a lot of contemporary stuff.
Although ill read almost anything- have just read the 'his dark materials' trilogy aimed more for kids (in kind of the lord of the rings vein) and it was really good.
I am keen to hear any recommendations of good reads?
Click to expand...

You should try any of the south-americans. You brits seems to forget about them and are extremly good and really different from the anglosaxon literature. I recommend A hundred years of solitude by García Márquez or any Cortazar tales book. And Funky, you porbably would enjoy Eva Luna from Isabel Allende, very feminine lecture ;)
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Thanks Silv, am just having a little browse in Amazon as we speak- im always up for trying something a bit different so im going to give it a go :D
 
MARKB said:
I may give "A hundred years of solitude" a try after your comments. :)
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Make sure you get an edition including the family tree or the family map, cos all males charachters have the same names: josé, arcadio y aureliano and all possible combinations ;)
 
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