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read a good book lately?
believe it or not, summer is already here and we who lunch need something to do between breakfast & lunch and lunch & dinner.
have you read a good book lately? what made it so good? would you recommend it to others? why?
have you read a good book lately? what made it so good? would you recommend it to others? why?
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oh and when i was a child i loved the "Make your own adventures" books by usborne. they were brilliant!!
and when i was really young i loved the City Kids books. i think my favourites were "The day my dad fell in love with my teacher" and "the day i got a haircut". those were ace books. they were australian and are now out of print in the UK. i tried buying them but couldnt get hold of any. probably the best australian export in the world.
For dark tales there's no one like Edgar Allen Poe.
Sahadat if you think Roald Dahl is dark, read Saki!
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon. I'm a bit of a McCammon fanboy so probably biased, but this is around 900 pages and it just flies by! Thriller set during a witch trial in a 16thC American town, where everybody has a secret to hide...
Anita and Me by Meera Syal. Just re-read this recently (I was still on a nostalgia trip after Spies and remembered this gave me some of the same feelings). You all probably know this one - all about nine-year-old Meena growing up in Brummie in the Sixties...
And, between short stories by Roald Dahl (dang, that man is dark!), just started The Ninth Life of Louis Drax by Liz Jensen. I read Ark Baby by her and that was one freaky-strange fantastic book. This one is looking good so far...
It was an excellent read because i cant concentrate for long. There were many interesting stories which got me thinking and made me want to read more, but the darn stories were too short. My fav stories were "The Visitors" and "The Tulip Plate"
Everett is pretty much unknown outside the US, but Erasure is probably his best book to date. It is the tale of a black American academic who writes a scathing pastiche of the sort of psuedo-authentic ghetto-talk novels, films and plays that are hugely sucessful these days. The book becomes a hit despite his best efforts to strangle it. The resulting misadventures explore the nature of race and identity, art and authenticity.
And it's very funny too!
my favourite line: "i love my mother i hate my mother i love my mother i hate my mother i love my mother i hate my mother."