BooksWe love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Funny and surprisingWhite Man Falling by Mike Scott, because I nearly fell off the chair a few times. I loved the humour in it.
Down And Out In Paris And London by George Orwell, because it's just not what you'd expect from the author of Animal Farm.
There's lots more of course but more of a reader than a writer be I.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 22:16, 2 replies)
Down and out is indeed a good read.
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Had a kind of timeless feel to it, didn't it? Could nearly have been about any emigrant looking for work even today.
I'm just staring at my shelf now and I also have to endorse Flann O'Briens The Dalkey Archive. One of his lesser known books and it shares characters with some of his other novels but a really good read. Synopsis here, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dalkey_Archive
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