Book recommendations
Posted by: Simon Perry on 21 January 2004
I am off on my holidays soon, but am a bit stuck for something to read. Books that I have read recently which I liked a lot include: Atonement, My Dark Places, Into Thin Air, Life of Pi, The Corrections and The Cutting Room.
Anyone got any good recommendations? For example, is the DBC Pierre book any cop?
Cheers
Simon
Anyone got any good recommendations? For example, is the DBC Pierre book any cop?
Cheers
Simon
Posted on: 21 January 2004 by Former member
Simon
Have you tried Dead Air by Iain Banks? It was pretty good, quite a good take on the whole 9/11 factored into a pretty good novel.
Also highly recommend anything by John Lanchester, especially Mr Phillips.
Ben Richards' 'A Sweetheart Deal' was brilliant, and his new one is on my 'to be read' shelf.
I thought that The Cutting Room was excellent.
ag
Have you tried Dead Air by Iain Banks? It was pretty good, quite a good take on the whole 9/11 factored into a pretty good novel.
Also highly recommend anything by John Lanchester, especially Mr Phillips.
Ben Richards' 'A Sweetheart Deal' was brilliant, and his new one is on my 'to be read' shelf.
I thought that The Cutting Room was excellent.
ag
Posted on: 21 January 2004 by Simon Perry
Alex, Thanks for the recommendations. I have read Dead Air, and really liked it. The last 100 pages were gripping. I will investigate the Ben Richards and John Lancaster. Not heard of either before (showing my ignorance there).
Simon
Simon
Posted on: 21 January 2004 by Rasher
If it's holiday and you don't want to think too hard, Lee Childs' Jack Reacher novels are pulp, tacky, predictable, but great fun and gripping. Love 'em & leave 'em behind.
Posted on: 21 January 2004 by Former member
Simon
Mr Phillips
ag
quote:
Synopsis
Mr Phillips is an accountant who lies in bed with his wife and dreams of other women. When he loses his job and tells no one, his first day out of work takes in a false journey to the office, a stroll with a pornographer in Battersea Park, a blue film, and a bank robbery in Knightsbridge.
Mr Phillips
ag
Posted on: 21 January 2004 by Tim Jones
Mr Phillips is OK, but a bit...desultory compared to Lanchester's preceding (first?) novel 'The Debt to Pleasure'. This is a Nabokovian account of a gastronome of the most baroque variety, who slides into murder and all round nuttiness. One of the best 'unreliable narrator' books I've read...
'Bodies' by Jed Mercurio is the best thing I've read in ages - about a junior doctor and his first experiences in hospital. The sex scenes get a bit dodgy, but the accounts of what happens (or, er, used to happen) to patients is really enthralling. I think he co-wrote 'Cardiac Arrest' - the BBC junior doctor drama that remains Helne Baxendale's best thing ever.
Tim
'Bodies' by Jed Mercurio is the best thing I've read in ages - about a junior doctor and his first experiences in hospital. The sex scenes get a bit dodgy, but the accounts of what happens (or, er, used to happen) to patients is really enthralling. I think he co-wrote 'Cardiac Arrest' - the BBC junior doctor drama that remains Helne Baxendale's best thing ever.
Tim
Posted on: 21 January 2004 by paul99
I can see why Vernon God Little (by DBC Pierre) is rated highly.
I think I understand the point that the author is making but I am finding it a struggle. I am only about ten pages from the end but cannot muster the interest to complete it. I have read another book in the meantime.
I really must complete the thing.
Regards,
Paul.
I think I understand the point that the author is making but I am finding it a struggle. I am only about ten pages from the end but cannot muster the interest to complete it. I have read another book in the meantime.
I really must complete the thing.
Regards,
Paul.
Posted on: 22 January 2004 by Simon Perry
Mr Phillips has been bought. Couldn't find the Ben Richards but will look in a different shop tomorrow!
Cheers
Simon
Cheers
Simon