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Post by Hezz on Oct 30, 2011 0:29:15 GMT
Has anyone read "The Bonesetter's Daughter" by Amy Tan?
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Post by nat on Nov 1, 2011 20:03:26 GMT
If you want a great book, a real classic, that mixes murder-detective with great writing, try Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". (Not sure if I've spelt his name correctly.) Some say it is challenging, but I remember reading it my 20s and being engrossed. This is one of my top 3 books Stace. I love all the Dostoevskijs' books I've read but this is my favourite. I'm battling with his 'The Idiot' in Italian at the moment, but might need to buy an English copy as its hard work not being great at Italian lol:) 'Shantaram' by Gregory David Roberts was a book that will never leave me. An Australian guy on the run from prison finds himself living in the Mumbai slums during the 80s. A true story about the authors life, it leads you into how he unwittingly gets involved with some very powerful people in Mumbai leading to an epic adventure that is nothing short of a great thriller. Quite harsh and shocking at times, but unputtadownable
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Post by Hezz on Nov 2, 2011 0:31:39 GMT
If you want a great book, a real classic, that mixes murder-detective with great writing, try Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". (Not sure if I've spelt his name correctly.) Some say it is challenging, but I remember reading it my 20s and being engrossed. This is one of my top 3 books Stace. I love all the Dostoevskijs' books I've read but this is my favourite. I'm battling with his 'The Idiot' in Italian at the moment, but might need to buy an English copy as its hard work not being great at Italian lol:) 'Shantaram' by Gregory David Roberts was a book that will never leave me. An Australian guy on the run from prison finds himself living in the Mumbai slums during the 80s. A true story about the authors life, it leads you into how he unwittingly gets involved with some very powerful people in Mumbai leading to an epic adventure that is nothing short of a great thriller. Quite harsh and shocking at times, but unputtadownable I have read that one, Nat. He did some good stuff unwittingly, but I have issues with the way it came about. So decided to look on it as a work of fiction, rather than fact to help me with the ethical side of things.
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Post by nat on Nov 2, 2011 1:29:51 GMT
Yes, I have to admit is was very raw at times, and like you Hezz I think I had to read it also with a work of fiction in mind much for the same reasons as you. I thought he wrote it pretty factually and in a detatched enough manner and without too much emotion which made it easier to take as fiction I also thought it was a very interesting study really of what can happen to someones life when removed from all restraints of family, friends, work, law and dumped into another unknown life and forced to survive. How easily led into other avenues one can get without these restraints of normality. Big price he paid to stay out of prison for a few years. I think I'd have gone for the prison in Australia rather than take his route!
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Post by Hezz on Nov 2, 2011 3:15:15 GMT
He was an odd one all right.
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Post by Hezz on Dec 2, 2011 11:22:47 GMT
To restart an old thread, in time for Christmas, if anyone out there has children in the 10-13 year old bracket they need to buy gifts for, I would like to recommend three series of books:
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy
The Tomorrow series by John Marsden ("Tomorrow, when the war began" is the first book)
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Post by Hezz on Jan 7, 2012 10:51:09 GMT
Another re-start on an old thread, did ANYONE get a good book for Christmas???
C'mon people, someone must have read their xmas presents by now........... or does no-one give books anymore???
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Post by stace on Jan 7, 2012 13:29:15 GMT
Another re-start on an old thread, did ANYONE get a good book for Christmas??? C'mon people, someone must have read their xmas presents by now........... or does no-one give books anymore??? I was given an ginormous book of four decades of essays by Christopher Hitchens, called Arguably. Haven't started it yet.
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Oct 6, 2011 7:41:27 GMT
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Jan 7, 2012 15:24:23 GMT
I just don't have the concentration span to be able to read much!
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Post by Hezz on Jan 8, 2012 1:33:04 GMT
I just don't have the concentration span to be able to read much!
No??? That is a shame, Marianne. I could easily live without TV but couldn't live without books.
Anyone else out there?? Books please. I need some new authors in my repertoire.
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