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tb444 said:

A couple of books I would recommend for those who like something a little different are:

Title: The Bridge Author:Ian Banks ...................contemporary fiction
Title: Feersum Endjinn Author: Ian M. Banks .... sci-fi

Both by the same author he uses the name Ian M. Banks for his sci-fi novels.
They are a little strange you need to give yourself a little time to get used to the style particularly with Feersum Endjinn. Worth a borrow from the library.


PS Go for it Moog nothing ventured nothing gained.

Good call Biccy! 'The Bridge' is superb - its a very surreal mixture of fiction and fantasy that works a treat. Ian Banks is a damn good writer. I've also read 'The Wasp Factory' (an all time classic which everybody should read), 'Complicity' (was a bit nasty but still a good read) and 'Canal Dreams' which was fun. I've got the Crow Road to read next when I'm finshed reading Graham Greene's 'Our Man in Havana' which I'm finding rather enjoyable.

[Mr Stuey]

Got a big list to write down now and have look at.

I wish i read more than i do at the moment......i will try and have a look round for a few of the books mentioned and see what they like.

[flashingblade27]

Just finished reading The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. Great book but be prepared for some weeping (manly of course in my case)

[Biscitt]

Thought I'd bump this old thread for all you book worms who may have missed it.

[gentleman]

Recently finished Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine. Excellent book, probably the best work on economics I have read. It covers a three-decade period from the 1970s onwards, with the intention of thoroughly undercutting the ideology that free markets lead to free people.

Other economists who can write for the general reader (both have won the Nobel Prize for Economics): Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman.

I realise that this is perhaps a bit serious for this site but I don't read fiction!