All the above suggestions sound good. I'd love to read Gormenghast again (last time c30yrs ago...)but it is the 2nd in the trilogy and I seem to remember you did have to read them in order & that book 3 was a totally different style & was awful. Also his wife has just published volume 4 in 2013 and I think- didn't see any reviews though. As mentioned on FB by chance I came across 'A Confederacy of Dunces' too and it looks good. I am working on other suggestions...
Asunder, by Chlose Aridjis There But For The, by Ali Smith And the Land Lay Still, by James Robertson (apparently excellent and the pristine hardback copy on my shelf is as yet unread)
A fine evening of entertainment. i particularly enjoyed engaging with the local fauna. To the above list I will add:
ReplyDeleteWorld War Z by Max Brooks (a favourite of Mark and I for the January read)
May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes
And... Where is John Albiston? a short novella by Martin Amis.
Yeah I reckon World War Z as at least two or three people mentioned it and they did film bits of it in Glasgow afterall.
ReplyDeleteI also suggest:
Slow Man - Coetze
An Appetite For Wonder - Richard Dawkins
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
The Music of Chance - Paul Auster
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake (John also mentioned this a while ago)
I also like the idea of AM Homes too. And her books.
All the above suggestions sound good. I'd love to read Gormenghast again (last time c30yrs ago...)but it is the 2nd in the trilogy and I seem to remember you did have to read them in order & that book 3 was a totally different style & was awful. Also his wife has just published volume 4 in 2013 and I think- didn't see any reviews though.
ReplyDeleteAs mentioned on FB by chance I came across 'A Confederacy of Dunces' too and it looks good. I am working on other suggestions...
Some suggestions:
ReplyDeleteAsunder, by Chlose Aridjis
There But For The, by Ali Smith
And the Land Lay Still, by James Robertson (apparently excellent and the pristine hardback copy on my shelf is as yet unread)
Merry festives, everyone!