| If you could recommend ONE BOOK 20:25 - Aug 18 with 24631 views | unbelievablue |
What would it be? Hit me up, I'm bored as hell. |  |
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| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 00:05 - Aug 19 with 5083 views | Terra_Farma |
Painting the Sand |  | | |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 00:22 - Aug 19 with 5065 views | Dolly2.0 |
You've had a lot of serious suggestions so far, so if you want something a bit lighter then go for Yes Man by Danny Wallace.
The true story of a man who decides to say yes to everything. Funniest book I've ever read. |  |
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| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 00:23 - Aug 19 with 5061 views | Freddies_Ears |
Fatherland by Robert Harris. It is set in the 1960s. In Hitler's Germany. A superb crime novel that touches on some deep politics but is highly readable. You might read it in one sitting. I did. I finished it say 6 o'clock one morning! | | | |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 00:24 - Aug 19 with 5056 views | Freddies_Ears |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 21:38 - Aug 18 by TLA |
253 by Geoff Ryman.
253 pages, each with 253 words, relating to 253 characters on a tube train. It's brilliant.
I'd send you my copy if you'd like to read it. |
It is superb. And chilling. | | | |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 00:26 - Aug 19 with 5053 views | Freddies_Ears |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 20:51 - Aug 18 by catch74 |
Third for Stoner.
I love McKewan - 'A child in time'
Now I've said that I've remembered 'A history of the world in 10 1/2 Chapters' - worth a read. |
Ah yes, Julian Barnes' History of the World... The Noah's Ark chapter was awesome. How do we know how many chameleons boarded? | | | |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 00:35 - Aug 19 with 5039 views | RedWhiteAndBLUE |
Star of the sea by Joseph O'Connor. |  | | |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 01:24 - Aug 19 with 5013 views | PrrrromotionGiven |
Catch-22. Takes a while for it to start making sense, but it's some of the best dark humour put to paper. | | | |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 05:50 - Aug 19 with 4987 views | Throbbe |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 01:24 - Aug 19 by PrrrromotionGiven |
Catch-22. Takes a while for it to start making sense, but it's some of the best dark humour put to paper. |
A third vote for it from me. I reread it every few years and every time it's a different book as my perspective has changed.
I too love these threads, I've read several of the books mentioned as a result of TWTD recommendations and they've become favourites of mine. I've already decided on a couple of others to try on the strength of this thread. |  |
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| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 06:43 - Aug 19 with 4973 views | TLA |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 00:24 - Aug 19 by Freddies_Ears |
It is superb. And chilling. |
I loved the character Who?
I think Ryman wrote an even better book with Was - it is absolutely brilliant.
I like the love for The Magus - the first couple of hundred pages took the art of the novel to a different level. It doesn't end as well though and the film didn't (and probably couldn't) do it justice. [Post edited 19 Aug 2017 7:31]
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| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:07 - Aug 19 with 4965 views | fabian_illness |
Bravo Two Zero by Andy Mcnab. |  | | |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:14 - Aug 19 with 4960 views | Benters |
Jaws.
The first book ive read in 40 yrs,it was nothing like the film,more sex not so much fish. |  |
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| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:22 - Aug 19 with 4945 views | Darth_Koont |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:14 - Aug 19 by Benters |
Jaws.
The first book ive read in 40 yrs,it was nothing like the film,more sex not so much fish. |
That's pathetic. |  |
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| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:24 - Aug 19 with 4945 views | SE1blue |
Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
He makes every word on every page count - amazing word play and depth. |  |
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| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:30 - Aug 19 with 4933 views | Tristan90 |
Murakami - Kafka on the Shore. It's bit odd and takes a little while to 'get' but once you're into it it's absolutely extraordinary.
If you're into crime fiction, I'd also say Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith; it's an excellent thriller set in the USSR with a brilliant overarching plot. | |
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| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:31 - Aug 19 with 4925 views | Benters |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:22 - Aug 19 by Darth_Koont |
That's pathetic. |
What the book? | |
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| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:39 - Aug 19 with 4911 views | TLA |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:24 - Aug 19 by SE1blue |
Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
He makes every word on every page count - amazing word play and depth. |
Lolita is a brilliant novel.
Nabokov is a genius.
Pale Fire is amazing but not an easy read - Despair is a good introduction to his work as it's short, not hard to read but is stunning. | | | |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:40 - Aug 19 with 4909 views | SE1blue |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:30 - Aug 19 by Tristan90 |
Murakami - Kafka on the Shore. It's bit odd and takes a little while to 'get' but once you're into it it's absolutely extraordinary.
If you're into crime fiction, I'd also say Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith; it's an excellent thriller set in the USSR with a brilliant overarching plot. |
Child 44 is the nuts. Great book. Read it one read in front of the fire.
Hated the film - which is often he sign of a great book. | |
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| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:44 - Aug 19 with 4896 views | TLA |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:40 - Aug 19 by SE1blue |
Child 44 is the nuts. Great book. Read it one read in front of the fire.
Hated the film - which is often he sign of a great book. |
Making films based on great books is not easy.
I think 1984 is one of the best conversions of a classic book into a film. John Hurt was sensational. | | | |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 08:07 - Aug 19 with 4877 views | pedrail |
'Summit' by Harry Farthing. A plausible fiction about a war-time Nazi attempt to be the first to climb Everest. The plot switches between the war-time events and the present, in which a British mountaineer's find on the mountain throws up some clues. A consistently exciting story with rich characterizations, a brilliant historical context, and a stunning ending. Not a book I could put down. |  | | |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 08:12 - Aug 19 with 4871 views | PJH |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 22:35 - Aug 18 by vapour_trail |
You should lend that to 12thMan |
Not planning to let it out of my sight.
Signed by Ray Crawford, Ted Phillips, John Elsworthy and Ken Malcolm(and Rob Hadgraft)at Waterstones in 2002. |  | | |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 12:12 - Aug 19 with 4813 views | Ryorry |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 07:30 - Aug 19 by Tristan90 |
Murakami - Kafka on the Shore. It's bit odd and takes a little while to 'get' but once you're into it it's absolutely extraordinary.
If you're into crime fiction, I'd also say Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith; it's an excellent thriller set in the USSR with a brilliant overarching plot. |
Speaking of Kafka - 'The Trial'. Still shockingly relevant - disturbingly strikes chords about nightmare bureaucracy, secretive judicial systems, and the corruption of power as much now as when it was written just over a century ago. |  |
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| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 12:28 - Aug 19 with 4801 views | Lord_Lucan |
Catcher in the Rye I suppose.
Keefs autobiography "Life" is an excellent read and Irvine Welsh Porno takes a bit of beating. |  |
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| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 12:45 - Aug 19 with 4793 views | PaganBlue |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 22:53 - Aug 18 by footers |
Did the French Lieutenant's Woman for A-Level but yet to read any more Fowles. Been 'getting around to it' for ages and was thinking of doing The Collector first but now feel very silly. |
The Collector is also amazing, and a much quicker read than The Magus. I was never able to get into The French Lieutenant's Woman but most of his other stuff is brilliant. See also Ian McEwan, especially The Cement Garden and Enduring Love. | | | |
| If you could recommend ONE BOOK on 12:52 - Aug 19 with 4786 views | Wonky |
A secret history.
Donna Tarte |  | | |
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