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LindsD
LindsD
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Yes please Sharkie! Did we agree a date? Fmail me, pls x
Bintmcskint
Bintmcskint
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Ooh yes, LN
I loved Jonathan Strange... and can imagine it making a good, long audible listen.

Or maybe a classic epistolary novel - Tom Jones, Vanity Fair etc?
Diogenes
Diogenes
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Good suggestions, keep them coming. I’m not rushing into this...
Serendippily
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I loved Jonathan Strange too glad someone else did :-)
Sharkie
Sharkie
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Jonathan Strange is another of my unfinisheds. I bought it long before the telly version... but unusually I did prefer it on screen.
Serendippily
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I was very taken by the king of the underworld and his endless parades and the tapestry. But it bored quite a lot of people who often enjoy the same books as me so I’m always cautious about recommending it
Little Nemo
Little Nemo
Sep 2018
8:43pm, 21 Sep 2018
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The TV version was fab, loads of good actors in it.

In other book news I finished The Name of the Wind. Enjoyed it a lot so I'll be buying the second part this weekend and putting the third part on my Christmas wish list. Thanks for the recommendation, GregP :-)
Columba
Columba
Sep 2018
8:59pm, 21 Sep 2018
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Daz - the author of Other Minds is Peter Godfrey-Smith, and it's well worth reading.

Sharkie - intrigued that you tried The God of Small Things twice and it didn't work yet you still went on to read it a third time! I read it once and immediately went back to the beginning and read it again, and it made much better sense.
Badger
Badger
Sep 2018
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I never finished Strange, which is unusual for me. Really should have been my thing, but just didn't engage me. Maybe I'll give it another go sometime.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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He Kills Coppers is good, but remorselessly seedy. My main problem with it so far is that all 3 main protagonists have the same voice. Maybe this is deliberate? It captures the period very well, albeit with the jaded view we have of the past, forgetting that what looks old-fashioned to us was contemporary and progressive at the time.

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