brightphoebus
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I've been leant this by a friend and had a feeling it might be as you described, Mm. I don't want to hurt her feelings but...
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B Is For Bauhaus: An A-Z Of The Modern World - Deyan Sudjic
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Mm, I really like your analogy. I often feel, when urged to read a book I dislike, that I've been made to eat something unpleasant.
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Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
brightphoebus replied to lunababymoonchild's topic in Central Library
I would recommend An Artist Of the Floating World which I do think is a quiet masterpiece. -
The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
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Last Exit To Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr
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Light in August - William Faulkner
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Put Out More Flags - Evelyn Waugh
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Have The Men Had Enough? - Margaret Forster
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How We Live Now - Anthony Trollope
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The Railway Children - E Nesbit
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Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad
brightphoebus replied to Binker's topic in 21st-Century Fiction
What Mr HG said. In addition to the slippage between eras, we are also shown different models of living in post-slavery society. It sounds confusing and messy but it is anything but; it's elegant and completely credible. -
I also loved Golden Hill by Francis Spufford. My two other outstanding reads were Days Without End by Sebastian Barry and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. I hope you get enthused again soon, chuntzy.
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Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired From Jane Eyre - Tracy Chevalier
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Requiem For A Dream - Hubert Selby Jr
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Notes From The Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard. Has anyone else read this and can tell me why it is meant to be a masterpiece? (To me) painful to read, overwritten, clumsy wording, empty characters.
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce
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Imagine Me GONE - Adam Haslett
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LIFE: A User's Manual - Georges Perec
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FROST In May - Antonia White
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POOR Cow - Nell Dunn
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City Of SIN: London And Its Vices- Catharine Arnold
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A Bend In The River - V.S.Naipaul
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THE Mill On The Floss - George Eliot