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Any book recommendations?

By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Good evening, folks.

I'm 3/4 of the way through a 24hr shift and things have slowed down: can anyone recommend a good book I can download and start to keep me going over the final few hours?

Thanks in advance.

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in a Time of Cholera

Is probably the best fiction I've read in a while.

I'm not sentimental, and neither is this, but it details a 50 year unrequited affair and contrasts fidelity with unbounded passion.

Very good.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in a Time of Cholera

Is probably the best fiction I've read in a while.

I'm not sentimental, and neither is this, but it details a 50 year unrequited affair and contrasts fidelity with unbounded passion.

Very good."

Thanks, will have a look

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor

Its based off of old-school American politics. Great book. They made a movie adaptation ages ago as well.

-Courtney

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"The last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor

Its based off of old-school American politics. Great book. They made a movie adaptation ages ago as well.

-Courtney"

The movie plucks a chord, yes, but not encountered the book! Thank you, will have a look at that also.

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

You like non-fiction?

Bio/history - anything like that?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Curious incident of the dog in the night time

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Mind you, you should read Alan Moore's From Hell if you haven't already.

Expunge the terrible film adaptation from your mind and plunge in to one of the most disturbing retellings of the Ripper murders...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Curious incident of the dog in the night time "

Read it twice, merci for taking the time though x

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Curious incident of the dog in the night time

Read it twice, merci for taking the time though x"

Nw great book

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Or Perfume, by Patrick Suskind.

The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotional meaning that scents may carry. Above all it is a story of identity, communication and the morality of the human spirit.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"You like non-fiction?

Bio/history - anything like that?"

I love non-fiction, particularly historical and biographies, medieval-age based fiction, and I have a particular passion for genres such as crime/legal, psychological thrillers, horror.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Read some Phillip Pullman he is great !

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By *iamondjoeMan over a year ago

Glastonbury

Ok... Perfume is a good one then.

Robert Graves' I, Claudius is brilliant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Claudius

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Read some Phillip Pullman he is great ! "

You're not the first to suggest him, my fingers are hot on google already, thank you X

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Ok... Perfume is a good one then.

Robert Graves' I, Claudius is brilliant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Claudius"

Got it! Just reading the synopsis now.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

papillion by Henri Charrier... same as the movie, except much much much better

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"papillion by Henri Charrier... same as the movie, except much much much better"

Thank you for taking the time, I'll have a look!

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By *amissCouple over a year ago

chelmsford

"You like non-fiction?

Bio/history - anything like that?

I love non-fiction, particularly historical and biographies, medieval-age based fiction, and I have a particular passion for genres such as crime/legal, psychological thrillers, horror."

Have you read the Steig Laarson trilogy, The girl with the Dragon tattoo is the first one. Good psychological books.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Ok... Perfume is a good one then.

Robert Graves' I, Claudius is brilliant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Claudius"