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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I'm around 200 pages - it's 700 pages long - into The Historian by Elizabeth Kostov and it's amazing! It explores the Dracula legend in a more modern setting but it isn't a horror... well, it isn't yet  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Oh the Historian is a great read. I haven't read anything I was massively enthused about for ages...so just posting to mark the thread to see if I can pick up some recommendations. |
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By *adyDangerWoman
over a year ago
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"I'm around 200 pages - it's 700 pages long - into The Historian by Elizabeth Kostov and it's amazing! It explores the Dracula legend in a more modern setting but it isn't a horror... well, it isn't yet "
I want to read this. It's a must now  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Awww. I was hoping we got to suggest ones of out own....
...I need a folded arms stroppy emoji"
I was hoping for suggestions too! Although I may re-read the Historian, it's been a few years. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I read something which sounds quite similar when I was in my teens called The Book Of Common Dread. A really good read.
More recently, but she completely different genre, was The Watchman by Chris Ryan. It's about an MI5 mole working his way up in the IRA following the Enniskillen tragedy. Again, I couldn't put it down! |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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I love The Historian! I went to a talk by her on her take on cultural and mythological beings and it's manifestations throughout time and the relation to world events. I loved The Night Circus, similar style of evocative writing with dark humour and cultural references aplenty. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If you fancy something existential, "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun is an astonishing read. It's been years since a work of fiction has had such an effect on me. The internal journey of a man on the edge of starvation, whilst he rambles incoherently and crosses paths with a range of characters in a small Norwegian city in the early 20th century.
Up there with Dostoevsky or Camus, it should be more widely known! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Well I'm glad to see so many glowing reviews for The Historian 
I'd also recommend The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George, and, if you've read Chocolat, The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris - it carries on with Vianne's storyline. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
Which one was the one set in Spain with Wind in the title?"
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
Fantastic book. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
Which one was the one set in Spain with Wind in the title?
The Shadow of the Wind.
That's good too!"
That's the one! I started off enjoying it but I had to drag myself through the last hundred or so pages. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Currently reading Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son)
Putting The Historian on my list, thank you  "
Oh, I liked Heart Shaped Box, I have a copy somewhere |
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"I'm around 200 pages - it's 700 pages long - into The Historian by Elizabeth Kostov and it's amazing! It explores the Dracula legend in a more modern setting but it isn't a horror... well, it isn't yet "
Any fucking in it ? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I'm around 200 pages - it's 700 pages long - into The Historian by Elizabeth Kostov and it's amazing! It explores the Dracula legend in a more modern setting but it isn't a horror... well, it isn't yet
Any fucking in it ?"
No...  
Great literature doesn't tend to revolve around a quick shag. |
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"I read something which sounds quite similar when I was in my teens called The Book Of Common Dread. A really good read.
More recently, but she completely different genre, was The Watchman by Chris Ryan. It's about an MI5 mole working his way up in the IRA following the Enniskillen tragedy. Again, I couldn't put it down!"
A brave man. |
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"I'm around 200 pages - it's 700 pages long - into The Historian by Elizabeth Kostov and it's amazing! It explores the Dracula legend in a more modern setting but it isn't a horror... well, it isn't yet
Any fucking in it ?
No...
Great literature doesn't tend to revolve around a quick shag."
Fuck off, every readers wife story in Escort mag would give the bard a run for his money |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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"It's an old one but Beauty by Sherri S Tepper is a cracking read. I really like Angela Carter and that book reminded me a little of her writing was both sweeter and darker simultaneously."
I'm not sure how to do the love heart emoji as I don't use them but Angela Carter (insert love heart here). |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
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"It's an old one but Beauty by Sherri S Tepper is a cracking read. I really like Angela Carter and that book reminded me a little of her writing was both sweeter and darker simultaneously.
I'm not sure how to do the love heart emoji as I don't use them but Angela Carter (insert love heart here). "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Was going to put this up myself best book ive ever read :D"
Still waiting for that third book though. Love the relevant username. |
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