Quote from: fried on April 01, 2013, 07:22:36 pmIf you liked 'City of djinns' you'll love 'Age of Kali' and 'white mughals' by the same author.Both excellent. Ben, if you're looking for any more India/subcontinental books...Maximum City, by Suketa Mehta, all about the high and low life of India's commercial capital.A Million Mutinies Now, VS Naipaul. Grumpy English novelist interviews a huge variety of Indians. Everything Naipaul writes is good, mind, and his novel A House for Mr Biswas, tho set in Trinidad, is deeply Indian.A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry, a novel set in 1970s Bombay. Excellent.In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Danial Mueenuddin. Short stories set in Pakistan.Midnight's Children and Shame by Rushdie. Bursting with life and linguistic fireworks - just like the subcontinent.
If you liked 'City of djinns' you'll love 'Age of Kali' and 'white mughals' by the same author.
Last night I finished Nevil Shute's 'On the Beach.' I couldn't say what my idea of him was but I think I've always had the wrong idea about Shute. I thought 'On the Beach' a very good book. Heartbreaking. I've already spent at least £300 on books this year. I think I might have a problem.
2 other amazing India booksl Shantaram & A Suitable Boy.Very different - Shantaram fairly dark about the semi-underworld of Mumbair, ASB more a very interesting story of love and marriage.
I just finished reading the Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. A great story about an eco-terrorist gang fighting back in the SW USA. A fun read, in a similar vein of humour to Tom Robbins stories.Has anyone read Desert Solitaire by the same author? Is it as good?
Looks like Iain (M) Banks has been given months to live.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22021298An amazing mind.
I've already spent at least £300 on books this year. I think I might have a problem.
Quote from: andy popp on April 05, 2013, 11:41:46 amI've already spent at least £300 on books this year. I think I might have a problem.I'm just as guilty. Money well spent though I reckon. I had a friend though tell me about his mate who had a complete mental and financial breakdown as a result of his book addiction. In therapy now with a house full of unread books. I can see how it might happen....
Just started reading My Struggle. No, not that one, but Vol 1, A Death in the Family, of Karl Ove Knausgaard's Min Kamp. Another multi-volume autobiography disguised as novel. Massively compelling already (in a nothing happens sort of way).
Quote from: andy popp on May 08, 2013, 08:21:19 pmJust started reading My Struggle. No, not that one, but Vol 1, A Death in the Family, of Karl Ove Knausgaard's Min Kamp. Another multi-volume autobiography disguised as novel. Massively compelling already (in a nothing happens sort of way).I've read about those for some time. Hope it's good.