Quote from: dunnyg on January 25, 2021, 12:10:45 pmI got consider phlebas for christmas on the back of recomendations here and just finished. Proper good sci fi, so thanks for the recomendation!Big fan of Iain M Banks! I'd definitely recommend pretty much all of the other Culture books if you enjoyed Consider Phlebas, particularly Player of Games & Excession. Also The Algebraist, while not Culture, is also good.
I got consider phlebas for christmas on the back of recomendations here and just finished. Proper good sci fi, so thanks for the recomendation!
Yeah, I read Grapes of Wrath quite a few years ago. A classic and for good reason. Although a tough read a times. I love Steinbeck. This is supposed to be the untold story of the people that stayed behind. Definitely an interesting read.
Kevin Barry, "Night Boat to Tangier." Blimey, one of the best novels I've read in a long time. The book criss-crosses back and forth across the lives of two ageing Irish gangsters as they sit waiting at the port of Algeciras, hoping to spot Dilly, the daughter of one of them. So good, in my opinion, because of the great vividness with which Moss and Charlie come alive through Barry's sparse prose. These are not characters you like - they are, after all, pretty awful men - but they are ones with whom you empathise, in the sense of grasping their humanity. If one thing you want from a novel is to live awhile as or with another person, then this book delivered hugely for me. Barry is not a writer of great literary flourishes but the book is shot through with beauty. He's one of those writers who leaves you wondering how he achieves so much affect.
Quote from: andy popp on January 25, 2021, 01:54:03 pmKevin Barry, "Night Boat to Tangier." Blimey, one of the best novels I've read in a long time. The book criss-crosses back and forth across the lives of two ageing Irish gangsters as they sit waiting at the port of Algeciras, hoping to spot Dilly, the daughter of one of them. So good, in my opinion, because of the great vividness with which Moss and Charlie come alive through Barry's sparse prose. These are not characters you like - they are, after all, pretty awful men - but they are ones with whom you empathise, in the sense of grasping their humanity. If one thing you want from a novel is to live awhile as or with another person, then this book delivered hugely for me. Barry is not a writer of great literary flourishes but the book is shot through with beauty. He's one of those writers who leaves you wondering how he achieves so much affect.Good recommendation, I enjoyed this. It took some time for me to get in to it but it grew on me all the way through as I got to know the characters.
Read Dyer’s novel “The Colour of Memory” many years ago, enjoyed it a lot.