Another vote for Attention All Shipping even if it is non fiction. In discrete chapters too.
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I think you should try that and then report back. Maybe we all should. When they ask us, "What kind of thing do you like?" we respond, "I don't really know."
Although having once worked in a shop, it's been my policy ever since to try and make the life of shop assistants anything close to hell.
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- Mar 2008
- 19051
- Revelling In The Hole
- England, Chelsea and Tooting and Mitcham. And Surrey CCC. And Wimbledon Dons Speedway (RIP)
- Nairn's Cheese Oatcake
My local Waterstone's has "staff recommendations" plastered all over the place, so they obviously do cater for the small but potentially valuable choose-a-book-for-me cohort.
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- Mar 2008
- 9819
- Tyne 'n' Wear (emphasis on the 'n')
- Dundee Utd, Gladbach, Atleti, Napoli, New Orleans Saints, Elgin City
Much to Ms Felicity’s disgust, I don’t read serious/literary fiction much any more but I like to think I have ploughed a proper furrow of serious/ socially conscious crime and sci-fi.
So anything by Pelecanos, Richard Price, Kim Stanley Robinson, the ‘Expanse’ novels of JAmes SA Storey. Historical crime/spy by Alan Furst, Joseph Kanon. Simenon’s novels are being retranslated and the master of leftist detective fiction Didier Daeninckx also has a couple in English
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Originally posted by imp View PostI think you should try that and then report back. Maybe we all should. When they ask us, "What kind of thing do you like?" we respond, "I don't really know."
Although having once worked in a shop, it's been my policy ever since to try and make the life of shop assistants anything close to hell.
I am reading a book, by the way. "The Song of Achilles", by Madeline Miller. It's going ok so far. Once I have read it, I will report back on all the things I thought.
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- Aug 2008
- 25392
- The zero meridian
- Swansea, Gaziantepspor and the Zeugma Franchise
- Bahlsen Choco Leibniz Dark
Glad your reading again TonTon, I've downloaded a few things to read onto my kindle but it's going to be a while before I get round to them. One of the books was The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer, it's been a while since I read it and my copy disappeared after lending it to a friend.
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