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Hello ladies and gents. In the course of making a small pile of things to bring back, I've been looking at the bookshelves in the study, and then drooling over all those books I wish I owned on amazon. And so I began to ponder...I would like to buy you all a book. Unfortunately at the moment, my budget doesn't allow it. Boohoo, and all that (please don't get resentful when you see me spend all my money on clothes now, or remind me how much my haircut cost). 10 books cost a lot. I promise, if I see them in a shop for very little, I'll buy them for you, otherwise, here's a recommendation for your reading habits over the summer.
I recommend everyone to read all of them, but more specifically;
Pat - For goddness' sake, read Raymond Chandler. I don't know you're reading habits, but Chandler's concise style is riveting. Oh, and his protagonist is in fact the coolest guy in the world. He shoots people, he fucks about and he definitely has a cigarette drooping out of the corner of his mouth and a husky voice. If you can solve the murders, I owe you a big drink. Chandler created the genre.
Sarah - I've told you this before, Bill Bryson is your man. You actually have to read him, otherwise you'll cause me physical pain. He's achingly funny and also entirely brilliant - about travelling, about people and about the advice you are given. I love him to bits - I want him to be my uncle, and to tell me things about the world. Read A Walk in the Woods and Notes from a Small Island.
Anna - There are so many, and I'm about to recommend a book I haven't actually read. But I want to. And my sister has - we're nearly the same person. Read Orwell in Spain. I haven't come across another writer who is so revered in his ability to describe the minutae of experience within such a rebellious, political and confusing time as Orwell in the Spanish Civil War. Read it, and then, can I borrow it?
Chloe - I'm cheating a lot with these books. This could be dangerous- considering our wildly different literary tastes, but I'm playing it safe by sticking with a book I've seen in your room. Anyway, Isabel Allende. Read it, read all four of the books. I can't remember which is the first - Daughter of Fortune/House of Spirits ? Anyway, there's four books of a massive fabulous family saga - it has everything;love, sex, death, birth. I want to read it again now.
Nat - this is difficult, partly because I have no idea why I thought of this book when I thought of you. Maybe it's your travelling, interest in the world - and other cultures- weren't you reading a book about Geishas? Anyway, I thought of Wild Swans. It's fucking enormous!It's about suceeding generations of women in China during the changing political circumstances. For a big fuck off book, it's un-put-down-able. It's tragic in places, it's intricate, but all encompassing, and seriously gorgeous.
Jen - Any of the above. And also, The Little Friend by Donna Tartt. Is is incredibly different from A Secret History, but I know you loved Steven King, especially IT. This is not quite a horror, and it doesn't have a scary clown, but it includes a child living in a menacing, dark world, and not in a soppy poignant way. It's a bit dark, it's a bit unsettling, and there's lots of suspense.
Ego Adam - As a mahoosive fan of The Catcher in the Rye and weirdy pop culture, you should read a modern take on a similar idea. It's hilarous (it's almost as funny reading the amazon reviewers who think it's real). It's Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre.
Matt, Alex....let me sleep on it. I'll tell you tomorrow.
Hello ladies and gents. In the course of making a small pile of things to bring back, I've been looking at the bookshelves in the study, and then drooling over all those books I wish I owned on amazon. And so I began to ponder...I would like to buy you all a book. Unfortunately at the moment, my budget doesn't allow it. Boohoo, and all that (please don't get resentful when you see me spend all my money on clothes now, or remind me how much my haircut cost). 10 books cost a lot. I promise, if I see them in a shop for very little, I'll buy them for you, otherwise, here's a recommendation for your reading habits over the summer.
I recommend everyone to read all of them, but more specifically;
Pat - For goddness' sake, read Raymond Chandler. I don't know you're reading habits, but Chandler's concise style is riveting. Oh, and his protagonist is in fact the coolest guy in the world. He shoots people, he fucks about and he definitely has a cigarette drooping out of the corner of his mouth and a husky voice. If you can solve the murders, I owe you a big drink. Chandler created the genre.
Sarah - I've told you this before, Bill Bryson is your man. You actually have to read him, otherwise you'll cause me physical pain. He's achingly funny and also entirely brilliant - about travelling, about people and about the advice you are given. I love him to bits - I want him to be my uncle, and to tell me things about the world. Read A Walk in the Woods and Notes from a Small Island.
Anna - There are so many, and I'm about to recommend a book I haven't actually read. But I want to. And my sister has - we're nearly the same person. Read Orwell in Spain. I haven't come across another writer who is so revered in his ability to describe the minutae of experience within such a rebellious, political and confusing time as Orwell in the Spanish Civil War. Read it, and then, can I borrow it?
Chloe - I'm cheating a lot with these books. This could be dangerous- considering our wildly different literary tastes, but I'm playing it safe by sticking with a book I've seen in your room. Anyway, Isabel Allende. Read it, read all four of the books. I can't remember which is the first - Daughter of Fortune/House of Spirits ? Anyway, there's four books of a massive fabulous family saga - it has everything;love, sex, death, birth. I want to read it again now.
Nat - this is difficult, partly because I have no idea why I thought of this book when I thought of you. Maybe it's your travelling, interest in the world - and other cultures- weren't you reading a book about Geishas? Anyway, I thought of Wild Swans. It's fucking enormous!It's about suceeding generations of women in China during the changing political circumstances. For a big fuck off book, it's un-put-down-able. It's tragic in places, it's intricate, but all encompassing, and seriously gorgeous.
Jen - Any of the above. And also, The Little Friend by Donna Tartt. Is is incredibly different from A Secret History, but I know you loved Steven King, especially IT. This is not quite a horror, and it doesn't have a scary clown, but it includes a child living in a menacing, dark world, and not in a soppy poignant way. It's a bit dark, it's a bit unsettling, and there's lots of suspense.
Ego Adam - As a mahoosive fan of The Catcher in the Rye and weirdy pop culture, you should read a modern take on a similar idea. It's hilarous (it's almost as funny reading the amazon reviewers who think it's real). It's Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre.
Matt, Alex....let me sleep on it. I'll tell you tomorrow.
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