MillionMilesAway
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Ivanhoe is a wonderful book, if you're looking for a classic.
Ivanhoe is a wonderful book, if you're looking for a classic.
It is, but tbf it's the most easy going one I've ever read. Makes it very accessible IMO, but I don't really do fiction, which is why I like Bill Bryson. Great writer; funny, intelligent and well-researched.That's the history of science one, isn't it? Not easy going!
Got to agree about His Dark Materials... Not my kind of thing, but I lost myself in it for a few weeks.In fiction in English, the three huge discoveries for me of these last thirty years have been Edward St. Aubyn, the Patrick Melrose books (already discussed); Haruki Murukami, especially Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore; and Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials. Fantasy fiction isn't normally my thing at all — it bores me, frankly — and I was surprised by how much I liked the last named. Whatever you might think, it's not really for children. Or not only for them.
Is Walter Scott really readable? I've always wondered. Huge reputation in his own day, of course.
It is, but tbf it's the most easy going one I've ever read. Makes it very accessible IMO, but I don't really do fiction, which is why I like Bill Bryson. Great writer; funny, intelligent and well-researched.
Notes from a Small Island (about Britain) is brilliant.
I Have done the first 9 Robicheaux books and my maud has done the lot, very evocative writing. If you like New Orleans have you tried A Quiet Vendetta by R.J Ellory? highly recommend it