recommend a book for me to take on holiday
something absorbing, that will take me 3-5 days to read. i like 100 years of solitude, time traveler's wife, etc.
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Camus -The Plague
Tartt - The Secret History
Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty
good holiday books
Bonfire of the Vanities
It's a nice big chunky one, really gripping but not overly challenging either.
The Book Thief
is alright.
There are better books in this thread
but for a holiday I would go with this one. As he says; it's alright.
Something by Murakami?
The count of monte cristo by dumas is a good holiday read, and BIG.
yeah - how about kafka on the shore?
or maybe oryx and crake by margaret atwood (i recommend this book whenever i recommend a book)
"100 years of solitude, time traveler's wife etc"
Is for sure one of the strangest sentences I've ever read on DiS.
In what way is there an "etc" there?!
I finished "Remainder" by Tom McCarthy
this morning, it's brilliant.
yes, yes it is
simmers impressively for three-quarters of its length and then bursts into fire through its astonishing, eye-widening final act. for such a humble start (seeming like nothing so much as one of chris morris' blue jam monologues) it spans its ideas colossally, fills its time with lots and *lots* of space...
i would say
sound of laughter by peter kay
the gun slinger by stepen king
or The serect
try The Shadow of the Wind
by carlos ruiz zafon.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Wind-Carlos-Ruiz-Zafon/dp/0753819317
Carter Beats The Devil by Glen David Gold
A bit of a page-turner mystery/adventure about stage magicians in 1920's US. Perfect holiday reading.
i dunno why people want to read different books than usual when on holiday
but then again i remember getting picked up from the airport by a proper mental taxi driver and deciding not to put my seatbelt on because i was abroad. \m/
The Ruins
The Affirmation by Christopher Priest
A wonderful book with a travel element to fulfil all your holiday needs.
how was the holiday?
what book did you end up taking?