Martin
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Right. I'm almost done with Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, which I am very much enjoying. I'm about a hundred pages from the end, and that usually is the time I start thinking of what my next book will be. But this time. I'll let you guys decide.
You can see the options above, but I will give some extra info on all four books right here.
So, which will it be?!
Cheers
Ps: Fellow Moderators - don't move this thread to 'General Book Discussion', yet. I think it will get the most traffic here.
You can see the options above, but I will give some extra info on all four books right here.
- Iain Banks - The Crow Road: From its bravura opening onwards, The Crow Road is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach.' Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the McHoan past, present and future, he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death, sex, drink, God and illegal substances.
- Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair: There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers, but there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic, a great interest in all things literary - and a woman called Thursday Next.
In this utterly original and wonderfully funny first novel, Fforde has created a fiesty, loveable heroine and a plot of such richness and ingenuity that it will take your breath away. - Italo Calvino - Cosmicomics: This is an account of the universe as a cosmic joke, surreal random fiction. Ofwfq is like matter - he can be neither created nor destroyed. In 1000 diverse shapes and peculiar forms he has fitted, spiralled and plodded through every strange change or evolution. This is his account.
- Neil Gaiman - American Gods: After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a very strange journey across the States, along the way solving the murders which have occurred every winter in one small American town. But the storm is about to break... Disturbing, gripping and profoundly strange, Gaiman's epic new novel sees him on the road to the heart of America.
So, which will it be?!
Cheers
Ps: Fellow Moderators - don't move this thread to 'General Book Discussion', yet. I think it will get the most traffic here.
You've been talking about it forever.
