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This weekend at the beach I needed some good smut so per: lennynero's recommendation I picked up The Rooms by Michael Hemmingson. YIKES!

I also bought:

The Third Secret by Steve Berry started that this morning. Not bad.
 
theoptimist said:
Asylum - Patrick McGrath

You little swine, you. It was you, wasn't it, that got the copy off eBay last night. :p

I was waiting until the last minute but got distracted by that nonce wanting us to do his coursework for him and missed on doing a bit of literary gazumping. :(
 
abecedarian said:
Kenny Shovel said:
No Longer At Ease & A Man of the People, both by Chinua Achebe.
Stewart said:
Selected Short Stories, Rabindranath Tagore
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin

I hope you'll both post your reviews when you're done!
(I'm working on one for Sunset Song)

I've read both Achebe novels now (No Longer at Ease 7/10, A Man of the People 8/10) and took notes whilst doing so. When I get time I'll review them.

Anyway, a trip to London included getting the following:

South of No North by Charles Bukowski
The File on H by Ismail Kadare
Envy by Yury Olesha
 
Just bought:

Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub
City of The Night by Dean Koontz
and
Destiny's Road by Larry Niven :D :D :D
 
All the Names - Jose Saramago
The Flanders Panel - Arturo Perez Reverte
Shalimar the Clown - Salman Rushdie
Amsterdam - Ian McEwan
 
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