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The last few books that I've read have been in translation and I now want to get a book written in English. Any good ideas?

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Apart from the Sandi Toksvig book I just saw in Books Etc.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

if it's Sarrf Lahndon English you're after i recommend "Wise Children" by Angela Carter.

― katie, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am really enjoying posession by AS Byatt

― anthony, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm in the middle of reading Jonathan Lethem's _Motherless Brooklyn_, which is a) wonderful and b) written in English and then some (you'll see what I mean when you read it--the narrator has a uniquely expanded English vocabulary).

― Douglas, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am working my way through every Lisa Jewell book :-) chick-lit roolz! I tried to stop and read a bloody Philip Pullman book, but it's rubbish fangtasy crud, so back to middle-class girly romance I went.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And the difference between middle-class girly romance and fantasy is what again?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What about Derek Raymond (Robin Cook)?

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no stoopid daemons. and much more "Oo, i wonder if my best friend has fancied me since i was 14".

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just finished The Rotters Club by Jonathon Coe. I would recommend.

― Anna, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is there a 'but' coming?

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No. I've just been trying to write amusing things at work all day and my grasp of English has suffered in the process. It's great and everything despite the mad blanket advertising.

― Anna, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bruce Dickinson - The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace.

― jel --, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Slow Down Arthur Stick to Thirty' Harland Miller

― Brian, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no stoopid daemons.

I wouldn't be sure about that, they just take human form and talk exclusively about beer and sports, much to their female partners' distress.

and much more "Oo, i wonder if my best friend has fancied me since i was 14".

Frodo and Sam right there!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no the philip pullman daemons are not evil daemons (except when they belong to evil people)

i've taken to rereading terry pratchett books because i'm sick of ones that make me think. and terry pratchett ones are mildly amusing.

― Maria, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh I didn't much like The Rotters Club at all. I found the latter part of the book quite irritating, to be honest. His previous one (The House Of Sleep) was much better.

― electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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