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Book Club Recommended Literature

#21 User is offline   mikeh 

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Posted 2007-December-07, 13:00

Not sure if it was within the time limits, but Dream of Scipio by Ian Pears is very good... his best, I think, was An Instance of the Fingerpost, but that was definitely last century :)

A recent book that I doubt many have heard of, but which is both well written and provocative (its underlying themes include the notion that consciousness is an impediment to intelligence) is Blindsight by Peter Watts.. being SF may limit its appeal, altho well-written SF has literary merit imo.

And the enormous work (The Baroque Cycle) by Neal Stephenson is nothing short of brilliant in my view, but at more than 2700 pages (originally published as 3 hardcover books, but clearly a single work). It's a book I look forward to re-reading eventually.... but it may be tooooo much for any book club for sloths..

And Alex may not want to identify with the main protagonist... who has had an unfortunate injury to a certain, very important, part of his anatomy quite early in the saga. He otherwise meets most of Alex's criteria!
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Posted 2007-December-07, 13:56

The Way the Crow Flies by Anne Marie MacDonald - my favourite book so far this season although not a selection of my book club.

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Posted 2007-December-07, 14:00

I've been reading a lot of sci-fi and post-Armageddon books lately.
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Posted 2007-December-08, 00:01

"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
"Digging To America" by Anne Tyler - actually any book by Anne Tyler
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