Recommendations Please...

I have fifty quids worth of Waterstones tokens in my grubby little hands and I want to spend it at lunch time. Any recommendations?

Right, I'm off. I think it'll be Geisha and Disgrace anyway. I may only use about £20, delayed gratification etc etc..

Thanks guys!!

I want to go to Borders and lose myself for an hour too!
But I've already spent about hundred quid in the last two weeks on books alone. It's an addiction though. Have to exercise some restraint. Keep telling myself that...

know exactly what ye mean Jonny. a good cure for this addiction is poverty...

Let us know how you get on with 'memoirs' I thought it was a really beautifully written book...

Eli, I've done a long stint of poverty, and now I'm over-compensating!
I'm really enjoying Memoirs (Thankyou!), and it is wonderfully written. One thing that perhaps you can clear up. Is this fiction or non-fiction. Is it a real memoir? I thought at first it was, but then there's a translator's note at the beginning. Is that a preface written by the author as if it were all a factual account, or to give it that guise?

ahhh... that's the best bit... took me a while to figure out as welll... do you really wanna know??

Well, I don't know.
I'm guessing... no. Don't say anything. Let me read on and we'll discuss it again when I've finished.

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Originally posted by Elimare:
know exactly what ye mean Jonny. a good cure for this addiction is poverty...

or the library

Well, I'm back with Memoirs and Disgrace in my hands. I was very restrained and only bought one other Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan about a guy returning to Scotland and discovering the past of his fathers. Booker shortlisted last year and I read some good review of it, so I'll let you know.
Doncha just love the smell of a new book

Disgrace by Coetzee

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Whats a Waterstones token????

Hannibal (follow up to Silence of The Lambs)

Oh Deeb, too many!
The usual suspects that I bang on about.
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Anything at all by Jeff Noon
Yeah, just finished Disgrace, excellent. Started Memoirs of a Geisha on, I think, Eli's recommendation. Also very good. Just finished Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra too. Very disturbing and moving. Any short story selection by Tobias Wolff. All of Louis de Bernieres too. That's yer 50 quid spent, no problems.

Waterstone's is a book store.

What kind of stuff do you like to read?