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Any preferences - fiction or not? Genre?

If you've never read it then Lanark: A Life In Four Books by Alisdair Gray is an amazing book, probably not light reading though. If I'm wanting something fairly easy to read then I usually pick up a detective/thriller novel of some description - a John Grisham or Ian Rankin are almost invariably good value for that sort of thing. Christopher Brookmyre is also good and has a biting sense of humour - even better if you're Scottish and get the references.
 
Not sure what type of thing you're looking for mate. I've been reading a bit of Raymond Chandler recently. Classic detective fiction, very entertaining light reading.:)
The Long Good-Bye is brilliant
 
davestar_delux said:
Don't have a preference as such but I do like to learn and gain information so if it is fiction then I'm not over-keen on complete fantasy I would say.
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If you don't like fantasy then Lanark is a no go unfortunately which is a shame as it's brilliant but no matter.

If This Is A Man by Primo Levi - a true account of a survivor of Auschwitz, infinitely more impressive and ultimately more uplifting than any book on the subject matter has any right to be.

Or at the other end of the scale something like Round Ireland With A Fridge by Tony Hawk, a true tale of a man mad enough to hitchhike round Ireland with a fridge. You might not learn anything of value in the end but it's a good yarn and it's easy to read.
 
Almost finished that myself (read most of it last year but moved on to something else before i finished... because i'm stupid). Great book.

Uplifting? Only one that springs to mind (that i've heard good things about) is Yes Man by Danny Wallace. Although if you're willing to try some fantasy then Pratchett and Douglas Adams are definitely worth looking into, if you haven't already.
 
I've been recommending a book called The Long Voyage by Jorge Semprun. I finished it around a month ago and can't recommend it highly enough.
It's about a man who is being transported across Europe to a concetration camp in a cattle train, and it flashes back and forth through his life as he recollects on his experiences of the Holocaust.

Very powerful, and i would say easy to read. Really, Really well written as well:) (btw it is not depressing at all, as you might expect from a holocaust book either, it's actually quite uplifting, i would say)
 
Superewza said:
Almost finished that myself (read most of it last year but moved on to something else before i finished... because i'm stupid). Great book.
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Oh yeah it is great, I may start a thread just to discuss it and the ideas within it. But yeah it can be a bit of a slog to get through, did take me a couple of months to finish it.
 
Have you tried Neil Gaiman, not exactly a light read but American Gods is a brill book. It's set in modern times with a light fantasy and dark comedy background about an ex con who gets a job workin for a Grifter.

Loved it
 
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