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Recommendations please for a book for the missus for Xmas?

We both enjoyed the Millenium trilogy.

What have you read this year that was good.

Fiction please and non of that pretentious ManBooker rubbish!!


 
Posted : 30/11/2010 10:50 am
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+1 on this, for my missus on this subject too
Though some decent sci-fi for me would be nice too


 
Posted : 30/11/2010 10:55 am
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One Day by David Nicholls.

My wife bought this for me then read it herself first and loved it. She thought it it might not be for me but I'm half way through and it's one of the best books I've read in a long time. Nothing like the Millennium trilogy which I also enjoyed but a very good read that I think appeals as much to men as women.


 
Posted : 30/11/2010 11:00 am
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I have read all the Lee Child Reacher books over the last year or two and enjoyed all of them


 
Posted : 30/11/2010 11:01 am
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[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/23/week-in-december-faulks ]Best book I've read recently[/url]


 
Posted : 30/11/2010 11:01 am
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Now Jack Reacher is real hero!

Doesn't have to be anyting like the Millenium books.

We have also enjoyed books like Shadow of the Wind & A thousand splendid suns.


 
Posted : 30/11/2010 11:36 am
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Now Jack Reacher is real hero!

Doesn't have to be anyting like the Millenium books.

We have also enjoyed books like Shadow of the Wind & A thousand splendid suns.

Loved Birdsong so why not.


 
Posted : 30/11/2010 11:54 am
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how about jonathan franzen, he has a new one


 
Posted : 30/11/2010 11:59 am
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It's in the Fantasy/Sci Fi section but I enjoyed Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy


 
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Jack Reacher books are quite good but very very very very silly indeed and the author is clearly a repressed raging homo.


 
Posted : 30/11/2010 12:15 pm
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Not sure if it's out in paperback yet but Kraken by China Miéville is a damn fine read.


 
Posted : 30/11/2010 12:25 pm
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Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy

A good shout as is the Jack Reacher stuff.


 
Posted : 30/11/2010 12:37 pm