Recommend me a novel please

+1 for Louis de Bernieres..

I love this guy to pieces

Just finished kavalier and clay. One of the most enjoyable books I have read.

a very disappointing finish

Ha, it finished just I as hoped it would (don’t want to give anything away…!). 😉

I suppose that being quite long, I invariably compared parts 1& 2 with the chunky WInd-Up Bird Chronicle, which had me entranced the whole way through. And then some.

I’m about halfway thru the complete western stories of Elmore Leonard – punchy stuff.

-1 for Louis de Berniere.

Just read Gabriel Garcia Marques intead of the cut price rip off that LdB

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IdleJon – are you me? Exactly the same experience, I had to drag myself to the end of book three. And still nothing really happened. I guess it’s too deep and meaningful for me.

I did wonder if I’d missed the deep and meaningful stuff as well, but I don’t think I did. I like his writing though. He’s one of the authors who could write a restaurant menu and it would make fascinating reading.

I’d also +1 Cormac McCarthy. The Crossing was one of the best , most resonant books I’ve ever read.

Louis de Bernieres is a fantastic writer – I love him.

JG Farrell books seem very slow but are full of character.

+1 Iain Banks, and sadly, for reasons below, George R Martin.

Martin’s writing can be appalling – a horse that was trained special is one phrase that clunked in Game of Thrones. The good thing is that he is an excellent story teller if you can get past the occasional poor writing. I finished Book3 Pt1 yesterday and can’t wait to read Pt2, whatever it’s called!

(Trying to type in work so maybe not the best explanations!)

The Crossing was one of the best , most resonant books I’ve ever read.

Snap. The scene where Billy and the she-wolf make their stand… amazing writing.

And the ending – a passage of such quietly devastating power, I was in a daze for a very long time.

Historical novel?

Got given 1001 books to read before you die last year.

So far I have read two that I hadn’t before. The first was the picture of Dorian Gray. Plot good, Wildes writing annoying.

To kill a mocking bird far better.

I like Stephen King and James Herbert for day to day stuff.

For something proper creepy try Desparation (king) or The Dark or The Others (herbert). Something a bit less creepy but still supernaturally try Fluke or Once

BTW…..not looking for historical novels per say, just good fiction of any genre.

My NY resolution of only reading fiction in 2012 has been updated to only fiction recommendations from STW on this thread. Going to be depressing to get to December and see how little of these I will have manged to get through.

Loads of good ones, thanks.

Just read Gabriel Garcia Marques intead of the cut price rip off that LdB

LOL.. I don’t know how or why you would compare the two.. I know it’s fashionable to do so.. but really..!?