Hey all.
I'm still silly busy, so was wondering if I could delegate a task from my Mum to you lot?
I've had the following three text messages:
- Hi [pigfender]! Can you recommend a good book for a bloke please? Love Ma x
- Novel I mean
- It's for Chris who live in USA. I thought I would go Amazon USA. I always send something small. I've no idea what he likes. I just know you like books, so you were the best person for advice x
Obviously the best book ever written is Flowers for Algernon, but what are some other 'bankable' suggestions?
Hugs,
Яog
Help needed
Hey Яog, one of my work colleagues has very much enjoyed "The Martian" by Andy Weir. Sort of MacGyver meets Robinson Crusoe (if MacGyver and Robinson Crusoe were on Mars). He said it was a ripping yarn and rattles along (I haven't read it yet, it's on my 2017 list).
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Dave Eggers’ 2013 novel 'The Circle'.
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One of the best fantasy novels in years.
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Concur with both The Martian (which I just finished re-reading) and The Name of the Wind.
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People still read?
Jaysen
I have a wife and 2 kids that I can only attribute to a wiggle, a giggle, and the realization that she was out of my league so I might as well be happy with her as a friend. 26 years marriage later, I can't imagine life without her. -Me 10/7/09
I have a wife and 2 kids that I can only attribute to a wiggle, a giggle, and the realization that she was out of my league so I might as well be happy with her as a friend. 26 years marriage later, I can't imagine life without her. -Me 10/7/09
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garpu wrote:Hrm. What's he like to read?
If he's a dipperiner, he could love https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/557 ... Melancholy and spend the rest of his life happily dipping into Burton's clever, humorous masterpiece.
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yosimiti wrote:Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
F' some reason 'r other, I Kan't get my head around that lot
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reason has never been one of your strengths....
Jaysen
I have a wife and 2 kids that I can only attribute to a wiggle, a giggle, and the realization that she was out of my league so I might as well be happy with her as a friend. 26 years marriage later, I can't imagine life without her. -Me 10/7/09
I have a wife and 2 kids that I can only attribute to a wiggle, a giggle, and the realization that she was out of my league so I might as well be happy with her as a friend. 26 years marriage later, I can't imagine life without her. -Me 10/7/09
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Jaysen wrote:reason has never been one of your strengths....
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