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July 2008 Book of the Month Embers by Sándor Márai Amazon.com Review In Sándor Márai's Embers, two old men, once the best of friends, meet after a 41-year break in their relationship. They dine together, taking the same places at the table that they had assumed on the last meal they...

It's not been added in since the forum was revamped as it's not something that is default on the templated - old or updated.

Discussion starts on 1st June, 2008.

I think the next six months are coming to a close, so I'll be making the posts shortly.

£14.99, in proper money.

I saw them in person today. Lovely. It's just a shame the contents are still poor.

Someone on the BBC has read it and reviewed it as they went. Doesn't sound so good. The link contains spoilers.

The Sorrow Of War, Bảo Ninh Jamilia, Chingiz Aïtmatov The Ministry Of Pain, Dubravka Ugresic Inés Of My Soul, Isabel Allende Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders, Vítězslav Nezval

I can give you another dystopia, now that I've read it: Metropole, by Ferenc Karinthy.

Dear, oh dear. I'd never heard that song before. Now I wish I never had. Perhaps it was getting played over and over again as a Hillary Clinton promo party.

You've been given names: now use Google and/or Wikipedia.

You might want Steven Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

Oh, and today I bought Omega Minor by Paul Verhaeghen, this year's winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It's a biggy. So might have to leave it to later. Much later.

It means 'To The Top', SFG75. No idea why the thread would be bumped without actual contribution. And I can't delete the bump because it's now been effectively bumped by the three of us.

I've come back after a couple of days away and now have the following books: The Belly Of The Atlantic, Fatou Dimoe This Earth Of Mankind, Pramoedya Ananta Toer Child Of All Nations, Pramoedya Ananta Toer Footsteps, Pramoedya Ananta Toer House Of Glass, Pramoedya Ananta Toer Metropole...

Funny you should mention lollipops. I had one today; my first in years. You can have the stick.

That is a problem with picking pieces for discussion that are there pretty much to entertain without doing anything else - they don't tend to have anything worth discussing or anything open to interpretation that gets seen in different ways by each reader, thereby pushing the discussion.

I also posted that comment years ago. ;)

Phew! If you are just starting out reading then I suppose The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger is one place to stop, The Outsider (sometimes called The Stranger) by Albert Camus is another. If you liked LOTR, you may like Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, which consists of The Golden...