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The Algebraist or Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks (sci-fi). First one for more fun, the second for more head-melt (but not too much head-melt - none of yer time travel or multiverses or any of that shite)

Happiness by Niall Williams. A fucking delightful part coming-of-age part-older-person-romance thing, with trad music, set in Co. Clare

The Happy Return by C.S. Forester (or any of the books in that series). Rip-roaring adventures on the high seas, I listened to a bunch of these on audiobook and they were fucking class

Also if you've never read Catch-22 it's probably my favourite book ever. That and Slaughterhouse 5

Oh and The Once and Future King is a great big doorstopper of a thing, a good bet if you're stuck with nothing to do. It's the King Arthur story. The first section of it is essentially a (very good) kids book, and the last section of it is a bit shit, but the rest of it is amazing

 

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The Algebraist or Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks (sci-fi). First one for more fun, the second for more head-melt (but not too much head-melt - none of yer time travel or multiverses or any of that shite)

Happiness by Niall Williams. A fucking delightful part coming-of-age part-older-person-romance thing, with trad music, set in Co. Clare

The Happy Return by C.S. Forester (or any of the books in that series). Rip-roaring adventures on the high seas, I listened to a bunch of these on audiobook and they were fucking class

Also if you've never read Catch-22 it's probably my favourite book ever. That and Slaughterhouse 5

Oh and The Once and Future King is a great big doorstopper of a thing, a good bet if you're stuck with nothing to do. It's the King Arthur story. The first section of it is essentially a (very good) kids book, and the last section of it is a bit shit, but the rest of it is amazing

Excellent recommendations . I've read a few of these ..well The banks and Vonnegut and catch 22

 

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Thin Air by Richard Morgan is a good sci-fi one. Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds is fairly hefty and good (bit like the Rama books by Clarke though). Rejoice - A Knife To The Heart by Steven Erikson is good craic, utopian near-future sci-fi that Banks would have liked.

 

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I'm about halfway through this

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*A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*'Unflinching and heartwarming' - Adam Kay__________'Do you sometimes feel like the music you're hearing is explaining your life to you?'When Pete's parents moved from Cyprus to Birmingham in the 1960s in the hope of a better life, they had no money and only a...

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(Pete Paphides' memoir)

I have to admit to knowing almost nothing about him before reading it, but the book itself is a hoot. He'd be of our vintage so a lot of his recollections from his childhood will strike a chord.

 

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Sounds like the ideal Kusadasi book