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`Beccalicious Jun 17, 2009, 11:42:28 AM
Hello

This is just an informal post, nothing deep and literature meaningful!

I am going on holiday soon for a lazy week in portugal and want 2-5 books to take with me. I was wondering what people would recomend, or would like to share as good or bad holiday reads.

I have never been a fan of chick lit, which most of my friends seem to take with them simply because they always seem predictable. Therefore personally I am looking for titles which are not too much for the mind, but still a good read.

So bring on the recomendations!

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~The-2nd-Philosopher Jun 18, 2009, 8:54:16 AM
Anything by Terry Pratchett, in particular Guards, Guards and Nation

Anno Dracula, if you can get one as it is out of print, which is a shame because Alternate Fictional History is an interesting concept that Kim Newman utilises very well

If you like Sci-Fi I recomend the Night's Dawn Trilogy, or anything else by Peter F Hamilton

Catch 22 is good fun too

Harry Potter, but you have probably read that already
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`Memnalar Jun 18, 2009, 1:40:33 PM
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson is adventurous, swashbuckling light reading. It's a "prequel" of sorts for Peter Pan. Great stuff.
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~ellierany Jun 19, 2009, 2:58:32 PM
Diana Wynne Jones!(!)!

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^SparrowSong Jun 19, 2009, 5:11:31 PM
To Kill a Mockingbird is easy to read, gripping, and with the added bonus of being literary. The only reason I put it down was because it was four in the morning and I was almost asleep.
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^SparrowSong Jun 20, 2009, 1:18:13 PM
Ooh, also, anything by Bill Bryson.
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`imperfect Jun 21, 2009, 7:40:55 PM
Please read The Princess Bride from front to back. Miss nothing out.

The title is off putting. It's a wonderful book.

(Perhaps you have read it already, if so, buy the 30th anniversary edition and read it again!)

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`Beccalicious Jun 22, 2009, 8:45:28 AM
I have read a fair bit of Terry Pratchett but good recomendation :)

What is this Harry Potter you mention? I don't think I have heard of it? :p

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`Beccalicious Jun 22, 2009, 8:46:20 AM
Ooh one of my friends has told me of this book. Then again she recomended another book to me which wasn't great. This is a good suggestion though. Anything with a little bit of swashbuckling! :pirate:

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`Beccalicious Jun 22, 2009, 8:47:59 AM
A book I read last year that I have kind of set a bar with that no book I have read since has really been as good. It had a healthy balance of obtainable fiction to a wide audience, with still being very literary.

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