Towering Book Slush

[dotinthesky]

I'm going to Brasil on a five-week holiday next week.

Please recommend some holiday reading, and tell me why you think I'll enjoy it.

Comments

[foucaultonacid.livejournal.com]

santa evita, the peron novel or the tange singer by tomas eloy martinez - some of the finest contemporary writing around with a harsh and sometimes hilarious eye for the ebautiful deadly fantasms that huant los porte~nos

[desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com]

Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy! Aaahhh, so funny! Nearly completely hysterical Irish dialogue. But I'll bring it for you. I'll have to remind myself, though.

[beeorkendurkey.livejournal.com]

myra breckinridge by gore vidal. just because it's perhaps the best and funniest novel i've ever read. or did i already suggest this? eh, i stand by my choice.

[rag-and-bone.livejournal.com]

Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson. If you have not read this book, you must. Nothing I say can get near the beauty of it.

[amberholic.livejournal.com]

The Historian is pretty good and a great read for when you're travelling. I liked it because of the subject matter (Dracula), the parallel storylines, the vivid and accurate descriptions of the various locations they travel through and that it was very tastefully creepy in a lot of parts.

[vrax.livejournal.com]

desayuno_ingles said I should check you out, and she was right. I like your writing, and we share an interest inReiki (which I write about often). Thus, I am adding you, I hope you don't mind.

For the reading you should check out "The Reiki Sourcebook" by Frans and Bronwen Steine. It's the best book I've seen on the subject.

[wwidsith.livejournal.com]

Your posts make me almost miss London, so I'm going to go for the obvious and say Peter Ackroyd's London: A Biography, which is fucking amazing and you've probably already read it. In fiction I'll say Will Self, maybe How the Dead Live? And for biography may I recommend a book called Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia, a biography of Julian Maclaren-Ross who lived a ridiculous and hardly plausible life of debauchery in Soho in the 40s.

I'm trying to think of any Brazilian writers, but all I can think of is Coelho [spits]..

Do you like Henning Mankell's mysteries?

[hyong-jin.livejournal.com]

Good for summer vacation.
"One Step Behind" is my fave.
anyway I just added you as my friend.
Dance & Drink & Screw - good motto.

[gorecky22.livejournal.com]

Did you finally read "Les Miserables"?? It's a long, long book perfect for holidays... I read it on my holidays when I was 20th and it remains as one of my favourite books ever: it has a great plot, fucking deep character's psychologies and it's great to lear about history (French Revolution, Waterloo Battle...).