| Book recommendations 10:30 - May 14 with 3596 views | MattinLondon |
Hello
I’m off on my hols soon and I’m looking for some holiday book recommendations - fiction only.
I’m not fussed in terms of genre as I like to read different things. But I’m looking for a book that contains a lot of humour (preferably darker humour). Also must have some action in it or a plot (just read Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín which in my opinion was incredibly dull and nothing happened).
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| Book recommendations on 10:32 - May 14 with 3091 views | UB9Blue |
Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer is a fairly easy read and quite amusing. Its also a good listen on audio as he does the narrating himself |  | | |
| Book recommendations on 10:38 - May 14 with 3061 views | MattinLondon |
| Book recommendations on 10:32 - May 14 by UB9Blue |
Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer is a fairly easy read and quite amusing. Its also a good listen on audio as he does the narrating himself |
Doh, that’s the only book I’ve read this year. Thanks anyway.
He has a follow-up book out in August which I’ll be buying. | | | |
| Book recommendations on 10:43 - May 14 with 3045 views | belgablue |
Boy swallows universe is pretty dark with a dash of humour.
The Romantic by William Boyd
Satsuma Complex as someone else suggested, pretty easy read and funny in places. |  |
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| Book recommendations on 10:55 - May 14 with 3019 views | RobTheMonk |
The Book With No Name, by Anonymous.
It's like From Dusk Till Dawn on steroids but is pretty funny in places and full of action. Synopsis from Amazon below:
'Detective Miles Jensen is called to the lawless town of Santa Mondega to investigate a spate of murders. This would all be quite ordinary in those rough streets, except that Jensen is the Chief Detective of Supernatural Investigations. The breakneck plot centres around a mysterious blue stone - 'The Eye of the Moon' - and the men (and women) who all want to get their hands on it: a mass murderer with a drink problem, a hit man who thinks he's Elvis, and a pair of monks among them. Add in the local crime baron, an amnesiac woman who's just emerged from a five-year coma, a gypsy fortune teller and a hapless hotel porter, and the plot thickens fast. Most importantly, how do all these people come to be linked to the strange book with no name? This is the anonymous, ancient book that no one seems to have survived reading.' |  | | |
| Book recommendations on 10:57 - May 14 with 3013 views | WeWereZombies |
| Book recommendations on 10:43 - May 14 by belgablue |
Boy swallows universe is pretty dark with a dash of humour.
The Romantic by William Boyd
Satsuma Complex as someone else suggested, pretty easy read and funny in places. |
'The Romantic' seconded, and if you have never read any William Boyd then now is the time to start. You could do them all chronologically and start with 'A Good Man In Africa' but if you only read one then make it 'Any Human Heart' - story of my life that book. |  |
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| Book recommendations on 11:00 - May 14 with 3007 views | belgablue |
| Book recommendations on 10:57 - May 14 by WeWereZombies |
'The Romantic' seconded, and if you have never read any William Boyd then now is the time to start. You could do them all chronologically and start with 'A Good Man In Africa' but if you only read one then make it 'Any Human Heart' - story of my life that book. |
Any human heart has been on the list for a while but thanks for the reminder - finished a book last night so I'll give it a go today. | |
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| Book recommendations on 11:02 - May 14 with 2997 views | NthQldITFC |
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50957365
I read this one this time last year, but it's that outstanding sort of book that you really want to revisit, but oh so rarely get the chance to. [Post edited 14 May 2024 11:20]
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| Book recommendations on 11:05 - May 14 with 2991 views | artsbossbeard |
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann
It's NOT the book of the film and rather details the table of events and the task forces/individuals involved.
V Decent plane/beach read. |  |
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| Book recommendations on 11:07 - May 14 with 2963 views | BloomBlue |
Based purely on what I read during a holiday earlier this year
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Age Of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
All were excellent novels |  | | |
| Book recommendations on 12:55 - May 14 with 2829 views | DarkBrandon |
Venemous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman. A funny sci-fi book.
Man Eating Typewriter., by Richard Millard. Again funny, but somewhat more challenging. A book-within-a-book, and lots of polari slang |  | | |
| Book recommendations on 13:27 - May 14 with 2791 views | RIPbobby |
Gregory McDonald any of the Fletch books. 3 be films have been made of them. |  | | |
| Book recommendations on 15:11 - May 14 with 2646 views | Bluefields |
Glue - Irvine Welsh | | | |
| Book recommendations on 15:50 - May 14 with 2617 views | Godzilla |
The Church of Arthur Fowler is a half decent comic debut from David Wiley. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray. |  | | |
| Book recommendations on 16:07 - May 14 with 2593 views | jontysnut |
50 years old this year but just reread Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe. Classic dark comedy farce. It was all the rage in the 70s. |  | | |
| Book recommendations on 16:23 - May 14 with 2566 views | Buhrer |
| Book recommendations on 15:11 - May 14 by Bluefields |
Glue - Irvine Welsh |
Marabou Stork Nightmares |  | | |
| The Bible. (n/t) on 16:26 - May 14 with 2556 views | Bloots |
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| Book recommendations on 16:28 - May 14 with 2544 views | Buhrer |
| Book recommendations on 16:07 - May 14 by jontysnut |
50 years old this year but just reread Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe. Classic dark comedy farce. It was all the rage in the 70s. |
Have you read The Throwback? Very good. | | | |
| Book recommendations on 16:42 - May 14 with 2498 views | ADStephenson |
I can't let an opportunity like this go without recommending my own books. The first one is pretty much a parody book but (I would say) a reasonable and quick read.
The second and third are much more serious action/crime stories and far superior in quality (I learnt a lot writing the first, including what I actually want to write about).
A Cloud Can Weigh A Million Pounds
The Flames That Lick at the Shadows
The Deluge |  |
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| Book recommendations on 16:53 - May 14 with 2469 views | MJallday |
| Book recommendations on 15:11 - May 14 by Bluefields |
Glue - Irvine Welsh |
I read that. Couldn’t put it down. |  |
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| Book recommendations on 16:57 - May 14 with 2456 views | Hugoagogo_Reborn |
e by Matt Beaumont. Perfect 'by the pool' book. Written entirely as emails between colleagues and clients in a marketing company. LOL territory. |  | | |
| The Bible. (n/t) on 17:19 - May 14 with 2417 views | DanTheMan |
| The Bible. (n/t) on 16:26 - May 14 by Bloots |
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For humour, you really can't beat the bit where a man gets mocked for being bald by some children so in response God sends two bears to maul forty-two of them. |  |
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| Book recommendations on 17:25 - May 14 with 2393 views | MattinLondon |
| Book recommendations on 16:57 - May 14 by Hugoagogo_Reborn |
e by Matt Beaumont. Perfect 'by the pool' book. Written entirely as emails between colleagues and clients in a marketing company. LOL territory. |
I’ve read that and the follow up e2. Both absolute hilarious.
I’ve read a couple others by him and they are both funny as well. I haven’t seen anything by him on sale for sometime.
Thanks for all the other recommendations posters. | | | |
| Who’d win in a fight…. on 17:53 - May 14 with 2372 views | Bloots |
| The Bible. (n/t) on 17:19 - May 14 by DanTheMan |
For humour, you really can't beat the bit where a man gets mocked for being bald by some children so in response God sends two bears to maul forty-two of them. |
….two bears or 42 foxes?
No weapons allowed. | |
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