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posted 31-07-2008 01:50
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Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
Gaynor Arnold - Girl in a Blue Dress
Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture
John Berger - From A to X
Michelle de Kretser - The Lost Dog
Amitav Ghosh - Sea of Poppies
Linda Grant - The Clothes on Their Backs
Mohammed Hanif - A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Philip Hensher - The Northern Clemency
Joseph O'Neill - Netherland
Salman Rushdie - The Enchantress of Florence
Tom Rob Smith - Child 44
Steve Toltz - A Fraction of the Whole
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Last Edit: 31-07-2008 01:51 By Toro Hussein Toro.
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posted 31-07-2008 09:56
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I met Philip Hensher once, he was really sweet. This brings the total of booker long/shortlisted people I know vaguely to 2. Not really a clang more of a subdued 'ting' perhaps.
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posted 31-07-2008 10:12
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Tom Rob Smith - Child 44
I heard about this yesterday for the first time. Am I to take your somewhat cryptic post as a recommendation?
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posted 31-07-2008 18:53
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Not really, unless you count being on the booker longlist (DYSWIDT?) as being recommendation in and of itself.
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posted 01-08-2008 10:34
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Toro De France wrote:
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(DYSWIDT?)
Nope.
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as being recommendation in and of itself.
Well, it's not the Toro stamp of approval but it'll do.
I've decided to go bookshopping today, should be fun.
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posted 01-08-2008 10:47
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long list, geddit?
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posted 01-08-2008 11:00
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Long list (6)
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posted 01-08-2008 11:37
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Lyra wrote:
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long list, geddit?
Sorry, I'm suffering a problem with tenses and read (DYSWIDT) as "did you see what I did there" as opposed to "do you see what I did there". Suffice to say, I got it a split second after I read the word "longlist".
Anyway, I went to Oxfam on my lunch but their books and records were both crap. I'll poke my beak into Waterstones on my way home, but reckon I'll be on the Amazon marketplace tonight.
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posted 01-08-2008 11:45
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Desire. Do you see? Desire.
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posted 01-08-2008 14:08
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Linda Grant would come in the bookshop where I worked and make her books more prominent.
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posted 01-08-2008 15:43
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Tom Rob Smith? He really wouldn't rather go by Tom Smith or Rob Smith? Tom Rob?
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posted 01-08-2008 18:43
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delicatemoth wrote:
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Linda Grant would come in the bookshop where I worked and make her books more prominent.
Ha ha ha.
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posted 02-08-2008 00:32
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Typo, surely?
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posted 11-08-2008 00:05
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Has anyone actually read any of the long list books? Any recommendations?
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