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From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: OT Non SF Recommendations..
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:25:41 +1200
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On 5/09/24 10:35, William Hyde wrote:
> Titus G wrote:
>> On 4/09/24 10:31, William Hyde wrote:
>> snip
>>
>> My favourite reads in recent decades include your recommendation of
>> Robertson Davies' trilogies and Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.
>> Do you have two or three more to recommend? Thank you.
> 
> How I wish I did!
> 
> There must be many.
> 
snip
Thank you for that longer than expected reply which I have saved.
I think I will start with George Passant by C P Snow who has written a
biography of Anthony Trollope whose novels I enjoy.
Perhaps Powell is too literary for me and too long. I stubbornly read
Proust to the end 25 years ago without understanding much and have just
finished Mislaid by Nell Zink where I was frequently bamboozled by
apparent literary references as well as US slang or brand names.
I also recently finished My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante which is
the NY Times number one book of the 21st Century. My ignorance awarded
it three stars.
Second on the same NY Times list was The Warmth from Other Suns by
Isobel Wilkerson. Not literary but too factual and depressing being an
eight hundred page fictional account of the mass migration of black
Americans from South to North beginning during seggregation after
abolition. I managed less than two hundred pages. Two stars.
And other disappointments whose memories George might dispel.
Thank you.