Recommended
Last night I was having dinner with my friend Ros and she suddenly asked me to name 5 books I’d recommend she should read. So without any real thought I blurted out the following - Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love In The Time Of Cholera, Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Michel Houellebecq’s Atomised, Toni Morrison’s Beloved and, er, I can’t actually remember what the fifth one was. Given that my memory is so bad, it was an interesting exercise in seeing which books actually surfaced in my brain quickly, chosen simply because they’re the books I remember really enjoying reading, rather than agonising over whether they’re “the best” or whatever. Anyone else want to volunteer a top 5 list of whatever comes into their head? The trick is not to think about it…
And yes, you can do smart arse comments about what a fascinating dinner companion I must be too…
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