Aaaaah! I too recommend Shadow of the Wind by Zafon..........love that book!
And again The Book of Lost Things is pretty good too.
Another one I could recommend that I enjoyed (but not quite as much as the first two) is the Thirteenth Tale.
Good luck!
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xXowT4eJjY
Deadly Illumination by Serena Stier is a mystery about a manuscript I found it rather enjoyable
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
The Information - Martin Amis
i liked this one a lot, one of Amis's best, in my opinion.Originally Posted by sixsmith
Understainding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud was pretty awesome.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
I think so too. His funniest book by some length. Everyone bangs on about 'Money' but i could barely finish it.
A S Byatt's Possession, a book about literary research and research-scholarship.
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
Actually, sometimes reading certain areas of LitNet seems like reading Byatt's Possession. (just kidding, not really, actually that's not true, it is...)
Possession is a great recommendation actually: smart, stylish, and multi-layered, if I remember right.
Swift's 'The Battle of the Books' seems to be a perfect match.
Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman features a hilarious parody of philosophers and scholars.
Gissing's New Grub Street is about Victorian hack writers.
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
Molloy
I loved this book too. The twist ending was so unexpected.
I saw something at the bookstore the other day called Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde by Thomas Wright. Just came out a couple months ago.
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The Inkheart trilogy to me is like a love letter to any person that truly loves reading and
the plot revolves around a single book called Inkheart and the Inkworld.
I've just read a great historical novel - "Imprimatur" by Monaldi and Sorti. Set in modern day Italy, a manuscript is acquired by a cleric. It tells the story of a suspected outbreak of plague that confines a number of characters together in an inn. It is a mystery with lots of funny and interesting historical detail.
Better off with Robertson Davies' The Rebel Angel.
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