Recommend-a-book.

[Pappa]

Death and the Penguin - by Andrey Kurkov


This was recommended to me and it's a very unusual style of writing. Not experimental literature or anything like that, but different to anything I'd ever read. It's the odd tale of a journalist with a pet penguin who gets employed writing obituaries. It's funny, touching, gripping. I loved it, I've read most of his other books now too. "Penguin Lost", "The Case of the General's Thumb" and "A Matter of Death and Life". All excellent books.

[Clinton Huxley]

The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome by Robin Lane Fox. About 2/3 of the way through and it really is very good indeed.

[The Curious Squid]

Death and the Penguin - by Andrey Kurkov


This was recommended to me and it's a very unusual style of writing. Not experimental literature or anything like that, but different to anything I'd ever read. It's the odd tale of a journalist with a pet penguin who gets employed writing obituaries. It's funny, touching, gripping. I loved it, I've read most of his other books now too. "Penguin Lost", "The Case of the General's Thumb" and "A Matter of Death and Life". All excellent books.

You are actually the only other person I know who's even heard of these.

I met Kurkov in Glasgow when he was doing his publicity tour for A Matter of Life and Death, I bought a copy of Death and the Penguin printed in Russian from him which he signed. Shame my Russian isn't good enough to actually read it.

Mischa is great, I want a pet penguin with a heart defect and depression.

I'd have to recommend



It's a story about an autistic child whos dog is murdered and it follows him through his adventure to find the murderer. It's a really enjoyable and unique little story.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

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'nuff said.

[Geoff]

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'nuff said.

You grok the fullness.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You grok the fullness.

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[devogue]

[Geoff]

You grok the fullness.

On the gripping hand. . .

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I got really excited when I first came across that title, but then discovered it's just



with a different title. I wish publishers wouldn't do that!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Didn't it come out as The Gripping Hand first?

[The Curious Squid]

This makes a lot of things make sense.

[devogue]

This makes a lot of things make sense.

...unlike the syntax of that sentence.

[Animavore]

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I'd have to recommend



It's a story about an autistic child whos dog is murdered and it follows him through his adventure to find the murderer. It's a really enjoyable and unique little story.

I bought that last week along with Being and Nothingness. I think I might put B&N on the back burner for a bit because I'm to busy to get into it and start reading that instead.

[Geoff]

Didn't it come out as The Gripping Hand first?

Probably; I think that was the US title, but I first found it as "Moat". I don't mind which title, I just wish they'd pick one and stick to it; Some Robert Forward books, amongst others, do the same thing.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Didn't it come out as The Gripping Hand first?

Probably; I think that was the US title, but I first found it as "Moat". I don't mind which title, I just wish they'd pick one and stick to it; Some Robert Forward books, amongst others, do the same thing.

The "moat" wasn't a moat around Murcheson's Eye anyway, it was a blocking action against a "channel" that ships from the Mote would have to pass through, a "blockade". Murcheson's Eye was the red giant.

[Pappa]

Mischa is great, I want a pet penguin with a heart defect and depression.

Me too. I could do without the gangsters though.