Books you've read recently and would unreservedly recommend
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Mr. Tea
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Ooh, just remembered reading Audrey Niffenegger's The Time-Traveller's Wife six months ago or so. Really, really enjoyed it - interesting to see a story that 'by rights' ought to fall in the general category of magic realism (otherwise ordinary dude spontaneously and uncontrollably flits into his own past and future for minutes/hours/days at a time... :slanted
handled as science fiction, with a nice sub-plot about an initially sceptical doctor who tracks down the problem to a genetic mutation, clones the gene, creates time-travelling mice etc. in an attempt to find a cure. It's told partly in his voice and partly in that of the eponymous wife, whom he first meets when she's a small child and he's in his late 20s, even though their 'real' age difference is only a few years...the ending could have been horrendously mawkish if handled unskilfully, but I found it very moving. I seem to recall its being the author's first full-length novel, too, which makes it all the more impressive. Good stuff.
Oh, and Neal Stephenson's 'Baroque' cycle is well worth a go, if you like your prose HEAVILY descriptive, your sub-plots convoluted and have a spare geological aeon to get through the damn thing.
handled as science fiction, with a nice sub-plot about an initially sceptical doctor who tracks down the problem to a genetic mutation, clones the gene, creates time-travelling mice etc. in an attempt to find a cure. It's told partly in his voice and partly in that of the eponymous wife, whom he first meets when she's a small child and he's in his late 20s, even though their 'real' age difference is only a few years...the ending could have been horrendously mawkish if handled unskilfully, but I found it very moving. I seem to recall its being the author's first full-length novel, too, which makes it all the more impressive. Good stuff.Oh, and Neal Stephenson's 'Baroque' cycle is well worth a go, if you like your prose HEAVILY descriptive, your sub-plots convoluted and have a spare geological aeon to get through the damn thing.