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Greedyfly | 22:04 Mon 07th Jul 2008 | Books & Authors
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Hi there, I confess I am not much of a book reader but do enjoy a good book when I find one. I am looking for suggestions, I am generally not a fiction person although I have read The King Dark Tower series and I loved most of it. I do like auto/biographys I read the Anthony Keidis biograpghy and enjoyed it. My all time so far fave book is Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts - which was suggested to me by a random customer quite out of the blue and he raved so much about it I had to give it a go and I love it. I read A piece of cake - Cupcake Brown which is about prostitution and child abuse, I did enjoy it as much a possible. I also read Marching Powder suggested by Amazon on the basis of me liking Shantaram and again I enjoyed it. The last two books are drug smuggling/prison/crime/auto-biographys and tbh I do seem to like them but I am up for trying anything good. Also read a couple of Sarah Waters books.
Sorry for rambling on. Look forward to your suggestions.

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Mr Rosetta has just finished Shantaram and hasn't stopped raving about it.
Have you read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini yet? Though not autobiographical, it is worth a read.
I have just finished C J Sansom's Revelation. Its the fourth in a series of historical who- dunnits. Excellent, gripping to the last page.
I'll look out for Marching Powder. Thanks for that.

Hope you enjoy them.

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I bought marching powder on ebay for only a couple of pounds - its well worth a read. But as I said before Shantaram is excellent - Mr Rosetta has good taste. Thanks for the suggestions I will check them out.
If you want a book you can't put down till you have read it, read this one, it is so powerful and Real, Hope you enjoy, Ray

Addict, by stephen smith.

http://www.ciao.co.uk/Reviews/Addict_Stephen_S mith__32315
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is superb, written through the perspective of a murdered child - compelling , (american)

Stewart A Life Backwards -Alexander Masters - true story of a homeless man the author befriended and his "backwards "story of how he ended up on the streets - one of my fave books of all time, heartbreaking one moment and sidesplittingly funny the next

i really loved the sorcerers apprentice -
Amazon.co.uk Review here, please follow the link, im sure you will love it. im gonna look out for shantaram....

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sorcerers-Apprentice-T ahir-Shah/dp/0753807289
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Was in Borders last week they have Shantaram in there buy one get one half price deal.

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