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The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester lindapanzo, if you're looking for food-related fiction, I can highly recommend A Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester, which also happens to be the story of a murder. ... for the invitation...
I could recommend a number of the books in your pile, but if I were to nudge only one, it would be The Debt to Pleasure, which is a gluttonous prose delight! ...
Taste of a Man
The Devil's Cup
The Book of Illusions
Not very bad, but certainly won't be picked up again:
The Debt to Pleasure
Stardust
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Pleasant surprise (lesser known author):
Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
My new discovery: ... ... Garcia Marquez - written in the way only this master storyteller can achieve, this was pure pleasure to read.
27. The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel by John Lanchester - random musings on food experiences with a dash of the enigmatic and a handful of recipes; not that pleasurable to read ... Two from Amazon, Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa and The Debt to Pleasure by Johan Lanchester. One from Book Depository, The Great Game: The struggle for empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk. Easy reads for the weekend... just finished Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Started The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester a while ago. Lanchester is great! I own it but I've only read his other novels The Debt to Pleasure and Mr. Phillips. Oh no! I forgot one I can't live without.
Remove The Debt to Pleasure, and add The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon instead. ... ist:
The Iliad
Euripides' Medea
L’Ecume des jours
Of Human Bondage
The Secret History
Leaves of Grass
The Debt to Pleasure
The Great Gatsby
The Interpreter of Maladies
Pride and Prejudice
(This might be a rerun; sorry.)
I agree on The Debt to Pleasure!
Also, Three men in a Boat is hilarious. Negrophobia was a fun read. And I second Debt to Pleasure. The food angle actually put me off checking that book out for a long time. I am glad I got around to it because its a clever book that will appeal to a lot of readers, food aside. Hm, am I the only one finding these horticulturist psychos everywhere? How about Tarquin Winot in The Debt to Pleasure? I might be mistaken, but I have a vague recollection of some gardening being done. NativeRoses:
Thanks for posting message 85 in this thread, which seconds my suggestion of The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester (in message 68).
I once passed this novel to a friend, but was disappointed when she just didn't 'get it.' She thought Lancester is a 'pontificating poop' ( ... ... book has not gained its deserved accolades, if only because it is very funny and insightful about our human condition.
The Debt to Pleasure written by John Lanchester, is also the type of book that I would like to write if only because it is so lyrical and keenly descriptive. Another ... Another for the list is:
The debt to Pleasure by John Lancaster -- crazy, wicked, dark, and wildly humorous #11 They interviewed authors, editors, and publishers. Debt to Pleasure was assigned for a college class, and I'm grateful it was. ... Phineas Poe trilogy to this list. So good. SO SO GOOD. And nobody ever has any idea what I'm babbling about. Tragic.
The Debt to Pleasure was hysterical, and very clever. ... (*) the two I read.
Dominion
The Last Samurai
Suzy Zeus Gets Organized
Kalimantaan
Sepharad
Texaco
The Debt To Pleasure *
By The Lake
Dark Back Of Time
Meteor In The Madhouse
Out Of Sheer Rage
Born Twice
Winner Of The National Book Award
Achilles
Oh ... ... I certainly won't be inviting:
Tigger from Winnie the Pooh.
Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes.
Tarquin Winot from The Debt to Pleasure.
The Happy Isles Of Oceania - Paul Theroux
The Debt To Pleasure - John Lanchester
Give Sorrow Words - Maryse Holder
Bitter Lemons - Lawrence Durrell
Touch The Happy Isles - Quentin Crewe ... jectives.
6 * voyage to the end of the room by Tibor Fischer - typical of Fischer, funny and witty.
7 * The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester - wonderful, great use of English language, verging on prose.
8 * Confessions of a Homing Pigeon by Nicholas Meye ... ... down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov.
This is not a conventional cookbook.
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had ... ... and the pub. ;)
Last week, I bought these:
Love for Lydia by H.E. Bates
The Names by Don DeLillo
The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchaster
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew by Mary Wesley
Up and Down in the Dales by Garvase Phinn
Sober as a Judge by H ... ... have the recipe?
Third, does anyone other than me enjoy fiction with recipes? My favourites are My Year of Meat and The Debt to Pleasure.
Fourth, I'm also interested in alternate history and in science fiction, so if anyone has any ideas about how the history of food and cooking might ...
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