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Any Human Heart by William Boyd. ... read a few of the spy novels recommended here: Restless was so good that I read another of William Boyd's books, Any Human Heart. Not a spy novel, but also recommended.
Found Hopkirk's Setting the East Ablaze, the competition between Britain and Russia for influence in central As ... Moved this tally to post #2.
Any Human Heart
The journal of Logan Montstuart from his school days between the wars until just before his death in 1991. The fictional Logan was a spy in WWII, an art dealer in NY in the fifties, an art critic, a novelist...... Entertaining and highly recommended.
An Instance of the Finge ... ... posting. Thank you to everyone who has starred this thread.
From the list I've read:An Instance of the Fingerpost, Any Human Heart and War Trash
War Trash, Ha Jin
A fictional account of life in a prisoner of war camp during the Korean war. The main character belongs to ... I started in Montevideo, Uruguay, with Any Human Heart, and now we're in England, Oxford to be exact. I believe we go to Paris soon! ... front
#3 Cold comfort farm
#4 To kill a mocking bird
#5 Straight man
#6 The Yiddish policemen's union
#7 Any human heart
#8 Age of innocence
#9 Dark places
#10 Suite Francaise
... in, time for a top five so far.
#1 walk two moons
#2 All quiet on the western front
#3 To kill a mocking bird
#4 Any human heart
#5 Dark places
So far I've put one book aside after starting it: Day by A.L. Kennedy I don't know if I'll pick it up again.
I'm averaging 10 ... ... To kill a mockingbird
12. Nothing new on the western front
13. the poisonwood bible
14. The stone diaries
15. Any human heart
16. The time traveler's wife
17. What I loved
18. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
19. The unbearable lightness of being
20 Death in venice
va ... ... To kill a mockingbird
12. Nothing new on the western front
13. the poisonwood bible
14. The stone diaries
15. Any human heart
16. The time traveler's wife
17. What I loved
18. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
19. The unbearable lightness of being
20 Death in venice
va ... 11. Any human heart by William Boyd
A brilliant, brilliant book. For the first hundred pages or so I didn't like it at all, I found it a struggle to read, I didn't like the character, found the story mundane and boring, but then slowly it won me over and captivated me totally. I feel like I ... ... a week so that should bring me to 52.
Books i have on my shortlist to read soon are: Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Any human heart by William Boyd, Embers by Sandor Marai.And finally I would like to read something by Dostoyevsky this year.
Some books I loved in 2007 in no ... A Left-Hand Turn Around the World
The Heart is an Involuntary Muscle
Any Human Heart
The Fourth Hand
Children of my Heart ... recommended to the max. If you're unfamiliar with Boyd (a crying shame!), then I especially recommend his wonderful novels Any Human Heart, Brazzaville Beach, or A Good Man in Africa, and you may thank me later, of course, but whatever you do, don't miss Restless, because it's nothing ...
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