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... by Hanuki Murakami
Singapore - The Third Brother by Nick McDonell
Thailand - The Third Brother by Nick McDonell and The Beach by Alex Garland
India - The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, Life of Pi by Yann Martel and God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Europe
Austria - The Third Ma ... is it from The Beach by Alex Garland? ... charity shop yesterday. they let me rumage in the store room but the pickings were limited this time around. i got...
The Beach by Alex Garland
Redemption Falls by Joseph O'Connor
Frames by John Banville
the seventh pan book of horror stories 16. The beach by Alex Garland
It keeps you on edge from the beginning. Very good. Quite shocking towards the end. ... novels in the 1980s, but not sure I would want to read more recent ones - or would I?), Jane Gardam, Alex Garland (The Beach), Alasdair Gray (found Lanark exceptionally good, but others uneven), Mark Haddon (impressed by The curious incident of the dog in the night-time), K ... ... fantasy but is really an SF trilogy. Its got deserted islands, beach barbiques etc,
For a more contempary feel there is the Beach big UK hit a couple of years ago,
or the Ship from the world war, similar to cruel sea listed above.
I'd recommend all of these as good reads even if ... Message 45, re: Alex Garland ... Loved The Tesseract ... he's a much better writer than the movie version of The Beach would make you think ... that book was very good, too ... I even liked The Coma. Oh...and On The Beach was a VERY powerful (albeit depressing) movie. I picked up the book by Nevil Shute a while back, but have yet to read it.
Fail-safe was a movie (the original, not the remake) in a similar vein. ... remember everything he's had to read, but it's been an interesting mix: Raisin in the Sun, Deathwatch, Speak, and On the Beach. Funny, but I don't recall his reading any "classics" except for Shakespeare. My older son is in college now, but I don't think he ever read any of the ... ... the most successful ever and I rate both book and film highly.
A case of mixed success is the bloody awful adaptation of The Beach. (Besides completely trashing the story by totally inverting aspects such as the main character who remains pointedly celibate in the novel laying half the girls ... ... isn't it. All of the books in the Alexandria quartet (which I just read) have epigraphs from de Sade.
I'm guessing On the Beach for the one about nukes, and something by Saramago (nobel prize, portuguese) for the one by Hegel.
Here's one of my favorite epigraphs, from a book ... ... adaptation of Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz.
For good books turned into dreadful movies, look no further than The Beach.
I'm still dying to find a copy of Requiem for a Dream after seeing that amazing movie...
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