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Find us a book to "read"

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 Mark Torrance 11 Jul 2014
Dear UKC literati,

Context: Son is deeply into Game of Thrones, and has a strong fantasy / adventure reading preference. Daughter has just read and loved Prodigal Summer (Barabara Kingsolver - slightly mushy but well written upper-middlebrow Appalachian enviro-romance). I liked it too. Wife reads anything and everything.

At the intersection of these is our ideal very-long-car-journey audio book. Suggestions? (Don't worry about the audio bit, necessarily).

 ThunderCat 11 Jul 2014
In reply to Mark Torrance:

I'm on the third book of Maurice Druon's Accursed Kings series.

It's quite readable. Think game of thrones, but with a loss less characters to keep track of and based around the 14th century French royal houses, hundred years war, templars, what not.

 Mick Ward 11 Jul 2014
In reply to Mark Torrance:

'Shane' by Jack Schaefer. Underrated and reviled. Unutterably brilliant. If Shakespeare had written a Western, this would have been it.

Mick
 The Pylon King 11 Jul 2014
In reply to Mark Torrance:

One Three One: A Time-Shifting Gnostic Hooligan Road Novel

Julian Cope
 Oo 11 Jul 2014
In reply to Mark Torrance:

Papillon - real story of an amazing adventure, and at 13 hours it'll do almost any UK journey. It maintains its quality throughout its length.

http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/Papillon-Audiobook/B0089MTQBA?mkwid=...
OP Mark Torrance 13 Jul 2014
Thanks.

Accursed Kings: Possible.
Shane: Good plan.
One Three One: Alas no audio, but a dead-tree possible
Papillon: Insufficiently escapist

More?
 nastyned 13 Jul 2014
In reply to Mark Torrance:



> Papillon: Insufficiently escapist

I'm sure he does in the end!

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