Guy Lodge Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Film critic: Variety, The Observer, The Guardian, more. Co-pilot of https://t.co/efqsyLufkM. Beneath this glassy surface, a world of gliding monsters.

14 books

Forever...

Judy Blume

Guy Lodge

It's standard docmaking, but I was moved by the suitably devoted JUDY BLUME FOREVER, especially when its focus shifts to the readers whose lives Blume just about saved. (Here's hoping the ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET film keeps the revival going.) https://t.co/2kAb2BKVvo

Paperback, 2024

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August Blue

Deborah Levy

Guy Lodge

Love Deborah Levy, love @heavier_things, obviously I love this https://t.co/mcXlurruNn

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Matilda

Roald Dahl

Guy Lodge

Families, meanwhile, have an ideal option in ROALD DAHL'S MATILDA THE MUSICAL, which didn't ring all my bells — I'm fussy with Dahl adaptations — but is bright, big-spirited fun with an uproarious Emma Thompson: https://t.co/PKKjkmZdU5

Paperback, 2007

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White Noise

Don Delillo

Guy Lodge

Disappointed, on balance, by Baumbach's WHITE NOISE, which I enjoyed in fits, starts and multiple zazzy setpieces — but which never finds a way to translate the satirical bite of Don DeLillo's Reagan-era novel in 2022, and sort of just floats there, often prettily, out of time.

Paperback, 1986

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Wild

Sam Usher

Guy Lodge

Sundance regulars might recall Nicolette Krebitz's alluring, deeply messed-up woman-wolf love story WILD from 2016. She's kept the strangeness and softened other elements in her latest, AEIOU, and I was rather charmed by it. Young Milan Herms is terrific. https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/aeiou-a-quick-alphabet-of-love-review-1235180206/

Hardcover, 2021

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The Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

Damon Galgut

Guy Lodge

Can’t remember the last time I’d read the Booker winner ahead of the prize, but Damon Galgut has been a quietly wonderful writer for some time now, The Promise is rich and muscular, and I’m both delighted for him and annoyed for my own South African family saga novel-in-progress.

Paperback, 2022

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Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay

Jordan Peele

Guy Lodge

33. NOPE (Jordan Peele) GET OUT proved Peele had canny wit and pop smarts, but I'm wowed by how his visual/sonic ambitions and intuitions have vaulted forward with each of his subsequent features. My @filmoftheweek_ co-pilot @catherinebray got it right: https://t.co/fkBX3nxUI1

Paperback, 2019

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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Norton Critical Edition

Robert Louis Stevenson

Guy Lodge

One night in Edinburgh to see @hopedickle’s new hybrid film/theatre take on THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE at the gorgeous @LeithTheatre. It’s also in cinemas as a live production this weekend and will be out as a feature film later this year. New forms! Intrigued! https://t.co/pdZvKPLHQT

Paperback, 2020

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The Return of the King (Media Tie-In): The Lord of the Rings: Part Three

J. R. R. Tolkien

Guy Lodge

Today is the birthday of both the LA Times’ wonderful film critic and the author of The Lord of the Rings, so I’m tweeting this absolutely hideous pun as a Tolkien of my appreciation for @JustinCChang.

Paperback, Mass Market, 2022

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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and MR Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

Guy Lodge

Paperback, 2022

$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book