Philip Pullman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Philip Pullman

Colm Toibin's novels about Henry James and Thomas Mann: exquisite storytelling. Loved them both.

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@stsilasyear3_4 Gosh. My favourite of my own: 'Clockwork'. First ever book I enjoyed: I sometimes say Rudyard Kipling's 'Just-So Stories', but really I suspect it was 'Noddy goes to Toyland'. Advice to young writers: read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read! Read!

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@lproulx7 @CNN We only have to read in Robert Burton's 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' about the young Dutch woman, possessed by an evil spirit, who 'vomited some twenty-four pounds of fulsome stuff daily for two weeks' to ask 'Is this really the word I need?'

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@Ebonyteach Do you know the book 'An African in Greenland', by Tété-Michel Kpomassie?

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RIP Christopher Alexander, author of 'A Pattern Language', a great and transformative book.

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Apart from everything else, Hilary Mantel wrote one of the greatest ghost stories in the language with 'Beyond Black'.

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@PontWorld This could be an illustration from A.N. Wilson's 'Confessions', which I'm enjoying at the moment.

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Hilary McKay's 'The Swallows' Flight' is a triumph. The beautiful clarity of her storytelling is masterful and she deserves every prize going. I admire it very much.

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@DrGargiBanerjee "The tale is not beautiful if nothing is added to it" - Tuscan proverb quoted by Italo Calvino in his collection of Italian folktales.

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@ae_stallings I love this metaphoric field. A very good exploration of it is Carlo Rovelli's 'Helgoland', which among other things pictures the universe as one of relations, not isolated units.