In message <[log in to unmask]>, Alan Hyslop
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>Don't you just hate reading the 'Books I Enjoyed Most' pieces in the
>weekend papers at this time of year? All these people that we'd like to
>be like, apparently. Naming books you've never heard of. Or want to hear
>of.
>
>I finally tore my paper into little pieces when Jeffrey Archer spoke
>warmly of a 16 volume Art History set for UKP 1500. Give me strength.
>
>Any day now we could be asked obliquely about prezzies. So I'd like to
>hear what fellow G-Pukers enjoyed reading this year. Any offers?
I liked everything I read by Iain Banks (er - except "Excession") - but
especially "Whit", which is a beautifully dry study of a religious cult.
I'm still waiting for the new Patrick O'Brian, "The Yellow Admiral",
which is bound to be my faourite book next year.
If you're a cynic (and if you're a GP you could have cynical tendencies)
try Michael Dibdin's "Dirty Tricks" told in the first person by an
amoral, snobbish and thoroughly unpleasant character who marries (and
possibly murders) his way to wealth among the Oxford intelligentsia.
My favourite book of all, though, is Hector Berlioz's "Memoirs", which I
have read and reread several times, and which never fails to entrance
me.
And if you can't get a copy of Sackett's latest, you could always try
the original "Clinical Epidemiology: a basic science for clinical
medicine", which must remain one of the most stimulating of all books on
clinical medicine.
Toby
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