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Originally Posted by ct1
I am reading a fantastic book at the moment called BUDDHADA by Anne Donovan. I found it on Lamma Island for only $10. I think one person has read it.
It is about a working class guy (a dad hence the Da) from Glasgow who discovers Buddhism. It's about the affects his discovery has on his family and friends. It is written in Glaswegian accented English if that makes any sense e.g. "Whit is it wi these southsiders, every place has got tae stert wi a C". You get used to it really quickly.
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ct1 --> Like Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" and "Huck Finn", huh? I like how authors do that -- change their voices. Adds a dimension to the story-telling. Any authors you know who had done that?
athena --> "By the River Piedra ..." is the first Coelho book I read. It didn't hit me as much as his other novels eventually did, though.
Anyone here who can recommend a good novel from Australia? I read a book by an award-winning Aussie author once, and it was marvelous! In one sentence, he was describing how the mechanic's shop smelled like, and I literally smelled it. Not how I THINK it smelled like, but how it really IS...
:-Dona