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My favourite book is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. I love this book because it shows you what life is like with autism. It is also very interesting.

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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. Beautiful, short, poetic, but so blunt it's almost painful. Mishima definitely goes down as one of the greatest Japanese writers. Without spoiling it, it's about a mother who is a very successful businesswoman, her son, who is involved in a gang of 14 year olds with interesting ideologies which are mostly anti-establishment, and a sailor who is involved in a love affair with the mother, and is realising that he has not achieved anything great in his life, despite his feelings when he was younger that he was supposed to be someone. It's super short like 200 pages, but really stays with you. (Warning that it was written in the early 1900's, and although the language is fine to read, there's some inherently sexist comments that as a modern reader just makes you go hmm okay). 10/10 would absolutely recommend

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Tough choices - my favourite book is probably the Titans Curse my Rick Riordan mainky because of the characters and how the plot developed in that particular book, compared to the others in the series

The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien. Beautiful. It's basically an epic prequel to Lord of the Rings. Tolkien has devised an entire creation story of God and how he made powerful spirits who came onto Middle Earth and started planting trees and making the land beautiful in preparation for the coming of the Children of Ilúvatar, i.e. elves and men. The book spans hundreds if not thousands of years and reads like an epic mythology, detailing the lives and heroic deeds of some of the most interesting elves, men and spirits in Middle Earth's history, as well as the rise of Sauron, who was originally one of the nice spirits who came down onto Middle Earth.

It's just totally my kind of book: full of myth, legend, folklore, medieval-like kings and societies, adventure, heroism and extremely interesting, unique characters such as Fëanor, his seven sons, Beren, Lúthien, Melian, Thingol etc. Tolkien's genius is almost unbearable and it's mad to consider how he created an entire world, languages and an epic history so detailed that it really feels as if you're reading a historical account of another planet.

Wow that sounds fascinating, I don't think I have ever read a book from a Japanese writer before so would definitely be keen to give it a try.

That does sound really interesting, how would you sum up the story? (Without any spoilers please! May have to give it a read)

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. Beautiful, short, poetic, but so blunt it's almost painful. Mishima definitely goes down as one of the greatest Japanese writers. Without spoiling it, it's about a mother who is a very successful businesswoman, her son, who is involved in a gang of 14 year olds with interesting ideologies which are mostly anti-establishment, and a sailor who is involved in a love affair with the mother, and is realising that he has not achieved anything great in his life, despite his feelings when he was younger that he was supposed to be someone. It's super short like 200 pages, but really stays with you. (Warning that it was written in the early 1900's, and although the language is fine to read, there's some inherently sexist comments that as a modern reader just makes you go hmm okay). 10/10 would absolutely recommend