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| albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4379 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes  Speaks: Italian*, English, German | Message 1 of 7 15 November 2013 at 6:05pm | IP Logged |
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Can anyone advise me some short contemporary novels written in English ? The ideal would be 100 ,150
pages long , even better if for these novels were available audiobooks read with british accent , but that s a minor issue . 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| norbertb Diglot Newbie Poland Joined 4121 days ago 2 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 2 of 7 15 November 2013 at 8:16pm | IP Logged |
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Carlton Mellick's novels are quite short. I recommend "The Baby Jesus Butt Plug" - fun, surreal and very offensive.
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5025 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 3 of 7 16 November 2013 at 4:52pm | IP Logged |
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I have one trick I use within the USA, but I am not certain how well it would work in another country. I am willing to guess that it would work, though, because both Amazon and Audible have other versions of their sites.
In any case, try looking through Amazon's kindle best seller list. There are many cheap (or free!) and short books that are also paired with very cheap audio versions through Audible. For example, you could get a free book and only pay $1.99 for the audiobook. The rule is that you have to buy the ebook first. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| genini1 Senior Member United States Joined 5459 days ago 114 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 4 of 7 16 November 2013 at 10:35pm | IP Logged |
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Do you have anything else to narrow it down? Even just a genre can make it easier to pick out a recommendation. Personally I like to recommend Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay for people wanting a novel in English. It's longer than you said, but the writing used is fairly simple and is sort of separated into blocks of dialogue and scene just by how the author writes.
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| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4225 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 5 of 7 17 November 2013 at 3:41am | IP Logged |
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Phew, Darkly Dreaming Dexter is too-USA and has a whole lot of influence from Spanish. it was a struggle and absolute disappointment for me to read it after watching series.
Recently I've read The Compound, but it's longer (~250 pages) and still too-USA... Here's the link, I think, you can trust that at least books from the first page are relatively short. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| leroc Senior Member United States Joined 4302 days ago 114 posts - 167 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 6 of 7 17 November 2013 at 5:59am | IP Logged |
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The Importance of Being Earnest, The Old Man and the Sea, and Slaughterhouse-Five are all literary masterpieces. Edited by leroc on 17 November 2013 at 6:01am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| albysky Triglot Senior Member Italy lang-8.com/1108796Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4379 days ago 287 posts - 393 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German | Message 7 of 7 17 November 2013 at 1:51pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks all for the suggestions .
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