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Lawrence Osborne

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The United Kingdom

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Fiction, Travel

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Lawrence Osborne is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels, including The Forgiven (now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain), and Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel, a New York Times Notable Book and nominated for an Edgar Award, as well as six books of nonfiction, including Bangkok Days. He has led a nomadic life, living in Paris, New York, Mexico, and Istanbul, and he currently resides in Bangkok.

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Average rating: 3.54 · 18,595 ratings · 2,739 reviews · 37 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Forgiven 3.74 avg rating — 3,080 ratings — published 2012 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beautiful Animals 3.45 avg rating — 3,223 ratings — published 2017 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Only to Sleep 3.59 avg rating — 1,935 ratings — published 2018 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Glass Kingdom 3.21 avg rating — 2,151 ratings — published 2020 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Java Road 3.66 avg rating — 1,839 ratings — published 2022 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunters in the Dark 3.75 avg rating — 1,602 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ballad of a Small Player 3.51 avg rating — 1,559 ratings — published 2014 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bangkok Days 3.40 avg rating — 1,134 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wet and the Dry: A Drinker’s Journey 3.42 avg rating — 716 ratings — published 2013 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World 3.61 avg rating — 487 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There is nothing more exasperating than reading in contemporary guidebooks disparagements of places that are deemed to be "seedy." Do the writers not notice that such places are invariably crowded with people? When a neighborhood is described as "seedy" by some Lonely Planet prude, I immediately head there.”
― Lawrence Osborne, The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall

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“For a long time I had wanted to take leave of Planet Tourism, to find one of those places that occasionally turn up in the middle pages of newspapers in far-flung cities, in which--we are told--a mad loner has been discovered who has lost all contact with the modern world. It seems inevitable that this desire will one day be listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association as Robinson Crusoe Syndrome.”
― Lawrence Osborne

tags: travel

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“It’s always too late to change.”
― Lawrence Osborne, The Ballad of a Small Player

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Pastorale americana di Philip Roth

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Vuoto assoluto di Stanisław Lem

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La donna che scriveva racconti di Lucia Berlin

3 votes, 8.3%

La vita in tempo di pace di Francesco Pecoraro

2 votes, 5.6%

Bangkok di Lawrence Osborne

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Luce d'agosto di William Faulkner

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Mentre le donne dormono di Javier Marías

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Imperium di Robert Harris

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I territori del lupo di Javier Marías

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Terminus Radioso di Antoine Volodine

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Il potere del cane di Don Winslow

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End zone di Don DeLillo

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Il viaggio verticale di Enrique Vila-Matas

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Il posto di Annie Ernaux

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Assalonne, Assalonne! di William Faulkner

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Abbacinante: L'ala sinistra di Mircea Cărtărescu

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Timbuctù di Paul Auster

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La notte dell'oracolo di Paul Auster

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