bluebrotha77
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Ya your right mate.cheers for the heads up.
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The GOT Book Club
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bluebrotha77
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Hahaha ssssshhhhhhh ladna i have read most of the italian mafia ones so been trying to get one on the russian mafia with awhile but they seem scarce.i.will keep looking.cheers anyway mate
Professor Toffee
On and on, over the hill and the craic is good
Have read the Eden Trilogy by Chris Beckett recently
Don't often read sci fi but the this is an excellent examination of frontiers, language, religion and hatred.
Strongly recommend
Don't often read sci fi but the this is an excellent examination of frontiers, language, religion and hatred.
Strongly recommend
For history nerds:
Really enjoyed A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G.J. Meyer.
Extremely accessible history of WWI with a good look at the mentality that led to it and the evolution of the understanding of the modern world. Each chapter ends with a little pseudo-chapter going in depth about an interesting subplot tangentially related to the chapter before it (covering the history of Cossacks after a chapter about America rolling towards war, drawing a parallel between the Cossack homelands and the American West, for example).
Currently reading Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild. More reading this on the back of the brilliance of Hochschild's history of the Belgian Congo (King Leopold's Ghost) than any particular interest in the Spanish Civil War, but hey - totally unexplored history for me too, so it's got that going for it.
Really enjoyed A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G.J. Meyer.
Extremely accessible history of WWI with a good look at the mentality that led to it and the evolution of the understanding of the modern world. Each chapter ends with a little pseudo-chapter going in depth about an interesting subplot tangentially related to the chapter before it (covering the history of Cossacks after a chapter about America rolling towards war, drawing a parallel between the Cossack homelands and the American West, for example).
Currently reading Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild. More reading this on the back of the brilliance of Hochschild's history of the Belgian Congo (King Leopold's Ghost) than any particular interest in the Spanish Civil War, but hey - totally unexplored history for me too, so it's got that going for it.
They aren't the usual apocalypse books.
More a study and thoughts of the people writing the journals - " what would I do in this situation ".
Actually quite thought provoking .
Black Belt Jones
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About half-way through The Circle by Dave Eggers - sort of dystopic vision of what happens if Google / facebook et al keep up all their good work. There's a movie coming out in a couple of months with a few big names in it, so it will prob get some renewed attention.
Defo recommended - his ideas / vision of social media hell on earth is exquisitely done and it's an easy read. Mixed feelings overall, though, as he's quite an average writer IMHO. Just feel that there's an absolute masterpiece waiting to be written about the information age, and it's never going to be written by Dave Eggers. Trouble is, all the heavyweights are too old to have grown up with the internet - they can write beautifully about anything but they'll never get properly inside it.
Defo recommended - his ideas / vision of social media hell on earth is exquisitely done and it's an easy read. Mixed feelings overall, though, as he's quite an average writer IMHO. Just feel that there's an absolute masterpiece waiting to be written about the information age, and it's never going to be written by Dave Eggers. Trouble is, all the heavyweights are too old to have grown up with the internet - they can write beautifully about anything but they'll never get properly inside it.
Billy Dean
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Re WWI - about to read Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark. Will report back
gonetomorrow
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It was a very good thriller. Things move so quickly in that world that it'll be out of date in 5 mins.
gonetomorrow
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I've been reading all the Bernie Gunther books by Philip Kerr. All about a wisecracking Bogart type private Eye in Nazi Germany. Not a recipe for laughs you would think but it's so well written and so interesting vis-a-vis the history of that era that you can't put it down. Some of them are better than others. The best are set in darkest Berlin.
jaycee
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Loved it mate,give the film a go but I know it will disappoint
Let us know what it's like ?.
The only half decent hoolie book I've ever read, was Kevin Sampson " Away Days ".
The rest were pitiful
jaycee
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Will do mate I only got it after reading a sample on kindle