The GOT Book Club

[gheesom]

are most people here still physical book readers? or ebook readers? I'm virtually 100% kindle now.

 

[Baines' left foot]

If you like crime thrillers and following the same characters through a series, I'd recommend Quintin Jardine's Skinner books. He's done about 20 now and honestly, I can't put them down once I start.

Would place them above Rankin's Rebus series and I never thought I'd say that.

I'm also partial to a Jeffrey Archer. I know he's a horrible Tory [Poor language removed] and totally up his own jacksie but he spins a cracking yarn.

Anything by Irvine Welsh too, provided you can understand them.

I quite like crime thrillers myself. My mate got me on to Harlan Coben of which I've read 2 or 3 books. They're enjoyable like but I wouldn't call them particularly great. They're a bit far fetched.

 

[gheesom]

Still on the all-in-one lord of the rings trilogy. Its not only soul destroyingly long but wrist destroyingly demoralising. Can't do anything after I've been reading for 15 minutes.

I've read it a few times, my favourite thing to read. reading it on the kindle is so much easier than reading the big hardback one, I actually took that on a plane with me once, without the dust jacket, everyone thought I was a religious nut reading the bible.

 

[Sid James]

I loved Life of Pi, read Yann Martel's second book 'Beatrice & Vergil' and it was awful, really dissapointed.

One to miss then eh? Life of Pi film is supposed to be good, which reminds me the Cloud Atlas is out soon which is another book I enjoyed

 

[bluejock]

I quite like crime thrillers myself. My mate got me on to Harlan Coben of which I've read 2 or 3 books. They're enjoyable like but I wouldn't call them particularly great. They're a bit far fetched.

Give Jardine a bash pal. The first one was Skinner's Rules, start from there and work your way through.

He does another series too about a female private detective that follows on from an earlier series about the bird's ex hubby. I got the new one on iBooks the other day and read it in one go.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

I've read it a few times, my favourite thing to read. reading it on the kindle is so much easier than reading the big hardback one, I actually took that on a plane with me once, without the dust jacket, everyone thought I was a religious nut reading the bible.

I do love it, I just think attempting to read all three in succession without sandwiching anything else in the middle was a poor choice. There's some cool characters that get omited from the films.

 

[Sid James]

Stonemouth - Iain Banks for next I reckon

 

[Sid James]

Give Jardine a bash pal. The first one was Skinner's Rules, start from there and work your way through.

He does another series too about a female private detective that follows on from an earlier series about the bird's ex hubby. I got the new one on iBooks the other day and read it in one go.

If you like Crime thrillers mate I can recommend Child 44 (Tom Rob Smith), set in 50's Russia, I don't normally like crime thrillers but loved this

 

[bluejock]

Stonemouth - Iain Banks for next I reckon

Huge fan of Iain Banks. The Bridge is one of my favourite books ever.

If you like Crime thrillers mate I can recommend Child 44 (Tom Rob Smith), set in 50's Russia, I don't normally like crime thrillers but loved this

Will give it a bash and report back.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Give Jardine a bash pal. The first one was Skinner's Rules, start from there and work your way through.

He does another series too about a female private detective that follows on from an earlier series about the bird's ex hubby. I got the new one on iBooks the other day and read it in one go.

Have you read any Coben yourself? I've just had a look on Amazon and seen that the reviews between the two authors are similar, so it might be right up my street.

 

[bluejock]

Have you read any Coben yourself? I've just had a look on Amazon and seen that the reviews between the two authors are similar, so it might be right up my street.

I've not, I'm just away to do some searching on iBooks though. Needing some new reads.

 

[gheesom]

I do love it, I just think attempting to read all three in succession without sandwiching anything else in the middle was a poor choice. There's some cool characters that get omited from the films.

I prefer to read it in one go, especially the first couple of times. There are some brilliant characters completely over looked for the films, I often think I'd rather there were 6 films closer to the books than 3, sometimes so far away from the books.

 

[Julian Carax]

One to miss then eh? Life of Pi film is supposed to be good, which reminds me the Cloud Atlas is out soon which is another book I enjoyed

Deffo, I didn't get any enjoyment out of it. I thought about other books the whole time I was reading it and even read a book of short stories on the sly.

Is Cloud Atlas good? Seems like a bit of an epic and I'm always put off a bit by huge books. Until recently I thought it was written by the fella from Peep Show.

 

[bluejock]

Is it the Bolitar series or the stand alone novels you'd recommend bud?

 

[Baines' left foot]

I've not, I'm just away to do some searching on iBooks though. Needing some new reads.

Every time I pick up a good book I wonder "Why don't I read more?" It's much more enjoyable than TV.

I think I have a fear of buying a book, reading it, and then finding out it's a bit crap, that puts me off. Silly really.