The GOT Book Club

[gonetomorrow]

Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr. The latest in his Bernie Gunther thriller series.
It's the sort of stuff you can read on a train or in a waiting room - fairly light reading although it deals with skullduggery in the high echelons of prewar Nazi Germany.
It's a pleasure to see the bad guys get a kicking but the humour is wearing thin now and I'll probably not bother with his next one.

 

[Chozz]

Was on here a while back and requested any ideas for good thrillers / dragon tattoo style stuff. Can' remember who gave me the recommendations but fully enjoyed:
- Child 44
- The Passage

Cheers!

 

[COYBL25]

Was on here a while back and requested any ideas for good thrillers / dragon tattoo style stuff. Can' remember who gave me the recommendations but fully enjoyed:
- Child 44
- The Passage

Cheers!

Make sure you read the other two in the Passage Trilogy :

The Twelve and City of Mirrors.

The Twelve isn't as good as the other two, but you need to read it, to link them altogether.

City of Mirrors is every bit as good as the Passage.

 

[Chozz]

Make sure you read the other two in the Passage Trilogy :

The Twelve and City of Mirrors.

The Twelve isn't as good as the other two, but you need to read it, to link them altogether.

City of Mirrors is every bit as good as the Passage.

Reading the Twelve right now! Waiting for it to spark...

 

[summerisle]

Bought two books today : Alan Johnson's autobiography Please Mr Postman - one of the few politicians for which I have respect, and

If only because one of the chapter headings is : Sieg High.

Finally finished this. Truly amazing the amount of drugs injected into Hitler, and its effect on reinforcing his long held views. Also the vast amount of drugs (speed and cocaine derivatives) dished out to German armed forces. Also a disturbing report on the supposed whiter than white German navy and their involvement in medical experiments in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

 

[summerisle]

Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr. The latest in his Bernie Gunther thriller series.
It's the sort of stuff you can read on a train or in a waiting room - fairly light reading although it deals with skullduggery in the high echelons of prewar Nazi Germany.
It's a pleasure to see the bad guys get a kicking but the humour is wearing thin now and I'll probably not bother with his next one.

Found a few of his earlier books in a charity shop. Finally be able to read them now in sequence.

 

[degsy]

Was on here a while back and requested any ideas for good thrillers / dragon tattoo style stuff. Can' remember who gave me the recommendations but fully enjoyed:
- Child 44
- The Passage

Cheers!

Leif Persson's your man if you want more

 

[orly]

Make sure you read the other two in the Passage Trilogy :

The Twelve and City of Mirrors.

The Twelve isn't as good as the other two, but you need to read it, to link them altogether.

City of Mirrors is every bit as good as the Passage.

One for @Joey66 that book, mate

 

[COYBL25]

Reading the Twelve right now! Waiting for it to spark...

It`s the weaker of the three, so bear with it

 

[atrottel]

Just finished the first book of The Broken Earth trilogy - The Fifth Season - well worth a look if you aren't put off by the 'fantasy' label.

The first two books won the Hugo Award in consecutive years and have nothing to do with elves and orcs. Set on a landmass with an unstable geology with the remains of dead civilizations (Earth in the future?) destroyed by environmental catastrophes and where some have the ability to control the volatile crust and eruptions and are both valued and feared.

Probably more like 'science fantasy'...

 

[Boba Fret]

Finally finished this. Truly amazing the amount of drugs injected into Hitler, and its effect on reinforcing his long held views. Also the vast amount of drugs (speed and cocaine derivatives) dished out to German armed forces. Also a disturbing report on the supposed whiter than white German navy and their involvement in medical experiments in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

I actually reviewed the book Blitzed for Jonthan Ross' radio show about a year ago.

It is a powerful insight into how the world operated at the time. Yep Hitler was an absolute junkie and I for one am glad. Were he lucid more often history would ha e been very different.

 

[Lowste]

Just finished War of the Roses by Conn Igguldon
I have read his books on Julias Ceaser and Genghis Khan which were excellent and a great history lesson.
War of the Roses was not as good as the above two, but still a great read and history lesson

 

[COYBL25]

Just finished with my annual re read of Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece - Blood Meridian.

Despite the unrelenting brutality, depravity and it not having one single light moment in the book, it’ll always remain one of my all time favourite reads.

If you like em dark, they don’t come darker or better written than this.

Turns the romance of the Wild West on it’s head and more.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Ursula Le Guin has passed away at the age of 88:

https://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/...tselling--science-fiction-author-dies-179917/

Wrote some masterpieces in her time - Wizard of earthsea, the dispossessed, left hand of darkness and plenty more. Rare author who transcended the SF / fantasy genre - RIP Ursula.

 

[gonetomorrow]

Reading The Russia House by le Carré. It's not his best. Very slow over the first 150 pages.