The GOT Book Club

[Kurt.]

Just finished 'The Innocent Man' ... a non fictional John Grisham book telling the true story of Ron Williamson who was wrongly convicted of murder after a major miscarriage of justice and spent 12 years on death row.I thought it was a great read...a real eye opener to how corrupt small town American can really be.

 

[COYBL25]

Just finished 'The Innocent Man' ... a non fictional John Grisham book telling the true story of Ron Williamson who was wrongly convicted of murder after a major miscarriage of justice and spent 12 years on death row.I thought it was a great read...a real eye opener to how corrupt small town American can really be.

Thanks, put it on my reading list.

Have watched - Making a Murderer on Netflix ?

 

[Kurt.]

Thanks, put it on my reading list.

Have watched - Making a Murderer on Netflix ?

No... I've not got Netflix

 

[COYBL25]

No... I've not got Netflix

If you can download it from somewhere else it or get a cheap second hand one off ebay, I can`t recommend it enough.

It`s possibly one of the worst miscarriages of justice of all time / or not.

Gripping and exceptionally well put together.

Season 2 due out this year.

 

[Philw]

Bump.

 

[bluebrotha77]

finished this a few weeks ago.it is the first book in a series of 5 i think.it is about robert the bruce and william wallace.it took me awhile to get into it because of how he wrote scottish words and sentences and i thought na not for me but by the time i got to the end of the book i found i actually quite enjoyed it and will get the second book at some stage.

 

[bluebrotha77]

finished this at lunchtime today.it was the second time reading it as it was a few years ago that i read it but watching narcos again i dug it out.enjoyable and easy read.you would have swore that no more cocaine would come out of colombia when he died.some waste of life and money to catch one man who there is no shortage to replace him but hey thats ok america just another country you pissed on.maybe look inwards rather than outwards.

 

[Philw]

Started Bartley Gormon King of the Gypsies last night... almost finished it. Great book if you're into that type of thing.

What is it about?

 

[witchdoc187]

Having drank copious amounts of alcohol on a regular basis for over 25 years I started reading this 15 days ago. Im 60% through the book and am not remotely interested in drinking again already. In fact, anybody that drinks alcohol is an absolute idiot.

 

[Kurt.]

What is it about?

Bare knuckle fighting in the travelling communities. It's still a very noble art amongst travellers and a way of settling family disputes without knives and guns .

 

[Kurt.]

Having drank copious amounts of alcohol on a regular basis for over 25 years I started reading this 15 days ago. Im 60% through the book and am not remotely interested in drinking again already. In fact, anybody that drinks alcohol is an absolute idiot.

I'll drink to that.

@peteblue

 

[peteblue]

I'll drink to that.

@peteblue

I’ll just finish this pint before I reply.....

 

[Tubey]

I've finally got round to reading Game of Thrones...

So, I've got to ask... why is it actually, legit dreadful? Has everyone took massive blows to the head before reading this or something?

I haven't watched the TV series but it looks alright from the snippets I couldn't avoid, so I'm not being contrarian here as I was genuinely interested to see what the buzz was about, but bloody hell is this book terrible.

 

[bluebrotha77]

I've finally got round to reading Game of Thrones...

So, I've got to ask... why is it actually, legit dreadful? Has everyone took massive blows to the head before reading this or something?

I haven't watched the TV series but it looks alright from the snippets I couldn't avoid, so I'm not being contrarian here as I was genuinely interested to see what the buzz was about, but bloody hell is this book terrible.

i really enjoyed the books but i had seen the show before i read them so maybe that is why i enjoyed the books,i could put a face to the name.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

I've finally got round to reading Game of Thrones...

So, I've got to ask... why is it actually, legit dreadful? Has everyone took massive blows to the head before reading this or something?

I haven't watched the TV series but it looks alright from the snippets I couldn't avoid, so I'm not being contrarian here as I was genuinely interested to see what the buzz was about, but bloody hell is this book terrible.

Do you like / read the genre in general? You can't enjoy fantasy books and credibly say the first three books are dreadful - he's too good a writer for that and the quality is not in question. Unfortunately the story got too big for him to handle, and combined with a very long lay off meant the series went to hell in books 4 (partly) and 5 (totally).

If you're not a particular fan of fantasy in general then that's a different story. The gigantic success of SoIF, though, is that it has very broad appeal by keeping trad fantasy tropes very much in the background - the books are character-driven more than anything.