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The GOT Book Club

Philw said:
How detailed/descriptive are the books? Sound interesting but don't fancy anything too dark, especially as I normally read before going to sleep! :eek:
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The first book that kicks them all off, details the investigation into a serial child killer.

So there`s no detail of the torture etc, just the investigation after the bodies are found.

I get the feeling, that he has some very close contacts in Police Scotland, as he seems to be very up to the minute with the politics, cuts and problems that face the Police.
 
COYBL25 said:
The first book that kicks them all off, details the investigation into a serial child killer.

So there`s no detail of the torture etc, just the investigation after the bodies are found.

I get the feeling, that he has some very close contacts in Police Scotland, as he seems to be very up to the minute with the politics, cuts and problems that face the Police.
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Cool. Is on my (getting rather long thanks to this thread and Amazon sales) reading list :)
 
Simon Buttle said:
Although born in Liverpool, i actually grew up in Aberdeen due to parents and the whole oil buisiness thing, basically it's cold, very grim and there is not much to do up there, Aberdeen FC's stadium is right down on the seafront so it's bloody freezing when you go watch a match even at a decent time of the year, if you are stupid enough to go in the middle of winter you need a ski suit on lol
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Probably the most unwelcoming stadium in Scotland!
Dons folk are OK though. My dad was one!
 
COYBL25 said:
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Book one of eleven.

I’ve posted on this author before and I’ve been hammering his books recently.

Best described as “ Scottish Noir “.

This is the first book of eleven, crime dramas that centre around D/S Logan Macrae in Aberdeen.

As good if not better than Rebus, which is some doing.

Dark, brutal, exceptionality well written, with a massive vein of ultra black humour running through all of them.

I’ve been reading them back to back in sequence, they really are that good.

( not for the squeamish though )
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Read some of his books. Very good.
 
COYBL25 said:
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Book one of eleven.

I’ve posted on this author before and I’ve been hammering his books recently.

Best described as “ Scottish Noir “.

This is the first book of eleven, crime dramas that centre around D/S Logan Macrae in Aberdeen.

As good if not better than Rebus, which is some doing.

Dark, brutal, exceptionality well written, with a massive vein of ultra black humour running through all of them.

I’ve been reading them back to back in sequence, they really are that good.

( not for the squeamish though )
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Got on to him via this thread a few months ago

Deffo needs a tv series...with some good casting
 

Lads.
I collect Dr Who hardbacks from the 1970's, usually printed by Allen/Wingate, Longbow, WH Allen. (Words to that effect)
If anybody can get their hands on any, then I'm interested!
Not annuals, these are story novels of the TV episodes.
 
Has anyone read the Witcher books by Andrez Sapkowski? Just finished playing the game and loved the story, so wondered if the books were worth a go?
Used to read all sorts of fantasy stuff good bad and indifferent. Nowadays just pick up the highly rated stuff, though, so wouldn't be that interested in something generic just to pass the time.
 

Don't often get a chance to read fiction, but am reading Alone in Berlin at the moment. Fantastic book. Highly recommended.

Most of my in-laws were opponents of communism but, of course, had to live under it, and they coped with that in very different ways (father-in-law kinda didn't cope with it at all). So it really hit home the sense of powerlessness yet desire to dissent in some way, all whilst knowing full well that being caught showing even mild dissent can have severe consequences.
 
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Reading a bit of a masterpiece at the moment - Independent people by Haldor Laxness.

Story of a man desperately carving out existence as a sheep farmer in the Icelandic mountains in the 1940s, written by a Nobel-prize winner, it sounds like a recipe for an absolute aching ballsack of a book. But it's the opposite, really funny and emotional. The Icelandic farmers are like a true-life version of Monty Python's four yorkshiremen - severely hard life.
 
Sapiens, a brief history of mankind. It's a fantastic read. A real eye opener that explains so much of our behaviour and will resonate with the life you lead and the best choices you make.
Makes me want to roll back the millenia and be hunter forager.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Don't often get a chance to read fiction, but am reading Alone in Berlin at the moment. Fantastic book. Highly recommended.

Most of my in-laws were opponents of communism but, of course, had to live under it, and they coped with that in very different ways (father-in-law kinda didn't cope with it at all). So it really hit home the sense of powerlessness yet desire to dissent in some way, all whilst knowing full well that being caught showing even mild dissent can have severe consequences.
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It's a harrowing read. The author based much of it on his own experience too.
 

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