34, with some of those Id have to be immortal, some notable omissions and some gash inclusionsHow many ya got?
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The GOT Book Club
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And Terry Pratchet.
gonetomorrow
Player Valuation: £70m
Just finished Munich, a novel by Robert Harris, which is a gripping account of the meetings between Hitler, Chamberlain and others about the Czech Sudetenland problem in 1938 . It's about trying to get a last-minute deal and stave off disaster - not unlike matters pertaining to our own political predicament today.
There's a sub-plot of course which is effective and the whole atmosphere of prewar Europe is well imagined. Harris was a BBC and newspaper journalist and knows how to put across a plausible story. Some of his works are not so good - the Roman novels for example border on absurdity in my opinion - but Munich is well up there with Enigma and Fatherland.
There's a sub-plot of course which is effective and the whole atmosphere of prewar Europe is well imagined. Harris was a BBC and newspaper journalist and knows how to put across a plausible story. Some of his works are not so good - the Roman novels for example border on absurdity in my opinion - but Munich is well up there with Enigma and Fatherland.
st.domingo
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I’m actually reading about the same period in Hitler’s War by David Irving right now - figured I would find out for myself what the controversy was about - so maybe I should pick this one up afterwards for a compare/contrast. Enjoyed the hatchet job Harris did on the Blairs.
gonetomorrow
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He certainly did! It was one of the more telling blows TB received over Iraq.
I just finished it too. Great read
Another American Noir:
The Fighter by Michael Farris Smith
Stunning read, couldn’t put it down,
The tale of a washed up prize fighter in the Misissippi Delta,trying to escape his debts and demons.
Smith is a seriously good author and writes in a very similar style to J.D. Salinger with a touch of Cormac McCarthy.
Highly recommended, as are his other books.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
A slim and rather rambling biography of Charles Hawtrey, with lots of anecdotes, but with no footnotes. He seems to have been the classic example of the thwarted actor who fell into misery in later life.
So, to the nitty gritty of his personal life :
He was refused any further involvement in the Carry On films from 1972, after he demanded top billing on a Carry On Christmas special on ITV in 1972.
Always liking a drink, he descended into alcoholism. Breakfast started with five double gins and vermouth, with dinner consisting of two and a half bottles of port with whisky.
Never liking fans, in later years, with his hatred of the Carry On films intense, he used to tell autograph seekers to F Off.
He became very secretive, and what visitors he had noted his talking to his mother in a separate room, she being dead for a number of years.
He had a penchant for 'burly black men', sailors, and members of the Royal Marines School of Music.
Towards the end of his life there was a fire in home. He escaped, then, after hearing the fire engine, went up, naked, to the top floor, so he could be rescued by a fireman.
That's enough of the prurience. I always found him quite funny in the Carry On films, but he was woefully underpaid. In 1957, his first film, he was paid £5000, and his last, in 1972, he was being paid exactly the same. After his dismissal from the franchise you could understand his bitterness.
Reading it felt a little like a voyeuristic, but nevertheless, I read it in one go. Not worth buying, if it's still in print, but if you see it second hand (I got it for 20p, hardback 1st edition) it's worth a go.
All in all, he was a bit like Kenneth Williams, but without the acerbic wit and the buttoned up personal life.
A slim and rather rambling biography of Charles Hawtrey, with lots of anecdotes, but with no footnotes. He seems to have been the classic example of the thwarted actor who fell into misery in later life.
So, to the nitty gritty of his personal life :
He was refused any further involvement in the Carry On films from 1972, after he demanded top billing on a Carry On Christmas special on ITV in 1972.
Always liking a drink, he descended into alcoholism. Breakfast started with five double gins and vermouth, with dinner consisting of two and a half bottles of port with whisky.
Never liking fans, in later years, with his hatred of the Carry On films intense, he used to tell autograph seekers to F Off.
He became very secretive, and what visitors he had noted his talking to his mother in a separate room, she being dead for a number of years.
He had a penchant for 'burly black men', sailors, and members of the Royal Marines School of Music.
Towards the end of his life there was a fire in home. He escaped, then, after hearing the fire engine, went up, naked, to the top floor, so he could be rescued by a fireman.
That's enough of the prurience. I always found him quite funny in the Carry On films, but he was woefully underpaid. In 1957, his first film, he was paid £5000, and his last, in 1972, he was being paid exactly the same. After his dismissal from the franchise you could understand his bitterness.
Reading it felt a little like a voyeuristic, but nevertheless, I read it in one go. Not worth buying, if it's still in print, but if you see it second hand (I got it for 20p, hardback 1st edition) it's worth a go.
All in all, he was a bit like Kenneth Williams, but without the acerbic wit and the buttoned up personal life.
@Charles Hawtrey your thoughts sir ?
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
He's definitely dead. lol Although, in later life, when he very rarely answered letters, he used a pseudonym, his mother's, with her maiden name.
Charles Hawtrey
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Most of this stuff is reflected in Wikipedia or can be found with a quick Google. He was by all accounts not a very nice person,. My role model.....
Mysterious Skin.
The story of a young American lad, who suffers from " blackouts ", which he attributes to possibly being abducted by aliens.
However as he grows and retraces his steps into childhood a sinister secret starts to emerge.
It doesn`t sound much cop, but this is a very good back, sensitively written, about some very difficult topics.
The story of a young American lad, who suffers from " blackouts ", which he attributes to possibly being abducted by aliens.
However as he grows and retraces his steps into childhood a sinister secret starts to emerge.
It doesn`t sound much cop, but this is a very good back, sensitively written, about some very difficult topics.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Looks interesting.
