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The GOT Book Club

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good book.enjoyed it.having been to auschwitz a few years ago good to get an insight how the camp came into being and the stories and inner workings of the camp.hard to get the head around the amount of people they were killing.other camps were killing similar numbers but never received the notoriety that auschwitz got.
 
sdk said:
I finally got a copy of the Englished version of the sixth and final vol of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle.

If you've read the first five it's about what you'd guess.
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It's a great work but I found the last one the final straw.
The accounts of his childhood and the painful relationship with his horrible father are required reading. Cringingly honest in places.

Of course, we have to go along with Karl Ove's recollections of the daily minutiae of his life - even down to lengthy passages of dialogue.
That's why it's in the fiction lists I suppose. It can't all be deadly accurate!
 
gonetomorrow said:
It's a great work but I found the last one the final straw.
The accounts of his childhood and the painful relationship with his horrible father are required reading. Cringingly honest in places.

Of course, we have to go along with Karl Ove's recollections of the daily minutiae of his life - even down to lengthy passages of dialogue.
That's why it's in the fiction lists I suppose. It can't all be deadly accurate!
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I've liked it throughout but the first two vols definitely stand out for me as the most impressive.

One thing I'm digging about vol 6 thus far is the way his uncle's fury over the first vol's impending publication fills Knausgaard with self-doubt over how well he was actually remembering the occasion of his father's death, prompting one his characteristic long digressions on various topics. I'm staggered that the guy's held my interest in light of how little actually happens in the series.
 
sdk said:
I've liked it throughout but the first two vols definitely stand out for me as the most impressive.

One thing I'm digging about vol 6 thus far is the way his uncle's fury over the first vol's impending publication fills Knausgaard with self-doubt over how well he was actually remembering the occasion of his father's death, prompting one his characteristic long digressions on various topics. I'm staggered that the guy's held my interest in light of how little actually happens in the series.
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It's full of funny passages of course. The teenage plans for the new year celebrations are very familiar - hiding the booze from the adults!
I suppose it's the frequent similarity to one's own experience that nails it and the references to the music and football of the times.
And trouble with females of course! All painfully familiar and far more interesting really than his struggles to be a writer.
 

gonetomorrow said:
It's full of funny passages of course. The teenage plans for the new year celebrations are very familiar - hiding the booze from the adults!
I suppose it's the frequent similarity to one's own experience that nails it and the references to the music and football of the times.
And trouble with females of course! All painfully familiar and far more interesting really than his struggles to be a writer.
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You remind me that part of its appeal no doubt has to do with my being about the same age as the author, so his scrutiny of minutiae often highlights all the unexamined aspects of my own experience. I feel like if I were to subject myself to such a long, intense effort at remembering I'd be a changed person by the end of the process.
 
Just finished Into The Breach by Hugh Sebag Montefiore.
Outstanding writing, incredible detail and content about the push towards the German trenches in WW1
 

Bluerobins said:
Hi all, my GF loves fiction and I want to get her a couple of books for holiday. Any recent recommendations? Thanks
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A couple of crackers for you, not recent, but two of the best I`ve ever read :

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks.

Let the Right One In - John Arne Lindqvist.

They`re aren`t " light " books, as both are very dark, but beautifully written and easy to read.
 

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