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The GOT Book Club

Disgruntledgoat said:
It's a fiction rather than a biography. So yeah, pinch of salt indeed. It was more the drunkenness that was emphasized, going against his puritan streak.

Ironically Everton did play (or train at least) at the bottom of his garden.
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Surely he was being hugely ironic. That sort of remark was pure 60s humour. School playground stuff.
If say Klopp came out with it now there'd be mayhem.
 
COYBL25 said:
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Breakout at Stalingrad.

The author wrote this novel as a serving German Soldier during the siege of Stalingrad.

He was captured by the Russians and the draft copy was taken by the Russians,only to be found by pure chance in the Russian military archives many years later.

Fantastic book. The madness of Hitler seen through the eyes of a regular soldier.

@bluebrotha77 one for you this.
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think i will get this one, have been reading up a bit on the eastern front the last month or so, what an absolute tit Hitler was had every opportunity to save those men and was told it one a few occasions to his face, luckily for us he didn't let his generals run the war or we would have had at least a lot longer war.
saying that have a few to get through before i get it,
just finished Soldiers of the Sahib about the east india company and its army, really good book, great british defeats, about the british army during queen victoria's time, and the mistakes it made along the way, well written but only just got into it,
then i have a book about british battles in the same era to get through.
like the sounds of this book so deffo going on my list.
 
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TyphooToffee said:
Started reading John Connolly recently when I borrowed The Wrath of Angels from the local library. Good read. I prefer to read American authors, my favourites being John Grisham, Harlen Coben, Linwood Barclay, Michael Connelly and Karin Slaughter.

Lee Child as well, but he's English even if Jack Reacher isn't.
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ya read alot of them books years ago.i really liked slaughter,coban,connelly.i was never to into grisham and i don't think i have read any books from the other author.
i have't read a fiction book in years.hours were cut in the local library so by time i was finished work they were closed so i had to start buying my books and i went right off fiction books at that time.
 
COYBL25 said:
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Breakout at Stalingrad.

The author wrote this novel as a serving German Soldier during the siege of Stalingrad.

He was captured by the Russians and the draft copy was taken by the Russians,only to be found by pure chance in the Russian military archives many years later.

Fantastic book. The madness of Hitler seen through the eyes of a regular soldier.

@bluebrotha77 one for you this.
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;):D:)
nice one bud.i'm actually re-reading stalingrad by anthony beevor at the minute.i bought it new a few months ago but i will definitely be getting that book you have recommended.it looks very good.god it must have been a horrible battle to fight in for both sides.so many needless deaths because of the the actions of two clowns(hitler and stalin).
cheers for the recommendation
 
edge said:
think i will get this one, have been reading up a bit on the eastern front the last month or so, what an absolute tit Hitler was had every opportunity to save those men and was told it one a few occasions to his face, luckily for us he didn't let his generals run the war or we would have had at least a lot longer war.
saying that have a few to get through before i get it,
just finished Soldiers of the Sahib about the east india company and its army, really good book, great british defeats, about the british army during queen victoria's time, and the mistakes it made along the way, well written but only just got into it,
then i have a book about british battles in the same era to get through.
like the sounds of this book so deffo going on my list.
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ya hitler made some terrible decisions which ultimately cost them the war.ya in stalingrad he wouldn't let paulus 6th army retreat and they got encircled.he should never have sent his armies to yugoslavia just before he planned on invading the soviet union and when one of the panzer divisons was 200 miles from moscow he had them go down to the ukraine whuich wasted more time and then came winter.
he should have got japan to open a new front to the rear of russia.the sheer amount of men and materials the soviet union could throw at the war was astonishing.4 million men(3 million germans) germany amassed on the soviets border and in the first month there was 2 million soviets killed and another 1 million captured and they could still just keep throwing numbers at it.
 

edge said:
Just read Roy Hudds autobiography, i think he is really good on the radio.
It was rubbish started off in a decent way, early life, army ect then just seemed to go on about who he met in various shows, panto, ect ended up chapters on his health at various times and his favourite dogs?
how i found the will to finish it i don't know, shame for such a witty man to put this waste of time out very disappointed in it.
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He was supposed to be quite a left wing figure in his day?

I've been disappointed by autobiographies. John Peel and Ken Clarke come to mind.
For guys who mixed in interesting circles there are precious few good anecdotes or gossipy stories.
 
Brett Angell Delight said:
I’ve decided - not entirely sure I remember why - to read all Stephen King novels (I will read short stories and Bachman books at a later date) that I have yet to read (which is most of them) in the order in which they were written.

Just finished Cujo and I’m a wreck. Proper didn’t expect the ending it had (which I believe is Stephen King’s biggest regret to date); my eyes got a bit sweaty for a while, there...

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger is next.
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Took me 20yrs to read all the dark tower...King kept writing one then leaving it for a year or 2...worth the wait
 
Brett Angell Delight said:
Done The Gunslinger in. If I didn’t know it was the start of a series I might have been disappointed but as it is I am looking forward to the others.

On Christine at the moment and enjoying it.
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One of my personal favourites, (not Dark Tower related as far as I know) which I go back to and reread every few years is 'Tales from a Buick 8'
There are more than a few Dark Tower spin off novels and short stories. Some more loosely tied in than others.
There is probably a difinitive list of...'read this then this, before you read this.'
I justmostly read them as I found them and was none the worse for it.
Oh and always read Kings afterwords, info without spoilers abounds
*takes off anorak.
 
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Read Agatha Christie's Ten Little Niggers, damn, I was aware it is a mystery classic but it extended my expectations, very impressed, couldn't figure out the murderer till the end of the last page.
 
Just finished reading Agent Zigzag by Ben MacIntyre - the true story of Eddie Chapman who was a double agent in WW2.
Well worth a read, thoroughly recommend it to those interested in such times.
 

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