The GOT Book Club

[ClausThomsen]

Got 'First Man In' by Ant Middleton (the guy from SAS Are you tough enough etc. autobiography) for Christmas from my Aunt and on just got around to reading it.

What a horrible little self aggrandising arsehole that fella is.
It's been a while since a book has actually made me this angry, but he comes across as an absolute tool.

He paints his whole early life as a difficult struggle and bases that on the fact that his father died when he was young. Granted that's a horrible thing to happen to anyone, but he milks it to the fullest. Completely sidestepping the fact that the rest of his family were there for him and were pretty well off. He grew up on a vineyard in the south of France ffs.

He spends the rest of the book bragging about being a hard-man and how all his mates in London are serious gangsters.
But he only got into fights to "fit in with the other Para's"

There's a whole section on how he ended up in prison for sparking out a policeman, which he half frames as being the coppers fault for provoking him by poking him in the chest and telling him to "move on" from the scene of an altercation when he was drunk. You know, just doing his job in other words.

He frames the whole thing as some sort of injustice when only a few chapters previously he tells a tale of him losing the plot and half beating to death a random fella outside his flat for no reason other than the guy gave him a dirty look. All the time he keeps going on about "not being that sort of bloke"

An absolute divvy of the highest order. Avoid.

Yes very much spot on that. Comes across very arrogant and up himself. I can’t imagine he was very popular in 9 Squadron.

That programme he’s on makes me cringe.

I saw this on the supermarket bookshelves and he just looked like a Grade A weapon so I just assumed it wasn't for me.

Not only did I judge the book by the cover but also the author.....correctly it seems.

 

[PhilEFC]

I saw this on the supermarket bookshelves and he just looked like a Grade A weapon so I just assumed it wasn't for me.

Not only did I judge the book by the cover but also the author.....correctly it seems.

You did, you made a good choice mate.

 

[Nymzee]

I’ve just been digging around my bookshelf and pulled this out I’ve been meaning to read for years.

 

[tsubaki]

Finished Brutus: The Noble Conspirator by Kathryn Tempest last week. Very good if anyone wanted to find out about the other side of the war after Caesar's assassination.

 

[summerisle]

Pick your night time reading.

 

[JokerJ]

I have loads of books, I don't seem to read much anymore though, I am not sure why I stopped reading. I picked a book up about Knights Templar by Jack Whyte called Knights of the black and white but I read a few pages, put it down and haven't picked it back up. I bought all the Game of Thrones books and I'm upto A Feast for Crows.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

I have loads of books, I don't seem to read much anymore though, I am not sure why I stopped reading. I picked a book up about Knights Templar by Jack Whyte called Knights of the black and white but I read a few pages, put it down and haven't picked it back up. I bought all the Game of Thrones books and I'm upto A Feast for Crows.

Very much downhill from A feast for crows I am afraid to say. You have to read it as the first three were so good, but aFfC is where things start to unravel.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Currently reading this

 

[Cels]

Going to start re-reading 'Bodhisattva Blues' (which is a follow up to 'The Buddha, Geoff and Me') this weekend. When I first read it I wasn't in the best of places health-wise, so parts would've not really sunk in:


Ed is stuck in a rut - his part-time 'career' is going nowhere, his love life's a joke and his wallet's always empty. The thing about a rut, though, is at least you know where you are.

So when Ed runs into an old acquaintance and is sucked into a drama of street crime and high-stakes property dealings, he turns to the principles that once served him well. Except - he's not sure if he can still trust them, especially as his Buddhist practice is a bit on the rusty side.

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[JokerJ]

Very much downhill from A feast for crows I am afraid to say. You have to read it as the first three were so good, but aFfC is where things start to unravel.

I want to finish them just to see the differences than the TV programme, heard that a lot of character stories are completely different.

 

[bluebrotha77]

good book this on a climb up k2 that went wrong.there was a few hours delay on the way up and when people should have turned back they pushed with terrible consequences.

 

[roydo]

Just finished the latest Jack Reacher one. Typically brilliant.

 

[Professor Toffee]

Just finished Chasing New Horizons an excellent account of the APL/NASA mission to Pluto
Excellent read for anyone interested in planetary space missions and the politics of these missions

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Reading this at the moment, which is a fascinating, if somewhat bitter sweet read.

 

[4737carlin]

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good book this on a climb up k2 that went wrong.there was a few hours delay on the way up and when people should have turned back they pushed with terrible consequences.

I think ive just this week watched a film about this called The Summit? must be the same event