The GOT Book Club

[bluebrotha77]

somebody recommended this book a long,long time ago on here.i can't remember who but cheers.it was a really good book about the aryan brotherhood.it is mental what lads in a cell 23 hours a day can control inside and outside prisons.

 

[gonetomorrow]

I've discovered Karin Fossum - another Scandicrime novelist. Very good. Up there with Mankell and Nesser I reckon.

 

[gonetomorrow]

I Reread "Headlong" by Michael Frayn about an art historian who things he's found a missing Bruegel in a neighbour's home. Brilliant book full of stupidity and greed

He's a great writer. A novel he wrote in the sixties - Towards the End of the Morning - is one of my favourites. It perfectly describes a Fleet Street newspaper office in the old days just before the new technology era. Very funny too..

 

[Professor Toffee]

I'm reading the Hubris, first volume of Ian Kershaw's mammoth 2 part biography of Adolph Hitler
Deals with the years up to 1936
Blood curdling stuff and America really must learn that Trump has the same credentials and self love and his threats to the democratic processes in the US and his well armed militias mirror the SA and the lead up to 1933

 

[summerisle]

I'm reading the Hubris, first volume of Ian Kershaw's mammoth 2 part biography of Adolph Hitler
Deals with the years up to 1936
Blood curdling stuff and America really must learn that Trump has the same credentials and self love and his threats to the democratic processes in the US and his well armed militias mirror the SA and the lead up to 1933

I've read them both mate, fascinating in a horrible way.

 

[wm02]

Been reading quite a bit of Wallace Stegner recently (Angle of Repose, Crossing to Safety). Talented writer- not quite sure why I had not read him sooner

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

 

[COYBL25]

Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden.

Very well put together and the author does an incredible job tracing the frenetic time line of the fight for survival of not only the Black Hawk crews that went down, but also the search teams that went into rescue them too.

His description of some of the battles are that vivid, that you almost feel like you’re there with them.

He takes no sides and the book is testimony of the fact that ordinary men can sometimes do extraordinary things.

Recommended.

 

[summerisle]

I'm a sucker for short stories. I've never read anything by Katharine Mansfield, and although written over a century ago, for me they've stood the test of time. Funnily enough they are being broadcast on Radio 4 this week so give them a listen if you like the genre.

BBC Radio 4 - And Other Stories: Katherine Mansfield, 2. Daughters of the Late Colonel, The Garden Party, Ma Parker & Her First Ball.

Stories of a father’s disapproval, a garden party, grief and short-lived joy.

www.bbc.co.uk

BBC Radio 4 - And Other Stories: Katherine Mansfield

Classic short stories from the 1920s by New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Nymzee]

Not an actual book but got a few comics/graphic novels delivered today:

The Sandman Vol. 1
Descender Vol. 1
Batman: Earth One
Divinity: 1
Low Volume 1: The Delirium of Hope

 

[Prevenger17]

Read the Wasp Factory there recently, very good. Kind of guessed the twist about halfway through but still v enjoyable if a bit disturbing

 

[Prevenger17]

He also writes non sci-fi fiction. The best I’ve read so far is - The Terror,

He imagines what have happened to Franklin and his crew during their I’ll fated journey to find the North West Passage.

Superb book.

Finished Hyperion a couple of weeks back , I really enjoyed it. Kept on reading it before going asleep and having nightmares about the effing Shrike

 

[verreauxi]

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somebody recommended this book a long,long time ago on here.i can't remember who but cheers.it was a really good book about the aryan brotherhood.it is mental what lads in a cell 23 hours a day can control inside and outside prisons.

Wow...that sounds good. Will check it out.

 

[verreauxi]

After watching the movie "The Devil's Advocate" last night, I was thinking about the movie Angel Heart (due to Pacino and De Niro playing the devil, respectively in those two films). So I read the Angel Heart Wikipedia page and found that it was based on a detective noir novel called "Falling Angel". I bought it on Kindle and started reading it. Very good stuff in the old school detective/crime-noir-type style--at least so far.

 

[verreauxi]

I'm a sucker for short stories. I've never read anything by Katharine Mansfield, and although written over a century ago, for me they've stood the test of time. Funnily enough they are being broadcast on Radio 4 this week so give them a listen if you like the genre.

BBC Radio 4 - And Other Stories: Katherine Mansfield, 2. Daughters of the Late Colonel, The Garden Party, Ma Parker & Her First Ball.

Stories of a father’s disapproval, a garden party, grief and short-lived joy.

www.bbc.co.uk

BBC Radio 4 - And Other Stories: Katherine Mansfield

Classic short stories from the 1920s by New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield.

www.bbc.co.uk

I presume you've read Alice Munro...she's a bit Mansfield-ish in her short stories.