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The GOT Book Club

wm02 said:
You didn’t miss anything! Puzo just wasn’t a very good writer at all
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Well, I suppose you have to credit him with elevating the mafia to iconic status and spawning a ton of films/books etc but the novel that started it is very odd concerning, as it frequently does, Sonny Corleone's sex problems with his girlfriend. I won't elaborate!
 
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Not normally a fan of autobiographies, but I couldn’t resist this :

And Away - Bob Mortimer.

A really easy read, melancholy and reflective of where he is in life at the moment.

A very modest guy and gives no credit at all to himself for his success.

Would make a good Christmas present for a Reeves and Mortimer fan.
 
Just finished The Cartel by Don Winslow. It is the second book in a trilogy about the rise of the narco syndicates in Mexico and America's War on Drugs (fiction not documentary, although I believe many of the events are based on gruelling ones that happened in real life).

I'd read The Power of the Dog (the first book) and thought it was stunning. But The Cartel had not been published and when it was I never quite got around to picking it up (possibly because of the intensely depressing subject matter).

The Cartel is just as good (and just as bleak) and I would heartily recommend the books to anyone (apart from those suffering from a crisis of belief in their fellow human beings).

Now I have to take a deep breath and start on the third one, The Border.
 

atrottel said:
Just finished The Cartel by Don Winslow. It is the second book in a trilogy about the rise of the narco syndicates in Mexico and America's War on Drugs (fiction not documentary, although I believe many of the events are based on gruelling ones that happened in real life).

I'd read The Power of the Dog (the first book) and thought it was stunning. But The Cartel had not been published and when it was I never quite got around to picking it up (possibly because of the intensely depressing subject matter).

The Cartel is just as good (and just as bleak) and I would heartily recommend the books to anyone (apart from those suffering from a crisis of belief in their fellow human beings).

Now I have to take a deep breath and start on the third one, The Border.
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He`s a wonderful writer. He reminds me of Cormac McCarthy in many ways.

And just as bleak.

I read the first two back to back and didn`t start the third, as I was so drained from reading them - you`ll know what I mean.

The Border is the first book, I`m going to read in the new year,
 
COYBL25 said:
He`s a wonderful writer. He reminds me of Cormac McCarthy in many ways.

And just as bleak.

I read the first two back to back and didn`t start the third, as I was so drained from reading them - you`ll know what I mean.

The Border is the first book, I`m going to read in the new year,
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Absolutely, I also reread the first one before The Cartel and I agree with the Cormac McCarthy parallels. In a way, it is worse because you know those things actually happened. I think I might need to read something a little bit lighter from him in between, like one of the 'surfer' novels.
 
atrottel said:
Absolutely, I also reread the first one before The Cartel and I agree with the Cormac McCarthy parallels. In a way, it is worse because you know those things actually happened. I think I might need to read something a little bit lighter from him in between, like one of the 'surfer' novels.
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They would would make a wonderful trilogy of films, if done right too.
 

Normally not a huge fan of modern American literature but this is really good so far, 100 pages in

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