Has anyone read the Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz? This was recommended to me the other day. Seems like something I would enjoy
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The GOT Book Club
- Thread starter chicoazul
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Whoever put me onto this - well done.
5 more to go
5 more to go
Started reading this one last night. Really enjoying it thus far.
I'm a big fan of her (Dr. Lindsay Fitzharris) previous book 'The Butchering Art' which was about Victorian hospitals, surgical practices of the time and the story of Joseph Lister (The surgeon responsible for the anti-septic method of surgery)
A pretty gruesome read if that's your type of thing ?, had me hooked for the entirety!
This one covers the 'walking wounded' of WWI. Specifically the men who suffered horrific facial disfigurements as a result of combat injuries in a time when plastic surgery wasn't a thing.
It covers a lot of the work done by Harold Gillies, a dentist turned surgeon who pioneered modern facial reconstructive surgery, the lives of the men whom he treated and their struggle to return to normal life.
It's not a huge read, but a genuinely fascinating one.
Just finished City on fire the latest Don Winslow book. Like his other stuff it's absolutely brilliant
Just got a copy of that on my kindle. Can't wait.
You will enjoy it mate
Think I overdosed on Winslow after the cartel trilogy and The Force, so giving him a break before getting into Broken (a collection of short stories).
Just rereading some Dennis Lehane (the excellent Coughlin trilogy) starting with The Given Day. (A bit like going from The Wire to Boardwalk Empire...)
Quite enjoyed this, I'm new to the author, at 700+ pages it kept me interested. Not a fan of books that are that long as I feel they are sometimes over the top with too much writing about nothing. But this was worth the read imo. Will give a read to the follow up at some point.
Ended up being disappointed by this one. It’s an interesting piece of history to tell and he was certainly an inspiring presence, but the writing was really lazy. Too many long, direct quotations and some unnecessary repetition of information. Have moved onto this one:Started reading this one last night. Really enjoying it thus far.
Once you've finished this series, you might like a series by another Irish author called Brian Mcgilloway; first book is called 'borderlands'.
dholliday
deconstructed rep
used to read novels regularly, hundreds of them in all... but then got internet flat-rate and like many fellow web-addicts just never seem to get round to properly reading books anymore...but the buzz is back! got these two beauties from ye usual online market:
i've read Baxter's Manifold Cycle (3 books plus some shorts) way back, the second: Space, counts as my all-time favourite sci-fi, even above Arthur C Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama. The climax of Space has an incredible sci-fi idea about how to
Years pass, and i kept coming across mention of his other series of books, known as the Xeelee Sequence, about a mega-powerful space-faring civilisation. Now finally got the first book in that sequence here: Raft.
But i also kept coming across word of another almighty fictional civilisation, called The Culture, created by Iain Banks. Curious how they might compare, i've also got the first novel of that series and will devour them concurrently with each other.
Never read any Banks, will be interesting to see if he goes hard sci-fi like Baxter, or if he's more opera like Frank Herbert and the ilk.
i've read Baxter's Manifold Cycle (3 books plus some shorts) way back, the second: Space, counts as my all-time favourite sci-fi, even above Arthur C Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama. The climax of Space has an incredible sci-fi idea about how to
remember knowledge from one universe-cycle (of expansion/contraction) to carry over into the next one, with the aim to use that knowledge to control such cycles...the ultimate play-God thought experiment.
Years pass, and i kept coming across mention of his other series of books, known as the Xeelee Sequence, about a mega-powerful space-faring civilisation. Now finally got the first book in that sequence here: Raft.
But i also kept coming across word of another almighty fictional civilisation, called The Culture, created by Iain Banks. Curious how they might compare, i've also got the first novel of that series and will devour them concurrently with each other.
Never read any Banks, will be interesting to see if he goes hard sci-fi like Baxter, or if he's more opera like Frank Herbert and the ilk.
Banks best book, is the Wasp Factory.
Written as Iain Banks.
Not scfi, but dark, disturbing and wonderfully written
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dholliday
deconstructed rep
cheers for the tip! if Phlebas is good i'll keep an eye out for the wasps x
Shevin Keedy
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Crazy mad book that.