The GOT Book Club

[Gwlacticos]

Just finished Stuart Maconie, Pies And Prejudice, In Search Of The North.
Enjoyed it.

Just starting, The Last Days Of John Lennon by James Patterson.

 

[COYBL25]

I have, and they are. You get the feeling he’s just banging those out to a template, and they’re heavy on the tropes, but they are easy and enjoyable to read.

I really enjoyed them, a perfect holiday read.

 

[Naisy'sCharitableLeanings]

I really enjoyed them, a perfect holiday read.

If you like those, you might like Colin Bateman (you may already know his stuff). He’s a Northern Irish crime writer, so most of his books reference The Troubles in some way, but there’s also a lot of humour too. The Dan Starkey and Mystery Man series are his best IMO, but the standalone books are still a good read. ??

 

[COYBL25]

If you like those, you might like Colin Bateman (you may already know his stuff). He’s a Northern Irish crime writer, so most of his books reference The Troubles in some way, but there’s also a lot of humour too. The Dan Starkey and Mystery Man series are his best IMO, but the standalone books are still a good read. ??

Thanks mate, I’m always on the lookout for new stuff.

The Laidlaw Trilogy by William McLlvanney ( Tartan noir ) are worth a look too.

 

[Naisy'sCharitableLeanings]

Thanks mate, I’m always on the lookout for new stuff.

The Laidlaw Trilogy by William McLlvanney ( Tartan noir ) are worth a look too.

<Adds to list of recommendations> ???

 

[summerisle]

lol

 

[davids]

Just finished Stuart Maconie, Pies And Prejudice, In Search Of The North.
Enjoyed it.

Just starting, The Last Days Of John Lennon by James Patterson.

To survive Skem,Maconie deserves much credit.

 

[davids]

El Extranjero The Foreigner Albert-Camus

 

[dholliday]

lol

i've read the obvious 3. Orwell's timeless warning multiple times. The charming Hobbit & the painfully cringe Alchemist (probably gave that up before the end, it's really short anyway).

Ulysses is unreadable...anyone ever actually read it?

 

[COYBL25]

Book 3 of Don Winslow cartel triology - The Border.

At 700 pages, it’s a whopping read, but it’s that good, I actually think it’s about 300 pages too short.

It’s without doubt the best book of the three and it seamlessly carries on from the first two.

Mexican Narcos and a bent American president v a rogue DEA agent.

Spellbinding.

* These books are being made into films and if they get it right, they could be amongst the best organised crime films ever made.

 

[degsy]

Ulysses is unreadable...anyone ever actually read it?

Yep, it took a bit of effort though, Language changes over a 100 or so years.
The bits with no punctuation were a struggle until I imagined my Irish ( limerick) neighbour talking.

 

[dholliday]

Yep, it took a bit of effort though

wow, well in.

The bits with no punctuation were a struggle until I imagined my Irish ( limerick) neighbour talking.

that's a brilliant tactic. i think i've heard similar from those tackling Irvine Welsh books (scots-perspective).

 

[Jebus_lives]

i've read the obvious 3. Orwell's timeless warning multiple times. The charming Hobbit & the painfully cringe Alchemist (probably gave that up before the end, it's really short anyway).

Ulysses is unreadable...anyone ever actually read it?

I quite liked it. It becomes easier if you read it as though you're listening to a conversation with a Irish accent. And, I found, treat it as both satire at the epic classic poems and a commentary on the delight/complexity of the mundane.

 

[dholliday]

I quite liked it. It becomes easier if you read it as though you're listening to a conversation with a Irish accent. And, I found, treat it as both satire at the epic classic poems and a commentary on the delight/complexity of the mundane.

kudos for managing it.

i've enjoyed what some may consider hard reads: Crime & Punishment, Das Parfum, Road to Wigan Pier, and loads from my favourite genre: hard science-fiction. But they've all got relatively normal English (or German) in common. Once i get a book which has a singular writing style, like the far-too-conversational Nabokov, far-too-dense Rushdie or indeed far-too-localised Joyce/Welsh...my brain just switches off. Doesn't wanna play anymore.

My loss, i know. I can imagine they're rewarding reads once tuned in.

 

[Jebus_lives]

kudos for managing it.

i've enjoyed what some may consider hard reads: Crime & Punishment, Das Parfum, Road to Wigan Pier, and loads from my favourite genre: hard science-fiction. But they've all got relatively normal English (or German) in common. Once i get a book which has a singular writing style, like the far-too-conversational Nabokov, far-too-dense Rushdie or indeed far-too-localised Joyce/Welsh...my brain just switches off. Doesn't wanna play anymore.

My loss, i know. I can imagine they're rewarding reads once tuned in.

I never found crime and punishment or road to Wigan Pier a hard read