The GOT Book Club

[Tommy Chong]

Lol... Kidding.

I actually came across this, which was a delightful read:

 

[Bilko]

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Someone on here recommend this - Into Thin Air / Jon Krakauer.

Couldn’t put it down, outstanding.

The author recounts without blame, the Everest disaster of 1996, of which he was part of.

The film, with Josh Brolin, pretty much uses this book as a template.

Again , using GOT book club to pick and read books. Awesome read,this.

 

[Bilko]

Funny how something I read many years ago which at the time was a masterpiece isn't quite so these days.
It's OK, not in the same league as Discword though

 

[bicycleheader]

Funny how something I read many years ago which at the time was a masterpiece isn't quite so these days.
It's OK, not in the same league as Discword though
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I only got around to reading it last year and found it pretty boring. It was one I always meant to pick up but I've forgotten most of it already

 

[Tim's tourettes]

I read The Stand, Stephen King, when I was 16. About to turn 46 and I've just picked it up again.

 

[LostLegend]

Funny how something I read many years ago which at the time was a masterpiece isn't quite so these days.
It's OK, not in the same league as Discword though
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I love the Hitchhiker series. Did you read them all or just the first?
Restaurant at the End of the Universe is my fav of the bunch.

 

[COYBL25]

I read The Stand, Stephen King, when I was 16. About to turn 46 and I've just picked it up again.

My top three Stephen Kings, along with the Shining and Salems Lot.

The Stand very much deserves to have a lot of money thrown at it and made into a two or even three part film.

 

[LostLegend]

My top three Stephen Kings, along with the Shining and Salems Lot.

The Stand very much deserves to have a lot of money thrown at it and made into a two or even three part film.

Had The Stand on my to read list for ages, haven’t got around to it yet, mostly due to it being and absolute tome of a book. Over 1000 pages isn’t it?

Picked up 11.22.63 recently as it’s next months read in the book club I’m in.
Heard it’s up there with some of his best.

 

[COYBL25]

Had The Stand on my to read list for ages, haven’t got around to it yet, mostly due to it being and absolute tome of a book. Over 1000 pages isn’t it?

Picked up 11.22.63 recently as it’s next months read in the book club I’m in.
Heard it’s up there with some of his best.

The Stand is a whopping book, but I found it a very easy read, as it really flows and you`re massively invested in all of the characters, both good and bad.

I haven`t read 11.22.6. yet, but I`ve had the tv series on my list for a while, as the reviews for it are very impressive.

 

[Bilko]

I love the Hitchhiker series. Did you read them all or just the first?
Restaurant at the End of the Universe is my fav of the bunch.

Just the first one

 

[Paris]

Just bought this from my local Waterstones.

700 pages long.. I've resolved myself to not going out in November as I'm saving for a weekend trip to Barcelona in the first weekend of December.

This should do the trick lol

 

[davep]

Had The Stand on my to read list for ages, haven’t got around to it yet, mostly due to it being and absolute tome of a book. Over 1000 pages isn’t it?

Picked up 11.22.63 recently as it’s next months read in the book club I’m in.
Heard it’s up there with some of his best.

The Stand is a whopping book, but I found it a very easy read, as it really flows and you`re massively invested in all of the characters, both good and bad.

I haven`t read 11.22.6. yet, but I`ve had the tv series on my list for a while, as the reviews for it are very impressive.

Haven't seen the show, but read 11.22 last year and it was really good. More in common with his Green Mile etc type books than the horror ones tho.

 

[LostLegend]

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Some one recommended this on here a while ago :

In The Distance - Hernan Diaz.

Considering this is the authors first book, it’s a stunning read.

Think Cormac McCarthy, but more simply written. ( that’s not a criticism)

Set in the early days of the birth of modern America, a young, Swedish boy and his brother get separated from each other in Portsmouth docks en route to start a new life in San Francisco.

Believing that his brother has found passage back to America, using the last of his money, the boy pays for his passage across the Atlantic to try and find his brother.

The book tells the tale of the boy as he wanders across the American West, trying to get to San Francisco looking for his brother, not knowing where he is, as he slowly becomes an adult and all that he encounters.

If a book ever deserved to be made into a film, it’s this.

Magnificent.

Found a copy of this on Abebooks for £2, so snaffled it up.
Dunno when I'm going to get around to it as I have an ungodly stack of unread books to get through

Heard quite a few singing praises for this one on here and elsewhere though!

 

[blueloon]

On a saunter around my local library the other week I came across John Grisham’s “ The Broker” from 2005. I was convinced I’d read it but didn’t quite recognise the plot so I got it . Turned out I hadn’t read it or maybe I’d just forgotten, typical Grisham , nice light reading and great descriptions of Bologna and Italy.

 

[LostLegend]

Found a copy of this on Abebooks for £2, so snaffled it up.
Dunno when I'm going to get around to it as I have an ungodly stack of unread books to get through

Heard quite a few singing praises for this one on here and elsewhere though!

Said stack of unread books is over 20 after going through them. I need to stop buying books

Here's the list if anyone is interested or suggest which ones to prioritise:

The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
The Sunset Limited, Cormac McCarthy
Augustus, John Williams
Butchers Crossing, John Williams
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
S. , JJ Abrahms
Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind, Yuval Noah Harari
Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
Alamut, Vladimir Bartol
Gulag, Anne Applebaum
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
Death in Venice & Other Stories, Thomas Mann
Down & Out in Paris & London/Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell
Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Riuz Zafron
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
The Rule, David Jackson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn, Mark Twain
In The Distance, Hernan Diaz
NOS4A2, Joe Hill
11.22.63, Stephen King
Down Under, Bill Bryson
Made in America, Bill Bryson