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The GOT Book Club

dholliday said:
Yes!

This above all else should be made into a high-budget TV series. One season per book.

Hugh Jackman as Roland? Clint's too old now...
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I agree it would be better as a tv series, but it looks like (although it's really dragged on) that Ron Howard is gonna make the movies (although there has been talk of a joint movie/mini series project.)

From September 2013: http://news.moviefone.com/2013/09/17/the-dark-tower-movie-ron-howard

Personally, I'd like to see Christian Bale play Roland. There's a big opinion amongst DT fan that Javier Bardem should play the part (remember, it's highly unlikely Roland would have an English or American accent.)
 
mythbuster said:
I agree it would be better as a tv series, but it looks like (although it's really dragged on) that Ron Howard is gonna make the movies (although there has been talk of a joint movie/mini series project.)

From September 2013: http://news.moviefone.com/2013/09/17/the-dark-tower-movie-ron-howard

Personally, I'd like to see Christian Bale play Roland. There's a big opinion amongst DT fan that Javier Bardem should play the part (remember, it's highly unlikely Roland would have an English or American accent.)
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Bardem is interesting. Don't like Bale, he overacts.

Yeah, I've been hearing the Howard thing for years too. It's not suited to a movie.

7 x 10 episode seasons would do it justice. (8 x if you include the last DT book he wrote, haven't read that one yet).

People would lap it up, surely? With Game of Thrones so popular, and Stephen King's adaptations proven to be successful it must be a no-brainer.
 
dholliday said:
Bardem is interesting. Don't like Bale, he overacts.

Yeah, I've been hearing the Howard thing for years too. It's not suited to a movie.

7 x 10 episode seasons would do it justice. (8 x if you include the last DT book he wrote, haven't read that one yet).

People would lap it up, surely? With Game of Thrones so popular, and Stephen King's adaptations proven to be successful it must be a no-brainer.
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Think Bardem is a bit of a one trick pony to be honest, probably for another thread that though
 
ricardobee said:
I'm about to re read some of my old Tom Sharp books, Vintage stuff is probably my favourite. Sad that he passed away last year.
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Never read the book, but the bit by David Suchet for Mr. Blott for the series made from his Blott on the Landscape is one of my favorite characters ever. They used the guy that made the brass band noises for all the music (cba to find the name). Terrific stuff. Fall down funny.

Working my way through some Pratchett - I can't get enough Anhk-Morpork, it seems.
 

dholliday said:
It's an acquired taste, I didn't quite acquire it. Like Satanic Verses and Lolita, even tho' I can appreciate the idiosyncratic and intelligent writing style, I just couldn't read it for any length of time. Just frustrated me.
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Absolutely love that book, probably my favourite of all time. I also liked the Zahir by Paolo Coelho and a thousand splendid suns by Hosseini.

Non-fiction-wise The Great War for Civilisation (Robert Fisk) is a master piece of a book in my opinion. I also found The Shock Doctrine (Naomi Klein) and Unpeople (Mark Curtis) interesting.

Next on my list is For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway - looking forward to that.
 
Also, off to Cuba next week so bought myself Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. Looking forward to cracking that one open. May do that before Hemingway.
 
I read that secret footballer book recently - it's ok. If it actually named names it would be dynamite; instead it's stuff like 'a well known international player, during his time at a top premiership team, spent 100 grand on some lego'. Not that enthralling.

It does have a genuine feel though, doesn't sound like it's written by a journalist. He specifically mentions the tactic of a new manager isolating a top player, just to swing his dick around and establish authority. Exactly what Mourinho is doing to Mata this season, for example.
 

Black Belt Jones said:
I read that secret footballer book recently - it's ok. If it actually named names it would be dynamite; instead it's stuff like 'a well known international player, during his time at a top premiership team, spent 100 grand on some lego'. Not that enthralling.

It does have a genuine feel though, doesn't sound like it's written by a journalist. He specifically mentions the tactic of a new manager isolating a top player, just to swing his dick around and establish authority. Exactly what Mourinho is doing to Mata this season, for example.
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yeah I like some of them too.

they're all available online though, prefer to just dip in and read the odd one or two now and again rather than read a bookful
 
Black Belt Jones said:
I read that secret footballer book recently - it's ok. If it actually named names it would be dynamite; instead it's stuff like 'a well known international player, during his time at a top premiership team, spent 100 grand on some lego'. Not that enthralling.
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Agree with this. I won the book (and the t-shirt) from The Guardian, and after reading for it I wouldn't pay a penny for it. Just frustrating not naming names. And the things he reveals aren't exactly a big deal either.

The t-shirt's cool, tho'.


Apparently The Secret Footballer turns out to be a journeyman Prem/Championship player hardly anyone's ever heard of, but happened to be called up to the England squad once (without getting his cap).
 
dholliday said:
Apparently The Secret Footballer turns out to be a journeyman Prem/Championship player hardly anyone's ever heard of, but happened to be called up to the England squad once (without getting his cap).
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Not quite convinced he's that irrelevant, either. My money would be on it being Kevin Davies.
 

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