The GOT Book Club

[Pat's Van]

Cheers for those recommendations mate, I'll definitely give Redburn a go, that sounds top. Is it a biggun? I saw the TV adaptation of Heart of The Sea, great story, adaptation was a bit ropey. Will try and read the book before the film comes out though.

Have you heard about the Sci-Fi Moby Duck film? I know it sounds like a car crash but its a pet project from Lynne Ramsay. Her last film 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' was visually searing and dark as hell. If she gets this off the ground its got the potential to be astonishing.... or the definition of an epic fail!!

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/oct/03/lynne-ramsay-moby-[Poor language removed]-film

Redburn's chunky mate but it's a piece of p!ss if you handled the Duck, well worth a look if you know the city though, it's semi-autobiograhical and some of the sights he sees are particularly sad (poverty and that).

I didn't know the Duck was going all Blade Runner, sounds like a challenge, but will look out for it. I only seen "kevin" a few weeks ago but really enjoyed it, Tilda Swinton is amazing in it!!

 

[ste d' indica]

Redburn's chunky mate but it's a piece of p!ss if you handled the Duck, well worth a look if you know the city though, it's semi-autobiograhical and some of the sights he sees are particularly sad (poverty and that).

I didn't know the Duck was going all Blade Runner, sounds like a challenge, but will look out for it. I only seen "kevin" a few weeks ago but really enjoyed it, Tilda Swinton is amazing in it!!

Yeah, she really is. So's the young lad like, chilling performance.

 

[Fuleco]

The swear filter cracks me up.

Some great suggestions here @Brennan

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Just reading Ostkrieg by Stephen Fritz. Sick period in human history but it's like a car crash, you can't not find it compelling. I remember as a kid oldies saying if you think the western front was bad you should look what happened in the East. I never really put much thought into it but it wasn't a war of occupation like happened on the Western front, this was a war of extermination right from the outset.

 

[Gwlacticos]

Which books have you simply been unable to finish?

I've given Ulysses a few goes but never got passed the first 100 pages. What books have you struggled with?

Got Keith Lemmons book as a present at Christmas. Absolute total cack. Just finishing A History of the world by Andrew Marr. Good, but taken me ages. I think the Lemmon book put me off reading.

 

[Fuleco]

Baines. Top fella.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/21/leighton-baines-roy-hodgson-england-world-cup-barzil

 

[Blue Cheese]

Just finished reading 'The Iron Lance' by Stephen Lawhead really enjoyed it and would recommend if into fantasy or historical fiction.

 

[ste d' indica]

Baines. Top fella.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/21/leighton-baines-roy-hodgson-england-world-cup-barzil

Ace that, ta for the link.

 

[Pat's Van]

Baines. Top fella.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/21/leighton-baines-roy-hodgson-england-world-cup-barzil

haha Baines reading Last Exit To Brooklyn eh ? not exactly what I'd have down as a typical footballers choice

anyone else read it ??? it's fkn mental

 

[Moomin]

absolutely adore Moby Duck, I even love the stuff where it basically becomes a book about whale biology, it's proper fascinating to me. Melville made many sea journeys and if you ever get the chance read Redburn, it notes his journey across the Atlantic and to hear him describing a 19th century Liverpool is an absolute joy !

plus, if you really like Moby Duck then the real story it actually comes from is told in a great book called In The Heart Of The Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick, an attack on the whaleship Essex by a huge sperm whale and the surviving crew in the lifeboats eventually turn to cannnibalism, it's being made into a movie right now

I wish sperm whales would grow legs to attack the people of Essex.

 

[Pat's Van]

I wish sperm whales would grow legs to attack the people of Essex.

there is always hope old chum

 

[wm02]

Reading the Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Oldie but a goodie

 

[deipnosophist]

JFK and the Unspeakable by James Douglass is a fabulous, fabulous book.

 

[Billy Dean]

Just started Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky. Very good so far. First Chomsky effort I've read. More readable than others from that field that I've read.

 

[evertoniandy]

Haven't read a book for years, Harry Potter probably being the last. Started reading Lord of the Rings on Saturday and I can't put it down. Tolkien is incredible with imagery.