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The GOT Book Club

McBain said:
STORMWATCH

Warren Ellis' run on Jim Lee's Stormwatch is another great British take on the Superhero genre. The Pre cursor to The Authority, Eliis introduces 'The Bleed', and flips the switch on the conventional team dynamic. Must read for comics people.

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"Ministry of Space" is the best thing he ever did, albeit it was ruined by the very last couple of frames.
 
Fuleco said:
1Q84 by Murakami.

Good enough story but didn't really need three books to tell it.
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Thats one's on my list, I've read . Wind up Bird Chronicle, Wild Sheep Chase and now reading Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World .... Only discovered Murakami last year, his books are fantastic , a little odd but a really really good read
 
Sid James said:
Thats one's on my list, I've read . Wind up Bird Chronicle, Wild Sheep Chase and now reading Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World .... Only discovered Murakami last year, his books are fantastic , a little odd but a really really good read
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Kafka on the Shore and Norweigan Wood are my favourites from him.
 

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Three books I can highly recommend .

Blood Meridian has to be the most brutal book I have ever read and it really isn't for the faint hearted. It left me feeling empty at the end of it and all through the book you question why you are reading it. If you like them dark, then they don't come much darker than this.

Doctor Sleep is the sequel to the Shining. It's nothing like the Shining and isn't supposed to be. It's the story of what happened to the boy in the Shining after he became a man. Not as heavy as the Shining and not a classic either , but still a good read and a great follow onto the Shining.

The Passage by Justin Cronin is a post apocalyptic novel about the survivors of a global virus that has turned most of the world into organised Vampire like creatures . Sounds crap ?. The guy who wrote it is an American Professor of English and he really has put a totally different slant on the apocalypse and vampires. It's beautifully written and at 1200 pages long it looks to be a marathon read. I read it in 5 days, staying up until the early hours to read it. Can't recommend it highly enough.
 
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Another beautifully written, haunting but incredibly sad book - Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
The tale of a lonely little boy on a Swedish Council Estate who befriends a little vampire girl who moves in next door. It's as much about their loneliness as it is a horror story. The Swedish Film of the book is very good too and just as bleak.
 
COYBL25 said:
Blood Meridian has to be the most brutal book I have ever read and it really isn't for the faint hearted. It left me feeling empty at the end of it and all through the book you question why you are reading it. If you like them dark, then they don't come much darker than this.
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great book
 

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Three books following on from each other, set around 100 years ago, near to Americas border with Mexico. Folowing a young boy into manhood. Each book is laced with Spanish and all 3 books are quite " light " for McCarthy. However the descriptive detail of the terrain, weather, flora and fauna is like nothing I,ve ever read. In the first book ( All the Pretty Horses ) there is chapter where he actually spends nearly 3 Pages describing the clouds and the sky. I remember putting the book down and thinking that I,d just read 3 pages about clouds and it wasn't boring !
 
I,m also a big fan of Cormack McCarthys - The Road, but it seems to split opinion. It's one of the only book that's that I've immediately started to read again after finishing it the first time. It really is unrelentingly bleak though and although there is a glimmer of hope within the book I found the whole book incredibly moving.
 
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Three books I can highly recommend .

Blood Meridian has to be the most brutal book I have ever read and it really isn't for the faint hearted. It left me feeling empty at the end of it and all through the book you question why you are reading it. If you like them dark, then they don't come much darker than this.

Doctor Sleep is the sequel to the Shining. It's nothing like the Shining and isn't supposed to be. It's the story of what happened to the boy in the Shining after he became a man. Not as heavy as the Shining and not a classic either , but still a good read and a great follow onto the Shining.

The Passage by Justin Cronin is a post apocalyptic novel about the survivors of a global virus that has turned most of the world into organised Vampire like creatures . Sounds crap ?. The guy who wrote it is an American Professor of English and he really has put a totally different slant on the apocalypse and vampires. It's beautifully written and at 1200 pages long it looks to be a marathon read. I read it in 5 days, staying up until the early hours to read it. Can't recommend it highly enough.
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Just who or what is the judge? Theres a passage near the end that i can only paraphrase here
The kid lokked accross the room and watched the Judge whisper in the ears of the cowboys as he had,through the years, done so in the ears of Ceasers, Kings and potentates.......is he sying the judge is of supernature? or speaking in metaphore?
 

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