Pat's Van
Player Valuation: £70m
yeah I don't mind him, wonder if he's any relation to General
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The GOT Book Club
- Thread starter chicoazul
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From what I have read they haven't managed to get the film off the ground and the book has been classed as impossible to make into a film. If it's ever made into a film they need to stay completely true to the book or the film wouldn't be worth doing in my opinion.
Pat's Van
Player Valuation: £70m
not sure, wasn't the judge completely bald, body and everything ??Nikolai Valuev is about as close as a real human could be, I think:
Valuev holds the ignominious title of hairiest shoulders in heavyweight history
Pat's Van
Player Valuation: £70m
one of my absolute favourite passages in it, Comanches, first wave...
"A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.”
"A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.”
Imagine waxing him.
Pat's Van
Player Valuation: £70m
probably better to take a leaf out the comanches book and just let a few buffalo loose to graze on him
picked up "For Whom The Bell Tolls" while in the States.
recently finished "At The Tomb Of The Inflatable Pig", written by an Englishman who lived in Paraguay during both the Stroessner reign as well as for a short bit a decade later. Juxtaposed his experiences and travels against the War of the Triple Alliance in the 1850s which saw Brazil/Argentina/Uruguay kill 90% of the men in the country. He blames a ton on the dictator at the time, which is a bit off, as Paraguay has always been to Brazil and Argentina what Poland has been to Russia and Germany. He initiated the war (trying to help a Uruguayan movement that was unpopular to Brazil, so they had it quashed), but it was one that would have been inevitably occurred anyways.
recently finished "At The Tomb Of The Inflatable Pig", written by an Englishman who lived in Paraguay during both the Stroessner reign as well as for a short bit a decade later. Juxtaposed his experiences and travels against the War of the Triple Alliance in the 1850s which saw Brazil/Argentina/Uruguay kill 90% of the men in the country. He blames a ton on the dictator at the time, which is a bit off, as Paraguay has always been to Brazil and Argentina what Poland has been to Russia and Germany. He initiated the war (trying to help a Uruguayan movement that was unpopular to Brazil, so they had it quashed), but it was one that would have been inevitably occurred anyways.
Fuleco
Player Valuation: £35m
@Pat's Van following on from our Franco love in, he's directing the film adaptation of Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle which will star Bryan Cranston among others.
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=43323
James not General, that is.
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=43323
James not General, that is.
Dan Tanner
Player Valuation: £10m
Just finished "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls", wow... if you like films you gotta read this. It starts off in the late 60's and goes up to the end of the 70's and explains how Hollywood came from producing Historical Epics or Doris Day, Cary Grant pap to the likes of Taxi Driver, Godfather, the Exorcist, Scarface etc type films,
It basically tears apart everyone who was anyone in Hollywood then, Coppola, Scorsese, Lucas, Friedkin, Hopper, De Palma, Spielberg, etc.. plus actors get it to. The orgies, drugs, paranoia, megalomania, affairs, craziness, you name it its in here... no one comes out unscathed, absolutely brilliant and doesn't get sucked into the Hollywood bullshit propaganda machine.
It basically tears apart everyone who was anyone in Hollywood then, Coppola, Scorsese, Lucas, Friedkin, Hopper, De Palma, Spielberg, etc.. plus actors get it to. The orgies, drugs, paranoia, megalomania, affairs, craziness, you name it its in here... no one comes out unscathed, absolutely brilliant and doesn't get sucked into the Hollywood bullshit propaganda machine.
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Gone on my reading list, thanks mate !
Just finished this. Couldn't put it down. The claustrophobia and fear when they're in the sub is palpable. Doesn't take sides either which makes it better. Wonderful book.
Into my war books at the mo and just finished this one. Looks at the battle and siege of Stalingrad from a neutral view point. Doesn't pull any punches with descriptions of the brutally and suffering inflicted by both the Germans and the Russians on each other . Well written and doesn't get too bogged down with politics, which makes it quite easy to read.
Quality read that. Read through that and 'Barbarossa' straight after each other when I was going through a War book stage
Also, try:
Deffo worth a read imo