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The GOT Book Club

bicycleheader said:
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Reading this for the second time as I haven't gotten around to picking up some new stuff. Very interesting, and there's lots of stuff used in the show of the same name, and later in the all-conquering amazulence of The Wire.

you've probably read this i'd imagine @chicoazul
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Aye, good shout sir.
 
marsh said:
Just read Running with the firm i think it was called, undercover. Hooligan.. They made the film i.d on this fellas story. Good book and film
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I've read that. It is good, but the ending's a bit cack. I know it's a true story but it was just a bit like "errr... ok then".
 

COYBL25 said:
I like his films mate, where does the book fall down ?
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I do as well mate, mainly his Spanish language stuff but his Hollywood fare is generally a cut above as well so that was why I was disappointed.
Like I said, I'm not a fan of horror fiction or films really, but the missus loves them and it's been on her shelf for a while, she said it was okay.
So, I liked the premise, which is basically vampirism as a contagion and I thought that would be the core of the book, and there is a CDC/Government angle to begin with which was working fine, but then it falls into all the old routines of stuff like ancient masters, and blood feuds and one man's crusade which has been done to 'kin death. And there's loads of really woolly scientific explanations of stuff in vampire mythology which are a bit daft, and then other things are glossed over (like for example there's a plot point that vampires can't cross running water, but no reason for that offered, just some mad old git's word). Then it's explained how the vampires kill, which is quite innovative, but then they go through it again and again with every victim,

Missed opportunity really, if it had been kept as a stripped down contagion thriller I think it would have worked, but they just built more of the same dopey mythology, portentous nonsense which just bores the arse off me like. They made a telly show out of it though, so I guess I'm in the minority!
 
bicycleheader said:
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Reading this for the second time as I haven't gotten around to picking up some new stuff. Very interesting, and there's lots of stuff used in the show of the same name, and later in the all-conquering amazulence of The Wire.

you've probably read this i'd imagine @chicoazul
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Can highly recommend his other book too -The Corner.

Written from the prospective of the drug dealers / users.
 
ste d' indica said:
I do as well mate, mainly his Spanish language stuff but his Hollywood fare is generally a cut above as well so that was why I was disappointed.
Like I said, I'm not a fan of horror fiction or films really, but the missus loves them and it's been on her shelf for a while, she said it was okay.
So, I liked the premise, which is basically vampirism as a contagion and I thought that would be the core of the book, and there is a CDC/Government angle to begin with which was working fine, but then it falls into all the old routines of stuff like ancient masters, and blood feuds and one man's crusade which has been done to 'kin death. And there's loads of really woolly scientific explanations of stuff in vampire mythology which are a bit daft, and then other things are glossed over (like for example there's a plot point that vampires can't cross running water, but no reason for that offered, just some mad old git's word). Then it's explained how the vampires kill, which is quite innovative, but then they go through it again and again with every victim,

Missed opportunity really, if it had been kept as a stripped down contagion thriller I think it would have worked, but they just built more of the same dopey mythology, portentous nonsense which just bores the arse off me like. They made a telly show out of it though, so I guess I'm in the minority!
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Trust me on this one : This is the best ever contagion vampire book ever written. At 1300 pages it's a long book, but I couldn't put it down and read it in five days. It's a cross between Cormac Mc Carthys Blood Meridian and Stephen Kings The Stand. You say you don't like scfi horror ?. Read this or get it for your missus and see if you still feel the same ! The author is a professor of English, so it's beautifully written. If done properly it has potential to be the best scfi horror film ever made.
 
COYBL25 said:
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Trust me on this one : This is the best ever contagion vampire book ever written. At 1300 pages it's a long book, but I couldn't put it down and read it in five days. It's a cross between Cormac Mc Carthys Blood Meridian and Stephen Kings The Stand. You say you don't like scfi horror ?. Read this or get it for your missus and see if you still feel the same ! The author is a professor of English, so it's beautifully written. If done properly it has potential to be the best scfi horror film ever made.
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Sounds intriguing, on the list!
 

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Just finished this. The hunt and investigation for the serial killer Andrei Chikalito, who killed 53 children and teenagers over a ten year period in Russia.

Outstanding book and if you're into true crime this is a must .
 
Just finished To Kill a Mocking Bird. Wow what a book.

Not sure what to read next, another classic? Or something completely different.

I always find it difficult to decide what to read next after reading a brilliant one.
 
Fuleco said:
Just finished To Kill a Mocking Bird. Wow what a book.

Not sure what to read next, another classic? Or something completely different.

I always find it difficult to decide what to read next after reading a brilliant one.
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I try and mix my reading up mate - something factual ( usually war ), something light ( novel ), something dark ( McCarthy etc ), something classic. I find that if you read the same genre all the time you become a bit bored by it .

Works for me ;)
 

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