Gwlacticos
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Danny Baker, Going to sea in a sieve is good so far.
Got Timmy Cahill book for Christmas.
Got Timmy Cahill book for Christmas.
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The GOT Book Club
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There's four in total, not three as commonly thought.
The darkest of the dark. Makes Cormac McCarthy look like a children's author. You've got to read all four together mate, but you've also got to mentally ready to do it as the subject matter is so bleak. The TV adaptation with Sean Bean was pretty close to the books. Read the rest and let me know what you think. A lot of people can't do all four, that's all I'll say !.
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Riveting story of Louis Zamperini
ToffeeDoug
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Is that the fella that Angelina Jolie recently made a film about?
That's him. Don't want to give too much away but what a life.
Black Belt Jones
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Read the Chronicles of the Black Company - the Books of the North over Christmas. Been mentioned on here a few times as a landmark fantasy book, one of the first to be written with a modern voice (in 1984). Holds up great - v fast paced and clearly a massive influence on today's writers (although Joe Abercrombie says he's never read it).
Been meaning to read the circle (Dave Eggers) for a while, so might pick that up next. Reckon we're still waiting for a real masterpiece novel to be written on the internet / information age, as all the best authors are all too old to have grown up with it. Eggers is not in that category, but he's decent and the book is meant to be quite original.
Been meaning to read the circle (Dave Eggers) for a while, so might pick that up next. Reckon we're still waiting for a real masterpiece novel to be written on the internet / information age, as all the best authors are all too old to have grown up with it. Eggers is not in that category, but he's decent and the book is meant to be quite original.
Yorkie
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Currently reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin.
I like my fantasy but not usually into sci fi, so doubly impressed by how much I'm enjoying it.
My brother says there are other books of the same fantasy universe she's created, which I will buy after this.
Took a bit of effort to get into it (mostly because it's information overload at first) but now am churning through it with gusto.
I like my fantasy but not usually into sci fi, so doubly impressed by how much I'm enjoying it.
My brother says there are other books of the same fantasy universe she's created, which I will buy after this.
Took a bit of effort to get into it (mostly because it's information overload at first) but now am churning through it with gusto.
Basil Fawlty
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Read Unbroken as well. Very good stuff.
I read "Power of the Dog" about a year ago, and I'm now reading the sequel "The Cartel." Both are by Don Winslow. There are lengthy and highly compelling novels about the on-going (and completely horrific and idiotic) drug war in the USA/Mexico/Central/South America. The books pull no punches for violence and culpability (including ostensibly the CIA's involvement). Really compelling stuff if you like crime novels.
Also, I've been into post-apocalyptic fiction over the last few years. I can recommend all of these books:
Madd Addamm
Oryx and Crake
Year of the Flood
(these three books are a trilogy by Margaret Atwood)
The Dog Stars (Peter Heller)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)
The Gone-Away World (Nick Harkaway)
Wool
Shift
Dust
(these three books are part of an on-going trilogy by Hugh Howey)
I also have just started the Southern Reach Trilogy.
Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
Reading a book by Karin Slaughter called faithless, pretty decent.
I have been reading a lot of Clive Cussler books recently, I love Dirk Pitt.
I read loads, never posted in here before I don't think.
I have been reading a lot of Clive Cussler books recently, I love Dirk Pitt.
I read loads, never posted in here before I don't think.
Some of my favourites in there (Don Winslow, Hugh Howey, Cormac McCarthy, Southern Reach)...
Just reading Men Who Stare At Goats by Jim Ronson. Wasn't too bothered about the film but the book (about special American units dealing with new age 'theories' from the Sixties through to the present day) is fabulous. Alternate incredulity and horror that most of these things are actually taken seriously (to the tune of millions of dollars) by the American military.
One Christmas present was the collection of seven mountain travel books by HW Tilman (mostly from the Thirties and Forties) which is up next on the list. I suspect the Eric Shipton collection is due up for birthday as well.
Thanks for the heads up about "Men who stare at Goats"...will definitely check it out! And the others as well.