The GOT Book Club
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Read every one. Favourites are still the first two.
This is going to be unfashionable, but I really enjoyed the first two Hunger Games books. They're basically a lesson on his to write to young adults.
Also re-read Five On A Treasure Island (Famous Five 1) by Enid Blyton for the first time since I was nine or something. Love reading and appreciating the construct of a story to a target audience, and that book is masterful at it.
Also re-read Five On A Treasure Island (Famous Five 1) by Enid Blyton for the first time since I was nine or something. Love reading and appreciating the construct of a story to a target audience, and that book is masterful at it.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
I recommend Elizabeth Bowen's short stories : The Demon Lover and Other Stories.
Mostly set during the War on the Home Front, they really evoke the time,place and people ; some of the stories with a supernatural bent. Very descriptive and it's universality means you can get past the somewhat cliched language of the day.
Mostly set during the War on the Home Front, they really evoke the time,place and people ; some of the stories with a supernatural bent. Very descriptive and it's universality means you can get past the somewhat cliched language of the day.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen.
A short story, 70 odd pages, describing decadence, unspeakable rites and rituals and absolute horror in Victorian London. Less is more as graphic detail is missing.
The book is superbly plotted as we follow the trail of a mysterious women who exerts a sense of profound evil wherever she appears ; despair and death follows as our protagonists try to grasp the true horror of Helen.
Will read more I think of his work.
A short story, 70 odd pages, describing decadence, unspeakable rites and rituals and absolute horror in Victorian London. Less is more as graphic detail is missing.
The book is superbly plotted as we follow the trail of a mysterious women who exerts a sense of profound evil wherever she appears ; despair and death follows as our protagonists try to grasp the true horror of Helen.
Will read more I think of his work.
Just finished this. Very good satirical novel. Follows the life of the eccentric Garp family through post Vietnam America.
Bitter sweet, tragic and very funny. ( great film too )
Pretty sure I started reading this year's ago but didn't finish it. Is Garp conceived by his mother straddling a wounded pilot in a body cast?
Will have to give it a read, was only around 17 when I gave it a go and was really bad for not finishing books (and many other things) at that age.
Was gifted what if? by Randall Munroe. Very fun book; maybe less so if you're actually good at physics, as many of the scenarios end in a nuclear explosion or plasma ball burning the earth, but certainly in the flavor of xkcd.
Must have a crack at that, loads of folk have recommended it.
David Peace - Red Riding 1980
I've read the first two of the series and just wasn't that enamoured to be honest. Peace has a striking and individual style, his writing is grim and quite shocking at times, but the narratives of '74 and' 77 just didn't grab me.
But this one I really enjoyed, found it very compelling and the characters were easier to find a way into. Gonna nail the last one then might reassess the first two at some point.
I've read the first two of the series and just wasn't that enamoured to be honest. Peace has a striking and individual style, his writing is grim and quite shocking at times, but the narratives of '74 and' 77 just didn't grab me.
But this one I really enjoyed, found it very compelling and the characters were easier to find a way into. Gonna nail the last one then might reassess the first two at some point.
ItsOKImAPilot
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The Red Web by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan. Very easy, quick, informative read on the history of the Russian Internet.
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