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Easy one this : Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy. Beautiful, brutal and with no redemption at all. McCarthy’s finest work. ( I could probably name a dozen more tbh )

Here's two because rules are there to be broken. 'Endurance' by Alfred Lansing. It's the story of Ernest Shackleton's voyage to the Atlantic. Kenneth Branagh did a miniseries about it that is also excellent. Anyway, it's a true story of utter...

The Got book club thread is a great source for choosing books to read and I regularly pick my next read from there.I have always read,but more so now as I realised the amount of rubbish I was reading on my phone. "One flew over the cuckoo's...

I'm nearing retirement so have plans to educate myself. I'm planning English Lit as my first project.

….i got an ‘O-Level’ English Lit in the early 70s. The book was ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’; the play was ‘Macbeth’ and we had an Anthology of Poems from War Poets. Never been an avid reader although To Kill a Mockingbird remains my favourite ever...

I'm in the company of literary royalty so it seems !. I wasn't bright enough to do English lit at any level worth mentioning, the only book I remember was " Cider with Rosie " and really don't recall that either.

No surprises there. Kafka was an influence on Camus, as was Dostoyevsky (more so D than K)

I’m all in at the moment. Picked it up on a whim though, without any prior knowledge.

Interested to know if this is actually any good. I've always avoided it as it comes across a cheap misery porn judging by the comments I've heard so far.

Yeh the first movie was what I call a good bad film.

Looks like they have absolutely embraced the cheese factor here. As they should :lol:

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/the-people%E2%80%99s-arena.122066/

Pal there’s a quote function you can use that makes this so much easier than screen shotting. Avoidance noted, virgin.