BigDunc'sFod
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Think it's my favourite book of all time
Read it during COVID though which was in hindsight not my best move with a two year old
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Read it during COVID though which was in hindsight not my best move with a two year old
It’s in my top three and I must’ve read it at least a dozen times now and even though I know what’s coming, the ending still floors me every time.
Just a shame that they bottled the film, although I understand why, as they’d have never got it through the censors if they’d kept it true to the book.
The film is decent, but not as affecting as the book seems to be from your posts.
What really winds me up about the film, was the opening sequence with Charlize Theron ( who I like as an actor ).
It wasn`t in the book, there was zero need for them to shoehorn it in and it added nothing at all to the film.
Tbf I don't even remember that bit (that's more about me than the film tho), and never read the book, so I probably didn't care! Films do tend to do stuff like that a lot tho.
Currently reading this - part 2 of a series:
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Probably not going to win any awards, but enjoyable sci fi fun. All the characters are a bit odd in one way or another, and the author writes amusingly. A bit like the old Buffy era Joss Wheddon I think, but more unhinged/weird.
The Well at the Bottom of Everything
Vain thought destroying the Portal to the Hotel at the …
Probably not going to win any awards, but enjoyable sci fi fun. All the characters are a bit odd in one way or another, and the author writes amusingly. A bit like the old Buffy era Joss Wheddon I think, but more unhinged/weird.
Struggling to find this to buy, not In my usual haunts,Currently reading this - part 2 of a series:
The Well at the Bottom of Everything
Vain thought destroying the Portal to the Hotel at the …
Probably not going to win any awards, but enjoyable sci fi fun. All the characters are a bit odd in one way or another, and the author writes amusingly. A bit like the old Buffy era Joss Wheddon I think, but more unhinged/weird.
I got a paperback copy for my bday, so not sure where it came from, but think the ebook is only available on Amazon?
Gwladysstreetlad
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I'm so hyped that my copy of Joe Abercrombie's latest book came in early yesterday at Waterstones. I've been waiting for this for over three years now. The inner artwork is cool as hell too.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Although overtaken in some respects by current historiography, these essays by German historians put pay to the myth that the Werhmacht had little involvement in the Holocaust, not to mention the murder of Soviet POWs. Also considers the role of Hitler in the decision making process with regards to the destruction of European Jewry. Not exactly a light read, but important nonetheless, especially considering the current political climate.
Iceman - Brenda Fowler.
In 1991 two hikers walking high up in the Austrian alps, close to the border with Italy, stumbled across a frozen body, wedged into a trench in the rocks.
The body turned out to be 5300 years old and instantly became one of the most important historical finds of recent times.
The book follows the recovery and the subsequent scientific and archeological investigation into the life of the prehistoric man in the trench.
What’s just as fascinating as the investigations, is the politics that came into play following his discovery, as the various scientists and archeologists battled it out to lead and take the glory.
In 1991 two hikers walking high up in the Austrian alps, close to the border with Italy, stumbled across a frozen body, wedged into a trench in the rocks.
The body turned out to be 5300 years old and instantly became one of the most important historical finds of recent times.
The book follows the recovery and the subsequent scientific and archeological investigation into the life of the prehistoric man in the trench.
What’s just as fascinating as the investigations, is the politics that came into play following his discovery, as the various scientists and archeologists battled it out to lead and take the glory.
Ah, Ötzi! I used to work up in those mountains and the whole background is pretty interesting, including, as you say, the battles for control over his remains and the subsequent discoveries. You can go and see him now in one of the museums down in Bolzano in northern Italy.
Is it as beautiful up there as it sounds ?
Ray Purchase
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The perfect 'sitting by the pool' on ya holidays thriller.
Short chapters, 90% descriptive narrative, and a believable, and topical plot.
Short chapters, 90% descriptive narrative, and a believable, and topical plot.
Absolutely. It's stunning.
One of the things to do with the background is what's called the 'transumanza' (transhumance in English). This is when people would drive sheep or cattle over the mountains to summer pastures and then back again at the end of the summer. You can (or could) actually book the very limited places to walk with the South Tyrolean shepherds who still do this in the spring.
https://www.unesco.at/kultur/immate...manz-schafwandertriebe-in-den-oetztaler-alpen (nice photo gallery but all in German)
There are also old smugglers' routes all over the mountains between Austria and Italy, which you can still walk.
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