The GOT Book Club

[summerisle]

one of my best buys, also from the british museum. A book you can pick up and put down.View attachment 316263

Radio 4 did a series on this, fascinating. Just had a look, still available.

BBC Radio 4 - A History of the World in 100 Objects - Downloads

Podcast downloads for A History of the World in 100 Objects

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[Bilko]

Radio 4 did a series on this, fascinating. Just had a look, still available.

BBC Radio 4 - A History of the World in 100 Objects - Downloads

Podcast downloads for A History of the World in 100 Objects

www.bbc.co.uk

Oh brilliant, I'm going to give that a listen.

 

[Walter Ego]

Has anyone read Marching Powder by Rusty Young, the story of one man’s life in a Bolivian prison?

 

[The Binman]

The tv series has very recently been on the Disney channel, it`s very good.

Was it called say nothing, the tv series

 

[COYBL25]

Was it called say nothing, the tv series

It was mate

 

[LostLegend]

Finished ‘The Stranger’ by Albert Camus yesterday.
What a strange story. It follows ‘Meursault’ a French settler living in Algiers who, due to a series of connected events, ends up shooting an Arab man and going on trial for his murder.

The protagonist, Meursault is the real strange part of the story as he comes across as an emotionless robot for the most part with only a thin grasp on how “normal” people behave around others.

It’s supposedly a classic ‘existentialist’ novel.

That said I actually quite enjoyed it.
The absurdity of the trial and his incarceration reminded me a lot of Kafka’s ‘The Trial’

BRB I’m off to buy myself a beret and tobacco pipe after writing that last line…

 

[atrottel]

Finished ‘The Stranger’ by Albert Camus yesterday.
What a strange story. It follows ‘Meursault’ a French settler living in Algiers who, due to a series of connected events, ends up shooting an Arab man and going on trial for his murder.

The protagonist, Meursault is the real strange part of the story as he comes across as an emotionless robot for the most part with only a thin grasp on how “normal” people behave around others.

It’s supposedly a classic ‘existentialist’ novel.

That said I actually quite enjoyed it.
The absurdity of the trial and his incarceration reminded me a lot of Kafka’s ‘The Trial’

BRB I’m off to buy myself a beret and tobacco pipe after writing that last line…

Had it in school many decades ago. Really enjoyed it compared to the usual rubbish you were handed out in Lit courses.

 

[COYBL25]

Had it in school many decades ago. Really enjoyed it compared to the usual rubbish you were handed out in Lit courses.

Maybe I got lucky, I got 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm and a Tale of Two Cities as my main books for Lit in school.

 

[atrottel]

Maybe I got lucky, I got 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm and a Tale of Two Cities as my main books for Lit in school.

French Lit, in that case. I think the other books were the original source for Carmen and some other twaddle.

English Lit was Shakespeare (of course), Thomas Hardy (great), Gerard Manley Hopkins (also great) and the Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth and Coleridge doing McGonegal impressions).

 

[LostLegend]

Maybe I got lucky, I got 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm and a Tale of Two Cities as my main books for Lit in school.

Aside from the obligatory Shakespeare, we had Day of the Triffids, Of Mice And Men and Great Expectations. A fairly decent selection.

Then they threw us a complete curve ball for the final GCSE course work and based it on Nadine Gordimer’s ‘The Train From Rhodesia’ which, if you are familiar with it, you’ll know is an absolutely wild book to expect a bunch of 15/16yo’s to write coursework on. Honestly didn’t have a clue what was going on

 

[Anno1878]

Juan Gomez-Jurado. Trilogy which I’m quite enjoying. ‘Heroine’ is similar to Lisabeth Salander. Think the first book Red Queen has been turned into a tv series.

 

[tre_vor]

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is a belter if you fancy feeling utterly dreadful by the halfway mark.

Will report back when I’ve finished it.

 

[LostLegend]

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is a belter if you fancy feeling utterly dreadful by the halfway mark.

Will report back when I’ve finished it.

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.

 

[tre_vor]

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.

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

 

[BrisbaneToffee]

Finished ‘The Stranger’ by Albert Camus yesterday.

The absurdity of the trial and his incarceration reminded me a lot of Kafka’s ‘The Trial’

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