The GOT Book Club

[sdk]

He's not gone for the slapstick comedy for the last one?

No, he's still developing the main plot about his efforts to stymie the machinations of that dastardly group of international jewel thieves introduced into the first volume. It's all quite hardboiled. The only real surprise is the return of his robot friend from vol. 3.

 

[stony]

the charlie parker series by john connolly.

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I like the look of them. Just ordered the first one for my kindle. Got a few others that I need to read first, but these seem right up my street and I didn't want to forget about them.
I saw a book advertised on fb the other day and I really liked the sound of it. Promptly forgot what it was called and now I can' find it anywhere. Not making that mistake again.

 

[bluebrotha77]

I like the look of them. Just ordered the first one for my kindle. Got a few others that I need to read first, but these seem right up my street and I didn't want to forget about them.
I saw a book advertised on fb the other day and I really liked the sound of it. Promptly forgot what it was called and now I can' find it anywhere. Not making that mistake again.

I love them.have them all at home.basically a detective with 2 stone cold hitmen as best friends and their solving cases with a kinda supernatural tone to it.hard to explain but excellent books.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Think i may have mentioned this, but this is great

Amazon product ASIN B07BK3BYR4
On to this one next Amazon product ASIN B07CLJFLBM
God help me.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Just started reading "John Crow's Devils" after listening to an interview with Marlon James.

 

[COYBL25]

Just finished this :

Jo Nesbo’s rewriting of Macbeth as a modern Detective novel.

A decent take on Macbeth and good solid holiday read.

Could easily see it being made into a film.

 

[DaChunk]

I finally got around to reading 1984 last week.
I think I'm going to give Brave New World another shot as I only made it halfway through last time.

 

[Philw]

Think i may have mentioned this, but this is great

Amazon product ASIN B07BK3BYR4
On to this one next Amazon product ASIN B07CLJFLBM
God help me.

@davek @chrismpw ...

 

[chrismpw]

@davek @chrismpw ...

Not reading all that.

 

[COYBL25]

Not reading all that.

When it comes naturally, what can a book teach you

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

If you can stomach the subject, Red or Dead by David Peace is excellent. Not an easy read, 250,000 words and 700 pages, lots of methodical repetition as Peace tries to convey the almost autistic focus Shankly has on whatever he's doing at the time. Not sure how much of it is dramatic license but Shankly comes of as a decent man who is lost without his team.

Liverpool Football Club come off as a classless organisation who use people until they don't need them any more (I never knew their club secretary hanged himself under the kop in the 60s, a victim of burnout) then throw them away. Drunk Hughes "Everton are tragic" chant makes Bill cry and turn his back on them for a period.

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

Drunk Hughes "Everton are tragic" chant makes Bill cry and turn his back on them for a period.

Quite liked Shankly( although I think Catterick's record was better in the time they were both managers of their clubs ), but that quote about about Shankly is a bit rich considering that it was Shankly that came out with the quotes, " there are only two teams on Merseyside,Liverpool and Liverpool reserves, and his other classic, " if Everton were playing at the bottom of my garden I wouldn't look out my window", or words to that effect. So personally I take that above quote with a pinch of salt.

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

I love them.have them all at home.basically a detective with 2 stone cold hitmen as best friends and their solving cases with a kinda supernatural tone to it.hard to explain but excellent books.

Yeah read them all just started the last one,

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Quite liked Shankly( although I think Catterick's record was better in the time they were both managers of their clubs ), but that quote about about Shankly is a bit rich considering that it was Shankly that came out with the quotes, " there are only two teams on Merseyside,Liverpool and Liverpool reserves, and his other classic, " if Everton were playing at the bottom of my garden I wouldn't look out my window", or words to that effect. So personally I take that above quote with a pinch of salt.

It's a fiction rather than a biography. So yeah, pinch of salt indeed. It was more the drunkenness that was emphasized, going against his puritan streak.

Ironically Everton did play (or train at least) at the bottom of his garden.

 

[Sword of the Morning]

Read quite a lot, SF mainly. Have made a real attempt to get through some of the classics this year though.