The GOT Book Club

[Chris]

The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger.
Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy (awesome book)
The Hunt for Red October - Clancy. Film is crap compared to the book.

I currently have 9 books ready for reading!

I'd be up for a proper book club type of thing.

Let's draw up a list of candidate books then we can vote on which one to buy and read?

 

[McBain]

I was a huge reader in my youth, nowadays I'm into Autobiographies, film books and screenplays.

Down and dirty Pictures - Gets in behind film-making from the late eighties to now. Its about the Weinsteins and Tarantino, Sundance/redford/kevin smith/soderburgh. Awesome read.

Same author wrote Easy Riders to Raging Bull - Peter Biskind.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Please, please, please, please, please, please read Jim Thompson. This guy is a feckin' genius. He wrote in the '50s and is the King of pulp fiction. This guy was writing about the sociopath and the psychopath before anyone knew what these characters were about. His books are always from the criminal's point of view and are so god damned dark that they'll chill you to the bone. If you're a fan of intelligent crime novels, you'll not put the books down until the last page. Especially brilliant are Pop 1280, The Killer Inside Me and the Getaway. Look him up on ebay and take a chance (WHAT'S A FEW QUID?). If you like Cain or Hammett you'll adore Thompson 'cause this guy really takes things to another level.

Otherwise, Edgar Allan Poe for sheer gothic horror. Also, try Franz Kafka's short stories. The longer novels are also good but can be a tad annoying after 100 or so pages.

Nice one Neb. I'll be sure to check him out. Love the hard boiled stuff. Have you read any Loren D Estelman? 'Every brilliant eye' is ace. Also love Ed Mcbain's '87th precinct' books. Elmore Leonard is still my fave in the crime genre though. For humour, PJ O'Rourke is truly funny. especially 'Republican party reptile' and 'the bachelor's home companion'. And PG Wodehouse is a genious. Check out 'The Mating Season'.
Totaly different style but feel compelled to recommend 'The God Of Small Things' by Indian writer Arundhati Roy. Wonderful novel and a fascinating take on complexities of the caste system in India. But there's much more to it than that. I will quote your good self and say Please please please read this book.

 

[atrottel]

If you like crime and you haven't read him before, try George V.Higgins - his first big one was "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" in the 70s.

 

[trebilcock66]

I cannot pick up my copy of Birdsong unless I'm ready for the ride - it's utterly draining. Once you've read it, you'll never think about life, death or sex in the same way.

Same goes for The Cruel Sea - in which Merseyside plays a prominent part.

Both books are truly for grown ups only - all the malice of the world pours off those pages.

For a lighter read, I'm still in thrall to Forester's Hornblower series - go back to them again and again.

 

[chicoazul]

Im bringing this back up, as Im planning on buying a truck loads of books next week.

Anymore suggestions?

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Success with women by R. Grecian

 

[bluebloodinmyveins]

I prefer to wait until it comes out on DVD

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I think it was the dvd that made chico bring this back up. If you look under the quick reply button there's a chunk of pineapple.

 

[Bundy]

I think it was the dvd that made chico bring this back up. If you look under the quick reply button there's a chunk of pineapple.

Quality post that. So Chico really does like pineapple?

 

[fozzy]

would love to read that sharpy book! thought is was gonna get passed about and signed!! (chico) dunno where it is though! (chico)

 

[mezzrow]

Double thumbs up on the Jim Thompson rec.

If you'd like some of our "local color" and don't mind splitting your side laughing, check out Carl Hiaasen's series of books on the greed and stupidity that makes this paradise I live in the way that it is. We native Floridians have to laugh or cry at what our home has become - Hiassen helps us laugh. Great stuff. Strip Tease is a great book and a crap movie.

Amazon.com: Strip Tease: Carl Hiaasen: Books

 

[The Esk]

Success with women by R. Grecian

My favourite genre - fiction

 

[Whitebootman]

Im bringing this back up, as Im planning on buying a truck loads of books next week.

Anymore suggestions?

Everyone has already put some great suggestions, some I like are,

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (first book I ever read)

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway (best book I ever read)

1984 - George Orwell

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Flashman - George McDonald Fraser (most un-PC book I ever read, but funny)

The Veteran - Fredrick Forsyth (great short stories I love Wispering Wind & The Miricle)

Cheers.

 

[Nebbiolo]

Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell is a classic in my view. It's a real Chicoazul book, which means it's very funny and full of witty observations. You might have seen the film, which was ****. So don't judge the book on that.