The GOT Book Club

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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 1984

Quick read about a young Mexican/American girl's reflections on her family, friends and neighborhood when growing up. Not amazing, but I'm not the target audience. I believe the book is now part of the American school curriculum to add context to the American Hispanic experience.

 

[COYBL25]

All the birds singing - Evie Wyld.

A really strange book, that enjoyed very much and reminded a lot of Iain Banks excellent debut novel, The Wasp Factory.

Alternating chapters tell of the central character, a lady called Jake present on a remote farm on a Scottish island in the past tense and her past on an Australian sheep in the present tense.

The way the chapters are set out takes a bit of getting used to, but once you’ve got your head around it, the book really flows.

It’s quite dark in parts, but keeps you guessing all the way through as to what’s really going on.

 

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Domination By Alice Roberts 2025

It is described as a quest to find out how Christianity spread and came to dominate Europe, sadly it descends into a reductive and cynical thesis by Roberts, life long atheist and member of the Humanists society, that reduces a religion down to a political grift. While her cynicism may prick the interests of Italian elite theory enthusiasts about how power absorbs and adapts to new threats, her numbness to the spiritual needs and community cohesion of the medieval layman leave her on shaky ground.

 

[summerisle]

Err.... Intrigued, and at the same time slightly disgusted with myself.

Ass Goblins of Auschwitz: Amazon.co.uk: Pierce, Cameron: 9781933929934: Books

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'It's Monty Python meets Nazi exploitation in a surreal nightmare as can only be imagined by Bizarro author Cameron Pierce. In a land where black snow falls in the shape of swastikas, there exists a nightmarish prison camp known as Auschwitz. It is run by a fascist, flatulent race of aliens called the Ass Goblins, who travel in apple-shaped spaceships to abduct children from the neighboring world of Kidland. Prisoners 999 and 1001 are conjoined twin brothers forced to endure the sadistic tortures of these ass-shaped monsters. To survive, they must eat kid skin and work all day constructing bicycles and sex dolls out of dead children. While the Ass Goblins become drunk on cider made from fermented children, the twins plot their escape. But it won't be easy. They must overcome toilet toads, cockrats, ass dolls, and the surgical experiments that are slowly mutating them into goblin-child hybrids. Forget everything you know about Auschwitz...you're about to be [Poor language removed] Slaughtered.'

 

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Flawless by Scott Andrew Selby Greg Campbell 2012

Great book about the 2003 Antwerp diamond heist, well researched and goes into good depth about the things that surround the crime.

 

[bicycleheader]

Been listening to the audiobook of Oliver Stones autobiography read by the man himself. Really enjoying it

Had started Titus Groan and must get back and finish it. Another I feel I should have read instead of listened

And now I’ve just remembered I didn’t finish Dan Simmons Rise of Endymion as I dropped that to go to Gormenghast

…..really need to get back to actual reading…

 

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Dust by Jay Owens 2023

A book about dust, it's not really, it's a book about climate change and humans effecting climate change. While it had interesting bits and pieces sprinkled throughout it didn't really become anything more than long form guardian articles broken up into chapters. It became a bit meh by the end.

 

[Bilko]

average at best

 

[blue to the bone]

Probably the best book I have ever read.. extraordinarily good.

 

[rigg]

The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories by Mark Bowden 2020

6 Articles collected into a book by the guy who wrote Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo. It was a very quick read and dealt with a lot of cold case solving. Full of rape, murder and misery. It evokes the same emotions as watching Everton at this moment.

 

[davids]

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[carlos21]

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Evening bro.

 

[verreauxi]

Probably the best book I have ever read.. extraordinarily good.
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This looks quite good! Had never heard of it.

 

[blue to the bone]

This looks quite good! Had never heard of it.

Also made into a tv series . But book is excellent

 

[carlos21]

Also made into a tv series . But book is excellent

Alright lar.