The GOT Book Club


Reading JK Rowlings 3rd Cormoran Strike book ( writing as Robert Galbraith)
Enjoyed the 1st two very much, good characterisation if the plots are a bit unlikely.
Main characters are great, a chuffing good read
 
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Just finished these three back to back. Beevor is an incredible author in that he somehow manages to make what could be a very dry factual subject read almost like a novel.

Berlin is the pick of the three, as the Russians move onto Berlin wreaking terrible vengance on the Germans for the atrocities of Stalingrad. The chapters that deal with the Russians stumbling across Auschwitz are heart breaking and is the fact that allies were aware of what was going on in the camps, but did nothing .
 
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Just finishing this extraordinary book. It details the role of 'ordinary men' in the Final Solution.
The police battalion of the title recruited, in the main, men in their thirties and forties from previous communist strongholds, mainly Hamburg ; most grew up in the Weimar Republic.
It details their deployment in Poland and their gradual descent into barbarism in the following months. Members of the battalion were given the option of not participating in 'actions' against the Jews, but few took up the offer.
It also describes the post war fate of the members and their derisory sentances.
A thought provoking book which emphasises once again the importance of peer pressure in the propagation and execution of horrible crimes.
 

summerisle said:
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Just finishing this extraordinary book. It details the role of 'ordinary men' in the Final Solution.
The police battalion of the title recruited, in the main, men in their thirties and forties from previous communist strongholds, mainly Hamburg ; most grew up in the Weimar Republic.
It details their deployment in Poland and their gradual descent into barbarism in the following months. Members of the battalion were given the option of not participating in 'actions' against the Jews, but few took up the offer.
It also describes the post war fate of the members and their derisory sentances.
A thought provoking book which emphasises once again the importance of peer pressure in the propagation and execution of horrible crimes.
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Thanks, on my reading list
 
Efcjake said:
Started the first of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, they aren't half hard to follow along.
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I like Pratchett.

In fact I just made a reference to Pratchett in the Game of Thrones thread that seemed to have slipped by unnoticed.

I dislike the witch and wizard stories, but absolutely dig the Watch and Moist von Lipwig stories.

First Pratchett book I read was Thud! Was a brilliant, fun read!
 
Dylan said:
I like Pratchett.

In fact I just made a reference to Pratchett in the Game of Thrones thread that seemed to have slipped by unnoticed.

I dislike the witch and wizard stories, but absolutely dig the Watch and Moist von Lipwig stories.

First Pratchett book I read was Thud! Was a brilliant, fun read!
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I'm enjoying it, he's a pure story teller. The issue is my mind has been trained to expert certain things from the writing I'm reading like organizational styles, or even transitional sentences. In this first one I'm reading he has a mad habit of jumping to a different place or time in the story with zero explanation or transition. It leads to me having to pull me head up from what I'm reading and go back a page to make sure I'm still following along.

I like it, but at the same time I feel that could get really annoying.

The colour of Magic is the one I'm reading.
 
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Just finished these three back to back. Beevor is an incredible author in that he somehow manages to make what could be a very dry factual subject read almost like a novel.

Berlin is the pick of the three, as the Russians move onto Berlin wreaking terrible vengance on the Germans for the atrocities of Stalingrad. The chapters that deal with the Russians stumbling across Auschwitz are heart breaking and is the fact that allies were aware of what was going on in the camps, but did nothing .
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Really enjoyed them books.his writing makes it easy reading.:)
 

Just read; "the Wind up bird" and "a wild sheep chase", by Haruki Murakami. To name a few.

One of those books, with a twist of fiction, like ghosts and supernatural powers, as a part of the structure.

Highly recomended on various book sites. However the "Wind up bird" was the best one, but still a little wierd.
 

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