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Marty
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Just finished reading 'The man in the high castle', its excellent.
HMV do modern classics at 2 for £7.
Sky_Blue_Daz
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Bob Mortimers autobiography and his novel The satsuma complex are very good
Brighton Sky Blue
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Just finished 'Into Thin Air' by Jon Krakauer, about the 1996 accident on Everest. Brilliantly written and an incredible story
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon
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Agree, very good book. He did another which i really enjoed called Where Men Win Glory, about an NFL star that gave itball up to volunteer for service in the US military after 9/11
Brighton Sky Blue
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I'm moving onto 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb' by Richard Rhodes but after that may get 'Into the Wild' also by Krakauer about someone who tried living on his own in the Alaskan wilderness.
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon
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Not read it but heard of it due to the film adaptation they made, im sure it'll be good. I've been listening to a few podcasts around the Manhattan project, predominantly the Al Murray/James Holland ones that focus on the military side and why they decided to use it. It's a fascinating and frankly scary chapter in history, really did change the world forever when they figured out how to make one work.
On the book side ive started My Father's House which im hoping will be good. Part of a trilogy set in Rome during the Second World War.
DawlishSkyBlue
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Read a few recently. Going through Pulitzer prize winning books that I'd not read before. Read Underground Railroad (superb) and Nickel Boys (good) by Colson Whitehead. Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch (great but not sure it needed to be 800 pages). Currently about 30 pages into The Sympathiser, which is think is gonna be great
Ccfcisparks
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Reading Blood Meridian at the moment. Interesting book.
Brighton Sky Blue
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That’s Houchens Head on here
Gynnsthetonic
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Was on here, he seems to of disappeared
Brighton Sky Blue
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Yes noticed that when I tried to tag him
Gynnsthetonic
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Maybe after yesterday's episode
Sky Blue Pete
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Powerful book
Sky Blue Pete
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New strike novel if it’s allowed as Jk rowling wrote it
Brighton Sky Blue
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Gynnsthetonic
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Think it was on the Trump thread about the Queen and Prince Andrew.The highlight was Hills Gif. Think everything has been deleted now
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon
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I found that fucking hard work to be honest
DT-R
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I enjoy the strike novels. I tried the casual vacancy, really tough read. Got about 1/3 way through and took it back to the library. Couldn't get in to it at all
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Ccfcisparks
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it is very hard
Grendel
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He’s changed his user name
Captain Dart
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I didn't know you could do that.
I guess it makes sense if you created an account using the name of a player that goes from hero to zero. 
Farmer Jim
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Easily gets in my top ten books, but it`s without doubt one of the darkest books I`ve ever read. At no point in the book, is there a moment of lightness, it`s just non stop, brutality, darkness, depravity and bleakness.
It`s crying out to be made into a film, but from what I`ve read, everyone that`s attempted to make it into a film, just can`t find a way around keeping the film true to the book and somehow getting it through the sensors.
Have you read McCarthy`s - Border Trilogy ?
Probably his " lightest " work, but some of his most beautiful writing.
Once you read these three books and in particular - All the Pretty Horses, it`s easy to see why his books are already being studied at degree level in the States.
Ccfcisparks
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Its the first Cormac McArthy book I've read, but I have watched the Road and no country for old men
What else do you reccomend out your top 10? That I can read next
DawlishSkyBlue
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I've read the border trilogy and thought it was brilliant, the first two books especially. My favourite part was the first 100 or so pages of The Crossing (Billy and the wolf). I haven't really come across anyone else who writes like Cormac does
DawlishSkyBlue
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10 books i recommend, not necessarily my top ten but first 10 great reads that popped in my head
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh
The Bridge - Iain Banks
For Whom the Bell tolls - Hemingway
The Siege- Helen Dunmore
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Big Nowhere - James Elroy
The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene
Farmer Jim
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Some crackers there, read a good few of them too.
Do you like well written horror ?
The Passage - Justin Cronin ( he`s a professor of English Lit in the States ) and is just a magnificent book ) It sounds like it should be absolute rubbish, but it was that good, I was carrying the book around with me everywhere I went - if McCarthy did horror, this would be the book. ( there are two books, but they don`t have the depth or the writing of the first )
Let the Right One in - John Adjvide Blomquist.
A master piece and as much of a social comment about poverty and isolation, as it is about horror.
The writing is out of this world, as the two desperately lonely " children " bond with each other, only for the author to bit by bit, waken the reader to what`s really going on. I genuinely felt like I`d been punched in the stomach when I finished the book and it stayed with me for a long long time after reading it. ( the original uncut Swedish film of it, does a very good job )
Sadly the author was never able to capture the masterpiece he`d created with this book, as the books he`s written since then, have been pretty standard horror tbh.
DawlishSkyBlue
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I've not really read any horror since I was a kid when I read loads of James Herbert and Steven King but wow that's a hell of a recommendation so ill check it out for sure
Farmer Jim
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100% read The Road, as the film bottles it due to the content ( I suppose they wouldn`t have got a cert of they`d stayed true to the book )
With the book, there`s non of the stupid and pointless beginning, with Charlize Theron, it`s just a man and a boy of the road, following the collapse of humanity. ( The first time I read it, I was crying that hard, I had to leave the house and go for a walk to get my head together ! )
Another McCarthy I`d highly recommend, is All the Pretty Horses - to me, it`s McCarthy`s finest work, as the writing is just sublime and although there is violence in it, it`s not as bleak and brutal as some of his other books.
Also two books I`ve mentioned above :
The Passage - Justin Cronin ( don`t be put of by the fact that it`s a 1000 pages long, ! )
Let the Right One In - John Ajdvide Blomquist.
More mainstream - Stephen Kings - The Stand is a very good book too.
Farmer Jim
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The Passage had all the ingredients to be one of the all time horror greats to be transferred to the screen, but it needed to be done properly, which would`ve cost a lot of money.
They went for a condensed version instead, which was absolute rubbish and not worthy of being associated with the book.
Captain Dart
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I may have made an error of judgement, I thought I would get the Strike novels to read. Got 1 to 7 in hardback 2nd hand for about £23 but the stack is 14" high, that'll keep me busy. I hope they read well cause I've never read any Rowling work so far just seen the films or Tv productions of her work.
Sky Blue Pete
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You’ll love the strike onesI may have made an error of judgement, I thought I would get the Strike novels to read. Got 1 to 7 in hardback 2nd hand for about £23 but the stack is 14" high, that'll keep me busy. I hope they read well cause I've never read any Rowling work so far just seen the films or Tv productions of her work.