Peckham 8:16 Fri Feb 28
A Book Thread - 2020
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If interested please name the best or well remembered 3 books you have read and would recommend to others.
1.Don Quixote , in English, favourite book of all time. By the Spanish equivalent of Shakespeare , Cervantes. Published in fucking 1605. Genius Comedy.
2. Just read The Rose of Tibet , by Lionel Davidson, I do not like adventure books, but this is beautiful and like a better real life Indiania Jones but with a Londoner. Really nice holiday read.
3. Fuck watching 3 hours of old cunts cashing in on Goodfellas of 30 years ago, 3 hours of the Irishman, torture, but "I heard you paint houses" by Charles Brandt is a must read mafia book with the accurate story of the Irishman and Hoffa case.
4. Have not got round to reading SPLATT yet.
COYIs
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Too Much Too Young
10:00 Fri Jun 3
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Weaveworld and The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker.
Crashed and Byrned: The Greatest Racing Driver You Never Saw
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frank marker
9:32 Fri Jun 3
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If you enjoyed the TV series Terror about Franklin's search for the north West Passage you might enjoy Ice Ghosts about what actually happened.
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Hammer and Pickle
8:29 Fri Jun 3
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Just got through Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel’s epic on Thomas Cromwell and have dived straight into Bring Up the Bodies. Absolutely brilliant.
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arsene york-hunt
3:49 Wed Mar 11
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I'm reading Bare Faced Messiah. It's about the life and lies of L Ron Hubbard
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Iron Duke
10:42 Tue Mar 10
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New Jersey - stick with it. The third in the series - Redbreast, is an absolute classic. The Bat is still good in my opinion but they get better.
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Sniper
10:33 Tue Mar 10
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Just finished reading a pretty darn decent thriller called Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard - definitely a good one to put aside for a beach holiday if you’re looking
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Lertie Button
10:15 Tue Mar 10
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Of love and hunger - Julian MacLaren-Ross
My dark places - James Ellroy
The Easter parade - Richard Yates
The Pat Hobby stories - F Scott Fitzgerald
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New Jersey
7:12 Tue Mar 10
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Half way through The bat, first in the Harry Hole series by J Nesbo. Bit disappointed so far, like my Scandi-crime t be a bit more darker than that!
Norman - The Stand, what a superb book, Stephen King's finest!
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Top Iron
7:02 Tue Mar 10
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Yeah, azel senior, they are in tone, but they're UK procedurals. Funnily enough, I'm reading Elevator Pitch by Barclay right now.
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Golden Oldie
6:26 Tue Mar 10
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To be fair no books of value were lost, just communist literature and all that pornography your boys were peddling
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Northern Sold
5:08 Tue Mar 10
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Thought your lot were more about burning books Golden son...
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Golden Oldie
3:28 Tue Mar 10
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There's been lots of literature and even movies released preceding their realisation, from WWI, WWII, Globalism, genocide, Orwell & Huxley's 1984/Brave New World respectively, 9/11 and the Twin Towers falling,Trump "the wall builder" winning Presidency in The Last President (okay the real Trump never really intended to nor built an actual wall), the fall of the West etc.
Some call it predictive programming, other times it can be self fulfilling prophecy, then there's the the intelligence services that seed ideas into the open, sometimes it's simply a coincidence.
I used to think the movies like Idiocracy and They Live were just harmless entertainment only to realise it wasn't so much a prophecy as they were fly-on-the-wall documentaries.
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MancIron
3:13 Tue Mar 10
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The sword of honour trilogy - Evelyn Waugh
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
The Basketball Diaries – Jim Carroll
Ask me next week and you'd probably get 3 different answers though.
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Nagel
3:04 Tue Mar 10
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"only just got officially released to the public the other month..."
Well, it was first published in 1981 and has been reissued several times since then.
Seems to be popular now among conspiracy dimwits, mainly because the virus in the novel is named after Wuhan, despite the fact that originally it was named after Gorki and only changed in later editions of the book after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Golden Oldie
2:37 Tue Mar 10
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The Eyes of Darkness
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1472240294
Book has been out nearly 40 years but only just got officially released to the public the other month...
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normannomates
5:30 Fri Mar 6
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*Brasco
I'm not a wop..
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normannomates
5:28 Fri Mar 6
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Donnie Brascoe.. Joseph D. Pitstone.
Proper read that
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normannomates
5:25 Fri Mar 6
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The Stand.. Stephen king
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normannomates
5:23 Fri Mar 6
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Attack State Red
ALL THE FOURS
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Bernie
10:21 Wed Mar 4
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Anything by John Niven.
Blokes fucking hilarious
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azel senior
8:27 Wed Mar 4
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So Top Iron, looking at your list, if I tell you I'm a big fan of Linwood Barclay and Harlan Coben, I'm guessing these are in the same vein?
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