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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azel senior
8:22 Wed Mar 4
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Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
You'll need a guardian Angel - Victor Piasecki
Game of Thrones (the whole lot) - George RR Martin
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Peckham
7:39 Mon Mar 2
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Thanks Son of Sam and for what you posted on the depression thread.
Appreciated.
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Son of Sam
7:50 Mon Mar 2
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95% of books and/or authors mentioned on this thread are here on the following link, for those who want to browse or read them, as well as the Mental Health thread's Reasons to stay alive.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VEZUTPqHJunZHZdxrgylSgJc05AQ7N9D
Cheers Miike loved Lonely Boy, great read!
Also for those who may be interested and need a good read selections as follows
WW2 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dnYL0mjyHCDEYVEaqvV_rCPkZPQkAk-6
Music https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uM8kRZ5A2BYa8D_XehdT4Qb_MnoFebH2
Film TV https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YQm6TrmlOXkTLf2acWy7f80GNwBf_Cck
Football https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b3qUlB8KZ5Z4xie5aQnJcLZYxSbPbMtq
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HairyHammer
7:34 Mon Mar 2
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bruuuuo 6.53 re Don Quixote.
That is very Srephen Fry of you to notice.
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Northern Sold
11:52 Sun Mar 1
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1. Seabiscuit - Laura Hillbrand
2. Lost voices of the RAF
3. Lost voices of the Royal Navy
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Top Iron
11:18 Sun Mar 1
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The Bad Place
His First Lie
It Was Her
All written by me.
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Nagel
10:38 Sun Mar 1
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William Goldman is very talented. Did you know he also invented the word gullible?
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Alfs
9:22 Sun Mar 1
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*hear
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Alfs
9:21 Sun Mar 1
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Nagel 10:04 Sun Mar 1
He wrote it, it's a fact. I was at Drama School and am acquainted with one of the lead actors and she's confirmed it too. He was even on set for most days.
He says a similar thing that he said in 2002 in his book Which Lie Did I tell but then suggests that he may be lying, hence the title.
Carrie Fisher too wrote quite a few hit films but you'll never see her name in the credits.
Hollywood is full of smoke, mirrors and bullshit. Never believe what you see and ignore everything you here.
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bruuuno
6:57 Sun Mar 1
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Nurse.I loved Dracula loved his journey out there found it evocative.
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bruuuno
6:53 Sun Mar 1
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I've started reading Don Quixote thanks to this thread and am enjoying it very much. I like his whimsical nature
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Nurse Ratched
6:36 Sun Mar 1
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'Epistolary'
*tips hat in gratitude to Nagel*
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Nagel
6:29 Sun Mar 1
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It's a good thing that the epistolary novel died out. Dangerous Liaisons is the only good one I can think of. Probably helps that in that one any gushing paean about other characters in the letters is likely to be a manipulative lie.
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Nurse Ratched
6:06 Sun Mar 1
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Dook
The Stoker one is the only vampire book I've ever tried to read (the vampire trope being extremely silly and only fit for camping up). I tried it because I was told it's a 'classic'. Gave up about a third of the way through. Terrible, terrible book. I loathed the 'letters and journal entries' format. Plus a good 2/3rds of it seemed to be various characters writing gushing paeans about other characters. Made me want to vomit.
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Iron Duke
5:53 Sun Mar 1
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I’m reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula at the moment as it goes. I’ve only just started so too early to judge. That was on the back of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein which was actually a pretty good read.
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Nurse Ratched
5:50 Sun Mar 1
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*blinks*
You read vampire books?
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Swiss.
5:07 Sun Mar 1
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The Historian - by Elizabeth Kostova
Best vampire book since Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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Nurse Ratched
3:48 Sun Mar 1
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I hope it does very well, kips. Good luck!
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kips
3:27 Sun Mar 1
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Hope one or two of you may like to read my book
"East End - Born and Bled" by Jeff Jones.
(story of Boxing in London's East End)
Had it's official book Launch in Whitechapel yesterday and was well received.
Nice article in the East London Advertiser.
East End boxing scene running parallel with the area's social history for 300 years.
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Nagel
10:04 Sun Mar 1
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That's a myth (not fact) about Good Will Hunting. Here's what Goldman said about it in 2003:
“I would love to say that I wrote (Good Will Hunting). Here is the truth. In my obit it will say that I wrote it. People don't want to think those two cute guys wrote it. What happened was, they had the script. It was their script. They gave it to Rob [Reiner] to read, and there was a great deal of stuff in the script dealing with the F.B.I. trying to use Matt Damon for spy work because he was so brilliant in math. Rob said, "Get rid of it." They then sent them in to see me for a day - I met with them in New York - and all I said to them was, "Rob's right. Get rid of the F.B.I. stuff. Go with the family, go with Boston, go with all that wonderful stuff." And they did. I think people refuse to admit it because their careers have been so far from writing, and I think it's too bad."
Speaking of Film books, I'd recommend 2 by Peter Biskind: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls - about film directors in the 70s (Coppola, Scorsese, etc.) and Down and Dirty Pictures - about how Harvey Weinstein and Miramax fucked up independent film.
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