Good Books

[Thomas_Brady]

If I say it’s the wife’s will you believe me?

[EstebanSexface]

I won’t judge you either way.

[Tank]

I just finished this. Pretty good and quite well written but nowhere near “the greatest novel you’ve ever read” or such nonsense. I think it must have just reminded a lot of book reviewers of their own disappointing lives.

[TreatyStones]

@Tank

I just finished this. Pretty good and quite well written but nowhere near “the greatest novel you’ve ever read” or such nonsense. I think it must have just reminded a lot of book reviewers of their own disappointing lives.

It never claimed such.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Thomas_Brady

I’ve offered these to the neighbours on the local WhatsApp group, via the wife. Or they’re being binned… I didn’t even know I had the born to run book sitting in my collection. One of the random books I probably got for Christmas and forgot about.

You should bin the Ruth Dudley Edwards book.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Might be a place for a book exchange here @Thomas_Brady.

I’ve no sentimentality around books myself. Sports biographies etc when done with them I’ve passed onto friends. I gave an ex convict a copy of On The Road in Edmonton, Canada, and I sent my copy of Burn to Run to the forum’s favourite Galwegian in Didsbury

[TheBlackSpot]

@Fagan_ODowd

You should bin the Ruth Dudley Edwards book

You should bin the Ruth Dudley Edwards book

fixed that

[Fagan_ODowd]

@caulifloweredneanderthal

Might be a place for a book exchange here @Thomas_Brady.

I’ve no sentimentality around books myself. Sports biographies etc when done with them I’ve passed onto friends. I gave an ex convict a copy of On The Road in Edmonton, Canada, and I sent my copy of Burn to Run to the forum’s favourite Galwegian in Didsbury

Flatty isn’t the only Galwegian in Didsbury?

[Thomas_Brady]

I’ve no time to be posting books around the place. I’m gonna post you on this tho for obvious reasons… Send on your address in the private group.

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Thanks a million chief

[Rocko]

@backinatracksuit

I’ve read the first three stories from the new Kevin Barry book, absolutely outstanding, just brilliant

Didn’t like the last story much but otherwise excellent stories. Love his writing.

[PhattPike]

@Tank

I just finished this. Pretty good and quite well written but nowhere near “the greatest novel you’ve ever read” or such nonsense. I think it must have just reminded a lot of book reviewers of their own disappointing lives.

I don’t know if I could name “THE greatest novel I’ve ever read”, but Stoner would definitely be Liam MacCarthy tier anyways. Thought the final few chapters* were outstanding.

*I can’t remember if the book is actually divided into chapters. Also I picked up the book at first purely for the title, expecting something completely different.

[Thomas_Brady]

I’ve never heard of it.

My top 3 would be (in no particular order) Catch 22, Crime and Punishment, The Lord of the Rings…
Would it be in that territory?

[backinatracksuit]

I picked it up there to remind myself what the last one was,
i agree, that one was a dose to have to read, the rest are class, I think my favourite was either the girl waiting on yer man gone to rob the petrol station or the one where the lad fell hard for the polish girl in the cafe,

[PhattPike]

I thought The Lord of the Rings was awful drivel, the fantasy stuff was never my game. Catch 22 would comfortably be Joe McDonagh at least. I’ve never read Crime and Punishment.

I’d struggle to name my own Top 3, off the top of my head Slaughterhouse 5, Blood Meridian and Stoner maybe.

[Thomas_Brady]

I’m gonna go on a Russian rampage … Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Pushkin

[Rocko]

@backinatracksuit

I picked it up there to remind myself what the last one was,
i agree, that one was a dose to have to read, the rest are class, I think my favourite was either the girl waiting on yer man gone to rob the petrol station or the one where the lad fell hard for the polish girl in the cafe,

I’d read that Leitrim (Polish girl) one a couple of times before but it’s excellent. Agreed on the other, probably my favourite of the lot.

[LionelRitchie]

Was it any good? Got it as a Xmas present but not started into it yet

[Thomas_Brady]

Lord of the Rings is phenomenal… It’s all subjective anyway. Dostoyevsky is a brilliant writer but his books do depend on the translation. Some of the older translations are tough going.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@LionelRitchie

Was it any good? Got it as a Xmas present but not started into it yet

Starts off as a nice atmospheric novel but gets bleak.