Good Books

[FordesSave]

@backinatracksuit

…Recommendation needed for a bit of mindless fiction to listen to while running, I tend to daydream a lot so it’ll need to be fairly untaxing, I finished ‘Where the Crawdads sing’ this morning and enjoyed it very much.Page turning fiction is what I need

I read both elevator pitch and the chain recently. Both easy enough to read not too much thinking. Might be up your street

[binkybarnes]

@tallback

I’m fairly sure I picked up the recommendation on this thread, but I finished reading The Son by Philip Meyer over the weekend. Absolutely loved it. Definitely similar to Cormac McCarthy in some ways.

I recommended that . An epic.

[Fat_Pox]

@Big_Dan_Campbell

…0s which went through a similar kind of faith to the Irish Civil war which resulted in a botched attempt by nationalist to assassinate President Truman and how nationalists from Puerto Rico storming into the house of representative and indiscriminately firing leading to five congress men getting shot.

I presume you’ve read Prisoners of Geography. It is a good take on global geopolitics.

[tallback]

@binkybarnes

@tallback

I’m fairly sure I picked up the recommendation on this thread, but I finished reading The Son by Philip Meyer over the weekend. Absolutely loved it. Definitely similar to Cormac McCarthy in some ways.

I recommended that . An epic.

Thanks - I thought it was class. Epic is exactly what it was. I must buy his other book now.

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

Yes I did. If you enjoyed that then this would be right up your alley. Moves along at a much faster pace too.

It is easy to see why racism is still so systemic over there the country really was founded on it. The book concentrates on territories outside the main United States like Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, Alaska, the Philippines and the various rocks they annexed in the Caribbean to dig the hundreds of years of accumulated bird shit off to fertilise crops back in the US. Some great yarns in it about the likes of Teddy Roosevelt

[Fagan_ODowd]

I took this book down off the shelf tonight and gave it a bit of a read. It’s an absolutely hateful anti Irish diatribe and a great insight into British thinking about Ireland in the 1920s

A blast from the past

[anon78624367]

I’m reading a cracker of a book by peter carey, the true history of the kelly gang. Its written in the vernacular of the time and place, the imagery is stunning. A masterpiece

The narrative is by Ned Kelly himself and the format is in fictional letters from Ned to his daughter.

[gilgamboa]

Just finished the globalist the biography of Peter Surherland. A pedestrian enough read tbh. He was a serious operator in fairness

[maroonandwhite]

Its a movie now too that came out just before the pandemic

[anon78624367]

Jaysus, have you seen it. I hope it does the book justice

[maroonandwhite]

Was gonna go before it all shut down

[anon78624367]

Have you read the book?

[maroonandwhite]

I read half of it about 20 years ago and can’t remember fuck all of it

[anon78624367]

I’ll be finishing it tonight and I’ll watch the movie Monday while its fresh.

[Ashman]

Did it cover his legal and business career ??

[gilgamboa]

Yes.

[anon78624367]

They made a pure fuck out of the movie

[flattythehurdler]

@anon78624367

…I’m reading a cracker of a book by peter carey, the true history of the kelly gang. Its written in the vernacular of the time and place, the imagery is stunning. A masterpieceThe narrative is by Ned Kelly himself and the format is in fictional letters from Ned to his daughter.

Did it not win the booker prize?

[anon78624367]

It did ya. It’s a great book

I’m watching the movie here and it’s disgusting

[flattythehurdler]

Bad?