Morpheus Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Reading Bravo Two Zero and can't put it down. Its not true you know. Its not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 1, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 1, 2013 Reading Bravo Two Zero and can't put it down. Its not true you know. Its not? Not literally, no. "Can't put it down" is merely a figure of speech. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 Morpheus may have been playing with the super glue again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 3, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 3, 2013 Just finished this. A rare re-read for me, of a travel classic - an account of a journey by car around England, in 1927. One section jumped out at me as being tragically ironic: "Coventry... is a lucky city. Fire, which wiped old London from the map, has spared to Coventry several of the finest buildings of their kind in the world..." He little knew what was going to happen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 I wonder if SmallHeathTalk have a "Can you read?" thread? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 I wonder if SmallHeathTalk have a "Can you read?" thread? I think they'd do well with a "can you speak?" thread to be honest. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8pints Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 I imagine their forum to just be a disorganised collection of crude pictures. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jadenb42 Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 (edited) Don't know if you read Chris Ryan's the one who got away if not read that...another book which is good is called sniper one. All good reads Edited November 4, 2013 by jadenb42 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 My mate txt me just yesterday to tell me that there are 3 people that we used to go to school with who on Facebook have their favourite book listed as a facebook joke page 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legov Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 Just started on this one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 I imagine their forum to just be a disorganised collection of crude pictures. If it wasn't for the mods, we'd have a thread like that to be fair 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon_villan Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Never a reader in my youth to be honest. Quite fancy getting into it though. My mate recommended the Jack Reacher books; anyone read them and concur? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 7, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted November 7, 2013 Finished In Search of England, now onto: Supposed to be the best thing he did outside of The Naked and the Dead. Very promising so far, very much like an American John Le Carre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuck Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Just finished this. A rare re-read for me, of a travel classic - an account of a journey by car around England, in 1927. One section jumped out at me as being tragically ironic: "Coventry... is a lucky city. Fire, which wiped old London from the map, has spared to Coventry several of the finest buildings of their kind in the world..." He little knew what was going to happen. Ooh, might have to have a look for that book, looks interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 (edited) Well after whingeing about Feast for Crows, the last 4 or 5 chapters were outstanding. Time to dig into A Dance with Dragons. I was also alarmed to see how he hoped to get the latter out a year after Feast for Crows and it took him 6. he's not going to live to finish it is he? Edited November 8, 2013 by Wainy316 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Dunno. He might have much of the ground work already written. A Dance With Dragons is much better than Crows was. Dany & Tyrion are actually in it again and you catch up with some of the stuff that has already been shown on TV. I'm currently going through the Dunk & Egg tales which are some short stories set about 100 years before A Song of Ice & Fire. There is some overlap, you meet characters who are referenced a lot in ASoIaF and get an even greater sense of the world. Well worth getting into after Dragons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 (edited) I tried to read GoT's, I really did. Not happenin' though. I find too many fantasy writers forgo decent writing for world building, which puts me off and ultimately bores me when I try to read them. I'm currently reading this Only on the second story, but his writing really is something else. Some sentences can run on for whole pages. The first story was hard work, although deliberately jargon-filled as it dealt with marketing, but the second has some sentences that I just have to stop to and re-read a few times because they are so **** good. Edited November 8, 2013 by CarewsEyebrowDesigner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Dunno. He might have much of the ground work already written. A Dance With Dragons is much better than Crows was. Dany & Tyrion are actually in it again and you catch up with some of the stuff that has already been shown on TV. I'm currently going through the Dunk & Egg tales which are some short stories set about 100 years before A Song of Ice & Fire. There is some overlap, you meet characters who are referenced a lot in ASoIaF and get an even greater sense of the world. Well worth getting into after Dragons. Nice one, will check that out. I can't imagine a life without being immersed in that world now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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