Finished up the Stephen Fry books on the Greeks - Mythos, Heroes, and Troy (although I think there’s one more in the works about the Odyssey) and now reading “Caligula” by Simon Turney. After that, another book by Turney - “Commodus”.
Kells77 How heavy going is this? I’m still tempted.
vinnyt77 Bought this as well, cheers Tim
Too hot to read.
anyone got any good modern day fiction recommendations for the holidays?
Dubmick
https://www.vulture.com/article/best-books-21st-century-so-far.html
Probably only read about 20% of these, still it’s a good list of recommendations. Personally, I loved The Corrections and Platform.
bosstrabs Thanks for that will check it out. Love all Franzan’s books, would consider re-reading. Good oul platform. Great bit of filth in his books lol.
bosstrabs Probably only read about 20% of these
Palestine.
bosstrabs Anything Houellebecq.
Have look at Ishiguro’s ‘Never Let me Go’ as well.
bosstrabs great list this Dave - need some new books to read 👍
bosstrabs Just finished Platform. Not sure what to make of it tbh. I think I enjoyed it, although I found it quite bleak.
Mad_Cyril Interesting Houellebecq fact:
While his brother Danny kept the English spelling of the name, Michael adopted a French spelling to ensure literary success.
bosstrabs Also, Micky has actually written more books than Danny has scored goals
‘Blood Gun Money’ by Ioan Grillo, about how America supplies the weaponry and fuels the drug wars. Holy shit!
LT42 ‘Blood Gun Money’ by Ioan Grillo, about how America supplies the weaponry and fuels the drug wars. Holy shit!
Any cop?
Sounds mustard!
Smallman1 brilliant book imo, Grillo has been deep in Mexico since around 2003, fantastic journalist
I started reading the Last Samurai from Dave’s list….was top of the list basically …intriguing so far
Tarantino wrote a novelisation for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Hundred pages in and it’s quite decent. No surprises that the dialogue is the best part. Otherwise it reads a bit like a pulp novel, which is also pretty fitting.
There’s a new Stephen King book out in a day or so, meant to be great
Tomorrow in fact.
Yep, that’s next for me.
Homegrove it’s a cracker.
