Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
Trying saying the words out loud as you read them, fund it helps them stay in your head.
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What’s everyone reading?
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Trying saying the words out loud as you read them, fund it helps them stay in your head.
It's a struggle without pictures.
Diamond Lights
Alan Hutton
Not reading yet but interested to pick up Broken Heartlands by Sebastian Payne of the Financial Times.
discusses the fall of the red wall and Labour's struggles in recent years.
discusses the fall of the red wall and Labour's struggles in recent years.
Hotshot-Tottenham
Edgar Davids
After reading her incredible book The Unwomanly Face Of War, I have high hopes for this.
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
I’ve read that, harrowing stuff.
Hotshot-Tottenham
Edgar Davids
Yeah. One of best books I’ve ever read.
Weirdly, darkly farcically comic in some places as the sheer absurdity of what was happening was described. Absolutely incredible book.
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Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
Haven’t started it, but next up for me is The Coddling of the American Mind. Heard lots of great things about it. Interested to see where and how all this woke nonsense originated from in universities and parenting and what the solution is. The only slightly negative review I read was from the Guardian, shocker. Probably a millennial triggered by it. I read somewhere that at Brandeis university the term “trigger warning” now requires a trigger warning 
Hotshot-Tottenham
Edgar Davids
Haven’t started it, but next up for me is The Coddling of the American Mind. Heard lots of great things about it. Interested to see where and how all this woke nonsense originated from in universities and parenting and what the solution is. The only slightly negative review I read was from the Guardian, shocker. Probably a millennial triggered by it. I read somewhere that at Brandeis university the term “trigger warning” now requires a trigger warning
LOL, it’s a Joe Rogan favourite so the Guardian definitely won’t like it!
Robbo
Paul Walsh
Just read it, and I loved it. His research for this book must've been extremely thorough, and his descriptions and narration of the story is incredible.
Capote really does paint pictures in your head with his words - I could so vividly see the scenes and characters while I read it.
I can only second this recommendation.
Mikey10
Jimmy Neighbour
Really pleassed you enjoyed it.
If you get the chance, this film is built around Capote's writing of the book. It's excellent too.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379725/
Robbo
Paul Walsh
Yeah, I thought about watching it now, after I read the book. I remember it premiering and Phillip Seymour Hoffman getting rave reviews, but back then I had only heard the name Truman Capote and didn't know what it was all about. Now I'll probably enjoy it a lot more.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
Toby Mckensie did a better Capote. According to my wife.
Mosquito_Coasting
Jonathan Woodgate
In Cold Blood is indeed a masterpiece. Infamous is another film about that time, on par with Capote, both excellent.
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
Might give this a go
Noah Hawley - Anthem (2022)
The first big novel of 2022: an epic literary thriller set where America is right now, in which a band of unlikely heroes sets out on a quest to save one innocent life—and might end up saving us all.
Something is happening to teenagers across America, spreading through memes only they can parse.
At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon Oliver is trying to recover from his sister’s tragic passing. He breaks out to join a woman named Louise and a man called The Prophet on a quest as urgent as it is enigmatic. Who lies at the end of the road? A man known as The Wizard, whose past encounter with Louise sparked her own collapse. Their quest becomes a rescue mission when they join up with a man whose sister is being held captive by the Wizard, impregnated and imprisoned in a tower.
Noah Hawley’s new novel is an adventure that finds unquenchable lights in dark corners. Unforgettably vivid characters and a plot as fast and bright as pop cinema blend in a Vonnegutian story that is as timeless as a Grimm’s fairy tale. It is a leap into the idiosyncratic pulse of the American heart, written with the bravado, literary power, and feverish foresight that have made Hawley one of our most essential writers.
Noah Hawley - Anthem (2022)
The first big novel of 2022: an epic literary thriller set where America is right now, in which a band of unlikely heroes sets out on a quest to save one innocent life—and might end up saving us all.
Something is happening to teenagers across America, spreading through memes only they can parse.
At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon Oliver is trying to recover from his sister’s tragic passing. He breaks out to join a woman named Louise and a man called The Prophet on a quest as urgent as it is enigmatic. Who lies at the end of the road? A man known as The Wizard, whose past encounter with Louise sparked her own collapse. Their quest becomes a rescue mission when they join up with a man whose sister is being held captive by the Wizard, impregnated and imprisoned in a tower.
Noah Hawley’s new novel is an adventure that finds unquenchable lights in dark corners. Unforgettably vivid characters and a plot as fast and bright as pop cinema blend in a Vonnegutian story that is as timeless as a Grimm’s fairy tale. It is a leap into the idiosyncratic pulse of the American heart, written with the bravado, literary power, and feverish foresight that have made Hawley one of our most essential writers.
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Ian Walker
yiddo37
Didier Zokora
Enjoying it.
Don't really do books apart from a few sports biographies but Bob is one of my favourite people and his book has had some laugh out loud moments. Some of it has been mentioned in the 'Gone fishing' series and 'would I lie to you'. Picked it up for a tenner, bargain.