The Official Unofficial Book Group Book Discussion thread
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Nov 2019
10:33am, 14 Nov 2019
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Badger
I've really enjoyed those Sean Duffy books. I was amazed to find they were selling so poorly that McKinty switched to being an Uber driver, but his most recent (non-Duffy) book is selling really well and he's sold a film option on it, so perhaps that will shift more copies of his earlier work.
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Nov 2019
11:16am, 14 Nov 2019
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Diogenes
I know, that's what led me to him in the first place, hearing how Don Winslow and the agent Shane Salerno sort of "rescued" him. theguardian.com |
Nov 2019
3:16pm, 14 Nov 2019
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Columba
Retreated into the past (19th century) and east (Russia) with Turgenyev's Fathers and Sons. Was on my bookshelf but I've never read it. 1996 Wordsworth Classic; must have been my mother's. So far so good (though I had to look up "verst" - an obsolete measure of distance - on Wikipaedia). |
Nov 2019
3:17pm, 14 Nov 2019
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McGoohan
Fs and Ss is a genuinely great book.
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Nov 2019
3:24pm, 14 Nov 2019
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Columba
So I understand. A verst is just over a kilometre. In case anyone wanted to know. |
Nov 2019
4:15pm, 14 Nov 2019
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Love Lettuce
I might start measuring my runs in versts. It'll let me log some new PBs
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Nov 2019
4:18pm, 14 Nov 2019
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Diogenes
It the wrong sort of weather for running versts
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Nov 2019
4:35pm, 14 Nov 2019
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Love Lettuce
It may turn out to be a personal verst
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Nov 2019
9:01am, 17 Nov 2019
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Diogenes
Diary of a Somebody A partially poetic review: Part 1: This is fun, the thing has potential Part 2: What to do, it’s a little erratic Part 3: Dearie me, it’s inconsequential Part 4: I withdraw, the end is emphatic. Brian pulled it all together in the end and had me realise he is as clever as I thought he was. Not going to win any prizes, nor garner any complaints. |
Nov 2019
10:59pm, 19 Nov 2019
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Chrisull
Who put two nns in the thread title? I only just noticed when I searched on this thread and couldn't find it. Some sort of conspiracy to keep it even more underground?? Anyway, finally finished Ali Smith's Autumn (in Autumn yay!). Not her best book, but then Ali Smith on mediocre is still head and shoulders above most. I wasn't fond of the Brexit related chunterings, (especially the post office bit), which kind of broke up the narrative and sounded dangerously like preaching to the converted. But then it was more than saved by digressions on Pauline Boty and Christine Keeler, and the delvings into the past of the two main characters, who I understand are with us in Winter and Spring as well? There's magic when she weaves the threads between art, music, memories and people's lives, and an beautiful economy to her prose that says exactly what it needs to and no more. |
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