Books

[maryhilldon]

14 hours ago, Sooper-hanz said:

Im quite prolific in the book game just now. 

Are ye aye?

[Poodler]

MHD, why don’t you fuck off

10 minutes ago, maryhilldon said:

Aye?

 

5 minutes ago, maryhilldon said:

Are ye aye?

 

[maryhilldon]

13 minutes ago, Poodler said:

MHD, why don’t you fuck off

 

 

Rhetorical question?

[maryhilldon]

16 minutes ago, Poodler said:

MHD, why don’t you fuck off

 

 

I seem to get under your skin,  thought a man of the world like yourself would rise above it? 

[Poodler]

Not until you watch The Office, ffs 

[maryhilldon]

15 minutes ago, Poodler said:

Not until you watch The Office, ffs 

 I've watched the Office, not for 20 years though. ? I guess you've whooshed me?

[beef_sister]

Just finished "Shantaram" Good read and a pretty wild story,  How much of it is true i don't know....

[Bluto10]

read a book a week

[beef_sister]

16 hours ago, Grays Babylon 1875 said:

Embellished to high fuck.

Good shit though.

There was talk of a movie. 

I could play Linbaba.   Morelos would be Prabukar. 

Tv series has been done by apple i'm led to believe? But aye, a load of shite by a fantasist. good read though... I've got Mountain Shadow aswell to read.

 

[redstrummer]

1 hour ago, Grays Babylon 1875 said:

The Forgotten Highlander.

One of your lot gets captured in Singapore and forced to work as a slave building the Death Railway.  Grim reading.   Twisted little fuckers them Jappo soldiers.

This made me smile, if a little RACIST.  Bravery and a sense of humour will get you far in life, but not always.

Good read that , the boy was from Aberdeen 

He only recently passed away 

[Ke1t]

Read Craiginches: Life in Aberdeen's Prison (Foreword by Alex Ferguson)

Thought a book on Craigie, written by someone who spent decades as a guard there, would be a tasty rollercoaster of dirty protests and shankings, interspersed with full on rapings and gang warfare. 

Possibly the dullest book I've ever fucking read. 

Even the brief chapter on drugs spends more time on the growing of vegetables than it does the anal smuggling of Class A contraband. 

The chapter on fechting basically revolved around organising a boxing match. 

 The chapter on illicit booze manufacture suggests this one guard found a couple of gallon containers of hooch one day and he threw them away... end of story. 

These are the high points. 

 

 

[Ramandu]

On 3/29/2022 at 2:16 PM, Sooper-hanz said:

Im quite prolific in the book game just now. Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov on the go just now 

Must have finished it by now. Any good?

[For Fecks Sake]

Just started the first book of the "Laidlaw Trilogy" by William Mcilvanney.

Brilliant writing and story so far and he is often credited with starting the whole Tartan Noir genre inspiring the likes of Ian Rankin and Val McDermid (shite views on football but a brilliant writer).

Well worth a read if not already done so.

[For Fecks Sake]

23 hours ago, Sooper-hanz said:

Would you say it’s better than Rebus? 

Hmmm good question. Very different writing styles with Mcilvanney adopting a more descriptive style than Rankin. 

However the storylines from both are excellent and convey their respective periods and characters well.

Rebus is still my #1 but I see the mastery in Mcilvanney's writing more!

Re-reading that, it sounds gay as fuck!!!

[Guest Grays Babylon 1875]

The Gulag Archipelago - foreword by Duncan Goodhew. 

Barrel of fucking laughs. ?

Needs must though.  Dr Peterson said so. @CCB III

[maryhilldon]

58 minutes ago, Grays Babylon 1875 said:

The Gulag Archipelago - foreword by Duncan Goodhew. 

Barrel of fucking laughs. ?

Needs must though.  Dr Peterson said so. @CCB III

Forward by Duncan Goodhew?

[Guest Grays Babylon 1875]

30 minutes ago, maryhilldon said:

Forward by Duncan Goodhew?

It's a The Office gag Mary doll. 

Put the book down.  In to Chapter 3.  Too grim.  Fuck that.  Basically Stalin and his cronies were cunts that tortured and killed millions of their own people and communism is well wrong. 

[maryhilldon]

4 minutes ago, Grays Babylon 1875 said:

It's a The Office gag Mary doll. 

Ah right. Of course it is.

[Ramandu]

On 7/4/2022 at 6:31 PM, Grays Babylon 1875 said:

The Gulag Archipelago - foreword by Duncan Goodhew. 

Barrel of fucking laughs. ?

Needs must though.  Dr Peterson said so. @CCB III

Read that exact passage quoted in another book recently. Tough to read. 

[Quagmire]

Pete Doherty's book. Prefer your American rock n roll junkie. Different levels of debauchery. 

[Guest Grays Babylon 1875]

On 7/12/2022 at 10:34 AM, Ramandu said:

Read that exact passage quoted in another book recently. Tough to read. 

Would you believe it gets even worse after that...?

The shit they were doing was pure hunnery. 

Disgrace - JM Coetzee.

Bit tame but a page turner.   Disgraced professor in S Africa goes to live with his white lesbian hippy daughter on her farm.

Shit goes awry.

Mental country thon...

[Ke1t]

Gulag Archipelago was shite, tbh... thon Applebaum bird's 'Gulag' is a much easier read.

Do yourselves a favour and avoid Russian authors whenever possible.

[Guest Grays Babylon 1875]

10 hours ago, Ke1t said:

Gulag Archipelago was shite, tbh... thon Applebaum bird's 'Gulag' is a much easier read.

Do yourselves a favour and avoid Russian authors whenever possible.

Not having that.

Last page of Crime and Punishment lifted my spirits in a way I've never experienced before, even through music or looking at photographs of David Gray. 

[Guest Grays Babylon 1875]

That's the Hibs one.

Not the arse faced weasel who wrote and sang them songs.

Thank you.

[maryhilldon]

53 minutes ago, Grays Babylon 1875 said:

Not having that.

Last page of Crime and Punishment lifted my spirits in a way I've never experienced before, even through music or looking at photographs of David Gray. 

What happens again? Admits his guilt and hands himself in?  Read it many years ago, it's a bit vague now.

[Guest Grays Babylon 1875]

18 minutes ago, maryhilldon said:

What happens again? Admits his guilt and hands himself in?  Read it many years ago, it's a bit vague now.

He finally realises the purpose of life, while in jail. 

Then he glasses the barmaid.  The end. 

[Ramandu]

On 7/15/2022 at 3:46 PM, Grays Babylon 1875 said:

Not having that.

Last page of Crime and Punishment lifted my spirits in a way I've never experienced before, even through music or looking at photographs of David Gray. 

Kelt's clearly a smart chap, but of course he's talking nonsense here. 

I'll take this as a recommendation for C&P.

[For Fecks Sake]

Reading the latest Rebus book, brilliant as ever so far.

[alscotoz]

42 minutes ago, For Fecks Sake said:

Reading the latest Rebus book, brilliant as ever so far.

Title? Love the Rebus books. Bought Bobby Gillespie's book. Yet to read

[For Fecks Sake]

A Heart Full of Headstones - well worth reading.

There is apparently a new series of Rebus coming on the telly focusing on his younger days. Hopefully it's more Ken Stott than John Hannah.