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  • KaseyKasey Posts: 29,715 mod

    Charlesgate Confidential was one of the best mystery books I've read in a long time

    Kind of enjoying these IQ series of crime novels by Joe Ide. He's no George Pelecanos, but I've read all his books

  • DamnYankeeDawgDamnYankeeDawg Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Enjoyed this novel from Beevor many years ago. Good account of Stalingrad. Long, brutal battle for both sides.

  • KaseyKasey Posts: 29,715 mod

    With all this talk about books and Game of Thrones, I highly recommend "city of thieves" by David Benioff. I hope he goes back to writing novels when the show is done

  • swilkerson73swilkerson73 Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭✭ Senior

    Just finished that one. I knew from school the Nazis were all hopped up on meth during the war. This book goes into painstaking detail about the whole sorry affair. If you are interested in history or WWII its a good read.

  • scooterdawgscooterdawg Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Ha! I thought I was the only one who knew that Benioff had a career outside of GoT. He also wrote The 25th Hour which was made into an underrated movie: Ed Norton...Phillip Seymour Hoff. I'm not usually a Spike Lee guy but the story was good. I ran across City of Thieves randomly before GoT was even a show.

  • KaseyKasey Posts: 29,715 mod
  • swilkerson73swilkerson73 Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭✭ Senior
    edited May 2019
  • RxDawgRxDawg Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    @swilkerson73 Is that actually good? I found the title and subject so off putting I didn't give it a chance.


    Back to books, I just finished the Thrawn book from the Star Wars saga. Apparently there are a LOT of books that take place in between all the different movies. And I gota say, if they're all as good as Thrawn was then I'm in for a very good literary treat. I've never rooted for a villain as much as this. Although he doesn't exactly come off as a really bad guy in the story. It almost reads like a detective novel, just with the addition of the Imperial Navy with all the star destroyers and TIE fighters and such. Really fun book and I plan to read through much of them now.

  • christopheruleschristopherules Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited May 2019

    @Bulldawg1982 Seeing this book cover just brought back a massive flood of sweet childhood memories where I can just now hear Larry Munson (inside my head) in his own determined, and excited, somewhat gravel-ly voice saying to him (Loren Smith) in the radio listening days of my youth, "What-ya-got Loran?", or other times "Loran, What-ya-got?"

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  • scooterdawgscooterdawg Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I saw today that Showtime is starting work on a series based on Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicle(The Name of the Wind). Apparently it's going to start out in a prequel form set before the start of TNOTW.

    I wonder if they are doing this to try to lessen the chance of getting stuck waiting on Rothfuss to finish like GoT did with GRRM.

    I really loved the books and wish Martin..err Rothfuss would finish the third one. If it's done well I'm definitely interested though I find it hard to believe that Showtime has the resources to do anything like HBO did with GoT.

    On the other hand, the more story driven and less CGI dragon obsessed earlier years of GoT were the best IMO. As long as this doesn't have just laughable effects it could be good. Anyone else interested or know more about it?

  • GeoffDawgGeoffDawg Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited June 2019

    Reading In Cold Blood by Truman Capote right now - nonfiction account of a mass murder in rural Kansas in the late 50's. Interesting insight into the minds of remorseless killers.


  • donmdonm Posts: 10,241 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Started reading the FairTax books by Neal Boortz. Pretty dang interesting stuff. This was recommended to me by one our members. Good call.

  • scooterdawgscooterdawg Posts: 3,066 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Ha, Ol Neal. I hadn't heard that name in years. I always liked his tax plan but of course it will never happen.

  • HumbleYourselfHumbleYourself Posts: 826 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    edited June 2019
    @scooterdawg I am definitely interested in seeing what comes here. I think kingkiller chronicles could be just as strong as GOT and for much less budget. Its really more character driven and the FX side of production wouldn't need a huge budget. Showtime has done some good things in the past, not thw same track record as HBO, but far from being bad too. 

    I would happily trade it all in for book three to be published though.
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