What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

[Batman]

I have just got Carl Froch book from the library will let you know how I get on with it.

I heard it was 80,000 pages long and published in Wembley

[Master]

I have just got Carl Froch book from the library will let you know how I get on with it.

I heard it was 80,000 pages long and published in Wembley

I am sure that will come up somewhere in the book.

[Batman]

Next book that I'm going to get started on this, I've gotta get it finished by 8th September when the film comes out, I'd forgotten what a fucking monster of a book it is, 1200 pages so I've gotta get cracking with it, I've not read it for years and I just remember the ending being pretty fucking terrible, but hey ho, I feel like I need to get through it before I see the film

[Master]

Way too many pages!!!

[Batman]

Well I started IT last wednesday and im on page 530 of 1116 so I'm pretty much half way through now.

It's a slog, I don't wanna spend too long on it so I've been hammering it, it's not exactly the biggest font ever either.

I'd forgotten how good it was, the losers club have all just met up again for the first time as adults, their childhood is slowly coming back to them now.

Fuck me though Stephen King could have already shaved 100 pages off it so far, there's a chapter which is about 40 pages long which tells the story of a negro club being burnt down by the white folk of the town, yeah I get why it is included but fucking hell King it didn't need to be 40 pages long.

Oh yeah I'd forgotten that old Dick Hallaran out of the shining puts in an appearance as well, that's a pretty cool touch.

[Gandalf]

I'm reading Peter Hooks account of his New Order days. A very long book but one of the fumniest I have read. Hook has a way of telling a story that makes me sit back and have a giggle. Great book.

[walrus]

I'm reading "rivals until death" about the many feuds between Hamilton and Burr leading up to the duel that took the life of the man who started the us financial woes

[Batman]

Finished It last night, really enjoyed it and the ending didn't grate on me as much as the first time around

Started this today

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas--Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. 'Cormac McCarthy's violent lyric masterpiece, Blood Meridian acquires an amoral, apocalyptic dimension through the Miltonic grandeur of the language ...It is a barbarously poetic odyssey through a hell without purpose' Irish Times 'McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect ...He is a great writer' Independent 'A bloody and starkly beautiful tale'

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[Master]

Read Froch’s book which has a quote on the cover about the “saviour of boxing” which is complete nonsense. I thought the book was going to be about Froch loving himself and how great he thinks he is but it was not that bad.

Froch had invested in property before he became a professional boxer and is doing well for himself.

I forgot Froch was with Hennessey and was on primetime after being on BBC and ITV where he had built a fan base. After he lost to Ward he went to Eddie and Sky where he got his best win against Bute on normal sky then fought on PPV against Kessler et al.

Froch does talk about how he was unmotivated against Ward but in reality Froch lost because he simply was not good enough to beat Ward but Carl did not give Andre the credit he deserved.

However Froch talks up about how good Arthur Abraham was when really he was just a blown up middleweight.

Froch also hates Groves with a passion but does not admit how much he does in the book, claiming he did not take him seriously and was in a dancing show during the weeks up to their first fight.

Overall it was ok book which I enjoyed reminiscing about the good fights he had during his career.

[Batman]

Finished this today, I know that Cormac McCarthy is a divisive author and you either love him or hate him, unfortunately I think I am firmly in the latter bracket.

I enjoyed The Road but even that took me a good two attempts to finish it, Blood Meridian just felt like I was literally slogging my way through a sludge if words, I really struggle with his writing style.

The Judge was a good character though.

I've not decided what I'm going to get started on next.

[Batman]

'Dedalus have unearthed a series of aptly decadent titles where elements erotic and grotesque combine. The Dark Domain is a collection of psycho-fantasies, doom-saturated tales of lonely men lost in hostile terrain, but the East European melancholy lifts to provide wonderful odd scenes, like the watchmaker whose death stops all the town clocks and the phantom train that always turns up unannounced, surprising the station staff.' Chris Fowler in Time Out Something fresh and original in fantastic fiction.

Right I've decided, I'm gunna get started on this one now