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    JK Rowling has just been on the radio talking about the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book.

    I seriously doubt if anybody has made such a career of milking one small wizard since Debbie McGee.
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    last couple of books that I have read



    In the city that’s become a symbol for the death of the American dream, a nightmare killer is unravelling reality. The new thriller from Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls.

    Detective Gabi Versado has hunted down many monsters during her eight years in Homicide. She’s seen stupidity, corruption and just plain badness. But she’s never seen anything like this.

    Clayton Broom is a failed artist, and a broken man. Life destroyed his plans, so he’s found new dreams – of flesh and bone made disturbingly, beautifully real.

    Detroit is the decaying corpse of the American Dream. Motor-city. Murder-city. And home to a killer opening doors into the dark heart of humanity.

    A killer who wants to make you whole again…
    Decent book this was, it started off as a really good crime thriller sort of thing and then descended into absolute chaotic twilight zone sci-fi gibberish which threatened to ruin the whole thing.
    All of the characters were telegraphed and massively cliched, you had the tough single mom, the little shit of a teen daughter who gets into trouble all the time, the hard ass black fella who has a heart of gold, the down on his look journalist who will do anything to make it to the big time.

    It should have been a snooze fest but the dialogue between the characters was fantastic and it saved it, the final third of the book really tries to ram home the dangers of social media and show how reliant we all are on it, I didn't get that at all and thought it wasn't needed but that's probably because I don't use any social media at all.



    A brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down this bloody path? Will he hang for his crime?

    Presented as a collection of documents discovered by the author, His Bloody Project opens with a series of police statements taken from the villagers of Culdie, Ross-shire. They offer conflicting impressions of the accused; one interviewee recalls Macrae as a gentle and quiet child, while another details him as evil and wicked. Chief among the papers is Roderick Macrae’s own memoirs, where he outlines the series of events leading up to the murder in eloquent and affectless prose. There follow medical reports, psychological evaluations, a courtroom transcript from the trial, and other documents that throw both Macrae’s motive and his sanity into question. Graeme Macrae Burnet’s multilayered narrative will keep the reader guessing to the very end.
    This was fucking brilliant, I love books from the era that this is set in and the writing style is perfect although the fact it was only wrote 2 years ago makes it a helluva lot less dense and wordy as books from the late 18's or early 19's but it doesn't lose any of the feeling or athmosphere of these sorts of books.

    The blurb says that it will leave you guessing to the very end and it certainly did, fucking fantastic book, it certainly reminded me a little of 'confessions of a justified sinner' (I think I mentioned reading that a few months back) so that sat well with me.

    I'd definitely recommend it.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Batman View Post
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    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.
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    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



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    Way too many pages!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Batman View Post

    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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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



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    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.
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    well that review doesn't make Froch sound like a bell end at all

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    Quote Originally Posted by Batman View Post
    well that review doesn't make Froch sound like a bell end at all
    I want to hate Froch but he is very knowledgeable about boxing and that comes across when he commentates on Sky, loves his home city Nottingham, family man and does not mind getting his hand dirty. So I think I would get on well with him.
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    well that review doesn't make Froch sound like a bell end at all
    I want to hate Froch but he is very knowledgeable about boxing and that comes across when he commentates on Sky, loves his home city Nottingham, family man and does not mind getting his hand dirty. So I think I would get on well with him.
    well they do say that opposites attract

    I don't have a problem with him, he's a big headed bastard and I always thought he would get found out in the ring but he never did so fair play to him.

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