maryhilldon Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 14 hours ago, Sooper-hanz said: Im quite prolific in the book game just now. Are ye aye? Link to comment
Poodler Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 MHD, why don’t you fuck off 10 minutes ago, maryhilldon said: Aye? 5 minutes ago, maryhilldon said: Are ye aye? 1 Link to comment
maryhilldon Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 13 minutes ago, Poodler said: MHD, why don’t you fuck off Rhetorical question? Link to comment
maryhilldon Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 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? Link to comment
Poodler Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 Not until you watch The Office, ffs Link to comment
maryhilldon Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 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? 1 Link to comment
beef_sister Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Just finished "Shantaram" Good read and a pretty wild story, How much of it is true i don't know.... Link to comment
beef_sister Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 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. Link to comment
redstrummer Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 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 Link to comment
Ke1t Posted May 13, 2022 Share Posted May 13, 2022 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. Link to comment
Ramandu Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 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? Link to comment
For Fecks Sake Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 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. Link to comment
For Fecks Sake Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 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!!! Link to comment
Guest Grays Babylon 1875 Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 The Gulag Archipelago - foreword by Duncan Goodhew. Barrel of fucking laughs. ? Needs must though. Dr Peterson said so. @CCB III Link to comment
maryhilldon Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 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? Link to comment
Guest Grays Babylon 1875 Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 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. Link to comment
maryhilldon Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 4 minutes ago, Grays Babylon 1875 said: It's a The Office gag Mary doll. Ah right. Of course it is. Link to comment
Ramandu Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 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. Link to comment
Quagmire Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 Pete Doherty's book. Prefer your American rock n roll junkie. Different levels of debauchery. Link to comment
Guest Grays Babylon 1875 Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 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... Link to comment
Ke1t Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 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. Link to comment
Guest Grays Babylon 1875 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 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. Link to comment
Guest Grays Babylon 1875 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 That's the Hibs one. Not the arse faced weasel who wrote and sang them songs. Thank you. Link to comment
maryhilldon Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 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. Link to comment
Guest Grays Babylon 1875 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 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. Link to comment
Ramandu Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 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. Link to comment
For Fecks Sake Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Reading the latest Rebus book, brilliant as ever so far. Link to comment
alscotoz Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 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 Link to comment
For Fecks Sake Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 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. Link to comment
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