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The Dice Man
Bloke decides on roll of a dice wether he's going to rape a woman or not
Didn't read the full book , not pleasant
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Brave New World
Crash
A Scanner Darkly
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Million Little Pieces & My Friend Leonard by James Frey
There are some excellent books listed here but some of them quite grim so I will choose a cheerful and uplifting book.....
The Card by Arnold Bennett. Made into a light hearted film starring Alec Guinness
Stupid White Men by Micheal Moore is a good read
He's no fan of Bush, if you will pardon the expression
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous - absolutely life changing.
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I’ll never forget the day we started reading Of Mice and Men in year 10. I opened the first page and some **** had written on it “George shoots Lennie”. Worst spoiler of all time
— Lillie (@lillieh_x) November 14, 2020
From recent years:
Austerlitz by WG Sebald.
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek.
The Skin by Curzio Malaparte.
This is Memorial Device by David Keenan. His newest one For the Good Times is tidy too.
Chernobyl Prayer and Second Hand Time, both by Svetlana Alexievich.
Border by Kapka Kassabova.
One from the past that really affected me as a teenager that had a moment in the literary sun again recently due to the pandemic was The Plague by Albert Camus. Saw an interesting dramatised version of it at the Arcola theatre in London a couple years ago.
The Forgotten Soldier - Guy Sajer
About life on the Eastern Front during WWII for an Alsace Frenchman, in the German army.
The memory I have, is of listening to Joy Division's 'Closer' album, whilst reading that book for the first time, back in 1980.
A haunting but brilliant combination.
Its about a drug addict who goes through some stuff and eventually rehabilitates himself. It was written as non-fiction but eventually turned out to be pretty much all made up.
People bought into his plight and felt betrayed when it turned out to be a book of fiction.
Cardiff-based..."The Hiding Place". Trezza Azzapardi uses real Cardiff locations (including where my mum lived as a young child) to create as bleak a story as you will ever read. No wonder my mum always said "you can play with who you like but not the Maltese". A truly stomach churning ending.
Turns out one branch of the family is of Maltese extraction, something I found out only last year (thought they were Italian).
Devils Guard by George Robert Elford
Quite a controversial book in which it is claimed by the author that the story was told to him first hand by former Waffen SS Partizan Jaeger Kommando Captain Hans Wagemuller. The story goes that Wagemuller led his men out of the Eastern front fighting partisans back to Germany/Switzerland where he and eventually around 900 former SS soldiers were enlisted into a Nazi Battalion as part of the French Foreign Legion and sent to Vietnam to fight against the Vietnam Minh.
They are alleged to have ferocious and brutal tactics which made the French and the locals afraid of them.
The story is full of neo-Nazi propaganda and appears a work of fiction.
Wagemuller is reported to have been still alive in 1980 but disappeared off the radar subsequently.
It as in the top 10 book list of US servicemen in the First Gulf War and the only military book in that list.
It’s an interesting and thought provoking read
I thought a million little pieces was the biggest crock of shit I ever read and put it down half way through. If you want a great book on addiction I highly recommend:- a piece of cake by Cupcake Brown it blew my mind.
QBVII (or QB7) by Leon Uris. The trial of a UK doctor accused of Nazi war crimes. A book I recommend to everyone.
Happy like Murderers by Gordon Burn. The best book about Fred and Rose West.
Unreliable Memoirs; and Falling towards England by Clive James. Very, very funny.
Anything by Daniel Woodrell. Country Noir.