Books

[Scáthach]

On a national scale I suppose it cuts down on urbanisation and let's them have all the lovely forests to go hiking in. 

[Pedrito]

Henning Mankell: The White Lioness - the third of the Wallander series. Needed a couple of relatively light books before getting back to the Dune series.

Read a tonne of them maybe 10 years back. Oul Wallander just a great character all round. White Lioness very good too. The Swedish tv series is excellent.

[Carnage]

Which one, there've been a few? I've seen the first season of the Krister Hendriksson one, that was what led me to the books. It was excellent viewing, I must look up the rest of the run.

[Caomhaoin]

Avoid the UK series.

My uncle (by marriage) is Swedish and he scoffed and guffawed when I asked him if he read any Mankell. Only making conversation! Although the first thing I ever said to him, even before my Auntie could tell him my name was, 'here what do you make of Dark Funeral' (a member of this board dared me to do that, and I was definitely 30 or more when I met him chalk it down  yaaaa)so maybe he smelled a rat. And we have big yins in Kilkenny let me tell ya.

[Pedrito]

UK series crap alright. Apropriation of the highest order 

[Carnage]

I'd have no interest in the UK version, the earlier Swedish versions aren't meant to be great either.

Really sad what happened to Johanna Sällström too, she was brilliant in it.

[Caomhaoin]

Great page turner of a series. Sent the auld a few from book depository, he loved it then. I really enjoyed the back story with the drinking, his ex wife and daughter etc. It's almost a cliché of a detective, and I'm wary of dodgy translations but the matter of fact language enhanced those books for me if anything. The early 90's is a great setting for the one set partly in Latvia too.

I'm imagining Chris after reading a few chapters, his nose in the air, ostentatiously waving away the stink of proletarian 'literature' 😂

[Pedrito]

The Latvian one excellent. I'm going to get stuck into some Michael Connelly soon. He writes the Bosch books and seeing as I'm addicted to rhe sleazy modern LA noir vibe of things it should do the trick.

[Caomhaoin]

Pete, I have James Ellroy books here belonging to you. Some writer lad. Did you ever read that Magnusson one about Scotland? Or has it got lost in the ether🤣

[Pedrito]

Need to read. Was talking to a.mate of mine who lives in Scotland the other day, says the hatred of the Irish is unreal over there sometimes.

[Caomhaoin]

Ask Seamus lad, he got dogs abuse working in Edinburgh.

I love Scotland as you know, but I got called a 'bead twirling fenian' whilst I was hiking!

[Scáthach]

Bead twirling fenian!  Fuck sake. It's not your fault those jambo cunts don't know when it's time for a decade or 2.

[Caomhaoin]

We had the craic in the pub after, and I'll be honest, they were in their 50's, but that didn't save them from the'here, DJ Carey might be a bead twirler and all, but he's not a penny pinching Presbyterian wanker like you and your mates, and you'll do fuck all about it either'

(I'm a big lad, and I know how to inflate the titíns'😂

Plus I'm something of an expert on Scottish history, they were bemused by my love for the bould Marquis of Montrose.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I'm imagining Chris after reading a few chapters, his nose in the air, ostentatiously waving away the stink of proletarian 'literature' 😂

Whatever helps you work off your Camusian frustration lad! 

[Caomhaoin]

I'm more of the Kierkegaard school but sure lookit, I prefer turning that boring shite off and summoning Leather Nike Air Max and imagining you on the gauloises and claret, telling your French mates that 'hi this Kilkenny cunt will never 'get' Camus, no matter how big his harraps is...I think he played the hurling the pute'😆