Books

[boozegeune]

Finished Bethany Hughes' Istanbul last week, really enjoyable read if you're into popular history. She covers a massive amount of time from Byzas to modern day Istanbul but still manages to make it breeze by.
To keep that buzz going and get a bit more involved I'm reading The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire by Ryan Gingeras. Obviously more focused and detailed, and enjoying it a lot already. Gets into to nitty gritty of the politicking around the end of one state and birthing of another.

[Thorn]

Sounds interesting. I'm intending in the new year to read more factual and less fiction so will check that out ,thanks.

[Mooncat]

Picked up some Norn Iron literature:

Milkman - Anna Burns
The Bogside Boys - Eoin Dempsey
Translations - Brian Friel
Collected Poems - Seamus Heaney

I've read Translations before, but none of the others.

[son of the Morrigan]

CHAOS, The Truth Behind The Manson Murders.
Written by Tom O'Neil.

Great read, ideal as a stocking filler for your nieve friend who doesn't think conspiracies are real.

[Maggot Colony]

Finished reading Crimes in Southern Indiana by Frank Bill. It's a gritty as fuck short story collection containing desperate characters committing desperate deeds. It's very good. The writing is similar to Donald Ray Pollock.

[Thorn]

Diving into Dostoevsky's 'Demons' today, hope his interest doesn't begin to wane towards the end.

[Don Gately]

Picked up some Norn Iron literature:

Milkman - Anna Burns
The Bogside Boys - Eoin Dempsey
Translations - Brian Friel
Collected Poems - Seamus Heaney

I've read Translations before, but none of the others.

Read Milkman a few years back , good read

[Eoin McLove]

I thought Milkman was shite 

[tonictitan]

The new Jon Nödtveidt and Chuck Schuldiner bios just arrived. Has anyone given them a read yet? I'm not sure what to expect from the Nödtveidt book, I can see it either being very interesting or a bunch of edgy garbage.

[OpenSores]

https://forum.metalwarfare.com/index.php?topic=3024.0

Haven't bothered with it, here's a link for the thread.

[Mooncat]

The new Jon Nödtveidt and Chuck Schuldiner bios just arrived. Has anyone given them a read yet? I'm not sure what to expect from the Nödtveidt book, I can see it either being very interesting or a bunch of edgy garbage.

Keep us updated with how it goes, I think there's a lot of people on here toying with picking it up. It was really expensive though from what I remember?

[open face surgery]

Supposed to be ridiculous, non objective shite.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Just finished up the fourth Harry Potter book with the young fella. Bit sick of the whole thing at this stage tbh, and as we advance I am more and more perplexed at how many of my friends were mad for them in their 20s when they were first coming out. Story lines are grand, the actual writing is mediocre at best.

[tonictitan]

The new Jon Nödtveidt and Chuck Schuldiner bios just arrived. Has anyone given them a read yet? I'm not sure what to expect from the Nödtveidt book, I can see it either being very interesting or a bunch of edgy garbage.

Keep us updated with how it goes, I think there's a lot of people on here toying with picking it up. It was really expensive though from what I remember?

£40 plus shipping from Cult Never Dies. It's more than I'd have liked to have paid but I always found the whole thing fairly interesting so I figured it might be worth the gamble.

Hopefully by the time I've finished it I'll  at least understand what "anti cosmic metal of death" is supposed to mean.

[Carnage]

I read The Martian by Andy Weir last week. Not bad, as you'd expect it went into a lot more detail than the film, which was welcome. Worth a go.

Just finishing Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club, which is alright at best. Very genteel and ever so English. I like crime novels but this is just a bit light, which I was expecting to be fair. Grand holiday reading I suppose, a friend called it 'an airport book', that'll do.