what book you reading at the moment? (incl poll)

[Great-Bit-O-Stuff]

The Communiylst Manifesto up next for me, followed by Das Kapital, then some Leon Trotsky.

Just taking it easy, yeah?

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

Just taking it easy, yeah?

Exactly. Some light Marxist philosophy before going on to the heavy stuff like Stalinism.

 

[Outside Roches]

Hugh Howey, The Silo Trilogy:
Wool, Shift and Dust.

Top notch sci fi.

 

[El Guapo]

Hugh Howey, The Silo Trilogy:
Wool, Shift and Dust.

Top notch sci fi.

I didn't know they made a book out of that

 

[Outside Roches]

I didn't know they made a book out of that

First book was 2011.

Very different to the TV Show, the second and third book deal more with what happened to society and the buildings of the Silo.

Its a lot better than I expected.

Hes writing a new one.

Think the tv show is signed up for another two seasons anyway. Plenty of material to work with.

 

[Lee Bushwacker]

The Communiylst Manifesto up next for me, followed by Das Kapital, then some Leon Trotsky.

Light, holiday reading really!

 

[Carmona]

I rarely give up on a book but fuck it I couldn't take any more of the misery of Where I End by Sophie White. Page after page of moving, hoisting, washing, scrubbing, drying, more moving of the mother. Jesus Christ, life is too short.

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob

About Whitey Bulger and his FBI handlers. Saw the film of the same name a few years ago. T'was alright. The book however, is a real page turner. It's absolutely crazy what these supposed law enforcers were doing for a vicious psychopathic criminal and his organisation. Also dispels the myth that Bulger was some sort of a later day Robin Hood who looked after his area of Boston.

 

[dukeroyale]

i broke my leg a few weeks back so have been flat out reading.

the farm
tom rob smith

a mother is trying to plead her sanity to her son while thr father tries to have her committed. tips along nicely but the ending wasn’t great.

the man in the dark
paul auster.

an insomniac, book reviewer creates stories in his head while he can’t sleep.
it was fairly shit.

the dark
john mcgahern

life för a young fella on a farm in ireland who’s old lad has ambitions of sending him off för a good education.
it was fairly grim.

water
john boyne

a woman leaves dumplin and heads to a west coast island to escape scandal.
easy read and appears to be part of a series.

the ugly game:how qatar bought the world cup
sunday times insight team.

i don’t think i’ll finish it. it gets very repetitive and the writing style isn’t great.

1312: among the ultras
james montague

how ultra groups came into being in football. very repetitive as well. it’s hilarious that some of these lads gave up on the club but stuck around för the brotherhood

i think ive read a few more but can’t remember.

i didn’t bother finishing the ugly game. definitely wouldn’t recommend.

power players: football in propoganda, war and revolution.

ronny blaschke

does what it says on the tin. goes through football in the balkans, middle east, russia, china and africa and how it’s used in revolutions or protest by ultras, takeovers by governments or soft power tactics by shady regimes. it leaves more questions than answers which was the point of the book anyway.

the author is german and i don’t think the language translates well.

long story short, as much as we can rail against big business and sport in the west the chinese or emirates/qatar will step in and fill the void.

more a series of essays than a proper book. would recommend.


the longest race
ed ayres

ultramarathon runner runs an ultramarathon and compares the race and his struggle to how we treat the planet and each other.

written twenty odd years ago but hold up well as a mirror to us even today. i try and avoid the running and golf type as much as i can but this lad seems like a decent skin.

would recommend.

 

[dukeroyale]

i didn’t bother finishing the ugly game. definitely wouldn’t recommend.

power players: football in propoganda, war and revolution.

ronny blaschke

does what it says on the tin. goes through football in the balkans, middle east, russia, china and africa and how it’s used in revolutions or protest by ultras, takeovers by governments or soft power tactics by shady regimes. it leaves more questions than answers which was the point of the book anyway.

the author is german and i don’t think the language translates well.

long story short, as much as we can rail against big business and sport in the west the chinese or emirates/qatar will step in and fill the void.

more a series of essays than a proper book. would recommend.


the longest race
ed ayres

ultramarathon runner runs an ultramarathon and compares the race and his struggle to how we treat the planet and each other.

written twenty odd years ago but hold up well as a mirror to us even today. i try and avoid the running and golf type as much as i can but this lad seems like a decent skin.

would recommend.

forgot to add on the football one, he visits rwanda and the model they set up through sport should be used up in the six counties. if a genocide of 800k can be overcome through sport with children born after the genocide competing other an against each other then a glorified principality with 3,500 dead should be an easy sell.

israel/palestine also comes up and even though the book is from 2021 you could see the shady dealings by the oil countries coming onside with israel to try and curry favour with the US to try and seem sounder than the rest and get a better seat at the world table.

the soft power tactics is insane with obscene amounts of money essentially spunked away at a short term loss all to futureproof after the oil runs out.