Book/film/album/video game/whatever
Submit your (anonymous) nominations here and I'll stick a poll up with the first however many nominations. Everyone is then invited to consume the selected piece of work and talk about their feelings afterwards. Can do it monthly if it gets off the ground.
I would, but Niko(?) burned me with his CD Club circa 2005 and I've never joined a club since.
Not me guvnor.
CD club? 2005?
I'm in, but proper cultural void at the moment so I can't suggest anything first up.
I'll be in for books. I've really fallen off reading since the start of the year and this will be a good way to get back into it.
I'll be up for getting involved. No idea recommendations though.
I've recommended shantaram. Hopefully I won't get burned like I did in the CD club by Niko.
Someone (you) arranged a mass CD exchange, where we all burned a CD (nostalgiaOriginally Posted by niko_cee
) of our favourite music and posted it to them, they'd then do a lucky dip and send them on to others in the group. But the second part never happened (you cunt).
Was probably doing you all a favour putting them straight into the bin.
Some good suggestions so far. For now I think taking them in order rather than polling seems a better shout.
First up is Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. Off you go.
944 pages according to Amazon. I'll sit this one out.
I was wondering why it wasn't under a tenner anywhere. Give it a few weeks and see how people are getting on.
I'll give it a go. 944 pages is piss easy.
Yeah Boyd you big baby.
Anyone want the ebook or audiobook?
I'm a twit
Everyone should just lie in a dark room and listen to Animals.
How long is the audiobook?
I'm currently listening to the audiobook and it's 43 hours long. But the narrator is really good.
And if you can't be arsed with that, I think Netflix made it into a series.
Giz an audiobook, Barrington.
https://akr.st/shantaram
I'm a twit
Barrington Potter and the Affiliate Link.
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Nope, it’s just a shortened link to my google drive.
I'm a twit
Pop a link in to the ebook if you have it please, I cant get invested in audio.
I grabbed the audiobook because I have Audible credits coming out my arse but I've never got on with fiction audiobooks either. You need to be able to linger and like fuck am I going to hover over the pause button.
Thanks for the link, my phone doesn't like trying to play an mp4 for some reason
I spent a princely Ł5.99 to get it on Kindle and am 13% through. Try it, y'all.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ceb...usp=drive_link
It''s an m4b, to be imported to your Books app via iTunes.Thanks for the link, my phone doesn't like trying to play an mp4 for some reason
For all the Android nonces here's the audiobook as a load of mp3 files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...usp=drive_link
In the [g]olden days I'd have omitted the final part just to troll, so you're all welcome for me not being as much of a knob anymore.There are 41 parts.
I've not used my link shortener this time, to avoid any false referral claims.
I'm a twit
The audio book with him doing the indian accents is something
The audio book with him doing the indian accents is something
It is a pretty good Indian accent though. I find his Karla worse.
😂 is a bit jarring at first and then they're are more and more Indian characters so the accents all blur into one. Prubaka though is the man.
Yeah his Karla sounds like Peter Kay's impression of his mum.
I'm reading it but at a very slow pace.
Did I kill this dead?
I still have ten hours left.
I'm soldiering on, fuck me it will never end though. The first 40% was a novel in itself.
I'm only 25% through.
I'm not sure this was the best first choice.
New book: Mr Bump. Let's reconvene in November.
2024, right?
Haha I got to the car crash on the audio book and it kept breaking, so I left it. Reckon I got the jist though
My thoughts at 46% are that it's one of the best attempts at conveying a sense of time and (particularly) place that I've ever read, but as a work of fiction it could use an edit. Oh and the shifts to when he's meeting / talking to / thinking about Karla are quite jarring, like he stops being the relatively interesting narrator he is and starts being a randy teenage boy. Maybe that's the intention, I don't know.
It's a bit like it's hidden inside him because he has to basically do loads of mad shit to just stay alive and he forgets that he has sexual urges.
Also, Prubaka and his taxi. Ffs.
The Cholera (?) Outbreak was pretty powerful as well as his time spent in jail.
I watched the first episode of the Apple version of it and it really jarrs. The pacing is all over the place and Charlie Hunnam as usual, has a questionable accent.
(Into the last 6.5 hours)
I'm 50% into the book and it's dragging a lot. No idea how there's still another half to go.
What's happening at 50%?
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Who picked this shit book you all seem to dislike?
Also, you should have definitely gone for something shorter.
I've got a short one in the tank for when we all eventually give up / finish it.
It was Keeks the fucking dickhead.
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