Is there a definative book list for blokes?
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got to feature:
stuff abiut fighting 'commies' and lines like 'got im himmel..' in them
as well as blowing up: buildings, oil refinerines, and high top mountain lodges. Must involve partisans and the occasional femme fatale and spy..
Must feature at least one fight to the death paragraph with a broken neck. Totty in posh frock and an evening at the Baccara table.
Must have a fast car and a gratuitious dash down the mountain in an Aston soft top though the wind chill would make it about -30 episide.
Must have diving and a scene escaping a giant squid/great white or some other calamari food derivative....
... sidekicks must die in all kinds of creative ways and the heroe(s) must all love their mums and be stoical yet benevolent figures who at a moments noitice can turn into raging football players primed and ready for a bar brawl.
Scenes must also feature some kind of emotive back story staring the 'miserable north', opression, repression and the yearning desire to escape to civilisation.
Oh, and the heroes must like single malts, decent beer and a penchant for ladies of a more upperly curvacious nature.
Think that covers it...
stuff abiut fighting 'commies' and lines like 'got im himmel..' in them
as well as blowing up: buildings, oil refinerines, and high top mountain lodges. Must involve partisans and the occasional femme fatale and spy..
Must feature at least one fight to the death paragraph with a broken neck. Totty in posh frock and an evening at the Baccara table.
Must have a fast car and a gratuitious dash down the mountain in an Aston soft top though the wind chill would make it about -30 episide.
Must have diving and a scene escaping a giant squid/great white or some other calamari food derivative....
... sidekicks must die in all kinds of creative ways and the heroe(s) must all love their mums and be stoical yet benevolent figures who at a moments noitice can turn into raging football players primed and ready for a bar brawl.
Scenes must also feature some kind of emotive back story staring the 'miserable north', opression, repression and the yearning desire to escape to civilisation.
Oh, and the heroes must like single malts, decent beer and a penchant for ladies of a more upperly curvacious nature.
Think that covers it...
Off the top of my head, of the stuff I've read and enjoyed:
Lord of the Rings
Of Mice and Men (and most other Steinbeck)
Dune
Oliver Twist and David Copperfield (both brilliant, other Dickens is also good)
Draclula
Jane Eyre
Chronicles of Narnia
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm and 1984
The Midwich Cuckoos
Treasure Island
Wind in the Willows
It (Stephen King)
Magician
The Godfather
The Life of Pi
Watership Down
A Shropshire Lad (OK, its poetry, but still good).
ETA : To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lord of the Rings
Of Mice and Men (and most other Steinbeck)
Dune
Oliver Twist and David Copperfield (both brilliant, other Dickens is also good)
Draclula
Jane Eyre
Chronicles of Narnia
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm and 1984
The Midwich Cuckoos
Treasure Island
Wind in the Willows
It (Stephen King)
Magician
The Godfather
The Life of Pi
Watership Down
A Shropshire Lad (OK, its poetry, but still good).
ETA : To Kill a Mockingbird.
Edited by Cactussed on Friday 24th July 14:05
Shaw Tarse said:
Los Palmas 7 said:
"Bravo Two Zero" by Andy McNab, which actually improves with every read.
I enjoyed Bravo Two Zero, though allegedly, it may be part fiction.First Man in by Duncan Falconer is worth a read.
I'm not a great lover of classics having been forced to read them in school.
I quite like Chris Ryan/Andy McNab stuff. Bit like grown up versions of the Commando comic/books I read when I was a kid. I've only started actually reading books in the last couple of years as opposed to car mags!
I quite like Chris Ryan/Andy McNab stuff. Bit like grown up versions of the Commando comic/books I read when I was a kid. I've only started actually reading books in the last couple of years as opposed to car mags!
t.On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, its essentially Jack moping on quite homo erotically about some guy called Dean Moriarty, but a pretty damn good book, the whole gay thing is merely undertones that you think about to make them exist, if you get me. Set in early 1950s America is entirely about a road trip.
Less Than Zero, which is a bit teen-like, but isn't gay and is pretty good. About some guy in 1980s LA whos 18 and drives a 450 SL.
Those are my recommendations
Less Than Zero, which is a bit teen-like, but isn't gay and is pretty good. About some guy in 1980s LA whos 18 and drives a 450 SL.
Those are my recommendations
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