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    hectic
    Joined: 24 Sept 2009

    Giles, whats Andrew Vachss all about? Seems very prolific.

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      Giles
      IHUK Crew
      Joined: 22 Sept 2009

      I have loads here.  All sent to me by a mate in Kentucky.  The first one was so dark, I haven't plucked up the courage to open any of the others.  Pussy - I know…..G

      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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        hectic
        Joined: 24 Sept 2009

        Ha LOL, pls loan me one 🙂

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          Giles
          IHUK Crew
          Joined: 22 Sept 2009

          Next shipment, I'll pop one in….

          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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            hectic
            Joined: 24 Sept 2009

            Cool, thanks.

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              sergedenimes
              Joined: 4 Jun 2010

              Bill Bryson, namely A short history of nearly everything.

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                riffblaster general
                Raw and Unwashed
                Joined: 23 Mar 2010

                i always recommend these two…

                In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
                The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz

                PUT DOWN THAT STARBUCKS, PICK UP THAT GNARBUCKS!!

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                  stever
                  Joined: 3 Jun 2010

                  @gbougard:

                  Actually if people on this thread can recommend fuck ups stories, preferably violent, in the middle on nowhere in America in the middle of the 19th century… I'm all ears.

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                    riffblaster general
                    Raw and Unwashed
                    Joined: 23 Mar 2010

                    @stever:

                    @gbougard:

                    Actually if people on this thread can recommend fuck ups stories, preferably violent, in the middle on nowhere in America in the middle of the 19th century… I'm all ears.

                    great book.

                    anything by Jim Thomson also.

                    PUT DOWN THAT STARBUCKS, PICK UP THAT GNARBUCKS!!

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                      that_was_easy
                      Joined: 3 Feb 2010

                      @riffblaster:

                      The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz

                      Hell. Yes. This is possibly the most epic story I've ever read.  Totally a book worth marathoning.  Don't stop reading until it's finished, which isn't all that difficult.  Just…wow.  I was reading "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn at the same time...fucked up in a pretty viceral way.  Great tandem read.

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                        riffblaster general
                        Raw and Unwashed
                        Joined: 23 Mar 2010

                        the gulag archipelago is great.    not quite as much of an easy read as the long walk but i loved it.  have you read Kolmya Stories?  another great one about the gulag.

                        PUT DOWN THAT STARBUCKS, PICK UP THAT GNARBUCKS!!

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                          baracuta61
                          Joined: 25 Sept 2010

                          hi, i just got a kindle and i downloaded a load of free books so i'd have something to  read when it arrived. at the moment i'm reading 3 at once:
                          the mysterious island by jules verne. love it! the engineer is like a 19th century magyver.
                          the communist manifesto which is heavy going, but i've learned that i'm a prole and giles is a member of the bourgeoisie!
                          the king james bible, never read it before but it's very interesting, those guys used to live for about 900 years! imagine the fades they could have got on a pair of IH jeans!

                          I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

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                            Seul
                            Joined: 24 Nov 2009

                            😉

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                              a.khan12390
                              Joined: 6 Jun 2010

                              Just about to start reading this
                              USA Cover

                              Found this rally funny, pakistan cover, i think this was deemed a little to scary for the US

                              Cats paw soles for sale http://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=977.0 CATS paw for sale

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                                riffblaster general
                                Raw and Unwashed
                                Joined: 23 Mar 2010

                                just finished the fall by guillermo del toro.  2nd in his trilogy about vampires.  totally dumb but totally enthralling.

                                PUT DOWN THAT STARBUCKS, PICK UP THAT GNARBUCKS!!

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                                  Jeez G, I haven't read a Vachss  book in years…dark indeed, need to re-visit !

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                                  • michaeljcrM
                                    michaeljcr
                                    Raw and Unwashed
                                    Joined: 14 Oct 2010

                                    For all those book fans out there, especially genre fiction, I can send some books out if you like - I work as a fiction buyer for UK retail chain, and have an office full of samples.

                                    Re: Vachss, he's great, but bleak indeed!  In real life he's run children's correctional facilities and been an advocate for children in need.  All the Burke books I've read are about, or touch upon, child abuse or some kind of sexual crime, so they are pretty hard going.

                                    If you like him, I'd recommend reading something by Joe R. Lansdale, a good friend of Vachss and a wonderful storyteller.  Mucho Mojo is a good place to start, or one of his one-offs like The Bottoms.

                                    M.

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                                    • tobacco and leatherT
                                      tobacco and leather
                                      Joined: 23 Aug 2010

                                      I'm a big fan of philosophy and how it applies to society.. I just picked up "First as Tragedy Then as Farce" should be a really excellent read.

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                                      • StokelyS
                                        Stokely
                                        Joined: 4 Oct 2010

                                        Awesome thread. Mostly cause books is awesome.

                                        Jokes is awesome too!

                                        Anyway.

                                        Vachss is great.  I can relate because I work with children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders.  In that field you see a lot of really bad shit.  It can be rough.  I've learned how to deal.

                                        Freedom was great.  Good read.
                                        Michael Chabon is sort of in the same vein, good as well.

                                        McCarthy is amazing.  I've read em all.

                                        I would suggest a number of other authors and/or books….

                                        On the easier/more page turning side...

                                        Southern US fiction ala McCarthy...

                                        Jim Brown- Father and Son.  Plus a number of other titles.  He died recently, was a firefighter in Mississippi.

                                        Wells Tower- Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. Collection of short stories. Awesome.

                                        George Saunders- The Braindead Megaphone.  Plus anything else he's written.  Great.

                                        Mystery/Crime... a la Vachss

                                        Joe Landsdale
                                        George Pelecanos
                                        Jim Thompson
                                        And most especially, maybe more visceral and literate would be
                                        Nelson Algren.  I love that author.  He is the original Iron Heart of the literary world. Sinatra played a heroin addict in a film adaptation of The Man with The Golden Arm.

                                        Others........I'll provide more if wanted/interested....

                                        William Faulkner.  Southern Lit.
                                        Chester Himes.  Black Lit, plus some pretty fucking awesome mystery/crime novels
                                        Holy shit.  Robert Bolano!!!!!!!!!!! Greatest.  2666 or The Savage Detectives.  Read em!

                                        Well the above involves a lot of mystery, but a little more involved than previously listed authors.
                                        All of them are great.

                                        Also.........
                                        William Gibson, old school Sci-Fi, but for a modern age.......
                                        Thomas Pynchon
                                        Sherman Alexie, Native American writer, pretty badass.
                                        Junot Diaz, NYC latino.  Again, badass.
                                        I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez and others as well.

                                        Again,  I'm nerding out, but awesome thread.

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                                        • gbougardG
                                          gbougard
                                          Raw and Unwashed
                                          Joined: 20 Apr 2010

                                          Stokely:

                                          thank you so much for taking the time to write such a long list of books and authors. Looks like Im a need a second life just to read all the books I NEED to read

                                          Sly Dunbar bigs up IH on YT
                                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t2OM738mKY
                                          Sly & Robbie A Run Tings
                                          Gregory Isaacs Liveth 4 I-ver

                                          Renault: What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?
                                          Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
                                          Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.
                                          Ric

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