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@jegga said in TSF Book Club:
Vassily Grossmans
the name rings a bell, but a quick squiz at Wiki and i don't recognise any of the book titles
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@Crucial said in TSF Book Club:
I always took that as a deliberate style. Trying to set a banal scene then populating it with fuck-ups.
It's the florid style - always a long metaphor to set the scene
“In some parts of the world dawn arrives with rosy fingers, to smooth away the creases left by night. But on Aldersgate Street in the London Borough of Finsbury, it comes wearing safe-crackers gloves, so as not to leave prints on the windowsill’s and door-knob; it squints through keyholes, sizes up locks, and generally cases the joint ahead of the approaching day”He continues with this creeping dawn for over three pages. It's very different to the rest of the book(s). Almost baroque
@Crucial said in TSF Book Club:
You still 'turn the page' even on an e-book IMO.
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@mariner4life said in TSF Book Club:
@jegga said in TSF Book Club:
Vassily Grossmans
the name rings a bell, but a quick squiz at Wiki and i don't recognise any of the book titles
Snyder quotes him a fair bit, I'll see how this goes https://www.audible.com/pd/Life-and-Fate-The-Complete-Series-Dramatised-Audiobook/B005VEQ9VY?qid=1581394358&sr=1-1&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=KM47VPYRTRFAF5DENDYD&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1
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Has anyone ever read any Reacher books? I got given one for Xmas, and I finally ran out of other stuff to read so I picked it up. It's called Blue Moon.
Holy shit, is it bad. The plot is ludicrous and the characters are insanely inconsistent - I think it was the swift character transition from regular society member to person capable of being part of murder and decapitation that finally got me.
Such junk. I hope the earlier stuff was better so Child's at least partially deserves his success.
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@voodoo said in TSF Book Club:
Such junk. I hope the earlier stuff was better so Child's at least partially deserves his success.
I think the earlier ones were much better.
Had to google, but they are up to 24 books now. THe first few were pretty good - very readable, enjoyable. recently they seem to have jumped the shark though.
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@nzzp said in TSF Book Club:
@voodoo said in TSF Book Club:
Such junk. I hope the earlier stuff was better so Child's at least partially deserves his success.
I think the earlier ones were much better.
Had to google, but they are up to 24 books now. THe first few were pretty good - very readable, enjoyable. recently they seem to have jumped the shark though.
It's gauranteed long running series go to crap, even ones you really love. You've gotta know when it's time to leave!
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@voodoo said in TSF Book Club:
Such junk. I hope the earlier stuff was better so Child's at least partially deserves his success.
I read the first five or six. Entertaining, but not Pulitzer prize winning. The problem was the same for any character series; typically formula based and increasingly more absurd. At some point you could pick up the wrong cliff notes and it wouldn't make a difference.
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@antipodean Agree first couple were OK Haven't read one since about Book 3 when it became very onvious he was recycling the same story.
Much prefer Greg Hurwitz's Orphan Black series.
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@Stockcar86 I love Neil Gaiman
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just finished Attila, The Scourge of God by William Napier (book 1 of 3)
HIstorical fiction, was pretty good.
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@taniwharugby said in TSF Book Club:
just finished Attila, The Scourge of God by William Napier (book 1 of 3)
HIstorical fiction, was pretty good.
Ta added to my list
The Exterminator (1980) ⭐ 5.7 | Action, Crime, Drama
