TSF Book Club
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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
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The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray. A thriller about a UK in a world 30 years from now when the world has stopped spinning leaving one side blistering hot and the other freezing cold.
A decent read. Murray is one of the QI researchers and co-host of the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast.
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@JC yeah I read that after he was talking about it on one of the NSTAAF episodes, decent read, ending was a bit abrupt, guess leaving possibility of another?
I'm on book 3 of the Attila series by William Napier, really enjoying it.
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I just finished reading the 10 Malazan books back to back.
Fuck what a mission. Those are some big ass novels
Overall story is still epic, and made more sense when you knew the whole arc. But it's too long. I reckon you could have cut a heap of shit and made it 8 books. A couple of them really drag.
Also it's infuriating how many story threads that used to important pretty much just disappear. And the ending is pretty frikken abrupt.
Still an amazing piece of work
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@mariner4life There was a real long wait between books somewhere in the series about 12 years ago and I lost interest. I bought the next one but couldn't summon the energy to pick up all the threads again. Its still sitting on a bookcase unread. This is a recurring theme with fantasy series for me.
Maybe you'll inspire me start again. You've certainly put in an admirable effort. But probably not.
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@JC said in TSF Book Club:
Maybe try him on the Mick Herron "Jackson Lamb" series. It starts with Slough Horses. Darkly comic LeCarre with some great characters.
Got him one for his Kindle at the start of lockdown, and he read all of them in about six weeks.
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because i enjoyed the TV show, the wife bought me a Witcher Trilogy (that appears to be the events after the TV show?). I knew nothing about this universe, never played the games, never read the books. But that TV show was cool
So i was excited to read them. Fuuuuuck what a disappointment.
Obviously the first problem is that it's originally Polish, and the translation makes it clunky as fuck.
The next problem is, nothing fucking happens. There's some grand back story, but over the course of 3 books, it didn't really move along. And there was fuck all to entice me to read more to see if it goes anywhere. I read all 3 because i was convinced it had to go somewhere, surely, people love this shit! Then last night i get to the end of the 3 and we have gone fucking nowhere. You suck author.
Avoid
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@mariner4life Sweet - cheers for that. I was considering those books myself... but, thanks to the Wisdom-Of-The-Fern - bullet dodged.
