TSF Book Club
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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.
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@Kruse said in TSF Book Club:
@mariner4life Sweet - cheers for that. I was considering those books myself... but, thanks to the Wisdom-Of-The-Fern - bullet dodged.
yeah mate, my advice is skip.
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@mariner4life the scope and that some stuff was never really revisited was a plus for me. I've probably been through the series 6+ times now and still catch new stuff that I'd missed. The jumping around in the timeline can throw you for sure. I reckon Toll the Hounds had the second best finish of any of the books leading to the last one, but it felt like molasses as the story arc for that bit was ponderous...although I did read that was a intentional tempo change to make the end stand out even more.
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@Paekakboyz i think that's 3 times for me. it's a total epic. I'll give it a long rest before i ever read again though. And will never do in one hit
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@mariner4life His mate ICE has written some decent stuff too. A couple of kinda meh novels but some of his origin series are really good. Yeah it's a mission to read them all back to back. Speaking of sagas I'm on some countless attempt to finally finish the Wheel of Time. Keep bouncing out around book 8. Gonna try and do it this time!
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@Tim said in TSF Book Club:
@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.
New one out on Thursday!
Just in time for me to finish up Stuart MacBrides latest.
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@Paekakboyz time for a bit of non-fiction for me
I've got The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos teed up
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@mariner4life said in TSF Book Club:
@Kruse said in TSF Book Club:
@mariner4life Sweet - cheers for that. I was considering those books myself... but, thanks to the Wisdom-Of-The-Fern - bullet dodged.
yeah mate, my advice is skip.
I was going to get them too during lockdown and checked with a mate who even more a nerd than I am and was told something along the lines of "if you enjoyed the game and TV series...maybe just leave it at that"
the game works well with the TV series if you want to try something different
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@Kiwiwomble the full extent of my gaming is the occasional game of Big Bash with my son on the PS
