TSF Book Club
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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
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@Paekakboyz said in TSF Book Club:
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!
Woah!
Tell me what happens!
I got as far as book 6 many years ago and concluded the fucking thing was going nowhere....
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@Chris-B said in TSF Book Club:
@Paekakboyz said in TSF Book Club:
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!
Woah!
Tell me what happens!
I got as far as book 6 many years ago and concluded the fucking thing was going nowhere....
Think I got to 10, loooong effort!
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I have a feeling its the kind of series I would enjoy...but im too daunted to start
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@Chris-B said in TSF Book Club:
@Paekakboyz said in TSF Book Club:
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!
Woah!
Tell me what happens!
I got as far as book 6 many years ago and concluded the fucking thing was going nowhere....
I finished it a couple of years back.
Didn't start from scratch, fuck that - just started from the last book I remember reading - so had a full novel's worth of "remind me what the fuck is going on here" - then knocked off the rest.
As to what happens... you can probably guess... a big fuck off final battle, with lots of people dying, and some magical/mystical shit in the background that nobody really understands; probably some heroic sacrifices and shit, that rings a bell; and everybody who's left lives happily ever after.
Until the next time, of course, because that's the whole premise, innit? That Time is a Wheel, and the same shit just happens again, and again, and again. So what's the fucking point?
Unless maybe it's to do another series (let's call it the Sequel Trilogy), and make a bit more money. -
@Kiwiwomble would encourage you to check out the Malazan series. But that's a fan boi recommendation so 🤷♂️
edit - sorry missed the autocorrect to magazine
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@Paekakboyz do you have a link just so I get it right?
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@Kiwiwomble Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. I get most of my books on kindle or the book depository. Still can't beat a real book but e-readers are amazing for travelling.
