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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?
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@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.
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In that same genre, I really enjoyed this series:
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i read the first 3 i think, and it was okay, but the over-arching story just never developed. Get the fuck on with it, not every friggen fantasy series needs to be 10 fucking books
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@voodoo said in TSF Book Club:
In that same genre, I really enjoyed this series:
Read a bit of Brandon Sanderson, prefer his smaller series, “reconers series” and “Starward”
@Paekakboyz yeah, have hard copies for old favs but all the new one so get on kindle app, too easy
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@Tim this Bad Blood book is amazing! i have got through 2/3rds of it already. God i love a good fraud story. The red flags everywhere are amazing, and people's willingness to overlook them for various reasons.
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@mariner4life Yeah, I remember when the press onslaught about her was happening. We looked into it in our lab (my friend was developing microfluidic devices for studying blood platelets) and concluded "BULL-SHIT". The number of old fools involved ...
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@mariner4life Is that the Theranos one? I’ve been meaning to give it a go.
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@JC said in TSF Book Club:
@mariner4life Is that the Theranos one? I’ve been meaning to give it a go.
yep.
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@JC said in TSF Book Club:
@Crucial Yep, me too. I can’t not picture Gary Oldman and Kristen Scott-Thomas saying the lines now. I used to think Peter Judd was Boris, but now I think he’s Gove.
Judd was definitely Boris but I think that has changed.
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@Crucial said in TSF Book Club:
@JC said in TSF Book Club:
@Crucial Yep, me too. I can’t not picture Gary Oldman and Kristen Scott-Thomas saying the lines now. I used to think Peter Judd was Boris, but now I think he’s Gove.
Judd was definitely Boris but I think that has changed.
I read part of an interview with Herron... I got the impression that yeah, Judd was definitely originally Boris - but that was in the first book or two, before they became popular (and before Boris became PM), so he had no worries with the obvious "based on real life fluffybunny"... but then when the books became popular, I think he realised he need to "diversify" the character, to make it more an amalgam of several people.
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@Crucial @Kruse I liked this page that locates where Slough House actually is
A fictional spy walk in London
Following up on my previous post about locations in London made famous by John le Carré as haunts of George Smiley, I’m posting some other spots where fictional spies hung out. You can find a…
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@JC said in TSF Book Club:
@Crucial @Kruse I liked this page that locates where Slough House actually is
A fictional spy walk in London
Following up on my previous post about locations in London made famous by John le Carré as haunts of George Smiley, I’m posting some other spots where fictional spies hung out. You can find a…
I lived literally 100m away from that spot until 2 years ago. Every time I'm reading one of these books and he's giving details about Slough House, I'm thinking "NO, there's no chinese restaurant that matches any of that, unless you mean the Thai place further down by Museum of London, but there's no newsagent down there, and then there was that one time he mentioned the bridge to Barbican is right nearby; and there's no way there's a dodgy alleyway to a backdoor of ANY building on Aldersgate, and... " - knowing perfectly well he wouldn't have a 100% correct location, due to... Fiction, but still... doing me poor head in.
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