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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:

    The Stormlight Archive - Wikipedia

    The Stormlight Archive - Wikipedia
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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:

    The Stormlight Archive - Wikipedia

    The Stormlight Archive - Wikipedia

    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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    Halfway through the new Mick Herron (Slough House). Excellent.
    I think they take so long to write just to finesse Lamb’s dialogue.

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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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    @Tim the power over humans that FOMO has, and the desire to believe something is true

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    @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.

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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

    Jeff  /  Sep 22, 2017

    A fictional spy walk in London

    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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    @Crucial Judd still speaks like Boris though. The bit in the pub when he’s talking about Salisbury you can practically hear Boris’s voice saying the words. Brilliantly written..

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    @JC said in TSF Book Club:

    @Crucial @Kruse I liked this page that locates where Slough House actually is

    Jeff  /  Sep 22, 2017

    A fictional spy walk in London

    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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    @Kruse said in TSF Book Club:

    Unless maybe it's to do another series (let's call it the Sequel Trilogy), and make a bit more money.

    We Jordan is dead, so it might be a struggle!

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    @Paekakboyz said in TSF Book Club:

    @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.

    100%. And novels around the series too, by both authors. Chronicles of the Black Company also

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