TSF Book Club
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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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@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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@mariner4life said in TSF Book Club:
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
Yeah it is the first 3 of I think 8
I am so sick of fantasy writers teasing us with great stories then taking forever (or never) finishing.
Jordan, Martin, Rothfuss, Lynch (tho the Gentleman Bastards last one was crap), Sanderson (slow rather than glacial) even old Bernard Cornwell is taking his own fucking time with the Last Kingdom series!
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@Machpants said in TSF Book Club:
@mariner4life said in TSF Book Club:
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
Yeah it is the first 3 of I think 8
I am so sick of fantasy writers teasing us with great stories then taking forever (or never) finishing.
Jordan, Martin, Rothfuss, Lynch (tho the Gentleman Bastards last one was crap), Sanderson (slow rather than glacial) even old Bernard Cornwell is taking his own fucking time with the Last Kingdom series!
Fuck, you reminded me of Rothfuss, so I figured it was about time for my yearly check-in on how that series is coming along. And came across this:
In July 2020, Rothfuss's editor and publisher Betsy Wollheim said, "I've never seen a word of book three" and that she doesn't think Rothfuss has written anything since 2014.
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@JC said in TSF Book Club:
@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..
Although his references to the current PM smack of Boris as well, even the hair.
Like @Kruse says, very close to reality but shifting things around a little. @Bones now need to read the Tonbridge references and critique them for us.
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Bastard way to finish the book when you know that there won't be a follow up for a while. I certainly had to go back a page when he very cleverly didn't spell everything out obviously.
Good to see that Lamb has a heart though.:::
Have seen photos of Oldman filming on location and have to admit that he doesn't meet my mental image. Bloody good actor though so I have high hopes. They are also making enough episodes to not have to slash the books too far. I believe that the first two books are being filmed together.
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@Tim said in TSF Book Club:
@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 ...
Finished it. Good read.
Fuck lawyers.
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@Crucial said in TSF Book Club:
@Bones said in TSF Book Club:
@Crucial what am I meant to be reading?
Keep up with the play man!
The Slough House series. One of the regular locations is in your stomping grounds.
Sounds riveting.
