TSF Book Club
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after a brief interlude with summer, when I struggled to find time to read, I finished the 3rd installment in the Conqueror Series about Genghis Khan, Bones of the Hills.<br />
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Thoroughly enjoyed the read, given it is largely fact based (with some poetic licence) it is an amazing story about how he rose to greatness and how feared and respected he was, and despite all this, his own visions didnt look much further past having all his enemies fear him rather than building a lasting civilisation (when you compare the Mongols to the Romans, Egyptinas etc) <br />
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[quote name='taniwharugby']after a brief interlude with summer, when I struggled to find time to read, I finished the 3rd installment in the Conqueror Series about Genghis Khan, Bones of the Hills.<br />
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Thoroughly enjoyed the read, given it is largely fact based (with some poetic licence) it is an amazing story about how he rose to greatness and how feared and respected he was, and despite all this, his own visions didnt look much further past having all his enemies fear him rather than building a lasting civilisation (when you compare the Mongols to the Romans, Egyptinas etc) <br />
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Recommend it to everyone![/QUOTE]On that note, I'm well into the 5th in the series, Conqueror. I was going to say what's it about, but that might be a bit of a spoiler so will just say it's yet another fantastic read so far, if a little bit different in that it jumps between quite a few people and areas! -
wow, I thought there was only the 3, will seek out the 4th!!
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yep, just checked out my library and theyhave a copy of Empire of Silver. Nah you can count, but I aint gonna jump to the 5th now am I <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />
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"Paying For It (A memoir about being a john)" by Chester Brown. The award-winning cartoonists' autobiographical matter-of-fact expose abandoning all hope for love in a relationship and instead hooking up with prostitutes for regular sex.<br />
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Discussion of John Scalzi's [i]Redshirts[/i] novel has been moved to the [i]Nerd stuff and pop culture discussion[/i] thread.<br />
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Whats with all the moving Tim? <br />
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If you really want to move all the Nerd stuff this thread will be down to one page when you move all the fantasy stuff <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />. -
Hey Nepia, was just moving some discussion off the movie review thread really. Thought that putting it in a discussion thread would give people more freedom to really get into it, rather than worrying about clogging up the reviews thread.<br />
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I moved the "redshirts" stuff to put more interesting Trek on the new thread.<br />
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If you want to discuss books on this thread, go for gold. That's what's it's for. The new thread gives people a place they can get into in-depth/comparative discussion about different aspects of genres of books/movies/tv series/etc or individual works/series. It's also a place you can drop a link or comment about trek/star wars/fantasy/whatever if you don't want to start a new thread.<br />
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EDIT: If you want to start a new thread to talk about Game of Thrones or something then please feel free to do so. If you don't want to start a new thread then the nerd/pop culture thread is there for you. -
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Hey Nepia, was just moving some discussion off the movie review thread really. Thought that putting it in a discussion thread would give people more freedom to really get into it, rather than worrying about clogging up the reviews thread.<br />
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I moved the "redshirts" stuff to put more interesting Trek on the new thread.<br />
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If you want to discuss books on this thread, go for gold. That's what's it's for. The new thread gives people a place they can get into in-depth/comparative discussion about different aspects of genres of books/movies/tv series/etc or individual works/series. It's also a place you can drop a link or comment about trek/star wars/fantasy/whatever if you don't want to start a new thread.<br />
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EDIT: If you want to start a new thread to talk about Game of Thrones or something then please feel free to do so. If you don't want to start a new thread then the nerd/pop culture thread is there for you.<br />
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Ae, all good, was merely inquiring (and having a shot at all you fantasy fans in the process ....) -
Have just finished Clash of Kings, kind of an abrupt finish to a book I thought, but otherwise, equally as good as the 1st series, and cant wait to see how they put some of the new characters on screen as well.<br />
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Was gonna wait until after the 2nd series on TV before I started Storm of Swords, but decided I may as well start it!<br />
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Just finished Metro 2033 on my non-Kindle Kindle. I've played the video game and loved it so had to read the book and loved it as well. Imagine the Odyssey meets the Moscow subway system meets a nuclear holocaust.<br />
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9/10<br />
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Just finished A Feast For Crows . A lot more bloodthirsty , still just as good as the first three books , unfortunately have to wait for our library to get in A Dance With Dragons . However long it takes to get here is sure to be too long .
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Finished The Fall and now reading the final part of the Strain trilogy - The Night Eternal. The books are playing out like a Guillermo del Toro movie which is not surprising since he co-wrote it.<br />
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about 3/4 the way through Storm of Swords, and wow! Keep being surprised!<br />
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[spoiler]As Tyrion said, Kings are falling like the autumn leaves...Just past the bit where Joffrey dies, I am still unsure if Tyrion had anything to do with it, or it was just good luck...and although I have the impression Arya has died, I think she is too much of a vital character to kill off just yet. Glad I started these books rather than just wait for the TV series, although it has made me even more keen to see it on screen, not long now[/spoiler] -
Can't remember if I've already mentioned the series earlier in the thread but have just finished the latest (3rd book) in Stephen Leather's 'Jack Nightingale' series. The books are 'Nightfall', 'Midnight' and 'Nightmare'.<br />
I only started these because I enjoy Leather's Spider Murphy series about an undercover cop. Well written pulp crime fiction, well paced and easy to read.<br />
The Nightingale books seem a bit weird in their description and I wouldn't normally have picked them up but I really enjoyed them. The premise is basically an ex-cop turned PI that discovers that his real father (who he knew nothing about) was into the occult and basically sold Nightingales soul to a demon in return for favours. He has only a few days until the birthday in which his soul is taken. The clever part is that all of the 'weird occult stuff' is written as if it is just matter of fact and it doesn't get in the way of what is basically a good story with plenty of action.<br />
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The other one recently finished is the latest from Stuart MacBride. Again this is a very gritty Scottish serial killer type story but is a stand alone and not part of the Logan McRae series. Gory, brutal and with very flawed heroes. A good dash of dark humour as well. -
Just finished reading "The oarsome adventures of a fatboy rower" by Kevin Bigger.Bought it yesterday and annoyed the shit out of my girlfriend by reading it all weekend because I couldn't put it down.One of the best books I've read in ages, he's a great writer I hope this isn't his only book.
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I 've done the auidobook thing - the first three were okay - pretty good narrator but in the fourth book they changed the narrator. It would be like watching two of the lord of the rings movies and then they change all all of the actors. Added to the fact that the fourth book seems to deal mostly with the minor character development it's a hard slog. The thing I found annoying was that the Game of Thrones books were twice as expensive as other audio books that I downloaded.<br />
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I've just started Feast of Crows on Audio and was gutted not to hear Roy Dotrice's voice! He was very good, so much so when you heard him speak you knew which character was speaking** (according to the wonderful Wikipedia, he voiced 500 characters in the books he narrated - and I can say most were brilliant and easy to tell one from another)<br />
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Wiki also says Dotrice does 5 volumes of ASOIAF, which means he must return for another??<br />
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The new narrator certainly doesnt put in the eoffort with characters and just doesnt cut it<br />
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But yeah the first couple of chapters have been a little harder with only references to names you know.<br />
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**[spoiler]Like when Sansa flees Kings Landing in the wake of Joffrey's death, and she is on the boat, the voice is instantly recognised as Little Finger.[/spoiler] -
I have just finished A Dance With Dragons . These books are really starting to piss me off in that as soon as you think you know who the main characters are the writer kills the bastards off . Still a bloody good book though .<br />
I was just looking on the internet to see if there was any word on the next book and came across the bad news that there were six years between the fourth book and the fifth that I have just finished . George Martin has also said that it will be a seven book series , so it may take a while before we see any sort of ending .
