Books
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So I am 5 weeks out from starting a 13 month sabbatical - moving the family to Bali, going to (try and) learn to surf, get fit, and also plan to read some books.
Any suggestions are very welcome
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@voodoo The complete short stories of Richard Yates
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
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Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss. Only two of the three out so far, but outstanding reads. One of the few books I have no hesitation recommending to a wide range of people; well written, grabs you, and thoroughly enjoyable.
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Are you looking a for audiobooks, kindle ?
I just finished the madness of crowds by Douglas Murray which to be simultaneously hilarious and depressing. Well worth a read .
American Buffalo by Stephen Rinnella was a cool read , it’s a bit similar to Salt and Cod if you like that genre of history books .
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Ahh, thanks - I did have a hunt for a forum, spent at least 9 seconds scrolling down the off topic section!
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Are you looking a for audiobooks, kindle ?
I just finished the madness of crowds by Douglas Murray which to be simultaneously hilarious and depressing. Well worth a read .
American Buffalo by Stephen Rinnella was a cool read , it’s a bit similar to Salt and Cod if you like that genre of history books .
Im still a "proper" book guy, like the feel of paper and like putting the phone down
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Infidel by Ayan Hirsi Ali is excellent or for something at the other end of the spectrum ie comedy
Graeme Simsion's - The Rosie Project is a fun read -
Third book of Rothfuss' King killer is announced at long fucking last
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@NTA about bloody time! outstanding series, can't wait for that
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Third book of Rothfuss' King killer is announced at long fucking last
Thank fuck for that! Now if GRR can just spit his next few out, he's prime target for CV19!
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@NTA you sure that's a legit prediction?
The article seems to have no sources quoted, and others online giving it a bit of side eye. I'm stoked if it's real, but it's been nearly 10 years, so a year or two longer would no longer surprise me
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@NTA you sure that's a legit prediction?
The article seems to have no sources quoted, and others online giving it a bit of side eye. I'm stoked if it's real, but it's been nearly 10 years, so a year or two longer would no longer surprise me
TBH I just read the headline and figured that was progress.
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@NTA CLICKBAIT!
But we'll see ... hopefully they are on the money with their sauce
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Might put this in the movie thread too for obvious reasons
Anyone read other books by Andy Weir? they author of "the Martian"
I loved the film so read the book and very much enjoyed it, did he just hot one rich vein or are his other books good too?
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Third book of Rothfuss' King killer is announced at long fucking last
Aged well.
I recommend The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman. He's more known for horror, but this was a cracker first fantasy. Crude, funny, but deep. First of a series but standalone thankfully
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@kiwiwomble said in Books:
Might put this in the movie thread too for obvious reasons
Anyone read other books by Andy Weir? they author of "the Martian"
I loved the film so read the book and very much enjoyed it, did he just hot one rich vein or are his other books good too?
If you like these books, you might like Daniel Suarez as well, similar vein.
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@machpants said in Books:
Third book of Rothfuss' King killer is announced at long fucking last
Aged well.
I recommend The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman. He's more known for horror, but this was a cracker first fantasy. Crude, funny, but deep. First of a series but standalone thankfully
Will give it a look after I finish the current queue:
Shogun - never got around to reading this previously but was prompted by someone on twitter. She's a slow burn. About half way through.
I remember playing a game based on this for my C64 back in the 80s. Never understood it.
Leviathan Falls - last book in The Expanse. Sort of thinking I should let the current season of the show on Prime finish before I hop into it.
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@nta im thinking the expanse books might be my next ones, dont think i'll watch the series so will jump in soon
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@machpants said in Books:
Third book of Rothfuss' King killer is announced at long fucking last
Aged well.
I recommend The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman. He's more known for horror, but this was a cracker first fantasy. Crude, funny, but deep. First of a series but standalone thankfully
Will give it a look after I finish the current queue:
Shogun - never got around to reading this previously but was prompted by someone on twitter. She's a slow burn. About half way through.
I remember playing a game based on this for my C64 back in the 80s. Never understood it.
> Leviathan Falls - last book in The Expanse. Sort of thinking I should let the current season of the show on Prime finish before I hop into it.
Made no difference to me, I finished just before it started. It's so many books ahead, and so much has changed it might as well be different characters.
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@kiwiwomble said in Books:
@nta im thinking the expanse books might be my next ones, dont think i'll watch the series so will jump in soon
As @Kirwan says above - the books and TV show part company early in the piece. Otherwise it would be packing 9 seasons and barely holding at the seams.
Both are excellent as standalone ventures.
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it more a case on not getting another streaming service
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@kiwiwomble said in Books:
it more a case on not getting another streaming service
Find one to drop temporarily, watch all 6 seasons, then flick it.
Prime is cheap as chips.
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@machpants said in Books:
Third book of Rothfuss' King killer is announced at long fucking last
Aged well.
I recommend The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman. He's more known for horror, but this was a cracker first fantasy. Crude, funny, but deep. First of a series but standalone thankfully
Will give it a look after I finish the current queue:
Shogun - never got around to reading this previously but was prompted by someone on twitter. She's a slow burn. About half way through.
I remember playing a game based on this for my C64 back in the 80s. Never understood it.
Leviathan Falls - last book in The Expanse. Sort of thinking I should let the current season of the show on Prime finish before I hop into it.
Mate, Shogun is brilliant, it's in my top 2 all time with Red Storm Rising.
The catholic stuff is a bit dry, I've read the book about 5 times and usually skip a bit of that
But Toronaga and Blackthorn are 2 of the coolest cats around, alongside Dirk Struan from Taipan
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@kiwiwomble said in Books:
Might put this in the movie thread too for obvious reasons
Anyone read other books by Andy Weir? they author of "the Martian"
I loved the film so read the book and very much enjoyed it, did he just hot one rich vein or are his other books good too?
Martian was Apex.
Project hail Mary good fun
Artemis is ok to poor depending on your life perspective
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Dave Grohl: storyteller
Not bad at all. Not so much an autobiography as just a series of stories from.his.life told in order.
He's in many ways an excitable child who never had to grow up.
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And in a complete change of pace I'm re-reading Stephen Donaldson's The Gap series
Bleak. Daaaaark.
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@mariner4life said in Books:
And in a complete change of pace I'm re-reading Stephen Donaldson's The Gap series
Bleak. Daaaaark.
Raaaaaaape. Yeah it's great but fuck me a real downer
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@machpants he's a bloody specialist in darkness and suffering.
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Just finished reading After the Tampa by Abbas Nazari. Well worth a read, given the nature of the topics traversed it isn't always an easy read, but thought provoking.
A much better review than I can write here, including:
Four doors down from the Nazaris in Ballantyne Ave were the Mo’ungas, and Abbas and his brothers quickly became mates with Richie, now an All Black.
Mo’unga remembers them all playing touch rugby, barefooted, down the cul-de-sac, with language barriers never standing in the way of the fun they had.
“The thing that amazes me about Abbas and his family was, when they got to Christchurch, it took Abbas probably two years before he spoke better English than me, and was five-times smarter than me, and you could see the way he applied himself – Abbas was always at the library, reading.
“Him and his family, they were all on a mission when they landed.”
All Black Richie Mo’unga grew up a few doors away from Abbas Nazari in Christchurch, and the pair would join the street’s other kids playing rugby, barefoot on the road. “I’m sure he’d still back himself to put me on my back, now.”Mo’unga says Abbas was a decent rugby player, though they didn’t face each other after primary school.
“Thankfully. Coz he could put me on my backside. He’s a big boy. You see what he’s been through, I think, he’s scared of nothing.”
Abbas played 1st XV rugby, trialled for Canterbury representative teams, and became a devoted Crusaders fan.
From Taliban to Tampa to Aotearoa: One boy's remarkable journey
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Scar Tissue by Anthony Keidis
A long story about a selfish hedonist who tries very hard to fuck.up his life over and over but it never really goes wrong enough for.him to change.
Yes,.the fucked up childhood is there. But he comes across through almost the whole book as a manchild.
And then the whole thing redeems itself inside the last 5 pages. To the point I think completely different about the whole thing.
And it led me to listen to a bunch of Chili Peppers. BSSM is fucking brilliant. Mother Milk is great. The rest is varying shades of meh. I've seen them live and thr book.kinda explains why I was less impressed than most people, including themselves, seem to be with their act.
I now have Flea's to read so it will be interesting to see two different takes on the same story.
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@mariner4life said in Books:
Scar Tissue by Anthony Keidis
A long story about a selfish hedonist who tries very hard to fuck.up his life over and over but it never really goes wrong enough for.him to change.
Yes,.the fucked up childhood is there. But he comes across through almost the whole book as a manchild.
And then the whole thing redeems itself inside the last 5 pages. To the point I think completely different about the whole thing.
And it led me to listen to a bunch of Chili Peppers. BSSM is fucking brilliant. Mother Milk is great. The rest is varying shades of meh. I've seen them live and thr book.kinda explains why I was less impressed than most people, including themselves, seem to be with their act.
I now have Flea's to read so it will be interesting to see two different takes on the same story.
Their albums ( with the odd exceptional song ) turned to shit once they got off the drugs in the early 2000s, you can’t just say the word ‘California’ lots and expect people to like your music.
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@mariner4life I read this book years and years ago. What happened in the last 5 pages that changed it? Honestly can't remember!
Their albums ( with the odd exceptional song ) turned to shit once they got off the drugs in the early 2000s, you can’t just say the word ‘California’ lots and expect people to like your music.
They were still a must buy for me when they released Stadium Arcadium. However, that should never have been a double album. Nowhere near enough good songs of it to justify two CD's (old school). Not even listened to a new album since.
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Leviathan Falls
Final book of The Expanse series. Without a doubt my favourite sci-fi series.
The 6-season TV series departs from it in a number of ways but it a good companion watch, and how I started into the books.
Amos is the fucking man.
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Real blast from the past -Malice Aforethought by Frances Iles 1931. Popped up on Amazon so gave it a try.
Opens with the immortal ine "It was not until several weeks after he had decided to murder his wife that Doctor Bickleigh took any active steps in the matter"
Terrific read - unusual structure, satirical, darkly comic and an ending which is genuinely "wow!"
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@mariner4life said in Books:
Scar Tissue by Anthony Keidis
A long story about a selfish hedonist who tries very hard to fuck.up his life over and over but it never really goes wrong enough for.him to change.
Yes,.the fucked up childhood is there. But he comes across through almost the whole book as a manchild.
And then the whole thing redeems itself inside the last 5 pages. To the point I think completely different about the whole thing.
And it led me to listen to a bunch of Chili Peppers. BSSM is fucking brilliant. Mother Milk is great. The rest is varying shades of meh. I've seen them live and thr book.kinda explains why I was less impressed than most people, including themselves, seem to be with their act.
I now have Flea's to read so it will be interesting to see two different takes on the same story.
Their albums ( with the odd exceptional song ) turned to shit once they got off the drugs in the early 2000s, you can’t just say the word ‘California’ lots and expect people to like your music.
thank you, i thought i was alone
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@kiwiwomble said in Books:
@mariner4life said in Books:
Scar Tissue by Anthony Keidis
A long story about a selfish hedonist who tries very hard to fuck.up his life over and over but it never really goes wrong enough for.him to change.
Yes,.the fucked up childhood is there. But he comes across through almost the whole book as a manchild.
And then the whole thing redeems itself inside the last 5 pages. To the point I think completely different about the whole thing.
And it led me to listen to a bunch of Chili Peppers. BSSM is fucking brilliant. Mother Milk is great. The rest is varying shades of meh. I've seen them live and thr book.kinda explains why I was less impressed than most people, including themselves, seem to be with their act.
I now have Flea's to read so it will be interesting to see two different takes on the same story.
Their albums ( with the odd exceptional song ) turned to shit once they got off the drugs in the early 2000s, you can’t just say the word ‘California’ lots and expect people to like your music.
thank you, i thought i was alone
You’re never alone on the fern. I’ve seen them twice, 92 and 96 and wouldn’t bother again. Their transformation from thrash/punk/funk legends to bubble gum mass market appeal is staggering.
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@mn5 i wont claim to have ever been a huge fan but mainly because i wasn't a huge music guy but would enjoy their stuff when it came on the radio in the 90's.... but ended up feeling all their songs started to sound the same
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@majorrage said in Books:
I read this book years and years ago. What happened in the last 5 pages that changed it? Honestly can't remember!
an actual bit of self reflection and honesty about who he is.
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Leviathan Falls
Final book of The Expanse series. Without a doubt my favourite sci-fi series.
The 6-season TV series departs from it in a number of ways but it a good companion watch, and how I started into the books.
Amos is the fucking man.
@kirwan said in TV Serieseseses:
@kiwiwomble said in TV Serieseseses:
@kirwan I’m always up for a new book so might be more interesting in that, is the book also called the expanse?
There’s nine books, and a few novellas.
First book is called Leviathan Wakes by James Corey. Pretty entertaining books, with a little more realistic physics, good action and fun mysteries.
Pretty easy reads, with lots of quotable lines.
been keeping an eye on Amazon as already had a backlog of books, just picked Leviathan Wakes up for $5
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