TSF Book Club
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@chris-b said in TSF Book Club:
Seems like the Slow, Fat Bastard hasn't been completely sitting on his hands and he's going to have a book out before Christmas - it just won't be the one I'm waiting for.
He's going to be 70 later this year - "Witless is coming"!
It'll be another Robert Jordan, hopefully he had copious notes to hand over to his successor!
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@machpants Having the TV series made and the story basically told is going to provide even less motivation for him to finish.
I'm sure he's got the best of intentions, but I'd say underlying that is that he basically can't be fucked finishing. And it's only going to get harder.
Since he's worth $65 million+ he should just hire a ghost-writing team to do the donkey-work and play around with a bit of editing himself at the end.
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@sammyc said in TSF Book Club:
Recently discovered Sven Hassel, bought 10 of his books off trade me for around $2 each.
Can anyone reccommend any similar stuff? I'm addicted.
I read those in my teen years back in the day. Easy to read, great stories
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@sammyc said in TSF Book Club:
Recently discovered Sven Hassel, bought 10 of his books off trade me for around $2 each.
Can anyone reccommend any similar stuff? I'm addicted.
The forgotten soldier by Guy Sajer. Similar but more likely to be a true story than Sven Hassels books.. Btw they made a movie of one of his early books which is pretty decent. The legionnaire in particular was well cast.
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Finally read C.K. Stead's Smiths Dream. Rather good!
Writes well and with effective style, without trying to sound like someone else. Enjoyed some of the Auckland region references, and
Muldoon'sVolkner's rant about "people who think they're too good for NZ wine".Any recommendations from the rest of his work?
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@tim said in TSF Book Club:
He took a big shit on The Luminaries, and that was good enough for me.
I had to look this up:
Each of the twelve men who comprise the council in the first chapter of the book is associated with one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The title of a chapter in which one of these men plays a major role invariably bears that man's sign.
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@tim I’ve read some of his non fiction but that’s the only novel Read it when the movie came out as he was my English prof at the time
Decent guy. Very supportive of all his students even the drunken no hopers like me
Last bumped into him in the urinal at Nz house in London. He remembered me which was a shock and says something about the man given it was a good 5 years later and he must’ve had thousands of students
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@tim It's only a short story, but "A fitting tribute" is quite amusing - if you can find it.
@SammyC - Sven Hassel - great stuff from my youth! Can't think of anything with a similar mix of blood-thirstiness and humour - Game of Thrones?
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis – review
A magnificent new account puts the British assaults on Everest in the 1920s in the context of imperialism and the aftermath of the first world war, writes Geoff Dyer
I read this quite recently, which has a lot of first World War stuff, mixed in with the misery of trying to climb Mt. Everest in the 1920s!
It is excellent!
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@tim said in TSF Book Club:
Any one know of any fictional accounts of an invasion of NZ? Especially post-WW2.
I vaguely remember something about an Indonesian invasion and guerilla resistance.
There's on set in Australia, for young adults, but can't think of one for NZ. I think the Aussie one was 'tomorrow when the war began' or summat
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@tim said in TSF Book Club:
Any one know of any fictional accounts of an invasion of NZ? Especially post-WW2.
I vaguely remember something about an Indonesian invasion and guerilla resistance.
@tim said in TSF Book Club:
Any one know of any fictional accounts of an invasion of NZ? Especially post-WW2.
I vaguely remember something about an Indonesian invasion and guerilla resistance.
None that I know of about nz but there’s a great one about the Aussies pulling back to a line from Brisbane to Melbourne and leaving militias to harass the Japanese supply lines I’m trying to search for you.
This one about the Indonesians invading was pretty decent I thought
Fire and Blood
Amazon.com: The Reckoning: The Day Australia Fell (The Unforeseen Series Book 1) eBook : McArdle, Keith: Kindle Store
