TSF Book Club
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Has anyone ever read any Reacher books? I got given one for Xmas, and I finally ran out of other stuff to read so I picked it up. It's called Blue Moon.
Holy shit, is it bad. The plot is ludicrous and the characters are insanely inconsistent - I think it was the swift character transition from regular society member to person capable of being part of murder and decapitation that finally got me.
Such junk. I hope the earlier stuff was better so Child's at least partially deserves his success.
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@voodoo said in TSF Book Club:
Such junk. I hope the earlier stuff was better so Child's at least partially deserves his success.
I think the earlier ones were much better.
Had to google, but they are up to 24 books now. THe first few were pretty good - very readable, enjoyable. recently they seem to have jumped the shark though.
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@nzzp said in TSF Book Club:
@voodoo said in TSF Book Club:
Such junk. I hope the earlier stuff was better so Child's at least partially deserves his success.
I think the earlier ones were much better.
Had to google, but they are up to 24 books now. THe first few were pretty good - very readable, enjoyable. recently they seem to have jumped the shark though.
It's gauranteed long running series go to crap, even ones you really love. You've gotta know when it's time to leave!
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@voodoo said in TSF Book Club:
Such junk. I hope the earlier stuff was better so Child's at least partially deserves his success.
I read the first five or six. Entertaining, but not Pulitzer prize winning. The problem was the same for any character series; typically formula based and increasingly more absurd. At some point you could pick up the wrong cliff notes and it wouldn't make a difference.
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@antipodean Agree first couple were OK Haven't read one since about Book 3 when it became very onvious he was recycling the same story.
Much prefer Greg Hurwitz's Orphan Black series.
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@Stockcar86 I love Neil Gaiman
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just finished Attila, The Scourge of God by William Napier (book 1 of 3)
HIstorical fiction, was pretty good.
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@taniwharugby said in TSF Book Club:
just finished Attila, The Scourge of God by William Napier (book 1 of 3)
HIstorical fiction, was pretty good.
Ta added to my list
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Third book of Rothfuss' King killer is announced at long fucking last
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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
TBH I just read the headline and figured that was progress.
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