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dogmeat

@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.

Stockcar86

Book related - it appears that Neil Gaiman and family are here (and probably for a while now)

voodoo

@Stockcar86 I love Neil Gaiman

taniwharugby

just finished Attila, The Scourge of God by William Napier (book 1 of 3)

HIstorical fiction, was pretty good.

Machpants

@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

NTA

Third book of Rothfuss' King killer is announced at long fucking last

https://heraldjournalism.com/2020/03/28/the-doors-of-stone-the-king-killer-chronicle-third-book-is-coming-soon-read-below-all-you-need-to-know/

nzzp

@NTA about bloody time! outstanding series, can't wait for that

Machpants

@NTA said in Books:

Third book of Rothfuss' King killer is announced at long fucking last

https://heraldjournalism.com/2020/03/28/the-doors-of-stone-the-king-killer-chronicle-third-book-is-coming-soon-read-below-all-you-need-to-know/

Thank fuck for that! Now if GRR can just spit his next few out, he's prime target for CV19!

nzzp

@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

NTA

@nzzp said in Books:

@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.

nzzp

@NTA CLICKBAIT!

But we'll see ... hopefully they are on the money with their sauce

Tim

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Tim

The Pulp Fiction Archive: The Cheap, Thrilling Stories That Entertained a Generation of Readers (1896-1946)

JC

The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray. A thriller about a UK in a world 30 years from now when the world has stopped spinning leaving one side blistering hot and the other freezing cold.

A decent read. Murray is one of the QI researchers and co-host of the No Such Thing As A Fish podcast.

taniwharugby

@JC yeah I read that after he was talking about it on one of the NSTAAF episodes, decent read, ending was a bit abrupt, guess leaving possibility of another?

I'm on book 3 of the Attila series by William Napier, really enjoying it.

JC

I just finished Hangman by Jack Heath. It's about a guy who helps the FBI find kidnapping victims but who has issues. Let's just say that I was reading it I pictured @Snowy .

Snowy

@JC Yep that's me. Autobiography that I whipped up. Helping out the good guys under a pseudonym.

Was it actually any good?

JC

@Snowy Yeah, it's OK. It's an easy read. It's no Paul Auster, put it that way.

Snowy

@JC said in TSF Book Club:

@Snowy Yeah, it's OK. It's an easy read. It's no Paul Auster, put it that way.

Read the "Iceman"? Richard Kuklinski - now, there was a serial killer. If you believe it all of course.

I must read some more Auster.

mariner4life

I just finished reading the 10 Malazan books back to back.

Fuck what a mission. Those are some big ass novels

Overall story is still epic, and made more sense when you knew the whole arc. But it's too long. I reckon you could have cut a heap of shit and made it 8 books. A couple of them really drag.

Also it's infuriating how many story threads that used to important pretty much just disappear. And the ending is pretty frikken abrupt.

Still an amazing piece of work

The Silver Fern

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