TSF Book Club
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@machpants ah now I understand why @nzzp keeps rereading it, so he doesn't forget the story whilst waiting for a third.
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I couldn't find a better thread to post this, but this one seemed most appropriate.
The Order of Adjectives: Why It Matters Where You Put Descriptive Words
If you've ever asked yourself why we English-speakers say 'The big black hairy dog' instead of 'The black hairy big dog,' then this post is for you. Three years ago, New York Times writer Matthew Anderson posted this image on his Twitter feed, a statement by author Mark Forsyth from
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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.
