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The GOT Book Club

I have a copy but haven't read it yet. I watched the TV adaptation with Mark Rylance and loved it so will bump it to top of the reading list.
Found it "easier" to read after the BBC adaptation
The author keeps referring to "he said" and it's always Cromwell
The series made that more obvious
The book is absolutely fantastic
Saving " bring up the bodies" for 2018 :)
 

@anjelikaferrett you were right, the final chapters are very emotional !
I'm just reading this bit now. Very long, but great books.

Currently working my way through the discworld by Terry Pratchett. It's costing me a small fortune on my kindle but hey ho. Great Author great books.

Pratchett is my absolute favourite author, been reading his books for ~25 years, ever since I got The Light Fantastic as a teen. I think any books with The Watch in are a highlight for me, Vimes is a great character. And some of the latter ones, eg Going Postal, all involving Moist(?) were really good too. Plus Death, the Luggage, the Patrician is always great fun, and so on... :)
 
I'm just reading this bit now. Very long, but great books.



Pratchett is my absolute favourite author, been reading his books for ~25 years, ever since I got The Light Fantastic as a teen. I think any books with The Watch in are a highlight for me, Vimes is a great character. And some of the latter ones, eg Going Postal, all involving Moist(?) were really good too. Plus Death, the Luggage, the Patrician is always great fun, and so on... :)

I read the first two in the Passge trilogy as they came out. It was quite difficult to pick up the thread in the second due to the gap inbetween them coming out.

It was much easier and enjoyable reading them back to back
 

Just finished the Rivers of London series and enjoyed them immensely.

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My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluable, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England.

Now I'm a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more complicated: nests of vampires in Purley, negotiating a truce between the warring god and goddess of the Thames, and digging up graves in Covent Garden ... and there's something festering at the heart of the city I love, a malicious vengeful spirit that takes ordinary Londoners and twists them into grotesque mannequins to act out its drama of violence and despair.

The spirit of riot and rebellion has awakened in the city, and it's falling to me to bring order out of chaos - or die trying.
 
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Been mentioned many times before, but just finished - The Passage Trilogy.

For those that haven't heard of the books - The human race is all but wiped out by a viral infection that kills 90% of the global population and turns nearly all the rest into a vampiric army.

Follows the tiny pocket of survivors, as they battle not only to survive, but to stop the human race from being wiped.

It's been done before, but never as well as this. ( the author is a Professor of English )

Think of a much more literate and involved version of Stephen Kings - The Stand.

It wanders a bit at times, but there's over 2000 pages, so it's only to be expected.

@anjelikaferrett you were right, the final chapters are very emotional !

I was blown away by The Passage and bought the other two straight after. What put me off was when it kept drifting back to before the apocalypse and introducing new characters. I felt it was unnecessary and completely ruined the second book for me. I wanted to know about the characters I'd already become invested in but instead I was basically reading history. I'm told that it's even worse in the third book. I hate leaving a book half read, but that's where I am with The Twelve. I'll probably pick it up again at some point, but that will mean reading The Passage again first.
 
I'm just reading this bit now. Very long, but great books.



Pratchett is my absolute favourite author, been reading his books for ~25 years, ever since I got The Light Fantastic as a teen. I think any books with The Watch in are a highlight for me, Vimes is a great character. And some of the latter ones, eg Going Postal, all involving Moist(?) were really good too. Plus Death, the Luggage, the Patrician is always great fun, and so on... :)

I love the Watch books, and the Witches books. My favourite though is Interesting Times, The Silver Horde are fantastic.
 

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