The GOT Book Club

[bluebrotha77]

Great books, and his series about Ghengis Khan is just as good.

ya they were the first books i read from that author and loved them so much said i would chance this series and if book 1 is anything to go on i won't be disappointed.

 

[Efcjake]

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what an excellent book.i was only 3 chapters in and ordered the rest of the set.i am waiting for them to come and will binge them.i really like conns style of writing,so easy to read and he paints beautiful pictures with his words.

Yes brother. All of his stuff is fantastic.

 

[Naisy'sCharitableLeanings]

Bingeing on my old Irvine Welsh collection at the moment - his newer stuff has been OK, but not a patch on his 90s output.

 

[COYBL25]

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.

Spot on, I was quite underwhelmed by 2nd book of the trilogy - the Twelve.

Which is why I didn't read the 3rd book - the City of Mirrors by itself.

I set myself a date, when I knew I could read all three books back to back. ( 2000 plus pages, so it's a big one )

It's much much better doing it that way and you'll lose nothing at all by going back and reading the first two.

A lot of things become much clearer when you read them together.

* the series that's being done for Netflix at the mo, could be the best thing ever done of this genre if handled right.

 

[COYBL25]

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what an excellent book.i was only 3 chapters in and ordered the rest of the set.i am waiting for them to come and will binge them.i really like conns style of writing,so easy to read and he paints beautiful pictures with his words.

Thanks for the rec, put this on my reading list, with a view to getting the series if I like it

 

[COYBL25]

Bingeing on my old Irvine Welsh collection at the moment - his newer stuff has been OK, but not a patch on his 90s output.

BRUCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE lol

 

[Naisy'sCharitableLeanings]

BRUCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE lol

Eh, it's likesay pure radge cat boy, ken?

 

[stony]

Spot on, I was quite underwhelmed by 2nd book of the trilogy - the Twelve.

Which is why I didn't read the 3rd book - the City of Mirrors by itself.

I set myself a date, when I knew I could read all three books back to back. ( 2000 plus pages, so it's a big one )

It's much much better doing it that way and you'll lose nothing at all by going back and reading the first two.

A lot of things become much clearer when you read them together.

* the series that's being done for Netflix at the mo, could be the best thing ever done of this genre if handled right.

They are all sat on my kindle waiting to be read. I didn't know about the Netflix series, if the production values are good it has the potential to be great telly.

 

[stony]

Not sure if this has been posted before and I didn't want to trawl the whole thread. It's the first in a trilogy and something a bit different, a fantasy novel in the typical medieval/feudal style but actually set in the future after the apocalypse.
It's very dark and the main character is very much an anti-hero, but it's a cracking read. No matter what atrocity Jorge and his road crew commit, you always seem to be rooting for them.

 

[COYBL25]

Not sure if this has been posted before and I didn't want to trawl the whole thread. It's the first in a trilogy and something a bit different, a fantasy novel in the typical medieval/feudal style but actually set in the future after the apocalypse.
It's very dark and the main character is very much an anti-hero, but it's a cracking read. No matter what atrocity Jorge and his road crew commit, you always seem to be rooting for them.

Another for my reading list, cheers

 

[COYBL25]

They are all sat on my kindle waiting to be read. I didn't know about the Netflix series, if the production values are good it has the potential to be great telly.

The author of the books - Justin Cronin, has control of it and it's anything like the books. He won't let it be released until he's totally happy with it.

 

[stony]

The author of the books - Justin Cronin, has control of it and it's anything like the books. He won't let it be released until he's totally happy with it.

Really looking forward to it now. Cheers mate.
Here's another one you might have missed.

The main character is a Scouser called Felix Castor who works as an exorcist in London. No one knows why, but ghosts and other supernatural beings have become a lot more common and people have had to accept they are real and appearing with frightening regularity.
The series is a bit like an English version of The Dresdon Files, but with more humour and a lot darker.

 

[Toast]

Just read a bit of Cheer up Peter Reid in a daily rag.

Deffo worth a buy that.

 

[davek]

Just read a bit of Cheer up Peter Reid in a daily rag.

Deffo worth a buy that.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/once-red-now-always-blue-13705361

 

[gonetomorrow]

Michael Connelly - American doyenne of the LA crime novel. Some of it is scarcely credible but it's so well written you just wallow in it all.

Currently rereading The Scarecrow.