The GOT Book Club

[COYBL25]

Its been an age since I've read a Culture novel, I'm rationing the enjoyment of the few remaining ones I've not got to.


View attachment 190873


Inversions is unusual even by the standards of the series being only tangentially linked to the Culture. The seeds of the links grow as the novel progresses but this is a long way from drones, minds and orbitals, and as a result intriguing if slightly frustrating. However as the intertwined stories conclude and the fragments lock into place, you find yourself reflecting on succulent clues that you glossed over.

As elegant and intricate as ever and a great example of an author continuing his world building while challenging himself to accomplish it very differently.

RIP Iain. I hope they serve only the finest single malts in the sublime.

I do like a bit of Banks.

Have you read the Wasp Factory ?

Still one of my all time favourite books.

 

[ste d' indica]

I do like a bit of Banks.

Have you read the Wasp Factory ?

Still one of my all time favourite books.

I have, when I were a young 'un, second one I read after The Bridge, terrific read. My girlfriend got me onto his sci fi with Excession and it blew me away.
I've got a treasured, personally signed copy of Hydrogen Sonata from when we met him at an event in Bristol not long before he died. He was a proper raconteur, funny, open, convivial, fascinating. Lovely guy.

 

[COYBL25]

I have, when I were a young 'un, second one I read after The Bridge, terrific read. My girlfriend got me onto his sci fi with Excession and it blew me away.
I've got a treasured, personally signed copy of Hydrogen Sonata from when we met him at an event in Bristol not long before he died. He was a proper raconteur, funny, open, convivial, fascinating. Lovely guy.

I believe he liked a beer or two ?

 

[ste d' indica]

I believe he liked a beer or two ?

Not to mention single malt:

Raw Spirit - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[degsy]

Not to mention single malt:

Raw Spirit - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

After reading his bit about Dubya in 2003, what would he have said about Biden and Trump?

 

[Old Blue 2]

View attachment 190691

First published in 1980. Was the 'Gold Standard' at the time. In the intervening years a lot more information has come to light, and it is in need of a complete update.

There is a distinct possibility that a complete update will be undertaken, to coincide with the 85th anniversary of the Battle. I will know more next Tuesday...

After a trip to London today for a meeting re the above, there is now a real possibility that a complete update will be undertaken. Final decision by the owner of the publishing company that now owns the rights will be made on 7th December.

 

[coollino]

I love coffee table books and just got another one. Essentially, a book on design-features of the built-environment that no one notices. Super fun and easy to read. Found it through the excellent architecture/urban planning website "web Urbanist."

View attachment 189846
View attachment 189847
View attachment 189848

have you watching 'how to with john wilson?'



it's basically this in TV form

 

[gonetomorrow]

Two Kinds of Truth - Michael Connelly. The author is still churning out his downbeat Chandleresque tales of cops, lawyers and crims.
It tends to get a bit incestuous these days but he writes so fluently and economically you have to keep turning the page.
Over the whole of his oeuvre is the sprawling city of Los Angeles with its infinite highs and lows.

 

[Bilko]

View attachment 187203I have to say I enjoyed this more than I expected, I'm a bit hesitant usually on books that go over 400 pages, tend to think there's a lot of waffle if they are that length.
Good reads rates the 2nd book better so I will invest in that also.

It is OK tbf. You probably need to read the first one to get the tale and characters.

 

[Charro]

Where's a good website outside of amazon to buy books?

 

[COYBL25]

Where's a good website outside of amazon to buy books?

Waterstones is good mate, I use them quite a bit.

World of Books is good for second hand books too.

 

[random]

Where's a good website outside of amazon to buy books?

I use abe books

 

[verreauxi]

Cormac McCarthy took about 15 years off after writing The Road. He was hanging out at the Santa Fe Institute with physicists, hence the shift in topic in his new books. Here are some vignettes about CM and his time at the Santa Fe Institute. Also a video...I never heard him speak before.

The Cormac McCarthy I Know

The president of the Santa Fe Institute shares his insights into the novelist, with whom he has discussed science, writers, and ideas for 20 years.

nautil.us

 

[gonetomorrow]

Where's a good website outside of amazon to buy books?

E-Bay is often cheaper than Amazon.

 

[COYBL25]

Cormac McCarthy took about 15 years off after writing The Road. He was hanging out at the Santa Fe Institute with physicists, hence the shift in topic in his new books. Here are some vignettes about CM and his time at the Santa Fe Institute. Also a video...I never heard him speak before.

The Cormac McCarthy I Know

The president of the Santa Fe Institute shares his insights into the novelist, with whom he has discussed science, writers, and ideas for 20 years.

nautil.us

I’m just about to finish The Passenger.

I’ll give my views on it, once I’ve finished.