The GOT Book Club

[LostLegend]

Thanks for that mate, I`ve put it on my reading list

Sounds like a book that would work well as a film ?

Yeah, or tv series.
Won’t spoil too much, but the book follows 2 groups. The human survivors on an Ark ship on their way to this new earth and it also follows the beings that live on this planet throughout their history. Can’t say any more, but this other group is the highlight of the story. Proper out of left-field!

 

[LostLegend]

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Excellent read, essentially a biography of a French man who murders his wife, children and parents because he has lied his way through his life, that he works on WHO, that he's an eminent physician when he is nothing but a thief who lives of other peoples savings. Riveting

Sounds interesting, might give this a go at some point.

 

[Efcjake]

I just finished the Emperor series by Conn Iggulden. Good as usual from him, but I wasn't quite as engrossed as I was with Conqueror. Ran out of a steam a little bit in the later books.

Still got the Greek one to go. Might give it a while before I get onto that. Cheers.

Agree with you on this. Conqueror is amazing. Let me know how you rate the Greek one, is it around the peloponnesian war?

 

[Brownie]

Agree with you on this. Conqueror is amazing. Let me know how you rate the Greek one, is it around the peloponnesian war?

I couldn't tell you, to be honest. I'm pretty rubbish at the actual history. Makes it fun to read though, going into it with ignorance.

I started reading the Greek one a while ago and it was full of complicated names that were difficult to keep track of, so I went for the Roman one instead. Obviously there's a bit of that in most of these books, but I remember there being like Manopapolas and Mapomanolas or something. Please, Conn.

 

[LostLegend]

 

[davep]

Just finished the audiobook Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

A grand hard sci-Fi space opera with some really unique plot twists.

“The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?”

Really enjoyed this one and the narration by Mel Hudson is superb.

Have jumped straight into the second (audio) book ‘Children of Ruin’

Thanks for that mate, I`ve put it on my reading list

Sounds like a book that would work well as a film ?

Yeah, or tv series.
Won’t spoil too much, but the book follows 2 groups. The human survivors on an Ark ship on their way to this new earth and it also follows the beings that live on this planet throughout their history. Can’t say any more, but this other group is the highlight of the story. Proper out of left-field!

Read this a few years ago. Wasn't sure how I'd like it once i discovered "who" lived on the new earth, but turned out to be good in the end.

 

[bicycleheader]

Just finished the audiobook Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

A grand hard sci-Fi space opera with some really unique plot twists.

“The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?”

Really enjoyed this one and the narration by Mel Hudson is superb.

Have jumped straight into the second (audio) book ‘Children of Ruin’

I did it in audiobook too and I loved the series tbh. Id recommend the others too

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

I’ve been using my holiday to get through some of my TBR pile and, coincidentally enough, one of the books I’ve dusted off is Gwendy’s Button Box in which ol’ Randy Flagg is reading this book (and she’s given a copy of it as a present in the sequel, which I’ve started.)

I’ve also finished The Pallbearer’s Club by Paul Tremblay (somewhere between crap and meh), Revival by Stephen King (meh) and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (excellent).

 

[Bedfordblue]

Intriguing….

 

[MrPerfectNot]

Marvelous interweaving of Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, from James' (Jim's) perspective. Fantastic work.

 

[COYBL25]

Boys Swallows Universe - Trent Dalton.

I read this on the strength of the recent series of the same name on Netflix.

The most enjoyable novel I’ve read in a long time and the tv series not only follows the book virtually word for word and the sets are perfect too - which is some doing.

Wonderfully written, very dark in places, but wonderfully uplifting toi.

A fantastic book that really gets the imagination going. I genuinely didn’t want it to end.

 

[Bilko]

So after reading a few posts back on Cormac Mccarthy and Child Of God , I gave it a read.
The best review I saw on it was " you'd be a bit worried about yourself if you enjoy this book ".
Very good read imo !

 

[wm02]

Reading this one right now. Excellent read—what would have been achieved in a James Garfield presidency is a great what-if of American history:

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

Yeah, or tv series.
Won’t spoil too much, but the book follows 2 groups. The human survivors on an Ark ship on their way to this new earth and it also follows the beings that live on this planet throughout their history. Can’t say any more, but this other group is the highlight of the story. Proper out of left-field!

Am about 200 pages into this you are right the second group is way out there. It’s been years since I read the Rama 1&2 books but I have the distinct feeling they are similar may have to re-read them.

 

[JohnRoss23]

I'm currently reading Daniel Stern's autobiography "Home & Alone" I highly recommend so far especially if you are a fan of his work.