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The GOT Book Club
- Thread starter chicoazul
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Just finished this , good readAh, a kick of Russian literature too, I see.
I'm currently reading Roadside Picnic too, although it's taking me longer as I've not had a lot of time.
We have the Metro books at home as the wife's read them, I'll probably kick on to that too soon enough. Russian/Slavic literature tends to be a bit too heavy to keep reading book after book (or maybe it's childhood trauma as we had mandatory reading and Bulgarian literature is, believe it or not, equally as heavy) so I might go to some other things from the goodreads list.
On that note, anyone here read Snow Crash and is it as good as the synopsis for it sounds?
The Stalker games are basically re-imaginings of Roadside Picnic. If you've played any of the games you'd be much quicker to familiarise with the environment of the book.
Roadside Picnic or Snow Crash?
Roadside Picnic, not something I would normally pick up, but find this thread useful for reading books recommended by posters.
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Currently reading Steinbeck’s East of Eden
One you might read on a holiday, short punchy chapters, I've read worse
Finished that too. What's your take on things (if you wanna talk about it obvs)? Kind of pleasantly surprised by how it describes an entire alien "picnic" happening, with the anomalies and everything, without ever actually 'showing' any aliens ever; just the effects.
Personally I might look into some more Strugatsky brothers' novels - they're very interesting and well written.
Yeah, thought it clever and kept my interest throughout. It didn't occur to me there were no aliens in it !.
Someone on here recommend this - Into Thin Air / Jon Krakauer.
Couldn’t put it down, outstanding.
The author recounts without blame, the Everest disaster of 1996, of which he was part of.
The film, with Josh Brolin, pretty much uses this book as a template.
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Started this book about ten years ago, can’t find it anywhere! Got way too many books in this house. Been recommended to me many time, thanks for the reminder and try to dig it out.
You actually feel like you’re there with them, it’s that well written.
One of the best books of this genre I’ve read.
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That’s precisely how a friend of mine described it to me! My daughter has gotten into the habit of selling any of my old books on vinted. Will probably buy it back now…
Mo' Better Blues
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You might like Joe Simpson’s ‘Touching the void’, I read it around same time as I read ‘Into thin air’ and ‘The worst journey in the world’, great reads when your tucked up cozy in the bed