Donald Twain
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Like most of his stuff ( both as I Banks and I M Banks ) 'Consider Phlebas' being a favourite.
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The GOT Book Club
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Donald Twain
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Cracking read that, walking on Glass and Espedair Street are ace aswell
Just about to start - " the Quarry " by Banks too.
I really don't understand why the Wasp Factory hasn't been made into a film, as it has all the ingredients for a reasonably low budget film - location, use of Scottish actors etc.
Donald Twain
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The levels of violence and depravity are a tad excessive I think. Not sure on Banks view on why it hasn't , but your right make a decent film in the right hands.
Come to think of it the only one of his that has been screened was - the Criow Road. Which was quite safe really.
You'll like this if you're into graphic art.
Shadow Walk by Max Brooks - son of Mel Brooks ( Blazing Saddles ) and author of World War Z. ( the film was crap, book much better ).
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A nice quickie, with a really great twist at the end. Although, with this, you realise how much more interesting Millar could have made it.
Superb Art, great addition to the collection. 4 out of 5.
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This is also quite good, but this this case I much preferred the film.
The Siege - Russ Schneider.
Absolutely outstanding book. It's a novel based on historical fact. Tells the tale of the Russian siege of two small towns on the Eastern Front occupied by the Germans. Told through the eyes of German soldiers. You actually feel like your there with them.
Highly recommended .
9.5 Lugers out of 10.
Iain Banks last book before he died. Coincidentally about a fella dying of cancer raging against the world. ( Banks didn't know he had cancer when he wrote it ).
Shame really as its not very good. Kind of like a modern version of " Peters Friends " - load of mates stay over for a weekend get together with the dying man and his son.
5 bottles of Buckfast out of 10.
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Black Belt Jones
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Not been reading much recently, so decided to tan a fantasy book over the weekend - Lyonesse by Jack Vance. Old one - from 1983, and rated as one of his best. Reckon that's about right - as good a book as I've read by him. Love Vance's style, unique voice that you could recognise after a single paragraph.
Not sure what to look at next - got Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke somewhere and the missus is insisting that I read Stoner by John Williams. Written in the 60s to no great fanfare - rediscovered recently and been held up as a piece of brilliance by various contemporary writers. Anyone else read it?
Not sure what to look at next - got Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke somewhere and the missus is insisting that I read Stoner by John Williams. Written in the 60s to no great fanfare - rediscovered recently and been held up as a piece of brilliance by various contemporary writers. Anyone else read it?
summerisle
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Lyonesse is the first of a trilogy: the Green Pearl and Madouc being the others. I read them years ago but can't remember if they were any good.
Try Mythago Wood. Weird book about a mysterious wood and the inhabitants within, and it's interaction with a family who live in a nearby house. Not your normal fantasy novel.
Black Belt Jones
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I've read a few by Robert Holdstock and they're top drawer. Really rate Lavondyss which was the second one I think - loved the way he tapped English myths in a new way, as you say - not your normal fantasy stuff. He was also pretty deft with integrating the modern / fantasy world, which is usually a clumsy, back-of-the-wardrobe disaster for a lot of writers.
He's passed away now, which I was sort of surprised to read. In his 50s IIRC.
summerisle
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I bought the first thinking it was a run of the mill fantasy novel. Instead, because of the prose and the psychological aspects, it made for a page-turner. As you say, the second was just as good, which is not usually the case.
I'll have to re-read them again.