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The GOT Book Club

Has anyone read atlas shrugged? Its on my list but idk when i'll get round to it

Ooh another great series is the chronicals of thomas covenant the unbeliever by stephen r donaldson
 
DownOnTheUpside said:
Has anyone read atlas shrugged? Its on my list but idk when i'll get round to it

Ooh another great series is the chronicals of thomas covenant the unbeliever by stephen r donaldson
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I've not read Atlas Shrugged - I think it would be hard to give it a fair go due to its adoption by US libertarian Teds as their guide to life. Whether it stands up as a good book I don't know.

I quite like the TC stuff - read them beards ago but they stay with you. Very purple prose IIRC, even by the standards of fantasy books, but it sort of works as it's such an unusual premise [rapey leper saves the world whilst being a miserable balloches about it].

I polished off Scott Lynch's Locke Lamora this week after wanting to get round to it for an age. Very good and deserving of the acclaim. What are books 2 and 3 like? - quite fancy ploughing on with it if it's the same sort of level. They often aren't, but I guess China Mieville's Perdido street station is an obvious reference point, but I thought his second one, The Scar, was even better.
 
Chozz said:
Can anyone recommend a good read? Thriller, can't put it down type of thing...

I haven't been able to find anything as engrossing as the Stieg Larsson trilogy since I finished them a few years ago.
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This .

Can't say enough good things about it.

It's long at 1300 pages, but I read it in a week, as I genuinely couldn't put it down.

Book one of three.

Think Stephen King / the Stand crossed with Cormack McCarthy / the Road and you're getting there.

Truly outstanding book.
 

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and not entirely impressed with it. Very rambling and anecdotal.
 
DownOnTheUpside said:
Has anyone read atlas shrugged? Its on my list but idk when i'll get round to it

Ooh another great series is the chronicals of thomas covenant the unbeliever by stephen r donaldson
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I read it and Fountainhead when I was younger. I kinda put them in a slightly more blatant form of allegory than, say, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. As with most philosophies, Rand does over-simplify in a big way in order to get her point across, which you could easily argue negates the point entirely. Looking back on it now, it feels a bit like a kids book if I'm honest.
 
Black Belt Jones said:
I've not read Atlas Shrugged - I think it would be hard to give it a fair go due to its adoption by US libertarian Teds as their guide to life. Whether it stands up as a good book I don't know.

I quite like the TC stuff - read them beards ago but they stay with you. Very purple prose IIRC, even by the standards of fantasy books, but it sort of works as it's such an unusual premise [rapey leper saves the world whilst being a miserable balloches about it].

I polished off Scott Lynch's Locke Lamora this week after wanting to get round to it for an age. Very good and deserving of the acclaim. What are books 2 and 3 like? - quite fancy ploughing on with it if it's the same sort of level. They often aren't, but I guess China Mieville's Perdido street station is an obvious reference point, but I thought his second one, The Scar, was even better.
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Read the next 2 Scott Lynch books. Id say that the standard declines as you go through the series. Still enjoyable but the premises of the storylines just aren't as good. First one is tough to match up to though, and I will read the other installments.
 

COYBL25 said:
Have you read the other two ?

I've just got the last one - City of Mirrors.

Due to its release being delayed by over two years I'm going to read the other two back to back first, before reading it.
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Yes. You have a lot to answer for, read them all pretty much back to back, didn't feed my family for weeks!

City Of Mirrors will not disappoint you. I cried my eyes out in a few places.
 
DownOnTheUpside said:
James herbert has some great books - nobody true/moon/the fog etc

Anything by terry pratchett - what a writer he was

The original hannibal trilogy - red dragon/the silence of the lambs/hannibal (so much better than the films)

The earthsea trilogy by ursula le guin
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I could not believe the end of Hannibal. Had to re-read the last few pages several times to make sure.

It's a long time since I read Moon but I remember really enjoying it.
 

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