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Post by scubar on Apr 10, 2019 9:30:06 GMT
It’s fine to not like Pratchett. You’re wrong and dangerously insane, but it’s fine.
There is a huge volume of work, but I’ve always found them easy and accessible reading so it flies by. But then I’m a fan.
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 10, 2019 9:33:35 GMT
The GoT books are pretty terrible. Overlong and overwritten.
I wouldn't recommend them.
Pratchett on the other hand is pretty good. He started off as a parody of fantasy writing and the first 2 or 3 books suffer a bit from this.
It is also why he had such terrible book covers. Once he got into the swing of things it's more a humourous fantasy world than a parody. There's definitely a rhythm to his style.
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Post by crankcaller on Apr 10, 2019 9:33:52 GMT
I've never read him - so can't say if I like or not.
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 10, 2019 9:35:54 GMT
I liked Ursula Le Guin's work.
I don't think she wrote any series that long either. The Earthsea novels are all quite short as they are aimed at children.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Apr 10, 2019 9:38:47 GMT
The entire genre is aimed at children buddy.
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Post by cobblers on Apr 10, 2019 9:39:32 GMT
Titus Groan is great, Gormenghast is OK, Titus Alone is probably worse than Tits n’ Dragons book 1, and that was bloody awful.
OTTM I now have a new pair of skis. Fucking massive Head bastards. I’m getting a number of odd looks in the office but absolutely refuse to drop the “winter is coming” line. These people do not fully appreciate the joy of end of season sales.
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Post by scubar on Apr 10, 2019 9:39:35 GMT
The GoT books are pretty terrible. Overlong and overwritten. I wouldn't recommend them. Pratchett on the other hand is pretty good. He started off as a parody of fantasy writing and the first 2 or 3 books suffer a bit from this. It is also why he had such terrible book covers. Once he got into the swing of things it's more a humourous fantasy world than a parody. There's definitely a rhythm to his style. I’d agree, maybe even going so far as to say don’t read the first two books first, start with Equal Rites, maybe even Mort, that’s where he really set out what Discworld was. Top 5 Discworld books? |
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Post by MrTiddles on Apr 10, 2019 9:40:58 GMT
I've read 'The Day of the Triffids' and have the 'Bladerunner' soundtrack, does that count? I so desperately want to belong...
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 10, 2019 9:47:40 GMT
I've read 'The Day of the Triffids' and have the 'Bladerunner' soundtrack, does that count? I so desperately want to belong...You can join sci-fi group Books with starmaps, not books with maps. |
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Post by Felice Landry on Apr 10, 2019 9:54:25 GMT
In no particular order and hitting the main groups: Death, Guards, Wizzards and Witches with The Patrician thrown in:
Hogfather
Going Postal
Jingo
Witches Abroad
The Last Continent
This list will change by tonight
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Post by Faceless on Apr 10, 2019 9:56:30 GMT
Bookchat.
GoT: terrible
Gormenghast: terrible
Pratchett: hit & miss
Ursula le Guin: not terrible
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Post by RollingEscargot on Apr 10, 2019 9:57:06 GMT
I liked Stephen Donaldson when I was a nipper. I also thought Terry Pratchett was great from about book 4 to 10. Nowadays I have outgrown such childish pastimes and instead play Apex Legends while drinking too much, like a true sophisticate.
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Apr 10, 2019 10:07:03 GMT
Not that I'm incredibly happy Don't worry, you can taste mine. Would that be said in the style of Capt. Flashheart, "Don't worry you can taste mine - Wahey"! yes.. doesn't exactly translate well in writing. |
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Post by Felice Landry on Apr 10, 2019 10:07:29 GMT
I've read 'The Day of the Triffids' and have the 'Bladerunner' soundtrack, does that count? I so desperately want to belong...You can join sci-fi group Only if he's read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" |
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Post by Sheep2 on Apr 10, 2019 10:08:18 GMT
I liked Stephen Donaldson when I was a nipper. I also thought Terry Pratchett was great from about book 4 to 10. Nowadays I have outgrown such childish pastimes and instead play Apex Legends while drinking too much, like a true sophisticate. The last few Stephen Donaldson books were terrible. A shame as I'd liked his stuff previously. The final Thomas Covenant book was particularly poor. You know how when someone is in decline you just hope they'll pull off one last great effort, like this . Well he didn't. |
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Post by Faceless on Apr 10, 2019 10:08:47 GMT
You can join sci-fi group Only if he's read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" Good book. Someone should make it into a film. |
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Post by MrTiddles on Apr 10, 2019 10:11:03 GMT
I've read 'The Day of the Triffids' and have the 'Bladerunner' soundtrack, does that count? I so desperately want to belong...You can join sci-fi group Books with starmaps, not books with maps. I've also read the LotR trilogy whilst at school on the advice of my Art Tutor. That had maps. |
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Apr 10, 2019 10:12:39 GMT
I've read 'The Day of the Triffids' and have the 'Bladerunner' soundtrack, does that count? I so desperately want to belong...Kane agrees, you do appear quite desperate! |
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Post by MrTiddles on Apr 10, 2019 10:15:16 GMT
You can join sci-fi group Only if he's read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" I read that as, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep2". I think I'll purchase a copy, after I've finished trudging about in Malaya in 1943 with cholera and dysentry. |
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Apr 10, 2019 10:15:25 GMT
Only if he's read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" Good book. Someone should make it into a film. Maybe it could be set at midnight and have a cowboy in it! edit: I'm changing my childlike comment, it should read: 1) Midnight Cowboy 2) AI: artificial Intelligence 3) Bicentennial Man |
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Post by Felice Landry on Apr 10, 2019 10:16:02 GMT
I liked Stephen Donaldson when I was a nipper. I also thought Terry Pratchett was great from about book 4 to 10. Nowadays I have outgrown such childish pastimes and instead play Apex Legends while drinking too much, like a true sophisticate. The last few Stephen Donaldson books were terrible. A shame as I'd liked his stuff previously. The final Thomas Covenant book was particularly poor. You know how when someone is in decline you just hope they'll pull off one last great effort, like this . Well he didn't. I gave up halfway through the second book of the third Thomas Covenant trilogy, he really ruined Linden Avery I did like the "Into the Gap" books |
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Post by crankcaller on Apr 10, 2019 10:17:01 GMT
on the advice of my "Art Tutor"
Ftfy
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Post by Felice Landry on Apr 10, 2019 10:18:03 GMT
You can join sci-fi group Books with starmaps, not books with maps. I've also read the LotR trilogy whilst at school on the advice of my Art Tutor. That had maps. To be really dull you need to point out that LotR is not a trilogy |
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Post by scubar on Apr 10, 2019 10:25:12 GMT
Books with maps are the best.
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Apr 10, 2019 10:29:03 GMT
Only if he's read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" I have read Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire series. I have to say the books are better than the films. I have also read Stephen King's The Dark Tower series and I have the film, which isn't that bad- (Idris Elba). I currently have a wall of books to get through, but they are all martial arts related. Angry white pyjama's, Hagakure, book of the five rings etc. |
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