FFB book thread

[butchmcdick]

BDR I've read almost everything King has written after I read Dark Tower. You read Wind Through The Keyhole? Came out not that long ago and fits between Dark Tower books 4 and 5. Has one story about Roland and one other I loved it.

The Stand is right up there with anything he's written

Have you read the Bachman books ?

That is the shit

 

[Apey]

Video games and Internet have ruined my ability to sit and concentrate on a book

I know dat feel.

I got back into reading for a while there but have gone off it again.

On my current "to read" list:

LoTR (has been there for years...)
Scar Tissue
A song of Ice & Fire series
+ numerous other books I've amassed as presents and keep putting off.

 

[afinalsin666]

I absolutely love the middle earth setting, but damn Tolkien is dry reading.

 

[umina panther]

Have you read the Bachman books ?

That is the shit

Only The Long Walk which was great and The Running Man which was ok

 

[butchmcdick]

Only The Long Walk which was great and The Running Man which was ok

I loved the long walk

There is another one about a kid who shoots his teacher and takes the class hostage. It is good too

 

[BDR]

Rage was it's name. Inspired heaps of IRL school shootings so it's out of print these days. The only one I haven't read is Road Work, I'll get around to it one day but I've heard from other King nuts that it's not great.

Such a good story teller.

 

[Twizzle]

Oi, Cliffy or Twizzle - can you move the book talk from the Random Mafia thread to here?

moved all I could find, or more like all I cbf

 

[thorson1987]

What the hell.

I started this thread but now everything being moved apparently SMBN started it.

Jipped.

 

[Monk]

i feel sorry for the poor bugger who moved all the posts

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

What the hell.

I started this thread but now everything being moved apparently SMBN started it.

Jipped.

Hijacked muvafuga. Lol.

 

[Bazal]

Moving slightly away from fantasy, which I've never enjoyed....just re-read The Passage by Justin Cronin. Awesome read, some fantasy, some sci fi, post apocalyptic, all the good stuff

 

[BDR]

Aye terrific book, lost it's way a little in the middle but brough me back around by the end.

See if you can get a copy of Let The Right One In if you enjoy good vampire fiction.

 

[Bazal]

I don't usually but that one, and the sequel, I really enjoyed. I think because it's actually fairly plausible, with some suspension of disbelief of course like any good book

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

The sequel to 'the passage' is out? Hurrah! Now to sedate the bub....

 

[Bazal]

Yeah man been out 6 months or so. The Twelve

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

Was completely focused on the Wheel of Time re-read in the lead up to the last book.

 

[Misanthrope]

Have you read the Bachman books ?

The Long Walk is one of my absolute favourite novel/novellas of all time. Bloody brilliant read. Right up there with Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil for mine.

I absolutely love the middle earth setting, but damn Tolkien is dry reading.

I find him nigh on impossible to read after reading more talented story-tellers like Martin, Jordan, (Tad) Williams, Cook, Hobb etc. He's a pretty dire writer. Lord of the Rings would barely make a splash if it were released today. Its fame is derived from it being a pioneer.

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

The Long Walk is one of my absolute favourite novel/novellas of all time. Bloody brilliant read. Right up there with Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil for mine.



I find him nigh on impossible to read after reading more talented story-tellers like Martin, Jordan, (Tad) Williams, Cook, Hobb etc. He's a pretty dire writer. Lord of the Rings would barely make a splash if it were released today. Its fame is derived from it being a pioneer.

True, dat. Also, very good film adaptations - better than the books imho.

 

[Misanthrope]

True, dat. Also, very good film adaptations - better than the books imho.

It'll outrage virgins everywhere, but I whole-heartedly agree. Tolkien got too caught up in his own prose and failed to create particularly endearing characters or adequately pace his novel. He had a great eye for language and basically birthed the high fantasy genre, but he's a tedious read.

 

[Different kind of Rabbit]

Last three months I've read-

The passage
The twelve

Then I switched it up coming into Anzac Day and I read-

Kokoda and Tobruk. Peter Fitzsimons is a bit of a douche irl but he has a great writing style.

Just this week I finished (for the third or fourth time) the Aussie classic and one of my all time faves-

A Fortunate Life, by AB Facey

Anyone who hasn't read this, should do so. Not a massive book but a cracking read.