The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by DNSB

You might want to start with the City Watch subseries.

Thanks. I actually even have Guards! Guards! in my library, bought when discounted a few years ago.

Edit: hah, and it's even on my Kobos!

[hildea]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Thanks. I actually even have Guards! Guards! in my library, bought when discounted a few years ago.

Edit: hah, and it's even on my Kobos!

Here's something I wrote about Pratchett and Guards! Guards! when issybird asked what his books are like.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by hildea

Here's something I wrote about Pratchett and Guards! Guards! when issybird asked what his books are like.

Thank you.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by DNSB

You might want to start with the City Watch subseries.

That's what I did.
Apache

[Apache]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Thanks. I actually even have Guards! Guards! in my library, bought when discounted a few years ago.

Edit: hah, and it's even on my Kobos!

And this was the one.
Apache

[JSWolf]

@Sirtel, there's a two-part adaptation of The Colour of Magic. It covers The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. It's actually quite good. It means you can easily get past the first two books.

It's like other things I've seen where I would not read the book, but the adaptation was good enough to watch.

[Cactus Chef]

I'm about 70% through a 900 page Sci-Fi book by a certain author. I've just hit a plot revelation that is so completely stupid and insulting that I almost want to put the book down. But I've already invested so much time into getting this far and in reading the previous book in the series that I feel like I should still finish it.

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

I'm about 70% through a 900 page Sci-Fi book by a certain author. I've just hit a plot revelation that is so completely stupid and insulting that I almost want to put the book down. But I've already invested so much time into getting this far and in reading the previous book in the series that I feel like I should still finish it.

Name names!

[Apache]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

I'm about 70% through a 900 page Sci-Fi book by a certain author. I've just hit a plot revelation that is so completely stupid and insulting that I almost want to put the book down. But I've already invested so much time into getting this far and in reading the previous book in the series that I feel like I should still finish it.

Originally Posted by andyh2000

Name names!

I would like to know also.
Apache

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by Apache

I would like to know also.
Apache

Let's just say, I probably should have stayed away from anything the author published after he wrote this. I knew about that short story, and it was detestable, but I didn't think his politics was going to start bleeding into his books.

I was wrong. I'm also not the only one, evidently, who was taken out of the book by it.

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Let's just say, I probably should have stayed away from anything the author published after he wrote this. I knew about that short story, and it was detestable, but I didn't think his politics was going to start bleeding into his books.

I was wrong. I'm also not the only one, evidently, who was taken out of the book by it.

Oh dear. I loved Dan Simmons and read everything of his I could find up until Endymion. Haven't read anything by him since and maybe that's a good thing by the sound of it.