Fantasy Books -Terry Pratchett

[ebikeerwidnes]

I read a couple of the Thomas Covenent titles and struggled to get in to them as well. I did try but couldn't get on with it.

To be fair I read then several time
On the last time I read them I was wondering what was making be so depressed - and I mean that properly not just unhappy

and I realised that I had been that way every time I read them
I bong read the whole series in one weekend to finish it so it was done and finished
then got rid of the books

as before - as soon as I stopped reading them I perked up - it was the books that was affecting be - quite badly as well

I have to say that it takes true art ot make something like a book or picture have such an effect on someone's mood

but next time I want to feel miserable I will look on YouTube for a Smith's song
well - I say song - dirge???

 

[Conrad_K]

I got halfway through the second book and hated Thomas Covenant so much I started rooting for the "bad" guys.

Oddly, Donaldson *can* write: "The Man Who Fought Alone" was a very good murder mystery; not a genre I ordinarily read, but I liked it a lot. It turned out to be the fourth of a series, but it's basically standalone. I read one of the earlier books and wasn't nearly as impressed, though.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I got halfway through the second book and hated Thomas Covenant so much I started rooting for the "bad" guys.

Oddly, Donaldson *can* write: "The Man Who Fought Alone" was a very good murder mystery; not a genre I ordinarily read, but I liked it a lot. It turned out to be the fourth of a series, but it's basically standalone. I read one of the earlier books and wasn't nearly as impressed, though.

I thought the Thomas Covenant books were good - detailed story line and world(s) and all that

I had stop reading then as they were properly depressing me - and I mean affecting my whole mood and way I was thinking

so I can believe he has written other things that are good

 

[mistyoptic]

Other fantasy writers I’ve enjoyed include Trudi Canavan (Black Magician trilogy)and Mike Shevdon (although after completing his “61 Nails” series he seems to have vanished).

Robin Hobbs is another favourite but I seem to have read all hers now. Only weak one there, for me, was the “Soldier Son trilogy, although it improved dramatically towards the end.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Oh yes - I had forgotten about Trudi Canavan

Enjoyed her books
but I lost track of which I had read and which I hadn't so I stopped - it was around when I moved house at one point and a load of books got lost or accidentally sent to a charity shop

One advantage of a Kindle is that it keep track for you!

 

[Aescott]

Anthony Riches writes some superb Roman Army stories. But I can’t get into his modern thriller stuff.

One writer who I feel is very underrated is John Connolly and his Charlie Parker books. Crime and supernatural horror, but exceptionally well written. Not for the squeamish but excellent books.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

We are currently watching The Two Towers with the grand-daughter
the 2 grand-sons are younger and have gone to bed so she gets a treat and watches a "grown up" film with us

Did you see/are a fan of The Big Bang Theory, where they got a 'prop Ring Of Power' at an auction, & fought over it!


View: https://youtu.be/haLX4RGrwes?si=KElU8eqXSs9kN4qj


View: https://youtu.be/_A0_cLASNaM?si=CJ5zXY1ElicvbfCu

 

[icowden]

Well, I'm still working my way through the Robert Rankin Collection. Finished the Brentford trilogy (all 12 books in the trilogy) and the Armageddon Trilogy (3 books) and am now on the third book (Waiting for Godalming) of the Completely Barking Mad Trilogy (which does have 3 books in it).

Only another 22 books to go!

I've also discovered Caimh McDonnell, an Irish writer who writes amusing detective fiction as well as sort of Sci-Fi. His main branch of novels follow Detective Bunny McGarry of the Garda, a policeman very handy with a hurling stick, whilst he has a secondary branch of Novels following the "Stranger Times" newspaper reporters and staff as they deal with the supernatural and the usually naked Rastafarian who lives in the printing press room. There is a lot of comedy and they are very well written.