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Finished The Painful Truth, was OK.
Now started Winterkill by Ragnar Jonasson.
 
If you didn’t know already and you’re a Strike/Robert Gilbraith fan @Robin is I know. BBC at 9pm a new Strike series is starting, based on The Ink Black Heart. I’m looking forward to seeing how they deal with the text speak which is all the way through the book. Can’t wait.
 
eggyg said:
If you didn’t know already and you’re a Strike/Robert Gilbraith fan @Robin is I know. BBC at 9pm a new Strike series is starting, based on The Ink Black Heart. I’m looking forward to seeing how they deal with the text speak which is all the way through the book. Can’t wait.
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Funnily enough I saw a trailer for that last night (after Wolf Hall, I think, which unsurprisingly didn’t have a happy ending). For some reason I’ve never watched any of the others, they’ve always clashed with something, and been at busy periods when I haven’t had time to catch up on iplayer, but I thought, oh, I’ll definitely watch this one. I thought the book was really good, the best so far at the time, because of the depth it went into the whole set up of the game, (including all the online chats) it was hard to believe it was entirely fictitious. I think the next one, about the cult, was equally good, in the way the entire world of the cult was created, you believed it was all happening in a real place, not a construct of the author's imagination.
 
Finished Winterkill, bit of a twisted plot.
Now started The Shadow Murders by Jussi Alder Olsen.
 
eggyg said:
If you didn’t know already and you’re a Strike/Robert Gilbraith fan @Robin is I know. BBC at 9pm a new Strike series is starting, based on The Ink Black Heart. I’m looking forward to seeing how they deal with the text speak which is all the way through the book. Can’t wait.
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I don't mind the TV series, it is the books I find tedious.
I get annoyed at times when the TV makes the silly noise when airing texts.
 
Robin said:
Funnily enough I saw a trailer for that last night (after Wolf Hall, I think, which unsurprisingly didn’t have a happy ending). For some reason I’ve never watched any of the others, they’ve always clashed with something, and been at busy periods when I haven’t had time to catch up on iplayer, but I thought, oh, I’ll definitely watch this one. I thought the book was really good, the best so far at the time, because of the depth it went into the whole set up of the game, (including all the online chats) it was hard to believe it was entirely fictitious. I think the next one, about the cult, was equally good, in the way the entire world of the cult was created, you believed it was all happening in a real place, not a construct of the author's imagination.
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I think The Running Grave was her best yet. I will look forward to that adaptation. I’ve watched all the series and enjoyed them. Very good adaptations in my opinion.
 
Robin said:
Funnily enough I saw a trailer for that last night (after Wolf Hall, I think, which unsurprisingly didn’t have a happy ending). For some reason I’ve never watched any of the others, they’ve always clashed with something, and been at busy periods when I haven’t had time to catch up on iplayer, but I thought, oh, I’ll definitely watch this one. I thought the book was really good, the best so far at the time, because of the depth it went into the whole set up of the game, (including all the online chats) it was hard to believe it was entirely fictitious. I think the next one, about the cult, was equally good, in the way the entire world of the cult was created, you believed it was all happening in a real place, not a construct of the author's imagination.
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I've never read any of the books but I like the TV adaptations, with Strike being an 'anti-Sherlock'. It's also nice having a pantomime villain to shout at, in Robin's useless boyfriend/husband :rofl:. As a Londoner, though, I keep getting distracted by the paradox of Strike being permanently short of money and yet renting an office in Soho :confused:.
 
CliffH said:
I've never read any of the books but I like the TV adaptations, with Strike being an 'anti-Sherlock'. It's also nice having a pantomime villain to shout at, in Robin's useless boyfriend/husband :rofl:. As a Londoner, though, I keep getting distracted by the paradox of Strike being permanently short of money and yet renting an office in Soho :confused:.
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The books are excellent, very long, but absolutely brilliant writing.
 
Robin said:
Funnily enough I saw a trailer for that last night (after Wolf Hall, I think, which unsurprisingly didn’t have a happy ending). For some reason I’ve never watched any of the others, they’ve always clashed with something, and been at busy periods when I haven’t had time to catch up on iplayer, but I thought, oh, I’ll definitely watch this one. I thought the book was really good, the best so far at the time, because of the depth it went into the whole set up of the game, (including all the online chats) it was hard to believe it was entirely fictitious. I think the next one, about the cult, was equally good, in the way the entire world of the cult was created, you believed it was all happening in a real place, not a construct of the author's imagination.
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It’s on tomorrow night too and only four episodes, so assuming ( dangerous I know) that the last two are on next Monday and Tuesday which is good. There’s usually six episodes over six weeks.
 
I've almost finished the latest Ian Rankin, and am 8,000 into a new story of my own!
 
I gave up a few years ago on Ian Rankin and Jo Nesbro as I found there books were not as good.
 
grovesy said:
I gave up a few years ago on Ian Rankin and Jo Nesbro as I found there books were not as good.
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The Rankin books aren't as good these days.
But easy to read. My other book on the go is one of the Dune novels, which I find so badly written it's a struggle to get into them. (But the world building is amazing, so it's why I persevere!)
 
eggyg said:
It’s on tomorrow night too and only four episodes, so assuming ( dangerous I know) that the last two are on next Monday and Tuesday which is good. There’s usually six episodes over six weeks.
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I’ve watched the first two, and realised it’s all up on iplayer, so might watch the rest this week while things are quieter. It seems massively simplified, I’m sure I spent ages in the book trying to work out who was who, matching up thier online names with their real life identities, whereas they’ve told you who everyone is in real life straight off. Assume it would have been too complicated to follow the book, and they’d have needed a dozen episodes. Also, the thing about the game in the book, was how beautifully it was animated, but in this adaptation, the bits of the game they’ve shown seem really crude, maybe the BBC could only afford a trainee animator.:rofl:
 
Robin said:
I’ve watched the first two, and realised it’s all up on iplayer, so might watch the rest this week while things are quieter. It seems massively simplified, I’m sure I spent ages in the book trying to work out who was who, matching up thier online names with their real life identities, whereas they’ve told you who everyone is in real life straight off. Assume it would have been too complicated to follow the book, and they’d have needed a dozen episodes. Also, the thing about the game in the book, was how beautifully it was animated, but in this adaptation, the bits of the game they’ve shown seem really crude, maybe the BBC could only afford a trainee animator.:rofl:
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I haven’t watched Tuesdays as we were both out. The plan to watch it last night was scuppered as I got sucked into a travel programme with the comedian Romesh Ranganathan, he was on Skye and Lewis and Harris. Then it was too late. Tonight is the night, after hospital visiting.
When we watched Monday’s I could see Mr Eggy was a bit confused, that’s not difficult to be fair, it definitely helped knowing the story. I read a brief review of it the other day, it wasn’t good, but it won’t put me off, I knew it wouldn’t be an easy adaptation. Now The Running Grave will be a lot easier to do, and is definitely my favourite out of all the Strike novels, hopefully that’ll be next year.
 
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