-
LIVE: Richmond v Melbourne - 7:25PM Wed
Squiggle tips Demons at 77% chance -- What's your tip? -- Team line-ups »
Big Footy Book Club
- Thread starter Cruyff14
- Start date
- Tagged users None
- Thread starter
- #402
The show got very silly I found.
I heard that the movie is terrible so I googled the differences between the book and movie… worlds apart. The book is great.
Gave 'Eagle In The Snow' a read on the recommendation of a work colleague.
Thoroughly enjoyed it for the historical accuracy and portrayal of a legion during the twilight of the Roman Empire. One for the history buffs.
- Thread starter
- #408
Finished two books this week. Richard Osman is great as always and you can't help but love the characters he has created. Book three isn't as good as the other two, but it's still great and I loved reading it.
4.5/5
Sadly, this wasn't as good as the first one. It was still good, but it was a little underwhelming. Few annoying characters, but full of lots of unexpected twists and turns and you still want to know what is going to happen.
4/5.
4.5/5
Sadly, this wasn't as good as the first one. It was still good, but it was a little underwhelming. Few annoying characters, but full of lots of unexpected twists and turns and you still want to know what is going to happen.
4/5.
Dogs_R_Us
Space Traveller
- Thread starter
- #410
Yeah Millie was annoying, Wendy was an absolute cow.I read it too, didn’t like it either. I ended up skimming through.
Shame it wasn't as good as the first.
Dogs_R_Us
Space Traveller
I find these days I’m preferring books that are based in reality, or history, or biographies. Currently working through Graham Hurley’s books. Lately I find books set during WWII fascinating for some reason. The amount of research that goes into them is amazing.
Told ya!
Dogs_R_Us
Space Traveller
Nine times out of ten, the book is better.
Gralin
Super Moderator
- Moderator
- #414
there was another series of books that were a murder mystery that got made into a tv show recently
and they completely changed the ending
changed the killer
made the killer a character that wasn't even in the book or was like on a couple of pages, and turned them into a much larger character so they could be the killer
completely changed the entire point of the story and like, why bother, if you're going to do that why bother buying the rights to something
Dogs_R_Us
Space Traveller
The author wouldn’t have been thrilled, even if he/she got paid plenty for the rights. It’s a wonder there wasn’t a clause limiting the changes to the storyline. That sounds like a pretty big change.
Gralin
Super Moderator
- Moderator
- #416
I think the issue now is everything is controlled by non creatives that use polling etc to decide what the winning formula is
movies have done re edits, reshoots, changed endings for years to improve audience scores
the end result is everything being the same and boring and predictable because the people that go to those things want it that way
you see it every day where a hit movie comes out of nowhere and you find out they fought the studio the whole way to release the movie they wanted and won
its why so much stuff is the same
its just churned out to make a profit and has to fit the "success" formulate
- Nov 26, 2015
- 1,028
- 1,686
- AFL Club
- Brisbane Lions
If you haven't read them and you have some spare cash, Rick Perlsteins trilogy, "Before the Storm, The Invisible Bridge and Reaganland" are really worth reading.
Superb mishmashes of politics, culture and Stateside tabloid.
Mofra
Moderator
- Dec 6, 2005
- 67,092
- 198,368
- AFL Club
- Western Bulldogs
- Other Teams
- Footscray, Coney Island Warriors
- Moderator
- #418
I'm not normally a fiction reader, but I'm riding that Trent Dalton hype train right now.
Haven't seen the Netflix adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe (brilliant book) but am most of the way through All Our Shimmering Skies and I think it's actually better than BSU.
Haven't seen the Netflix adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe (brilliant book) but am most of the way through All Our Shimmering Skies and I think it's actually better than BSU.
- Sep 15, 2011
- 31,615
- 48,104
- AFL Club
- West Coast
Late to the party but I just started reading this. Got the sequel at Christmas, now going back to the original (can't think of anything spoilt in the second, the author makes a point of saying he won't spoil it for anyone reading it the wrong way round). A proper mystery but with a funny conceit of the narrator being upfront about the rules and the clues.
- Thread starter
- #420
I have read both.
I found it very jarring how much the reader is directly addressed in this one. It really took me out of the world. It was much less noticable and frequent in the second book.
However, he does write very well. His use of metaphors and descriptions are fantastic.
- Thread starter
- #421
Drowning, by the same author, is the best fiction book I'll most likely ever read.
This was written first, and while not as good, it's still bloody fantastic.
Bill Hoffmann is a pilot and is faced with a choice - crash the commercial plane he is flying, or his family dies.
It's so friggen intense and gripping. Absolutely loved it.
5/5
This was written first, and while not as good, it's still bloody fantastic.
Bill Hoffmann is a pilot and is faced with a choice - crash the commercial plane he is flying, or his family dies.
It's so friggen intense and gripping. Absolutely loved it.
5/5
- Jul 6, 2015
- 1,373
- 3,034
- AFL Club
- Carlton
Picked up Stalking Claremont in Melbourne Airport yesterday morning. About the Claremont serial killings in the 1990's and subsequent shithouse police work in the following years. Unputdownable. Of particular interest to us West Australians who were up and about in the mid 90's.
