Not a book but a final read of a magazine I am saying goodbye to after over 26 years subscription. The story is on the cover, four products with a total cost of over 150 grands. Tired and completely bored to read reviews of super expensive gear which I have no interest in. Decision was made easier after learning that they are upping the yearly subscription cost only by 66%.
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Just subscribe to Readly app and find some other magazines you like to read. Stereophile is in there. My sister has a sub she shares legitimately between five of us. I have twenty four magazines (not all monthly) and it works out at £24 per year.
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I subscribe to 3 hi hi mags (Stereophile included) and won’t be renewing any other them. Feel they’re becoming relevant.
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There’s an argument they always were but this whole discussion is way OT for this thread.
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Just started the 3rd trilogy in this series that makes it book 7 since Feb. Just can’t put them down.
Here’s some recommended high fantasy if you are looking for the good stuff.
| Fantasy series | Author | #Books |
|---|---|---|
| The Hobbit | J R R Tolkien | 1 |
| Lord of the Rings | J R R Tolkien | 3 |
| Harry Potter | J K Rowling | 7 |
| Game of thrones | George R R Martin | 7 |
| Shannara chronicles | Terry Brooks | 21 |
| Wheel of time | Robert Jordan | 14 |
| Mistborn | Brandon Sanderson | 3 |
| Wax & Wayne | Brandon Sanderson | 3 |
| Malazan | Steven Erickson | 10 |
| Storm light archive (1) | Brandon Sanderson | 7 |
| Farseer trilogy | Robin Hobb | 3 |
| Live ship traders | Robin Hobb | 3 |
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As recommended by Sideshow Bob from the Dynaudio team last Friday at the Audio Show East.
Just started it this morning
Currently out of print, but copies available at the usual auction site😉
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Copies remain available far and wide including that well known sort of bookseller online. I read this when first published and recommend it.
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Read them all, excellent series.
Picked this up from our hotel book share while on holiday in Lanzarote, a political thriller centred around a new American President and the climate crisis set in the not too distant future, a bit of a slow burner for the first half but from then on it was a page turner as the tension between America and China the worlds worst emitters of CO2 builds to a terrifying conclusion, great stuff!!
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Francis Spufford Light Perpetual Faber, 2021. A well-written novel which describes the imagined lives of five children who are supposed to have died when a V2 fell on Woolworths in 1944. Spufford describes one day in their lives at 15 year intervals from 1944 until 2009. Jo is a musician, her sister Val takes up with a Neo-Nazi. Alec becomes a typesetter on The Times, then a headteacher. Ben is a bi-polar bus conductor (his breakdown is frightening) saved by his relationship with an African woman. Vern is a dishonest property developer who eats himself to death. Their lives and the plot are interconnected. Britain changed dramatically through these years.
The book is a meditation upon life and death: ‘They are all gone into the world of light.’ Henry Vaughan. The author is an Anglican, but with a light touch. He doesn’t preach or patronise. Engaging story with some stylistic flourishes, especially the V2 explosion.
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May I add
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Stephen Donaldson
9 books
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I have put that on my Kindle price watch app.
A V fell about a quarter of a mile from our house when I was 4 years old so I am sure,as ‘’I haven’t gone into the world of light’’ yet. (What a wonderful phrase) I will enjoy seeing how my life compares.
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And Joe Abercrombie’s collection of rogues.
David Gemmell.
Mark Lawrence.
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Read the 1st six back in the day when they came out. Enjoyed them then, but tried to read them again a few years ago and just couldn’t get invested in them…
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I hope you enjoy it Nick. Sometimes reading about a historical period one has lived through can seem a little false. I’m a 50s child, so I don’t remember the war, nor have I lived in South London. Those V2s must have frightened people.
I have his Coleridge picked up secondhand. I have yet to do more than dip into it. Looks promising.
To be honest m’lud
I loved the first 4,
got bogged down in 5
then read 6 in a weekend. Probably the first book I eagerly awaited for its publication
Have a very well thumbed set of the first 6.
7, read twice, and it sits on the bookshelf alongside 8 which I cant even remember finishing 9 is still on the bookshop.
Mordaunt’s Need I have just had a similar experience with as you . Read them many times through the years when they first came out. Tried the first one again a couple of months ago and it’s now in the charity pile
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