Tony’s Comments (group member since Dec 19, 2018)

Tony’s comments from the Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy group.

Late in the year, but I have now filled in the O column. 14 books left to fill out the entire card - it will be tight.

I have finished The Clone Wars. which is the novelization of the animated Clone Wars movie. An enjoyable read, and it fills the clone slot in my Bingo.

I will start Cobalt Blue, Matthew Reilly's new book. This will fill the 2022 slot in my Bingo.

I have started reading The Clone Wars, which is the novel of The Clone Wars animated movie, set just before The Clone Wars animated series.

I have finished Fatal Revenant. It took me a little over a month to read, partly because it's not an easy read, mostly because work is cutting into my reading time a lot at the moment. On the plus side, it contains a lot of history of the Land, which I enjoyed. On the negative side, it's far too long - nearly 900 pages (I think it could have been 500), Donaldson has returned to his desire to make every reader have a thesaurus as a companion, and the main character remains intensely unlikeable. I think I will leave book 3 of this series until next year.

Robin wrote: "I remember that it was a sort of 'Life of Byron,' but written from the premise that he became a Vampire while travelling in Greece and subsequently faked his own death as a cover story."

He's not a vampire, he's just a very naughty boy 😆

Welcome Gina, we're a pretty friendly bunch here.

I run an eBay store, and I am amused / irritated by the number of times I get a recommendation for an item I have just listed for sale. And it's not a recommendation for a similar item, or a different seller selling the same item - it's a recommendation for my listing on eBay😝

I'm still working through Fatal Revenant. It's too long and Donaldson has returned to requiring his readers to have a thesaurus handy, but it is strangely compelling, and better than the first book in the final Thomas Covenant series. I'm a bit over half-way.

Another month. Two-thirds of the way through 2022.

Welcome to the group Christian. We seemed to be getting an increasing number of Canadians joining 😀

I have only seen the TV adaptation of Wayward Pines - which I enjoyed. I have the books, but I haven't read them yet. How closely did the show follow the books?

Andrea wrote: "This technically isn't a used bookstore score, but there's this only retailer that sells books that the publisher's don't want anymore, like when a book goes from hardcover to paperback. "

For anyone who might be interested, the process is called remaindering (at least in Australia), and there are a number of bookstores that almost entirely sell remaindered books. In Australia it's more often trade paperbacks than hardcovers, as most books don't get a hardcover release here - there probably won't be enough sales of a hardcover in the Australian market to justify the cost. Remainder stores will regularly have trade paperbacks that retail for $30-35 when new on sale for $7-10.

I have finished Yellowstone Survival, the final book in the Yellowstone series. Overall, it was just average. It started strongly, but didn't maintain that level.

I have returned to the Thomas Covenant books with Fatal Revenant.

I am reading Yellowstone Survival which will finish the Yellowstone series. It is post-apocalyptic, but it doesn't really feel like it.

I have finished reading Yellowstone Fallout, the third in the series. They are quick reads, but I'm glad there is only one more - the author has been gradually increasing his political rhetoric with each volume, and it's fair to say that he and I probably wouldn't agree on a lot in that area 😁

I have finished the second book in the Yellowstone series - Yellowstone Inferno. The apocalypse started at the end of book one, but this still doesn't feel particularly PA, although I believe that may change in the last two books.

I have started Yellowstone Fallout, the third book in the series.

I am continuing the Yellowstone series with Yellowstone Inferno.

I finished Yellowstone Hellfire. As I suspected about halfway through, this was just the lead up to the apocalypse, which happens right at the end of the novel. Still it was a fun, easy read - a bit cliched and lacking in much nuance, but that's not surprising for a disaster novel. 3 to go in the series.

I haven't read it either, but I have read both Sand, which is post-apocalyptic, and Beacon 23, which is SF, and enjoyed his writing in both of them.

I have started reading Yellowstone Hellfire, the first in the Yellowstone series. I had thought this was going to be post-apocalyptic, but this one may just be the lead up to the apocalypse, so the rest of the series (4 books in total I think) might be PA.