Bint's Chocolate Box Selection - April 2020 Book Group TBR discussion thread

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McGoohan
McGoohan
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Also, I was stuck exactly like Badger. I eventually did read The Quarry. I still have The Hydrogen Sonata. I started but couldn't go on. If I read it, there will be no more new Iain Banks and no more Culture.
LindsD
LindsD
Apr 2020
8:04am, 1 Apr 2020
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I have said this before but I've never read any Iain M. Maybe I'll start after GE, which I started last night.
Diogenes
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The Player Of Games is a good place to start, as recommended by McG and others. Worked for me, anyway.
LindsD
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Think I might get it on Kindle right now :)
LindsD
LindsD
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8:12am, 1 Apr 2020
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LindsD
Done
McGoohan
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Hydrogen Sonata is the final one of his Culture series, though he did write a handful of non-Culture sci-fis. The first is Consider Phlebas which is a right rollicking adventure, but my fave remains Use of Weapons which has the most unexpected and brilliant twist of anything I've ever read. The sort of thing that makes you want to go back and see where you missed the clues. But unlike say, Sixth Sense where knowing that there is a twist is tantamount to knowing what the twist is, UoW plays its cards very cleverly close to its chest. And is also a right rollicking adventure.
McGoohan
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(UoW is No 3, the one after TPoG)
McGoohan
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(But it helps when reading UoW to have read CP/TPoG first as these familiarise you with the world of the Culture, and specifically Special Circumstances)
Badger
Badger
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TPoG is definitely the place to start. I'll be interested in your linguist's view on some of the ideas about language.
LindsD
LindsD
Apr 2020
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Now I want to start it NOW. But must read GE first.

About This Thread

Maintained by McGoohan
This month, we're having a bit of a switcheroo for them as wants to take part.

1. Post a picture of your To Be Read pile in the gallery. Failing that, simply post a list of your TBR books if say they are on Kindle or Audible.

2. Bint, as this month's sacred choosinator, will choose a book for each participant from their posted picture.

3. In turn, the rest of us will decide by committee what Bint's April book shall be.

4. Read it.

5. Review it. Here.

Here are our choisisees:

Dipps - Robinson Crusoe

Owlie - The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Peregrinator - A Rogue's Life

Little Nemo - Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

McG - The Haunting of Hill House - 4/10 (first to finish! Go me! Go me!)

Linds - Great Expectations

Dio - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Columba - A Pair of Blue Eyes

Wriggling Snake - End of the World Running Club

Scribbler - What Red Was

PaulaMc - The Mirror and the Light

Bazoaxe - The Light Between the Oceans

Badger - The Quarry

Bint - ? see below

A book for Bint:
The Word For Woman Is Wilderness - Abi Andrews

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