Okay so after a 12 year gap I’ve finally decided to start my A Song of Ice and Fire re-read. Only difference between now and 12 years ago is that I have two kids, so I imagine this might take a while.
So, I’m reading A Game of Thrones. I’m only a few chapters in, but I’ve already fallen in love with G.R.R’s writing style. The first few chapters have so much work to do to set the world up, but he handles it so well it’s almost unnoticeable when a character is delivering a lore dump.
What are you reading?
At the moment, I’m reading through the Red Dwarf novels. The first two books are essentially expanded versions of series 1 and 2 episodes grouped together in one big story.
Even though there is obviously a big similarity to the television show with the same jokes in places, they’re still very funny and the extra bits make it worth reading. For example, the first book has a back story of how Lister ended up on Red Dwarf and met Rimmer.
Books 3 and 4 should be interesting (just started 3) as this is when Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (creators of Red Dwarf) had a massive falling out and went their separate ways.
So each book is written by each creator and does their own thing. I’ve just started Backwards by Grant which directly follows on from book 2.
I’ve just read these as well, I was wondering what your thoughts were after completion? Much more character development I thought in the novels than in the series.
Blimey, it’s been a while. I don’t remember reading Last Human, my memory is awful. But I really enjoyed the other books. It was actually a little bit tedious reading what we had already seen on screen but so much better when the author’s imagination went wild and we had adventures too large and expensive to create for television.
I found them interesting in the sense that they were very simple books, compared to Douglas Adam’s stuff which was also written for a different medium (I believe/could be wrong there), where he writes in quips and ideas rather than simple plot. Compare that again to Jasper Fforde who comes from writing for movies and his books also feel quite different.