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A book club - with a difference.

Lotus

Someone asked today if there is a book club, so I thought I'd try starting one. Not the usual type of club where everyone reads the same book - I thought we could write a synopsis of a book we've recently read, to give each other ideas for new books to read.

I have a Kindle subscription, so all of mine will be available on there for people who also subscribe.

  • in reply to Lotus

    I liked the BBC series. I thought they did the books very well and didn't change too much. I may have to rewatch that actually.

    I will do my best to write a synopsis once I've finished. The books of dust are particularly long and complicated and I'd really have to do a synopsis of the 2nd 2 together as they are both the events after his dark materials. The 1st book of dust is the prequel - I particularly enjoyed this one.

  • in reply to Expecto_Patronum

    I'd be interested to read a synopsis if you could write one when you've finished reading it. I read His Dark materials years back and I'm currently watching the BBC series on iPlayer.

  • I can't give a synopsis yet as I've not long started reading it but I've just started The Book of Dust: The Rose Field by Phillip Pullman. For those familiar with the series (or not) this is the third and final Book of Dust which is the trilogy that follows His Dark Materials. 

    This is quite a significant book for me as I read the first book of the Dark Materials trilogy over 25 years ago.

  • I have just finished reading a sci-fi trilogy called the Odyssey Earth Series, by Rex Burke.

    A 30-something guy called Jordan - a history professor - signs up for a journey to an Earth Like planet on a ship built by a multi-billionaire. He'll be part of a group frozen for 17 years while the main crew fly the ship with the help of an AI & do stuff like growing plants for food in the on ship garden. When they arrive he'll write the history of the settlement on the planet and supervise the educational system.

    He's woken up a year before they arrive, and told they need him to supervise six 16 year olds, conceived on ship in the first year when the water borne birth control system failed for a few people. The kids had been raised and taught by a primary school teacher, who had just died from cancer. 

    They've been surprised to discover the planet has a twin, another one capable of sustaining life, and they've sent down a pod and supplies to its surface ready for an expedition there later. The kids like to hang out in one of the Landers in the flight bay, and Jordan finds them there just as the ship is manoeuvring into orbit around the new planet - at which point the ship is hit by some space debris which sends the lander, with Jordan and the kids - out into space. The AI pilots them down to the twin planet where the pod and supplies are, and Jordan then just has to teach the kids how to build a fire, fish, forage fruits and nuts, and not drown in the river. Oh, and they have to work out how to get rescued when they have no communication with the ship.....