@ChrisMayLA6@bookstodon that's my all-time favorite series! The authors did such a fabulous job creating such a complicated and interwoven story. I loved the characters. I loved everything about it! Did you also read the short stories? They provide a lot more background about some important side characters, especially the two children on Laconia and Filip. I think you can get a collection now with all of them.
@ChrisMayLA6@bookstodon let us know what you think! The story Strange Dogs was my favorite. Just FYI the audiobooks are also great. I love the books so much I bought the audiobooks too. Back when I commuted to work every day I enjoyed listening to them in the car. The narrator is fabulous.
Yes, the Expanse series is an incredible read - another example that video can never match book-mind-imagination magic. The novellas are excellent too.
The only multi book read with recurring characters to equal it that I have found is Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey - Maturin series. Totally different venue, but a superb series.
This is on my "read-list" having thoroughly enjoyed the TV adaptations (the final series seemed to run out of steam though). I tended to watch them when by myself - my better half couldn't get past the Secretary General of the United Nations saying "f**k" all the time...
@Henrysbridge@ChrisMayLA6@bookstodon she is also super sweary in the books but they eventually explain why. There's a reason, and I don't remember if they explained it in the TV show.
I think the person I'm most interested in seeing how they are portrayed is Amos, especially in the final segment.... (won't say more as a plot spoiler)
@ChrisMayLA6@Jennifer@Henrysbridge@bookstodon Not sure of another way of saying it but I feel that over the course of the whole series Amos suffers some character “drift”... Otherwise it's excellent.
@marcroberts@ChrisMayLA6@Henrysbridge@bookstodon the actor who plays Amos doesn't look anything like the character I see in my head when I read the books, but he's absolutely perfect. He totally gets Amos. Although the TV series doesn't do the last three books ☹️
@Jennifer@ChrisMayLA6@Henrysbridge@bookstodon Yeah he's a really great Amos, and I'd have to re-read and re-watch to put a finger on what I mean by "drift" I think, but it doesn't ruin him at all.
@ChrisMayLA6@bookstodon You've reminded me that I really need to read the final instalment. Which means re-reading the previous 8 because it's been a while!
Yes, I want to wait a little then I thought I'd give the series a go.... although it difficult to imagine how they can really deliver a similar imaginative universe
@ChrisMayLA6 They manage it! And although it makes some choices, they aren't terrible ones in the scheme of things. Like with all TV adaptations it's worthwhile seeing it as an AU but the vision is there and it actually helped me to visualise some of the things that are described in the novels but hard to picture. (e.g. Holden's visions).
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