636mick wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 7:20 pm
If you’ve got sky they are giving 6 months of Apple TV away.
Slow Horses is brilliant and worth a watch.
Mick
Cheers Mick. Don't have Sky so I'll wait, it'll appear on DVD or Prime sooner or later. I think that the TV series has filtered out some of the 'Oh, yeah, like that'd happen IRL' stuff that's in the books. Pretty cool though that Gary Oldman got to play both Smiley and Jackson Lamb...possibly the two best spooks ever.
Going for a lazy few days away, lounging by a pool. I've been on the lookout for a biography of Fleetwood Mac for the Kindle, but can only find stuff on the individual members. Any recommendations?
Count Steer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:37 pm
I've sort of devoured all the Mick Herron, Slow Horses/Slough House books and his Oxford/Zoe Boehm books recently. Quite enjoyed them in a 'suspend disbelief/gosh what a lot of coincidences' way.
(The last of the Zoe Boehm books was a nostalgia trip around Newcastle for me - there's a derelict cinema in it and I guessed, correctly, that it was the old Jesmond Picture House. Now looks like it's new apartments with a Tesco Metro on the ground floor ).
I'd quite like to see the tv series of Slow Horses but it's stashed away on AppleTV and they seem reluctant to put it out on DVD.
I've just started book 7.
I think the send up of current politicians in the books is bloody brilliant.
Count Steer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:37 pm
I've sort of devoured all the Mick Herron, Slow Horses/Slough House books and his Oxford/Zoe Boehm books recently. Quite enjoyed them in a 'suspend disbelief/gosh what a lot of coincidences' way.
I enjoyed the TV version, think I'll try the books next then. Good recommendation
Count Steer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:37 pmit'll appear on DVD
I don't think the 90s are coming back any time soon.
Count Steer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:37 pmor Prime
Not sure giving away to the competition is very likely either!
Count Steer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:37 pm
I've sort of devoured all the Mick Herron, Slow Horses/Slough House books and his Oxford/Zoe Boehm books recently. Quite enjoyed them in a 'suspend disbelief/gosh what a lot of coincidences' way.
I enjoyed the TV version, think I'll try the books next then. Good recommendation
Count Steer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:37 pmit'll appear on DVD
I don't think the 90s are coming back any time soon.
Count Steer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:37 pmor Prime
Not sure giving away to the competition is very likely either!
Once they've had their initial run on the original platform they like to monetise the productions as far as possible. If there's a non-AppleTV market out there I'm sure they'll look to exploit it.
The DVD market isn't dead yet. (The thing I miss with streaming is the 'extras' like 'the making of' etc. Sometimes they're the best bits!)
Count Steer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:55 am
Once they've had their initial run on the original platform they like to monetise the productions as far as possible. If there's a non-AppleTV market out there I'm sure they'll look to exploit it.
Ultimately of course you're right, but I'm not sure that's ever happened yet with the 'original' content produced by Netflix/Amazon/Apple as they're in the early stages of building their platforms. It'll be a while yet until any of them admit defeat and sell off their content I imagine.
Count Steer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:55 amThe DVD market isn't dead yet.
I read 530 pages on The witching hour by Anne Rice, the renowned novelist who penned what became Interview with a Vampire. I still don't know what it was all about but 550/1180 was enough to know I wasn't feeling it
weeksy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 02, 2023 6:43 pm
I read 530 pages on The witching hour by Anne Rice, the renowned novelist who penned what became Interview with a Vampire. I still don't know what it was all about but 550/1180 was enough to know I wasn't feeling it
My mate gave me a couple of her books and they weren't for me.
A sort of potted history of the kings and queens of (pre-)England, written very much in the style of David Mitchell. It's quite funny and surprisingly accessible, for someone like me (i.e. not academic) who can find history a bit dry.
A sort of potted history of the kings and queens of (pre-)England, written very much in the style of David Mitchell. It's quite funny and surprisingly accessible, for someone like me (i.e. not academic) who can find history a bit dry.
Recommended.
I'll look out for that, I know he's been doing some YouTube about monarchs so now I know it's to promote a book. It's on my to watch list
We did The Old Man and The Sea in year 9 (I think) English.
Dunno...guy catches a really big fish. There's probably more to it. Sometimes I think it's a waste of time doing these deep self-examination type stories with a bunch of 13 year olds.
I feel like I wanna read some Dickens, but I feel even more that they'd be more enjoyable as bed time audiobooks read by Stephen Fry or David Tennant.
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