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Miscellaneous Chatter => Literature => Topic started by: Madness on October 16, 2013, 06:13:49 pm

Title: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Madness on October 16, 2013, 06:13:49 pm

Just sounding the board.

Who is a fan? Who has read The Republic of Thieves?

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Royce on October 16, 2013, 06:46:05 pm

I have read the first two books,and I liked them alot:) Have not read thieves yet,but I will eventually.

Liked the first one better than the second,thought the latter dragged a bit,maybe a bit to long?.Maybe I just fell in love with Gamorra ;)

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Madness on October 16, 2013, 09:31:52 pm

Camorr, you mean, the city from TLoLL?

I think, actually, that this is the number one reason why people have fallen off in the previous books. Camorr was such a damn cool setting and Lynch had obviously fleshed it out more-so than Tal Verrar (RSURS) or Karthain (TRoT).

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Royce on October 16, 2013, 09:48:12 pm

hahahaa,did I actually write Gamorra?? That is ridiculous. CAMORR was indeed a fantastic setting. Got a bit seasick in RSURS.

Love the ambitious heists though,and Locke and Jean are lovable characters.

It will be interesting to see how the movie turns out though..

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Madness on October 16, 2013, 09:52:59 pm

Lol.

Uh... movie? What? Really?!

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Royce on October 16, 2013, 09:55:59 pm

Yup. It is "under development" according to IMDB

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Royce on October 17, 2013, 05:59:12 am

http://insight-movies.blogspot.no/2013/08/book-to-movie-lies-of-locke-lamora.html

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Madness on October 17, 2013, 01:33:54 pm

Interesting. I didn't know that Irons had borne an Irons the II, which is awesome :).

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Royce on October 18, 2013, 01:10:47 pm

Lol.It would be fun to see Camorr on the screen,but I recon the movie would be a pretty straight forward heist movie,with witty oneliners and many "he almost died" moments.

Locke must surely be a fan of this series,or am I missing something? :)

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Davias on October 18, 2013, 01:31:35 pm

I have read the first two books in the series. The "Republic of Thieves" isn't available in german yet and I am not in the mood now to read it in english, because I have so many other books to read first.
It was a cool, venetian-like Fantasy, refreshingly it wasn't another "medieval" setting. The conversations between the characters were entertaining and the story had enough surprises and turning points to enjoy the whole plot.  I were not very emotional attached to the characters, but Locke's schemes and the interesting locations and persons made up for it.
It was a very good read for relaxing saturday afternoons in the summer, sitting in the garden and sipping some cool drink.

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Cüréthañ on October 18, 2013, 11:34:19 pm

Shit.  I don't have time to read this, yet it seems I my DTCB will be dragging me to the commercial areas and trying to buy it today.  :'(

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Royce on October 20, 2013, 10:36:14 am

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It was a very good read for relaxing saturday afternoons in the summer, sitting in the garden and sipping some cool drink

That was exactly how I did it 8)

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Cüréthañ on January 02, 2014, 05:41:09 am

Smashed RoT whilst camping and performing at a week long folk festival this last week.  Quite good, I thought.  Better that RSURS - but that unresolved ending :p

Sabetha turned out to be surprisingly engaging.

Happy to discuss further if anyone wishes.  Pipe up if you want us to use spoil tags too.

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Royce on January 02, 2014, 07:02:56 am

Would be great if you put in spoilers if you talk about RoT ;)

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Cüréthañ on January 02, 2014, 07:46:35 am

Quote from: Royce on January 02, 2014, 07:02:56 am

Would be great if you put in spoilers if you talk about RoT ;)

No problems.  Aussie release only happened last week and sounds like it's taking a while to get into other languages.

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Madness on January 04, 2014, 01:01:42 pm

So Curethan...

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How likely do you think it is that the woman (Countess/Baroness) from the Espari (sp?) play plot has been involved in the events of the series so far and is going to be involved in the present events of Thorn of Embelain?

(Sorry, don't have the book on me to flip through.)

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Cüréthañ on January 05, 2014, 02:24:44 am

Good catch.

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I actually was wondering at the relevance of the time jump beyond illustrating L and S's early relationship and shading it with the doomed lovers situation.
Seems very likely that the Baroness will return to haunt them at the least convenient time, now that you mention it.

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Madness on January 05, 2014, 01:43:28 pm

I figure Lynch will explicitly:

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Paint the Baroness into the next book but I'm thinking specifically of her hand in Chains' disappearance. He did warn them that they were under his name in Espari.

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Cüréthañ on January 05, 2014, 11:45:59 pm

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I heard the fourth book deals with a civil war which the GB are at least partly responsible for inadvertently starting.  Their thoughtless mucking about there seems like a very likely point of departure and the baroness would be key to identifying them and drawing them back in.

Tbh, I can't recall what happened to Chains, been so long since I read tLoLL - might need to go back to it before book 4.  :p

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Madness on January 06, 2014, 01:13:11 pm

I definitely think I'll re-read before TTOE. Lynch has mentioned that he feels books 1-3 constitute Act 1 of the seven book sequence (no play pun intended ;)) and, apparently, he also has another seven book cycle planned that begins about twentyish years after the end of the first seven.

Title: Re: Gentlemen Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
Post by: Alia on January 18, 2014, 03:28:16 pm

Really liked the first two books. As for Republic of Thieves, I'm still waiting for it to come out in an ebook version (in Polish), I simply have too many paper books that take too much space. It was a fun read, the first two books, although I may need to re-read them before RoT.