First english written STALKER book is out

bushmins · 15 Jan 2012 at 21:50

http://www.amazon.co.uk/S-T-A-L-K-E...ital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1326664206&sr=1-2-spell

Just downloaded, going to start it tonight. Probably great.

Vampire · 15 Jan 2012 at 22:22

Just impulse bought it on your recommendation, expect to be hunted down if it's rubbish...

arc@css · 16 Jan 2012 at 06:37

Bookmarked for a rainy day.

Meridian · 16 Jan 2012 at 06:43

bushmins said:
Probably great.

That would make it not only a first for a book based on a video game, but probably a miracle as well. And technically, since the game is linearly descended from a book, it would the second book...

M

bluDawg · 16 Jan 2012 at 07:49

looks ok, think I will check it out when I have some money spare

Putty · 16 Jan 2012 at 13:03

Meridian said:
That would make it not only a first for a book based on a video game, but probably a miracle as well. And technically, since the game is linearly descended from a book, it would the second book...

M

There's also the film

EddScott · 16 Jan 2012 at 14:30

Might have to give this one a go.

Metro 2033 wasn't bad. Nothing awesome about it but not bad.

bushmins · 16 Jan 2012 at 16:30

Reading very well so far, i was a bit dubious on the whole al qaeda thing, but it fits very well.
Ive read a lot of books based on games and books games are based on; Dragon Age books, Mass Effect books, Metro 2033. All have been very good reads, Metro 2033 was 10/10 for me, still waitng for Metro 2034 to get printed in english. I saw the Elder Scrools book but it didnt get very good reviews, so its on the rainy day list.

Kesz · 16 Jan 2012 at 18:19

On a totally unrelated note;

Has Metro 2034 been translated yet?

bushmins · 11 Feb 2012 at 04:57

Kesz said:
On a totally unrelated note;

Has Metro 2034 been translated yet?

Only in German.

Just finished the book. Good start and good end. The middle of the book is a bit wishy washy, but still a great read. Some of it hasnt been translated very well.
I felt the middle part of the book tried too much to be like a computer game with lots of quest type missions. i.e. if you want the info i have go here do this then come back to me. Seemed a bit pointless.

I got stuck into another book half way through STALKER, but when i went back to STALKER i pretty much read it non stop. The book definatally gets better after the prot meets the tribe.

Vampire · 11 Feb 2012 at 15:02

I forgot about this thread.

I read about 30% of this book before finding out that Kindle lets you refund books you find are a pile of ****. Handy really.

bushmins · 11 Feb 2012 at 16:57

Vampire said:
I forgot about this thread.

I read about 30% of this book before finding out that Kindle lets you refund books you find are a pile of ****. Handy really.

Aww, you stopped before it really took off. nm. Any thoughts on why you didnt like it?

Is that true about the refund thing? I think ive only ever bought two books and not finished them, but one of them is on my kindle, would love to get a refund on it!

K1LLSW1TCH · 12 Feb 2012 at 03:17

If it's anything like the game then before you could truly enjoy it you'd have to download a further 500 pages, rip out the ones in the current book and replace them with the new ones...