I got the Samsung 4k in the end. I find Samsung TV's to be the best. 4k is stunning ,the change in detail from just normal HD to 4k is crazy. I was kind of sceptical when I first got it but I now think it very much is the next big thing TV wise. Unlike 3d I don't see it as a gimmick. On Black Friday I hope to get a cheap 4k player and odd bits for Xmas.
It's not really anything to do with the story. It's a 5min scene tacked on for no reason and is the reason it is so out of place. I wouldn't give the story away.
Not sure, but I think we had an exchange about which might be the best to go for. I have no experience of 4K TV other than seeing one in Richer Sounds at the time we were buying an HD 40" Samsung Smart TV, of which I might have mentioned at the time. The 4K TV was excellent, I must say, and for those not willing or unable to connect a decent computer to their dumb TV, a Smart TV is a very good option, and Samsung make the best of those, in my opinion.
Sorry to come in late on the conversation but I finished watching The Man in the High Castle yesterday. Truly excellent, and sufficiently different from other works in the genre to be really original. I've read Fatherland by Robert Harris and the even-better Dominion by C. J. Sansom, but not the Philip K. Dick novel on which this series is based, so that's another one for my Kindle's Christmas list.
Well it starts a few years after the end of WWII which Germany won, but it differs from Fatherland in that it's set in London and the surrounding countryside. A really good, tense thriller.
Oh boy, sounds right up my street. I'll be adding that to my list. I am yet to pick up Michael Connolly's latest which is by my bed. This is unusual as he's my favourite and I normally hit him straight away and quickly. Must be a sign of the work stresses! I've also got the latest "girl with.." book and "One Day" on my bedside table. I best get reading.
If you like Dominion you'll also enjoy Sansom's "Shardlake" series which are thrillers set in the time of Henry VIII. Your list is getting longer by the minute!
I'm not usually great with period stuff, however I loved Ken Follet's "Pillars of the Earth" and "Dangerous Fortune." I have "A World without End" but not read it.
I've got Fall of Giants...been sitting there waiting to be read for months. Got a lot of other books for company.
I have that too. Isn't it part of a Trilogy? I have all or nearly all Follet's novels. All very good reads.
I read a vanishingly small amount of fiction but I was somewhat press-ganged into reading "A man called Ove" by Friedrik Backman a week or two ago. I cannot recommend it highly enough. I refuse to give anything away about it; it's so well woven that there is no way not to spoil the book no matter how meagre the description. I strongly recommend that if you read it you don't read any of the cover notes (I would normally give that advice but in this case it's important). Vin
Fall of Giants is the first of a trilogy, but no point in moving on till I've read the first. I'm in a bit of a lull from reading fiction...apart from one a month I read with the reading group I've just joined in order to widen my reading.
