Fallout_002 on 2/3/2008 at 01:37
Something caught my eye today at the bookstore and prompted me to start this thread.
I saw a novel entitled "Thieves of Heaven", which, by the description, would be one of the closest things in the spirit of Thief DP that I've ever seen published. Has anybody come across this book yet? Here is a desription of it from Amazon.com: (
http://www.amazon.com/Thieves-Heaven-Richard-Doetsch/dp/0440242886/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204421327&sr=8-1) (Link) I'm tempted to purchase it after I finish all the other books I'm currently reading. Can anyone recommend it?
On another note, and hence the reason for posting this: What novels can you recommend that are convinvingly inline with the overarching spirit and character of the Thief series?
Do any books come to mind?
Fallout_002 on 2/3/2008 at 04:15
Thanks for the link!
If nobody else takes up my offer for this book I will get a hold of it and read it when I get a spare moment. I'll do a write-up here on TTLG in regards to its "thiefness", but don't expect anything for at least a few months. By the way, re-reading the summary, the plot is almost a transposition of Thief: The Dark Project to the modern day.
Digital Nightfall on 2/3/2008 at 05:11
Threads merged.
Beleg Cúthalion on 2/3/2008 at 07:58
Quote Posted by Amazon
[...] for a mysterious German businessman, August Finster.
Never trust someone with a "dark" in his name.
Nitocris on 2/3/2008 at 10:03
Semi-on-topic, I just found out about (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picaresque) an obscure literary genre that made me think of Thief.
Excerpt from the link above;
"The picaresque novel (Spanish: "picaresca", from "pícaro", for "rogue" or "rascal") is a popular subgenre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and
depicts in realistic and often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who lives by his or her wits in a corrupt society"
Sound familiar, anybody? :cheeky:
trieffiewiles on 2/3/2008 at 18:08
'The Arabian Nightmare' by Robert Irwin has all of the winding labyrinth of ancient streets and passageways, the strange sciences, sinister characters- some of whom may be stranger entities than people, clandestine societies whose agendas are unknown and whose actions seem to operate outside of the contenxt of right/wrong, not mention a main character who is either truly insane, or for whatever reason, upon entering Mediaeval Cairo, finds himself randomly walking between worlds invisible to either the insensitive or the sane and balanced.
Some of Gustav Meyrinks books have a similar flair.
The Magpie on 3/3/2008 at 03:37
Quote Posted by Nitocris
I just found out about (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picaresque) an
obscure literary genre that made me think of Thief.
(..)
"The picaresque novel (Spanish: "picaresca", from "pícaro", for "rogue" or "rascal") is a
popular subgenre of prose fiction
Uh, obscure or popular? ;)
"Pícaro" is apparently thought to originally mean a bandit armed with a crude spear or a pike, and it only became a taffer-like word since.
When I first encountered the adjective
picaresque, I entertained the thought that the
Pica pica species might be involved in its etymology, but it seems that the genus name most likely refers to the pike-shaped beak.
"Which species?", I hear you ask.
My species.
--
L, the M.
piano-sam on 3/3/2008 at 07:02
Thief is very unique, I have not quite found something that gets it spot on. Certain elements of the original Robert E Howard stuff is evocative of thief - namely the cloistered, paranoid, feel. A lot of Rob's stuff is Public Domain now, but they have started releasing anthologies of the pure stuff. The Conan franchise is so screwed up because of what other authors have done to it. I'll come back with a short reading list.
I've read Robin Hobb's stuff, and that only now that it is mentioned has some thiefy parts - but very few. It's a good read anyway.
Jack Vance - and the Dying Earth, is magnificient, though hardly thiefish imo. There are more echos of mage's guild type stuff, really. Like encountered in Morrowind, though a significant part is a crafty loner rogueing around, always with the back-drop of what I mentioned before, though Keepers feel like they would be right at home in Jack Vance.
