The Amtrak Wars

[Doctor Crankenstein]

The second hand store across the road has all 6 books in this series for $8. If I had $8 on me at the time I would have bought it...

Just wanted to know what you guys thought of it while I save up $8 I remember seeing it in the school library as a kid and thinking it looked cool.
The Wiki article said that it ends with what sounds like quite an irritating cliff-hanger... Other than that is it any good?

 

[Pyan]

Moved to General Book Discussion....

 

[Doctor Crankenstein]

My bad, I ummed and arred over where to post this for a while lol.

My excuse is I'm still a Newbie

 

[murphy]

Not sure if this link will work, but here is what Werthead said about it:

The Amtrak Wars by Patrick Tilley - A Song of Ice and Fire

 

[Doctor Crankenstein]

Nobody seems to have anything bad to say about it. I like the fact that it doesn't spend 200 pages clearing it's throat...

Thanks for the link =D

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

Hi Doc,

I read all of these and for $8 it's a bargain. I bought all of these brand new a long while ago but they were considerably more!

It's a good story and I remember enjoying the series but I do recall being slightly disappointed by the ending. I can't recall why as it was quite a few years back when I read them but from my hazy memory I thought the storyline was building up quite nicely but ended a bit of a damp squib leaving me rather disappointed with what felt like a bit of a rushed ending.

If you do read the series drop me a line if you don't mind and let me know your thoughts

Cheers
Crooksy

 

[Doctor Crankenstein]

In the link posted by murphy it said that there is an epilogue in the 6th book that answers the cliffhanger ending? If that is the case then that shouldn't be a problem.

I'll definitely buy the series. It might be a while before I get around to reading them though so don;t hold your breath

 

[chrispenycate]

I know I read some of them, but not the entire series. Hmm; how about I send you the $8Au, and you send me the books when you've finished them?

 

[reiver33]

I kind of found this series enjoyable, but also irritating. It starts off as a trilogy, and I can remember getting to the third book and thinking, 'Boy, he's going to have to go some to tie all this together'. But then it was six...

(Semi-spoiler alert)


The irritating part is the underlyling strategy being pursued by the 'bad guys' - slow attrition as opposed to getting every train together in one place and exterminating a given tribe. Then move on...

 

[Doctor Crankenstein]

Rofl, I have the $8 I just left my wallet at home that day.

I went back today and they had sold them about half an hour before I got there...

NOOOOOOOO!!!

I wish they could have held them for me but the bitter old lady behind the counter refused...

 

[Pedro Del Mar]

Have you tried Ebay?

 

[Doctor Crankenstein]

No. I wasn't looking to buy it specifically It was more the fact that I stumbled across it.

Besides I don't have an eBay account. I have never used it before lol

 

[williamjm]

I kind of found this series enjoyable, but also irritating. It starts off as a trilogy, and I can remember getting to the third book and thinking, 'Boy, he's going to have to go some to tie all this together'. But then it was six...

I initially thought it was a trilogy as well, but realised this must have been wrong by the time I got into the third book and it was clear the storyline was nowhere near being resolved.

I only read the first three in the end, it wasn't a bad read and it had a reasonably interesting premise but I didn't care much about any of the characters and I wasn't interested enough in them to want to read another three books to find how the story got resolved - if it didn't actually end up getting resolved then perhaps it is a good thing I stopped where I did.

 

[biodroid]

My friend read the series and said it was good, not sure if Patrick is writing anymore?