Which books, movies and other games are recommendable for fans of the world of thief? - by DreadLord
massimilianogoi on 17/6/2009 at 02:54
I just searched a Garrett's image on image.google.com to put on my facebook "toughts", when I'm gone throught this interestinf book:
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http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n44/n222742.jpgThief With No Shadow - Emily Gee"Melke is a wraith, which means she has the ability to walk unseen. After being forced to steal a necklace, she is hunted down by the victim of the crime, Bastian sal Vere. He explains that the necklace was strung with tears, and that without it, Bastian cannot break the curse that is destroying his family. He orders Melke to regain the necklace, in exchange for her brother to be healed. But she had given the necklace to the salamanders, the fire breathing creatures that live underground. She must risk her own life. Meanwhile, Bastian becomes involved in solving a brutal murder of a young pregnant girl in the town of Theirry…"
Similar to our world, ain't??
PotatoGuy on 17/6/2009 at 20:01
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the fire breathing creatures that live underground.
That sounds familiar too, only make 'gas' of 'fire'
greypatch3 on 10/3/2010 at 21:15
Updating this, since I was able to listen to a little of the Book on CD version, and this would probably be right up most taffer's alleys...
A book published in 2002 in Russia has been translated into English and released February of this year. It's called Shadow Prowler by Alexey Pehov, and damn if, based on the segment I was able to hear, the writer hadn't played Thief to death before writing it. The opening chapter sounds like Garrett going on a mission, right down to the main character commenting about how loud walking across a marble floor would sound, to hiding in the shadows hoping a Burrick-like lizard monster, used like a guard dog, won't find him. Even the bit where he's opening a locked door gives off the same vibe as trying to get a lock open when you know the zombie down the hall will walk back at any second. Heck, even the big McGuffin of the novel he has to find is a horn. A HORN! :cheeky:
Granted, I've only heard a small portion of the beginning, and the plot of the book otherwise sounds like standard fantasy fare (populated by elves and dwarves, travelling with a group of people in order to stop a great evil, etc.), but at the very least, read the first chapter. That's the closest I've heard to anything resembling the feel of playing Thief, even if the world isn't the sort of magically steampunk setting Garrett inhabits.
jtr7 on 19/2/2011 at 04:46
That's expensive for a fake-looking book.:p
I hope that's not the real cover. Well, it's still got me curious.
Cetus on 20/2/2011 at 21:37
Quote Posted by massimilianogoi
I just searched a Garrett's image on image.google.com to put on my facebook "toughts", when I'm gone throught this interestinf book:
Inline Image:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n44/n222742.jpgThief With No Shadow - Emily Gee"Melke is a wraith, which means she has the ability to walk unseen. After being forced to steal a necklace, she is hunted down by the victim of the crime, Bastian sal Vere. He explains that the necklace was strung with tears, and that without it, Bastian cannot break the curse that is destroying his family. He orders Melke to regain the necklace, in exchange for her brother to be healed. But she had given the necklace to the salamanders, the fire breathing creatures that live underground. She must risk her own life. Meanwhile, Bastian becomes involved in solving a brutal murder of a young pregnant girl in the town of Theirry…"
Similar to our world, ain't??
Just ordered this along with
The Laurentine Spy. Hopefully it will be a good read and can't wait for the brown cardboard box of Amazon delights to be pushed through my letterbox! :cool:
zoog on 31/1/2012 at 13:47
about Shadow Prowler:
1 - the translation is a terror, made by common pot-boiler. I'm not quite good in english, but it nevertheless feels like oversimplification in language. Pehov shure not a Tolkien but deserves less stamplike reduction, i couldn't feel any atmospere at all (but it is, like that little bird)). Garret the Shadow -- Shadow Harold(( thanks not Shadow Advertizer.
2 - http://speculativehorizons.blogspot.com/2010/06/book-review-shadow-prowler.html IS irrelevant. Author obviously is not considerable in reading, though " leaving gaping holes in the novel's internal logic" is thanks to translation, original story suffers not of the review's examples (though has one-or-a-pair lapses). Stamps are common in contemporary literature, particularly in russian (very inferior and sick en masse) but i felt not them in the book due to author's talent, really)
3 - 1st i've read the trilogy, got mad about, then got into videogames to find origins, found TDS, felt it's reduction from previous (yet unknown) parts, then found T2, then TDP - funny imho)
4 - wanted to lay out the book but dunno will they ban me for piracy)) let's try:
www.etextlib.ru/Book/DownLoadFb2File/1729
Dante on 31/1/2012 at 17:15
It's a crime that no one's mentioned Douglas Hulick's Among Thieves.
I blame jtr7 but you know how it is.
