Reader's Ramble no. 1 - Xmas book haul, Viewers Comments, Zelazny, Shepard and more.
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Aww. I love the Christmas cat adoption! Thank you for picking her up from a shelter. :) Looks like you got tons of great reads. I really enjoyed your mini-discussions inspired by comments left on videos.
Thanks Kaitlin. The cat's a fantastic addition to our family. I appreciate you giving this ramble a chance :)
Ramble on brother!! 🎉🎉🎉
Lol…it certainly comes naturally to me. Thanks for stopping by, my friend.
So happy to see another of old lover of old pulpy books!! grew up on Robert E Howard, Keneth Robeson, E.E. Smiith, and others. I will be seeing if the Viking book is on Project Gutenberg!
Smart! I always forget about Project Gutenberg.
Definitely love the old pulp...I think it's a major source of creativity and driver of so much of what we have in popular culture in the modern era.
Interesting you are returning to Zelazny a writer you loved when you were younger. It's interesting to revisit "old friends." It's true about online sales contributing to the death of used bookstores. I saw it coming in the early 2000's. For book buyers it made books much cheaper, of course. Thank you for the channel mention. Glad to see the variety of youtubers that have discovered you. Maybe one day you can share your Harlan Ellison story here:)
To be honest...I've returned to Zelazny a number of times in my life. Sometimes through audio books. I don't think he's a very deep author, but the hints of deepness amidst the wild pulpiness is very appealing to me. At his best he's like a jazzy Raymond Chandler colliding with a romantic era poet.
I like that, "a jazzy Raymond Chandler colliding with a romantic era poet." @@SleepyBookReader-666
Good score on Viking Dawn Sleepy! And a weird start to a Roger Zelazny book??? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! Nice video Sleepy.
Lol! I'm sure it's his only confusing book 😏
I've started Viking Dawn and so far it seems very well done - I can't really judge how true to reality it might be, but it seems to want to be honest with its young adult readers
I love the pulpy cover of the science fiction book. I’m always drawn to books like that when I’m visiting used book stores.
I hope you are having a lovely day, Damian 🤗
I'm a huge sucker for those covers...and I'm very aware that only some of the stories behind those covers live up to the excitement hinted at by the cover artist. But it's still catnip to me.
Great to hear from Silje. I think I saw you showing some snow on Bluesky. I hope you and Alberta are warm and cozy.
@@SleepyBookReader-666 Thank you 🤗 It’s very cold for Brussels, and the experienced cold is higher because of the humidity (right now it’s 8.6 F). But it has been much much colder in Norway the past week! - 22 F in Oslo and over - 40 F some other places.
At least there is no rain here now ☀️Perfect for walking around all bundled up ☺️
Always a pleasure, and thanks for alerting me about GV's new channel.
Not that I'm an expert, but I don't recall the Maze of Death by PKD ; I wonder if it was published in the US under a different name. Have you read the Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem? It's a collection of essays about his own formative reading, including Dick and , curiously, Jack Kirby. Lethem ended up curating a recent library of the Complete Dick and was an editor on the Exegesis. I still have an audio disc somewhere of PKD babbling stream of consciousness story ideas into a tape recorder.
I should pick up the Disappointment Artist...I think I read some of those essays in magazines (my wife's New Yorker for one). I'm kind of a silly person, I preferred Lethem when he was more of a weird genre author than a fully accepted literary guy. I read all his novels, and most of his short stories, up to The Fortress of Solitude, which I felt had lost something I liked about Lethem's writing style up to that point. Probably I missed other good stuff.
I'm glad you'll be checking out GV's new channel. It looks to be very good.
I hope all is well with your Russ, Cheers!
@@SleepyBookReader-666 Speaking of weird genre work, I think Lethem wrote an Omega the Unknown comic, but i haven't seen it.
Hope we get some great reads in 2024
Yes, here's hoping. I'm pretty sure we will, as there's always more good books out there waiting to be discovered. Cheers!
Hey Sleepy, you are inspiring me to read more books. I have tons of audible books to catch up with also. My son got his own movie server (tons and tons of storage) that ties into his TV in the living room with ultra nice stereo/speaker system. He made it all menu driven and its like he has his own netflix. He never have to go to a movie theater. LOL hmmm, what book has inspired me to write if any? Your videos always make me think. Thank you. Take care and talk soon.
NammaN! I'd be interested to hear more of the books you're interested in reading or have liked in the past.
Sounds like your son is totally set. My new tv looks so good, I'm mesmerized!
I have Carlo Rovelli's book 'The Order Of Time' in my library.
I may have to look for that one.
That sci-fi geek T-shirt! I love it!
Thanks. Buck Rogers!!
“He flits, he floats, he fleetly flees, he flies….” I love the SF Masterworks too but am really getting into those vintage paperbacks like the Wollheim. Change your channel name to Sleepy Dilvish! Your t-shirt, although I can’t completely see it, looks really neat. I don’t know Lucius Shepard so thanks for that! I need to get Roadmarks in SF Masterworks. I had Roadmarks as a teen and I was so thoroughly confused by the chapters being 2,1, etc that I didn’t give it a try, which is sad. You e been pinned!!! lol - I was part of your clog!! Bathroom stalker! - you took my job. Awesome video!!!! Cool movies.
Maybe you would have been luckier with Gene Wolfe than I was in the bathroom. 🚽
The t shirt was an image of Buck Rogers from his first pulp magazine cover appearance .
One or two Lucius Shepard novellas might be available on audio books, but not his best stuff…
I didn’t realize you had previous Zelazny experiences.
@@SleepyBookReader-666 I think I mentioned that I thought it was the book that really confused me which was another reason I wanted to try it again - no book is going to slay the Gregarious Garage Geek!!!!
GGG! Unbowed before all books!