14 books and a cat cameo! (November 2024 Wrap-up)
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Jimmy at @thefantasynuttwork is the reason I binged a bunch of Amber novels.
Special thanks to@PulpMortem@PulpMortem , @secretfirebooks7894 and @TheBookGraveyard for hosting an awesome podcast you can find here:
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This was a great month and I hope you enjoy the video!
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You convinced me to continue on to Guns of Avalon. (Nine Princes was a bit to much of strange people smoking in rooms for me)
Guns of Avalon is so fun!
Tanith Lee! I love the way you described the first part of the book 😂. I agree that she has such a unique way of writing! Her lush use of metaphors and similes never sounds contrived. Sweet kitty! 😻
Thanks! I am looking forward to reading more from her.
My beautiful man kitty is my advisor in all things 😂. He is a goblin and a chaos mage.
Everything you’ve said about Amber is getting me hyped. Thank God I picked up the rest of the Corwin Cycle recently!
I've tried reading Prince of Thorns at least three times but kept getting distracted. I need to give it another chance.
And good luck with Wind and Truth...
...you bandwagoner! Lol.
I think you will really like The Guns of Avalon.
And I was one of the first people on the bandwagon. So I'm steering that mofo 😂
@JosephReadsBooks Just be careful. Don't break your wrist lifting that 1300+ page cinderblock.
Woooooo, A Matter of Time! I don’t agree that it’s his best stand alone, but it’s great!
If I include Passage at Arms then I think that is his best standalone but it is Starfishers adjacent. So I don't count it for that arbitrary reason 😂.
Another Amber convert! Excellent, glad you enjoyed it Joseph! Awesome video...and I never considered the IP theft aspect of GW....at least as it relates to Zelazny!
The series is fantastic!
At this point it is easier to point out the SF/F GW didn't steal from 😂
@@JosephReadsBooks Hah!
Some strange and interesting reads! Definitely adding a few of these to my TBR. "The Texas-Israeli War 1999" reminded me of a book that's waiting on my shelf, "Remember the Alamo!" by Randle. Time traveling back to 1830s Texas and bringing modern weapons back.
That sounds like an alternate version of The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove.
I am going to start looking for a copy!
Just started watching your channel after your discussion with the EEBS guys. You've got great taste, and now I want to pick up some Glen Cook.
Thanks and welcome!
I've read Broken Empire, didn't even realise it was a twist.
I don't think it is. I just think people who don't know about dying earth stories believe it is a twist.
- The second half of Amber brought down the entire series for me, so I'm in that crowd, lol.
- Condominium sounds fascinating, and a testament to how things are that he warned about that shit like 50 years ago. Toronto's in a similar situation, garbage built only as investment units that families won't buy because they're crap and investors won't buy because they won't turn a profit.
- Personally, after the Library trilogy he's been releasing recently my favorite things from Mark Lawrence are the Broken Empire and Red Queen's War trilogies. You definitely need to continue on to RQW, it's the same setting and happens tangentially with a VERY different MC. Back when I blogged I gushed about the first book in that trilogy so hard my review got quoted on the MMPB of the second in the trilogy, lol.
- Sounds like it'll be an interesting December! The hivemind is real, lol. That's nuts, reading those books back to back. But honestly, after my recent re-read, that's the only way to really absorb everything he does in those bricks.
I'm worried about the Merlin books 😓.
I have seen stuff about Toronto builders as well. It is a scary time to buy anything built recently in that city.
I will be reading more Mark Lawrence. I really enjoyed those books. A book blurb is a huge flex. I'm jealous 😂.
Wind and Truth better be good. I'm legit worried.
@@JosephReadsBooks I wish I'd never deleted that blog, lol. At least I have the book with the quote right there.
Sanderson always hits you with some gonzo endings, I think even if the majority of the book is so-so, the ending will melt brains.
The «Steel Lobsters» sounds like a hoot: Can highly recommend the movie «Cromwell» from 1970 on the English Civil War, Richard Harris (Dumbledore #1 & Marcus Aurelius in «Gladiator») as Cromwell vs Alec Guinness (OG Obi-Wan Kenobi) as King Charles I! I hope to get to Taneth Lee next year and maybe «Prince of Thorns». Gotta love weird 70s SciFi, like Zelazny and «The Texan-Israeli War»! Also: Love the TR cap! 😄🙌
In November I read:
«The Steel Tsar» (A Nomad of the Time Streams» Trilogy #3) by Michael Moorcock (Multiverse/Alternative History/Time Travel Steampunk(?)😅)
«The Stranger» by Albert Camus/illustrated by Jacques Ferrandez (Graphic Novel adaptation of the Absurdist Philosophical Novel)
«The Duel» by Joseph Conrad (Napoleonic Historical Military Fiction Novella)
«Lord of Light» by Roger Zelazny (Science Fantasy inspired by the Legend of Siddhartha Gautama/the Buddha)
«The Fury of the Gods» (Bloodsworn Saga #3) by John Gwynne (Epic Fantasy inspired by Norse Mythology)
Currently reading:
«The Power Broker» by Robert Caro (Political Biography/Investigative Journalism Classic, my Q4 long-read)
Cheers!
I keep hearing about Tanith Lee. I have a few of her books but haven't got there yet. I've heard each one is crazy different and if you get the wrong one it will put you off.
It's really bothering me that everyone seems to love Amber and I didn't. After hearing you describe the second one I feel like I might give it a shot.
Oh yeah, and I need to read more Travis McGee.
I hope I keep enjoying Tanith Lee. Her writing is wild.
The second Amber book is mostly sword and sorcery. So I think you will like it.
More McGee is mandatory 😂.
FYI, Games Workshop is built on theft, but the victim is Michael Moorcock.
Right down to the 8 Arrows of Chaos symbol. No H8 -
Moorcock would say he got it from Poul Anderson. But all the SF authors (including P.A.) throw it back to Moorcock in the 60s.
It's a long story.
Wherer would GRRM & Sapkowsky be w/o Moorcock? Well, at least one of them give credit. . .