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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jan 13, 2022 10:31:49 GMT -5
The book about Abrams UWF. Oh and Pac-Man: Birth of an Icon.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 13, 2022 14:42:44 GMT -5
009-Luchadores A History of Lucha Libre by Judah LYons This book is exactly 70s pages. And reads like a teen realized they hand book report due the next day. So they vomited out all the Lucha facts they knew. Either that or they just went to Wiki and slightly re-wrote what they read off Wiki.
Worst part is this book is 10 bucks.... Glad I used some amazon gift cards I got for Xmas. Avoid this crappy book. Grade D-
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Post by Starshine on Jan 13, 2022 17:40:53 GMT -5
Finished up Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol series recently.
Also just started Discworld's Reaper Man, and the Narcissist in Your Life by Julie Hall.
I'm also gradually reading through the Fiasco RPG companion book, and The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen. But I consider those more game prep than in depth reading.
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Post by King Boo on Jan 13, 2022 18:31:03 GMT -5
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
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Post by 6pathsoftommy on Jan 14, 2022 23:00:33 GMT -5
Since last August I've been going through the Legends timeline of Star Wars novels. I finished Clone Wars Gambit: Siege last week. I'm currently reading Republic Commando: Triple Zero.
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Jan 14, 2022 23:54:29 GMT -5
Lately, I've been reading "Turn of the Cards", the latest re-release of the Wild Cards series. So far, it's been really good, especially since it's through the POV of one of my favourite characters in the series, Mark Meadows/Cap'n Trips.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Jan 15, 2022 1:12:51 GMT -5
Spider-Man: Sinister War by Nick Spencer
Amazing Spider-Man By Nick Spencer Vol. 15: What Cost Victory?
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 19, 2022 1:02:44 GMT -5
Finished up Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol series recently. While I read the Morrison run on DP as it was coming out,mostly cause before he was on there Steve Lightle,RIP,and Eric Larsen were handling the art chores. Back 12 years ago at a con I found an almost full run of Morrison and all the Rachel Pollock run that followed him. Talked to the dealer and let him know I was buying at least 300 books out of his "Dollar a book,deals offered for large purchases". Also at the same time managed to get all but 3 issues from the original Animal Man run. Dude offered me a great deal,I think cause that was over one long box he didnt have to haul back after the con. And while I do love Morrison's run on DP I find that Rachel's run is so under-rated. She went places that pretty much nothing from the Big 2 that was set in their superhero universes had gone before. Long winded way for me to say YAY Someone else has read Morrison's Doom Patrol! Book 010-The Incredibly Strange Film Book by Jonathan Ross Revised and Updated Editon. Having lived 90% of my life in the deep south USA I didn't learn about Jonathan Ross or his show until catching the episode on Luchadore movies when Discovery was airing the show for a short while in Early 91. I loved that one episode and thank to SumGuy bootleg tape dealers at cons I got both series. My amazing lady ,after me forcing her to watch the Ray Dennis Steckler episode for the 4th time,saw this book wasn't pretty cheap on Amazon. And got it for me for our 10th anniversary. And the book is pretty much the old tv series in book form. Well written and pretty funny. Lots of great research. And pre-internet days books like this were a great resource. Now thanks to the net I can get the books cheap. Grade-A 011-Off Season by Jack Ketchum-When dealing with a bout of insomnia the other night I wanted 2 things out of a book.1.Let it be something I had read before and 2. let the book be something I could read in one long sitting. This filled both things perfectly. It was the second novel from Ketchum I ever read. And I can just imagine if I had discovered this book and Jack back when it was a new book. Thankfully about 2 years before Mr Ketchum passed,f*** Cancer!,I found him on Facebook and got to chat with him a few times. Thanked him for providing me so much entertainment. And Mr Ketchum got a chuckle when he learned that my then 70 year old father had become a huge fan of Jack. "Not often I get a fan that is from my generation." Anyways set in the rural woods of the Northeast Off Season is about a group of Cannibals that live in the area. Gory and brutal and a book that feels like a combo of the Italian cannibal movies of the late 70s/early 80s and the at the time rising wave of gut ripping blood soaked slasher movies. 012-Wizards Warriors and You Book 7 Challenge of the Wolf Knight By RL Stine-I loved the Gamebooks,mostly known to us kids back then as Choose your own adventure books no matter who published them. And Wizards Warriors and You was one of my favorite series,ranking up there with You are an Interplanetary Spy. Loved how you chose to play as the Wizard,which means you get access to the book of spells in the back of each book in the series,or as the Warrior,and you got to choose what weapons you brought with you from the armory in the back of the book. And the other big thing that set this series apart was the various twists and variants they did on the whole interactive fiction thing. In one of the WW&Y books you were chained to a wall. And had 3 matches. So the book told you to take a quarter and throw it away from where you were sitting. Then take three pennies. These were your matches. You threw a "match" at the quarter and you had 4 choices ,for for how many of your "matches" hit the quarter(which IIRC was suppose to be a pouch of magic dust) and one if you missed with all three "matches". This one having a werewolf in it was one of my favorites as a kid. Got this copy years ago at a local thrift. And while digging thru a box of books last weekend I found it. And this time while reading it I made sure I got every ending. If you read teh Choose your own adventure books and enjoyed them but want a more advanced version track one of the wizard and warriors and you books down. Grade B-(While I love this series of books I do now as an adult realize how stilted some of the dialogue is.)
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 20, 2022 18:52:34 GMT -5
013-4b Goes Wild by Jamie Gilson
Am I the only one that remembers School Book Faires? I got this book at one when I was in 5th grade. Story is about a 4th grade class that goes on a weekend trip to a summer camp. And all the stuff that happens.
Right after reading this book years ago I went to every bookstore in my area,this was pre-internet,and managed to order every book this author had written at the time. Turned out this was the second book in the series.
I had forgotten about these books for decades. Then 3 years ago was in a used book store and found a copy. Read it and then ordered all the others in the series.
No idea if this book would have any appeal to an adult who didn't read them as a kid. But for me it is a fun quick read. Grade-B+
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 20, 2022 19:01:22 GMT -5
014-Brat Pack by Rick Veitch
While Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen get piles of praise for bringing major changes to the comic industry in the mid 80s,this series should be spoken of like those two series.
The Brat Pack is the teenage sidekicks of the big heroes of the King Hell universe. And they are a bunch of drug addicted hooligans.
I love how Veitch uses this story to point out how childish and just plain boring the superhero comic tropes had become by the mid 80s.
After owning the issues that make up this TPB for what feels like forever 2 years ago my basically mother in law got me a copy of the TPB for Xmas. Then less than a month later I found another printing of the TPB at Dirt Cheap. So now I own two copies.
Anyways if you are interested in seeing someone deconstruct the sidekicks of superheroes track down a copy of the TPB. Grade-A.
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Post by saneiac on Jan 20, 2022 21:45:47 GMT -5
And Wizards Warriors and You was one of my favorite series,ranking up there with You are an Interplanetary Spy. BE an Interplanetary Spy. Great series. I think it was the first Choose Your Own Adventure style series that kept story continuity and characters from book to book. I still have the first 6 books.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Jan 20, 2022 22:28:09 GMT -5
started dan browns THE LOST SYMBOL at the tail end of last year, since the television production was coming on ... and it quite frankly better that the television production
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 20, 2022 23:06:47 GMT -5
Oh pal…
Gonna re-read the Century Trilogy by Ken Folllett.
Got the audiobook of Lawerence Krauss “A Universe From Nothing”
I bought Sphere on my phone. Reading “Brown Goes Down: a History of the NHL”.
That’s what’s just on the go.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Jan 20, 2022 23:27:17 GMT -5
Re-reading the entire Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. If you're into urban fantasy about werewolves, vampires, and fae creatures this is the series for you. Wonderful characters and adult themes treated with respect.
Finishing up The Hollows by Kim Harrison. Another urban fantasy series with similar themes. Different tones and has some massive mood swings at times lol
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 21, 2022 0:00:09 GMT -5
And Wizards Warriors and You was one of my favorite series,ranking up there with You are an Interplanetary Spy. BE an Interplanetary Spy. Great series. I think it was the first Choose Your Own Adventure style series that kept story continuity and characters from book to book. I still have the first 6 books. Interplantary spy was the first CYOA book I read that carried stuff over from the previous books. I don't have any of mine anymore. Tempted to go see how much used copies are. Glad to see i'm not the only one that remembers that series. Those and the Zork CYOA books were my favorites back in the day.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 23, 2022 2:47:25 GMT -5
015-1984 By Orwell
Every other year I re-read this. First time I read it I was 8. Didn't read it again until 10th grade Honors English(which was basically a lit class). Was surprised to learn I was the only one in class to actually read the book. The rest just bought and read cliffs notes,BTW do those still exist?
Great book. Grade A+
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Post by pinja on Jan 23, 2022 10:15:40 GMT -5
My backlog is huge, but I'm as much a book collector as I'm a reader. Even more so in the past couple of years. Books give me an abstract sense of autonomy and privacy in the digital age. Haven't read much so far, but I really want to read "Crash", "Concrete Island" and "High-Rise" by J. G. Ballard in the near future. As of now, I re-read books I had to read in school: "Ben liebt Anna" by Peter Härtling, "The Plague" by Camus, "Lord of the Flies", "Perfume". The latter was the only one that didn't hold up, although it had some beautiful imagery.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jan 25, 2022 4:01:08 GMT -5
I understand my unread book pile became a unread book bin became 3 unread book bins.
016-Fangoria 101 Best Horror Movies You're Never Seen More like about 80 movies I had seen when I got this book years ago. And now closer to 95 movies I have seen. Decent write ups on stuff like Funny Games,The Beyond,Cherry Falls,LAst house on the left(LOL pretty sure most horror fans have seen the original) and Twitch of the Death Nerve.
Grade C-
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Post by Bones58 on Jan 25, 2022 5:20:18 GMT -5
Infinite Jest.. 240 pages in.. It’s like someone shat a dictionary on to paper and created a loose narrative on addiction and call it a novel.. I must finish it.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jan 25, 2022 9:30:21 GMT -5
Read The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. It's fun in the way it's the urr text of hardboiled detective novels where items are described as other dramatic things and everyone talks in quips.
Now reading the graphic novel of Bubble (based on the podcast) gonna be breezier then say Watchman as a GN so idk what I'll move into after
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