Posted in Administrative on July 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Things have been rather quiet here recently, sorry about that. I just moved into a new place, and said place does not have internet. On top of that, there simply are alot of things that need to be dealt with right now that take priority over ranting about books on the internet. I do, however, [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Comics, Musketeers, Reviews, Swashbuckling on July 25, 2007 | No Comments »
So, the other day I finally broke down and bought the first issue of Marvel Illustrated’s The Man In the Iron Mask, which I discussed before. I suppose when you come right down to it I really do have to give anything based on a Dumas work at least a small shot. Pity I wasn’t [...]
Posted in Comics on July 24, 2007 | No Comments »
“The Next Issue Project” is a damn great idea. Essentially, Image Comics are gathering together a bunch of great creators to grab the reins on a whole mess of obscure, public domain, golden age superheroes, for the purpose of continuing their adventures. It’s up to the writers if they want to do it in an [...]
Posted in Sabatini on July 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
After pointing out the first of Sabatini’s Historical Nights’ Entertainment books the other day, I figured that it would be worthwhile to mention that just today I was made aware of the releasing of the second one. I don’t know how Sabatini was at writing straight history, but considering it’s what he did before he [...]
Posted in Hard Case Crime, Hardboiled, Mystery, Reviews on July 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Charles Ardai, founder and editor of the absolutely wonderful Hard Case Crime book line, (and husband to fantasy author Naomi Novik, incidentally) has just about the most blatant pen-name in the history of ever: Richard Aleas. If you don’t understand why this is so, say the name out loud. It’s a fun little veneer of [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Sabatini, Swashbuckling on July 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Another Sabatini-related post for today. I just found a pretty great collection of Sabatini dustjackets that are worth a look for those who find such things interesting:
Rafael Sabatini Dustjacket Gallery
Some fun stuff there, not to mention a good way to discover more of the classic swashbuckling author’s books. Sure, I’ve seen lists of titles, but [...]
Posted in Sabatini on July 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So today I got a random e-mail from Amazon making me aware of the fact that a new printing of a Sabatini book just came out. I’ve only ever seen the title The Historical Nights’ Entertainment once or twice in bibliographies, so I don’t know much of what the deal is with this book (which [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Musketeers, Mystery, Pérez-Reverte, Reviews, Swashbuckling on July 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Forgive me for stealing my title from the review excerpt on the cover for The Club Dumas, but it really sums up the book quite nicely.
It is a rare occurrence (for me, at least) when reading a book will really make me wish that I could have a conversation with the author. Not a [...]
Posted in Reviews, Sci-Fi on July 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The last time I’ll use this picture… maybe.
I have a hard time believing it, but as far as I’ve seen I’m the only reviewer so far to note the strong diasporic bent in Tobias S. Buckell’s new novel Ragamuffin (the first third of which can be read for free right here). In the [...]
Posted in Baron, Comics, Reviews, Sci-Fi on July 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Originally, I envisioned myself lending a good deal of blog coverage to comic books as well as more conventional novels–and not using terms like “graphic novel” or, even worse, “sequential art” either. I’m talking about comic books. I ended up avoiding it because the bulk of comics I read are really out of dedication to [...]
Posted in Movies, Reviews, Swashbuckling, Tyrone Power, Zorro on July 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
And once again (finally) we return to my delightfully (ahem) long-winded look at the growth of the Zorro character as a legend and a franchise. You can read everything so far here, here, aaaaand here.
Between the silent exploits of Douglas Fairbanks and 1940’s remake of The Mark of Zorro there were a good number of [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Comics, Musketeers, Swashbuckling on July 11, 2007 | 6 Comments »
One last Dumas-related post before I move on to something else (or don’t and keep writing about Dumas).
I was buying comic books this afternoon (Wednesday is always new comics day, for those who don’t know) and ran across a graphic adaptation of Dumas’ The Man In the Iron Mask. I’d known for awhile that Marvel [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Swashbuckling on July 10, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I would apologize for having two Alexandre Dumas-related posts in a row, but… Dumas is the best ever, and that’s that. Anyway, whenever a new translation of a Dumas work appears, it is imperative that I fawn over it, and so this new edition of Georges must be pointed out.
Now, since I read an earlier [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Musketeers, Mystery, Pérez-Reverte, Swashbuckling on July 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I generally try to avoid going on too much about a book that I’m in the middle of (thereby leaving more for me to say when I actually review it) but I have to say that The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte is off to a monumentally good start in my opinion. (Since I quote [...]
Posted in Hardboiled, Reviews on July 4, 2007 | No Comments »
I am, in large part, a fan of long, sprawling, adventurous types of stories. Maybe it’s because that constitutes the bulk of what I read that I’m so impressed by a hardboiled, pulp-type novel done well: because it manages to pack so much into so little space.
Coming in at a mere 180 pages, Queenpin by [...]
Posted in Administrative, Sci-Fi on July 3, 2007 | No Comments »
A little under two years ago I bought a magical little tome for a mere two dollars, purely on the strength of its cover. It seemed to be just about the most cliche sci-fi cover in the history of ever: a ship, ray guns, the title Invaders From Rigel, and to top it off, actual [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Sci-Fi on July 2, 2007 | No Comments »
… three months, and four days since the emancipation of humanity. And for most, it did them little good.”
Now that’s an opening. After all, it isn’t a space opera without SCALE (as Doc Smith would put it).
I’ve already gone on a bit about my experiences in getting myself a copy of Tobias S. Buckell’s second [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Reviews, Swashbuckling on July 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Utmost apologies for taking so long to get to this review, which I promised waaaay back in my first post. But, finally, here we are.
However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.
p.417
My favorite author of all time, Alexandre Dumas, wrote The Women’s [...]
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