Posted in Comics, Cool Stuff on November 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Today is Wednesday. New comic book day. Always a cause for celebration. But next Wednesday will be especially so, as it will see the release of the first of the Fantastic Comics #24, the first volume of the Next Issue Project that I gushed about awhile back.
But even better than that, I just the other [...]
Posted in Shellabarger, Swashbuckling on November 26, 2007 | No Comments »
So, I just recently started reading Samuel Shellabarger’s Captain From Castile, which I’ve desperately wanted to read for years. Shellabarger is an incredible writer of historical swashbucklers, and the Tyrone Power movie (which the above picture is from) had just the right mix of spectacle, excitement, and an incredibly disappointing ending that left the viewer [...]
Posted in Fantasy, Reviews on November 23, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s always nice when the first line of a book is something like “The deck of the French ship was slippery with blood.” That’s the kind of opening that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, because it means that action and historical adventure are both to come.
I don’t generally read much fantasy, not [...]
Posted in Administrative, Hardboiled, Mystery, Pulp on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
Bookgasm makes me happy and sad all at once. Happy for the wonders that exist in this world, and sad for the time and money needs that constrain them. A great review: this right here looks like a must-have!
Posted in Cool Stuff, Obsessive Compulsive Stuff on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
So, in the grand tradition of LibraryThing and GoodReads, I’ve just now discovered BookBump. It’s a website for keeping track of one’s books, but with even less of a social networking aspect than any of the others, it’s purely personal, as near as I can tell, and is essentially an iTunes for books. As you [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Cool Stuff, Swashbuckling on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Gasp… sputter… incredulity… Why did no one tell me?!
Explains The New Yorker:
This long-lost novel by the nineteenth-century master of the swashbuckler was discovered in decidedly twentieth-century fashion, on microfilm in the National Library in Paris. A breathless seven hundred and fifty pages, the unfinished manuscript nominally concerns a young velvet-suited nobleman “whose pallor bespoke a [...]
Posted in Administrative, Cool Stuff, Swashbuckling on November 5, 2007 | No Comments »
So, had I been the good little fact checker that I should be, I would have already noticed that the new Michael Chabon book that I mentioned the other day, Gentlemen of the Road, has in fact already finished its serializing in The New York Times Magazine. All things considered, that makes a lot more [...]
Posted in Hard Case Crime, Hardboiled, Mystery, Pulp, Reviews on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
To be frank, I wouldn’t have even writen a review of Mickey Spillane’s Dead Street if I hadn’t liked the book. I have no desire to spit on the fairly recent grave of one of the most popular and influential mystery writers of all time.
Truth be told, I’d never read any Spillane before Dead Street. [...]
Posted in Administrative, Cool Stuff, Swashbuckling on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Michael Chabon has clearly stolen my idea… and I discover this fact on my birthday, no less!
Ok, no he hasn’t, and in fact I’m rather elated at the prospect of Gentlemen of the Road, his newest novel. (Although yes, it is really my birthday today. Rejoice.)
Essentially, Chabon has decided to take his “write about things [...]
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