My Science Fiction & Fantasy Books: What's Worth Keeping?

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Bookpilled

Bookpilled

Күн бұрын

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@Bookpilled
@Bookpilled Жыл бұрын
The Whatnot auction will be tomorrow, Wednesday the 19th, at 6pm Pacific. If you're a new Whatnot user, this link will give you a free $15 credit: whatnot.com/invite/thriftalife If you're already a user, here's the direct link: www.whatnot.com/live/a4b279d0-b182-478d-9d9e-0d7beb92e518
@Parker307
@Parker307 Жыл бұрын
I would be reluctant to get rid of my Sibley guide to but I find myself using the app much much more. So maybe some future purge it will go. The addition of the element of audio in the app overrides the smaller images, plus the phone is lighter too.
@OLJeffo
@OLJeffo Жыл бұрын
Barlowe's Guide is definitely a powerful gateway drug for readers in my generation. I'm still ticking off these books when I can -- I finally read Mission of Gravity last year, hoping to read Vance soon.
@ajaxplunkett5115
@ajaxplunkett5115 Жыл бұрын
Reconsider Van Vogt's Space Beagle - part inspiration for the film Alien ( 1979 ) and the D&D monster the Displacer Beast!!!
@slygore
@slygore Жыл бұрын
I loved Engine Summer.
@outlawbookselleroriginal
@outlawbookselleroriginal Жыл бұрын
You and I are so on the same page with much of your general fiction: 'The Jungle' is such an important book, agreed. Hamsun, Fante, Bukowski, Orwell (have you read 'Coming Up For Air'? If not, read it before re-reads of 'Animal Farm' and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' as they are a thematic trilogy - I love 'Aspidistra' too, but then Comstock works in a bookshop), good to see Dazai being read these days, Ellis all great stuff.... I used to like Miller a lot but I've ditched most of the books I ever owned by him (I read at least fifteen of them), Nin I can't get on with either, there's a clinical coldness there that I find distasteful. I met Knausgaard once, hell of a nice guy, incredibly imposing physically, he's an ice-blue eyed Nordic giant, kept expecting him to produce a broadsword and cleave someone in twain from shoulder to thigh in once sweep in the classic anti-heroic fantasy mode. Had a great time discussing obscure Scandi fiction with him. That Russ is uncommon even in the UK, where it was issued. Yarbro? I love her, have read around forty of her books, one of my idols. Keep on selling...
@Bookpilled
@Bookpilled Жыл бұрын
I have read Coming Up for Air, yes. I found a great little paperback copy at a thrift store a while ago before I'd ever heard of it. A great book but read early and I remember it only in outline. I have yet to actually read Knausgaard. He's the final stop on my "dreary literary machos" tour.
@outlawbookselleroriginal
@outlawbookselleroriginal Жыл бұрын
@@Bookpilled -He's OK, but not front rank I'd say, but I had fun talking to him about Hamsun et al. The moments in 'Coming' that prefigure the later books are really striking, I feel and I love the Wells homage he does- describing a retail outlet in the Edwardian period reminded me of 'Kipps' and 'The History of Mr Polly' and I'm convinced Barrington J Bayley got the idea of 'The Garments of Caean' from the tailoring bits in the former. Keep on keeping on, my friend.
@ralphmarrone3130
@ralphmarrone3130 Жыл бұрын
Engine Summer is one of my favorite novels. I read it when it was published way back when and I still think about it. Just a beautiful book. Rush That Speaks is one of my favorite characters of all time.
@chrisw6164
@chrisw6164 Жыл бұрын
I didn’t love A Princess of Mars, but when I read it my headspace wasn’t great AND I didn’t know it was Burroughs first book. So I am required to circle back and try Burroughs again.
@akiyrjana6558
@akiyrjana6558 Жыл бұрын
Of all the world here is a Finnish musician and a writer who knows many of your throwaways. Good books, good world! I love scifi, but Miller's Tropics were one my initiatory in books about modernism and then kind a of poetry of sexuality. Not a genius in letters Miller is one of the great mnemoniacks of western bookery. His stories about remembered ghosts of genitalia seen and tasted is a genus of poetry in itself. (Love that you are keeping the Severian tetralogy. My favorite series of all time. And I hate it too.) And Cyberiad! The best. Depending upon the geniousity of the translator.
@vortimer2351
@vortimer2351 Жыл бұрын
The Barlowe seems to be unearthing a completely forgotten childhood memory for me - I think I might have read it alongside the Terran Trade Authority Handbooks.
@slygore
@slygore Жыл бұрын
I got a book club edition. I read many of the books referred to in it as a result. He had another book I didn't like as much. I took it out from my library many times as a boy
@noahmatuszewski8085
@noahmatuszewski8085 Жыл бұрын
Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials was a great source for finding SF to read when I was in my early teens! Truly a wonderful book!
@annoyingmorlock
@annoyingmorlock Жыл бұрын
I'm curious how you like Crowley's "Engine Summer", what you think of it. And of course Mann's" Paxwax" - I liked it. (He was from the UK, lived in New Zealand since 1969 and died there september 2022)
@tectorgorch8698
@tectorgorch8698 Жыл бұрын
Yup, I've started Tropic of Cancer three or four times, never get past p. 15 or 20. Same experience with a few other Millers.
@rickkearn7100
@rickkearn7100 Жыл бұрын
This was like watching speed-chess! Fastest run-through of a big pile of SF books ever, I'm sure of it, BP. Well done. Hardest trick is keeping the triage going! Cheers.
@bookjack
@bookjack Жыл бұрын
I read a short story by Lucius Shepard not long ago called Salvador. It was grisly, haunting Vietnam inspired stuff. That book looks to be about the same. Would recommend if you have the capacity for a downer
@pjm9568
@pjm9568 Жыл бұрын
So funny that you have Space Relations. I remember learning about that book in the summer of 2019 (three guesses why) and when I read what it was about I was like "Oh come ON!"
@Caliburnius
@Caliburnius Жыл бұрын
"Willard" is the movie from Ratman's Notebooks.
@bjammin187
@bjammin187 Жыл бұрын
You definitely need to at least try Life During Wartime by Lucius Shephard, so I’m glad you kept it. Had a huge impact on me in my early 20’s, the writing style is quite astonishingly lush and literary. Just don’t ask me about the plot ( unclear) or the books meaning (still unclear). Greatly regret now giving away my copy. So if you hate it and do want to sell, let me know, I’ll pay double :)
@joncarroll2040
@joncarroll2040 Жыл бұрын
That Changeling is a decent Zelazny and if I'm not mistaken it looks like the illustrated edition by Esteban Marotto which is brilliant.
@thaichichaitea7956
@thaichichaitea7956 Жыл бұрын
Oh dang I had that barlowes illustrations book when i was a kid and had no idea what a treasure I had.
@deadcowaroma5787
@deadcowaroma5787 Жыл бұрын
Can you give us a warning when you’re about to disassemble the Sci-fireplace so we can properly brace ourselves for the flood of emotions? Please?
@routex1
@routex1 Жыл бұрын
A lot of nice covers
@Parker307
@Parker307 Жыл бұрын
Are you going to do a video where you load up the kindle/ereader? Or show what you have loaded up on it to read in the near ish term
@grene1955
@grene1955 Жыл бұрын
The Man In The Maze is one of my favorite SF books ever...would make an incredible movie!
@thesci-fished
@thesci-fished Жыл бұрын
I agree with you, it's been one of my favourites for a very long time as well
@elliotwalton6159
@elliotwalton6159 Жыл бұрын
I took a screen shot of the Art of Memory. Sounds like necessary reading, if not memorizing.
@holydissolution85
@holydissolution85 Жыл бұрын
Maske Thaery" is one of the best Vance books...it's only at the beggining that it might be infodumpy & confusing ( but it was perfect to me )... Don't sell Zindell's Neverness & Wolfe's Latro / Soldier books.....
@the_purple_mage
@the_purple_mage Жыл бұрын
I am sometimes surprised at how famous Naked Lunch is compared to Cities of the Red Night which is (imho) a far superior book in both style and substance. Consider giving it a try before giving up on Naked Lunch!
@donaldb1
@donaldb1 Жыл бұрын
7:22 "The same artwork..." From _The Casle of the Pyrenees_ by Rene Magritte.
@WordsinTime
@WordsinTime Жыл бұрын
If you’ve read it, what did you think of Doomsday Book? I own a copy but haven’t read it yet.
@Bookpilled
@Bookpilled Жыл бұрын
Haven't read it yet. I hear mixed things.
@winstonschwarz1636
@winstonschwarz1636 Жыл бұрын
I read Against Nature recently. Huysmans best book is La Bas however.
@codycoudray9751
@codycoudray9751 Жыл бұрын
Unimportant, but where is that shirt from?? I like it.
@ajaxplunkett5115
@ajaxplunkett5115 Жыл бұрын
Dont sell the Satyricon hardcover !!! - tongue and cheek a bit but that's the "book" moral dilemma : to keep or not to keep books in the public domain ? Easy to find - ro read , yet that individual book is beautiful.
@TheSharkPadlock
@TheSharkPadlock Жыл бұрын
Anyone keep a list of all these that he mentions in his keep/get rid of videos? He has mentioned 8 in less than one minute. I'd love to have a list of this stuff, but I cannot keep up! lol
@sandyhausler5290
@sandyhausler5290 Жыл бұрын
Thank God, you kept Zelazny’s This Immortal. You’re selling/have sold all your other Zelaznys!
@thescrewfly
@thescrewfly Жыл бұрын
For future reference, despite writing in French, Huysmans is originally a Dutch name and the "huys" part is therefore pronounced more or less (not quite) like house. It's actually the Dutch word for house ("huis" is the modern spelling).
@Bookpilled
@Bookpilled Жыл бұрын
Houseman it is
@camillagilmore1547
@camillagilmore1547 Жыл бұрын
Naked Lunch is not a great book to get into Burrows with. I'd recommend reading Junk and then And The Hippos Boiled in their Bathtubs, which he wrote with Kerouac and then going back to Naked Lunch.
@awldune
@awldune Жыл бұрын
Ringworld has a lot of interesting ideas, most importantly the ringworld itself (ever heard of a game called Halo?). But the story, characters, etc are not Niven's best and those things are his weak point to begin with. IMO his best solo work is his short stories.
@b.a.7228
@b.a.7228 Жыл бұрын
Dun-sane-ee. FOURTH MANSIONS is based, in part, on Christian mystic Teresa of Ávila's INTERIOR CASTLES. Oh, that Jack Vance is gorgeous. James Morrow is great. ENGINE SUMMER is great. The Herzog is great. NATIVE TONGUE is good. Swanwick is great. Love the Yates.
@Scottlp2
@Scottlp2 Жыл бұрын
Doorways in The Sand by Zelazny was an SF comedy. Great fun but unsure if the silliness would work for today's audience.
@yelisieimurai
@yelisieimurai Жыл бұрын
Schizmatrix plus is a good book.
@ajaxplunkett5115
@ajaxplunkett5115 Жыл бұрын
glad you kept E.R. Eddison -
@peterpuleo2904
@peterpuleo2904 Жыл бұрын
"The Worm O..." is very difficult to read.
@ajaxplunkett5115
@ajaxplunkett5115 Жыл бұрын
@@peterpuleo2904 it is in Edwardian english but i bought into it once the narrator is abandoned and becomes an early Secondary World fantasy. The scene with the Manticore is awesome.
@vmiximv
@vmiximv Жыл бұрын
thnx Bookpilled
@simonquinn5583
@simonquinn5583 Жыл бұрын
thoughts on Demon Princes??
@Bookpilled
@Bookpilled Жыл бұрын
Haven't read it yet
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