Weekend Reading Report 1/14/24

[@leematthews6812]

"This place is just full of excitement." Yep, one glance at Roger confirms that statement.

[@Dacre1000]

Yes, there is no "the first 100 pages are a bit slow and hard, but then it picks up later on" with Zelazny. Those 100 pages would be an epic novel in itself.

[@PeculiarNotions]

I understand your situation. I don't read every page, but I do read actual journalism and news everyday, too.

[@jamesbarberousse8396]

So sleepy, those dogs! I hope they woke up for the Weekend Reading Report. goodreads: we can put a man on the moon (if you believe) but we can't get a website to work right! Newspapers: Yes, a charming relic of the past. But that's a good story idea. An alternate, parallel world where newspapers still exist. Maybe I can get ChatGPT to write that up. Anyway, thanks for the entertaining WRR!

[@JosephQuinton]

Your videos are the very best on BookTube!!!

[@ellesse3862]

I didn't think the complete Amber could be done in a month without Roger's help, by the end of next month? no problem, you're a faster reader than I am. This week, I finished reading my first book of 2024 Michael Moorcock - Elric of Melnibone, from The Tale of The Eternal Champion collection, volume 8 of 14. Next week in continuity, Stormbringer - Tale of The Eternal Champion volume 12.

[@heidi6281]

Love seeing the artwork inside the Dr. Strange comics!!

[@holzausgabe8812]

Oh Rhonda... poor little darling! This week was a rough ride.

[@waltera13]

My sweetie will be excited to see the beasts.❤

[@Angel-sh7mn]

Nothing beats pen and paper. Technology just gets in the way.

[@GrammaticusBooks]

I just came up with a solution to your 500 book challenge....count the Newspapers! (love that back cover on 'War of the Gods')

[@missstarbuck]

Omg !! I never knew that throwing the newspaper was a real thing!! 😱😂 I always saw it in movies and in comics etc... but...so it is a real thing !! That's so cool to know! 😁

[@MasterMalrubius]

I imagined the “Robert E. Howard” show intro music in the pan-over of the dogs. It gives it a totally different feeling. Zelazny packs a lot of story in the small books. It keeps the story tight and moving fast.

[@DanielsBibliophagy]

Goodreads claims another victim. I'm going to rely on an Excel document from now on.

[@readersretreat7845]

Great update, Newspapers is great to know what is going on. Bill Everett love his art

[@russworks2882]

I miss getting the daily newspaper, but it's as much a matter of cost as anything, and the experience of getting news digitally is just not the same. In the Great Shark Hunt, Hunter Thompson wrote about how his deranged lifestyle was anchored by his breakfast ritual, which involved a massive amount of protein, grapefruits, alcohol (described in detail) and several of the day's major newspapers, preferably at a table outside in the sun, naked, for three or four hours. There really is something meditative and even relaxing to me about reading the newspaper over a leisurely breakfast, a relic of earlier, simpler times.

[@cmellor]

I've finished the first 7 books (thanks to audiobooks) and I have to say that I am enjoying the Merlin saga almost more than the Corwin saga. I guess I'll see how I feel when I get to the end.

[@eyeofmanos7308]

I was doing my normal Sunday routine, laying on the couch reading The Wall Street Journal while watching you (and others) on KZbin. I had to laugh when you brought your paper up! I am another who gets two newspapers a day and there are not enough people on KZbin for me to stay up to date with the papers. This seems to be the only time a week I have for the papers. Oh Well.

[@russworks2882]

Charlton Comics, surprisingly, did a pretty good Hercules comic, with scripts by guys like Denny O'Neil, Steve Skeates and Charlton stalwart Joe Gill and art by Sam Glanzman. They went fairly faithfully through the labors of Hercules, but could be pretty playful and even silly at times. Beautiful art by Glanzman and some nice Jim Aparo art on the back feature, Thane of Bagarth, a Prince Valiant-style serial.

[@barbaraboethling596]

Ah newspapers. I gave up on them about ten years ago. Why? Well, the ink smell gave me headaches, the ratio of ads was enormous, the OC Register editorial slant made me angry, but worst of all was the unending war with the dolts to get them to porch the paper. It literally ended up everywhere BUT the porch. I finally conceded defeat.

[@2024FingersCrossed]

I keep an Excel Spreadsheet to keep track of what I've read.

[@martinknowles1179]

You should go easy on your paperboy....it must be difficult throwing the newspaper over the moat every day. 🙄

[@bookchaser1103]

The bad news? I get a bad sinus infection every year or two that wrecks me for about a week. One hit me last night. The good news? I started reading the kindle version of Amber Friday. It is so much fun. I'm halfway through Nine Princes, so thank you so much for the recommendation. The only other thing I've ever read by Zelzaney was the Lord of Light years ago, which I'd also highly recommend. P.S. Speaking of Amber ... newspapers? Has Corwin taught you nothing? It's all Shadows, man.

[@tristanhogue4690]

Sinus infections are for little kids

[@bookchaser1103]

@tristanhogue4690 My mistake. Apparently it's Covid. More grown-up, hopefully.

[@gerarddonohoe5806]

Awwww..more cute dogs please 🙏

[@Toracube]

I’ve just ordered the great book of Amber after reading Damnation alley. Nine princes is George r Martins favourite sci fi book.

[@danieltenney1896]

Another great video as always Michael! I might have to give Amber a try. It sounds fun. I finished Gladiator a couple weeks ago and im currently reading A Princess of Mars and really enjoying it. I also just ordered the vol. 9 Epic Collection of Silver Surfer. I just couldn't pass up the creators on it with DeMattius, Defalco, and Simonson.

[@DavidWiley7]

I finished Book 3 in Amber last week, too! However, I'm sneaking in a book in between each Amber book so I'm about halfway through my first Otis Adelbert Kline book: Planet of Peril. After that, returning to Zelazny is going to feel incredible.

[@briteskin]

My high school students know what a newspaper is because local paper delivers a stack through the week. Definitely make time for the newspaper seeing what the non-subscription cost is better put some time in. My 2024 goal is a reread and a first read every month. Finished my reread for January with Stephen King's 'Cujo' and moving on to my first read of 'Dresden Files: Dead Beat' by Jim Butcher. I been on a manga kick of late and turns out the series I decided to try are on the short side. Read volume 1 of TISTA this week and turns out next volume is it's finale while I am reading Dead Company vol 3 this week and turns out it will be the finale of that story. As stated in past not much of an Epic collector but was excited to see Vol 7 of Avengers West Coast was up for preorder in the Previews catalog. Thankfully that series they been printing in order but feels like years between new volumes.

[@patramirez5825]

I had the same problem with good reads so I switched to storygraph which I love.

[@inanimatecarbongod]

I just keep track of my reading with an ordinary list in Word. Prettied it up by putting the information in a table, but still a basic list. Currently I'm two books in for the year and just about to finish a third; this reading plan I'm trying is working so far.

[@RichardFay]

There was a Hercules comic, but it wasn't by Marvel - it was by Charlton comics in the 60s, was loosely based on the original myths, and was drawn by Sam Glanzman who was better known for his war comics.

[@davebrzeski]

The Tom Defalco issue that immediately followed the final issue in the Simonson run was the all-time low point.

[@lindachurch4555]

I liked the Cordon books the best.

[@davebrzeski]

It's either book 3, or 4 (probably book 4) of the Amber books that doesn't even have a satisfactory end. It's almost as if the 4th, and final book was twice as long as the previous 3, so they just cut it in half, and made it 2 books. Thankfully I had all 5 of the first run on hand when I read them, or I'd have been well pissed off!

[@bigaldoesbooktube1097]

The Anubis Gates 😱😆😆😆

[@scottharris1985]

If you have a smartphone you do get updates of the most current news and you would not have to read the paper.

[@davidbrueske9571]

My wife and I enjoy your videos very much!! I’m wondering if you have ever done one about Philip Jose Farmer.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Not yet.

[@freelivefree7221]

I think my dad continued to get the Wall Street Journal a year or two after canceling his subscription. Amber is great. The Anubis Gates is also very good. It takes a bunch of desperate plot threads and ties them together in surprising ways. Been reading the Dylan Dog OMnibus that Dark Horse released a few years ago. Some of the best Occult Detective stories I've read are in it.

[@Dacre1000]

Anubis feels like a compelling tv series to me. Constantly moving, constantly twisting and surprising you. Tim Powers is great. I wish more people outside of Italy knew about Dylan Dog. Been reading him since late 80s.

[@carolinec3951]

I think you need a “time turner.” You could work. Then go back in time and spend the day reading.

[@glockensig]

Newspapers? I literally know no one that buys the propaganda rags any more 😂

[@MasterMalrubius]

Yeah. Now they can get their propaganda online and cheaper.

[@buckocean7616]

I find it disheartening that you consider the NYT a propaganda rag. I don't necessarily agree with every article or op-ed, but for my entire life it has been the paper of record. Some of the greatest journalists and illustrators of the last century have appeared in the Times. I'm really curious as to where you get well researched and well written NEWS that you don't consider propaganda?

[@thekeywitness]

Goodreads is notoriously underfunded and neglected by Amazon.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

You can tell.

[@DDB168]

goodreads is always wrong because it doesn't use the metric system. I didn't know newspaper still existed. That was a sports article on the Sunday paper btw, you're gonna go to booktube hell for that 🤭 The NYT has football and war in it, can't beat that (I'm a subscriber) 👍

[@tonette6592]

Hi, Pups, Hi Mummy, Hi, Man! You get a whole hour normally? I didn't until recently, and I am a lot older than you. Hang in there. Sorry about taking your time, but we love your videos. Hercules had a really terrible cartoon series.The worst part was that he had a really annoying little centaur friend who said everything twice. I was a kid and I found it unbearable.

[@buckocean7616]

😆 I vaguely remember it, but I definitely watched it. We endured some really terrible cartoons back then.

[@jordanthomas4379]

Do you have 1001 arabian nights? That’s a great collection.

[@sleepyreader666]

A paper of noos?weird

[@imorca1994]

I have often wondered why I never hear anything about news papers and magazines from booktube. You can't be the only one who has a portion of their daily readings be from these journalistic sources. Why not include your most impactful story you read from your "news papers" in your weekend reading report? Be a trend setter.

[@DamnableReverend]

Silly MKV. The newspaper is supposed to be for Rhonda, not you.

[@tectorgorch8698]

I have been wondering: What is the significance of 6:45? Is it am or pm?

[@2024FingersCrossed]

No significance, someone asked him that question on his 100th episode, he said the clock broke and he never fixed it.

[@tectorgorch8698]

Thanks, I also noticed that Mr. Vaughn looks quite a bit like Zippy the Pinhead. That is not an insult at all by the way; I absolutely love ZtP! Adios!@@2024FingersCrossed

[@MasterMalrubius]

I had wondered the same thing. Now I finally have an answer. Thanks.

[@wassr1956]

N Y Times is fiction

[@justdon6288]

The New York Times eh...........their fiction writers aren't as good as they used to be heh.

[@AlphachadEpicCollector]

Disliked! I, DORMAMMU was really good! I got it early and read it within two days.

[@philologus6577]

You would sleep a lot better if you stopped reading the newspaper. It's full of propaganda and designed to keep you in fear. Same with watching the news. Reading newspapers is mostly a waste of time, in my opinion. So much more constructive things can be done with your time.

[@lordbozzel]

Imagine wasting time and money on the news paper lol

[@Italionstalion]

I do a basic 100 books a year challenge just to make sure I read more than I buy. This year I’m 5 books in