Weekend Reading Report 5/26/24

[@Elricsedric]

Sir you're very charming, I like alot

[@constancecampbell4610]

I loved Interview with the Vampire. It was so sumptuously descriptive. For different reasons, I also enjoyed The Vampire Lestat. I think you’d like that one.

[@StevenEverett7]

I just Googled Why is Avengers 200 so disturbing? Whoa! 🤣🤣🤣Yup. That's disturbing!!!

[@jonathanburrell5436]

I did too. I regret it. 😮😢

[@davidmacpherson770]

Sturgeon is so wonderful. I am a great fan of Some of Your Blood

[@inanimatecarbongod]

Funnily enough, I was planning to read Some of Your Blood as my next book, so I'll take this as a sign that I should actually do so. I've only read one book for Horror May-hem, and that was only tonight that I did so (Witch House by Evangeline Walton). So you're doing a lot better than I am. I read another David Case book for last year's HM, The Third Grave. I liked that a lot but yeah, some of the secondary characters are a bit yikes as they seem to be in this one (and whoever did THAT cover art clearly feared no reprisals from Universal Studios). It's the sort of thing you hope the author didn't actually agree with, let's put it that way.

[@alexnejako777]

I would pair Anne Rice's 80s to 90s vampire stuff with Concrete Blondes beautiful album Bloodletting. it's not all vampire songs, (she even sings pretending to be a male ghost) and their most famous song is on it.

[@CliffsDarkGems]

I loved The Vampire Chronicles, The second book: The Vampire Lestat is my favorite. He is such a badass! Louis is indeed a bit Whiney. The character Claudia is a bit awkward, especially in the movie. That cover for Wolf Tracks is hysterical! Sorry but that face, that expression! 🤣 Some Of Your Blood sounds very interesting.

[@angusorvid8840]

I read the first five of Rice's Vampire series, Ramseys the Damned, and The Mayfair Witches Trilogy. That's about all the Anne Rice I could take. I loved Sturgeon's Some of Your Blood and just about everything I've read by Sturgeon. I'd put him up there with Bradbury and Leiber as one of the great all-time masters. I've never read David Case and nor had I ever heard about him till now.

[@Tim_with_Tomes_and_Tales]

They probably put Avengers 200 on the cover to warn the potential buyers. Happy reading.

[@tonette6592]

It IS exciting! Hey, I'm here. I had no intention of reading Anne Rice although a family member had tried to get me to, but I may

[@bonpourvous]

I read a couple of David Case stories years ago published in the UK Pan books of horror collections, The Hunter and The Cell one involved a Werewolf and one I think had trained killer Wolverines, good stories as I recall.

[@w.adammandelbaum1805]

Sturgeon's caviar was rather salty.

[@revenantreads]

I read Interview back in middle school. You make me think I need to revisit it.

[@TheEricthefruitbat]

I enjoyed Anne Rice's vampire stories. I think I read up to Queen of the Damned; I should probably go further. My favourite vampire novel is Those Who Hunt The Night, by Barbara Hambley. It is also the first book in a series, I believe. As for vampires on TV, the best show, imnsho, was Kindred: The Embraced.

[@DDB168]

The tv series is not very good, I gave up after one episode. Not that compelling viewing. Probably not enough TnA 🤭

[@BookBlather]

Ok, just added the Sturgeon book to my TBR. Sounds awesome, thanks!

[@egonkuber4258]

I recall Harold Bloom saying he found Anne Rice's writing openly sadistic and anti-human. If all the critiques ive ever heard, that one oddly stuck with me...i remember it each time her name is mentioned... The Simonson run on Thor is one of my favorite Marvel comics. Nobody has got the character down the way Walt did.

[@ellesse3862]

Another fantastic Epic Collection .. lovely Perez art work, oh.. its got "that" story in it, hrm .. that'll be nice. Considering all the weird books we read and the messed up things, when its in a comic, suddenly it becomes that bit more memorable, infamous, controversial, perhaps its the use of familiar characters we know, or setting the story in the genre of spandex, masks, and capes as well as being in that spot in the timeline of comic history, pre 80s dark infestation that has forever tainted the medium to this day. Avengers Epic Collection 11, times are a changing. My reading report, I finished the Roots of the Swamp Thing - DC Comics Classics Library comicbook and currently reading Swamp Thing the Bronze Age volume 2 which continues the story of DCs beloved muck monster.

[@indyatmn420]

Congrats on completing all that Thor. I would love a video from you breaking down the various eras - which ones were great (other than Simonson), which ones weren’t; any changes in themes/direction - especially the Donald Blake thing. When Jane Foster was romantic interest vs. Lady Sif, etc

[@charliedogg7683]

Among the events that Marvel, in its long history, wishes they could undo, I think Avengers #200's "Marcus is the child of himself and Ms. Marvel, who he impregnated without her consent" story ranks near the top. And yet look at who plotted it: Perez, Jim Shooter, Bob Layton and Michelinie, hardly inexperienced as comics creators. The upside is the Perez/Green art but it doesn't quite make up for the ickyness factor of the story. And what makes it worse for me is that Danvers and Marcus then go off together to explore who he is and the nature of the universe or something. Bad call Marvel.

[@missstarbuck]

I understand the tv show dissapointment, but on another book. I've read Nine perfect strangers by Liane Moriarty and i absolutely loved it! I've watched one episode so far, because they changed it so so much.. already in the first episode :( I am curious of one aspect still if they have that in the tv show, but i just haven't watched anymore yet because of all the changes. Do you know the tv show Monk btw ?? That was first a show, but also have 19 books... and those are great ! :D Just like the tv show :D

[@Krommer1000]

I still maintain that the magical armor Thor is wearing on that cover, that he fought the Midguard Serpent in to protect his bones from breaking, is the best looking armor he's ever had.

[@gingerbibliophile]

Another fun video! It’s easier to watch a movie than read the book, so I do the same thing sometimes of getting book/movie stuff mixed, picturing the movie while reading. I don’t even know how many books I’ve lost on my kindle cause they’re just too far down in the shuffle to ever see again. I’ve had to force myself to either not buy anymore or read em immediately after downloading em. Love all the deep and disturbing monster reads!!

[@troytradup]

So glad you liked Some of Your Blood. Glad I can cross Wolf Tracks off my list!

[@GraphicManComics]

Thank you

[@niriop]

When I read Sturgeon’s More Than Human I didn’t care much for it, but this seems much more my thing.

[@buckocean7616]

I'm surprised to hear that. I hazily remember thinking very highly of More Than Human. I really need to revisit so many of the books that MKV and Grammaticus bring back to my memory. There's such a difference in reading a book as a young person and rereading it 40 years later.

[@niriop]

@@buckocean7616 It’s possible I kind of read it “wrong”, or took too long to read it. I may eventually re-read it, but I don’t know. I have no objection to reading anything else by Sturgeon as I know his short stories are excellent: “The Girl Had Guts”, “The Professor’s Teddy Bear”, “It”, and so on.

[@buckocean7616]

@@niriop As I said, the adult me may feel very differently about things I've read 40- some -odd years ago, but who knows. I do remember thinking very highly of authors like Sturgeon, Bradbury, Vonnegut, and Harlan Ellison. Oh, to have the time to reread them all !!!

[@kallianpublico7517]

The Midgard Serpent...hmmm? Wondering if the Serpent appears to protect Midgard from external intrusions; or is merely the signal of the end of the world? Is the serpent a limit or a boundary? Are all serpents metaphors for limit or boundaries? A sign of change: emergence or destruction or both? Will is desire and purpose. The head and tail of Ouroboros? A shift in will would be presaged by a Serpent vision? Any evidence of this? Harry Potter? Adam and Eve? Raised by Woves?

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

In the comics the Midgard Serpent mostly exists just to kill Thor.

[@macavitymacavity]

"Some of Your Blood", man.... I haven't thought about that one in a long time! Disturbed the crap outta me as a kid!!!

[@sgriffin9960]

Your thrilling videos always have at least a nugget of info I didn't know before! Loves me some Simonson Thor!