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Post by twothousandonemark on Feb 26, 2022 18:59:19 GMT
I'm just about through the Marvel Vault. I must say, after reading the DC Vault last year, I feel like I know more about each other's truest philosophies.
Marvel throws everything at the wall & see what sticks the longest. Marvel was originally big on horror comics, & I feel like that's what's kept their edgier stuff alive. DC holds to its more core godly icons, & isn't shy to amend them so long as their core DNA remains the same.
I've been a DC fan 60-40 most of my life, & I guess their reliability has been large part of that.
Reading Chuck Klosterman's 'Nineties' right now too. I think it's funny, as a GenX myself, the generation was ever trying to be figured out by mainstream culture... That not much fazed us, we didn't care enough... & when that became a criticism, & we didn't care about that criticism, it became an infinite loop. We're the youth generation to have been raised in analog world, & grown up into a digital one. We went from answering the (landline) phone whenever it rang, to screening & not picking up a single (mobile device) call mere years later.
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Post by thekindercarebear on Mar 1, 2022 18:58:26 GMT
The name of the wind book 2.5
Designed to be a money grubbing filler. 😢
Not too well written either imo.
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on Mar 3, 2022 6:03:00 GMT
Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford
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Post by gspdude on Mar 3, 2022 16:44:13 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 4, 2022 20:12:43 GMT
I’m alternating between a collection of Neil Simon’s plays and a Helen McCloy mystery novel (an odd combo, I know). I’m only a few chapters into the McCloy, Unfinished Crime (1954), but I finished Simon’s Come Blow Your Horn (1961). Every time I read or watch Simon, I think of the late Terry Teachout’s criticism:I like Simon more than Teachout did, but in Simon’s weaker plays this criticism seems exactly right. Come Blow Your Horn has some OK stuff in it, but it’s one of Simon’s weaker plays. The plotting is a mess (so many unfired Chekhov’s guns), and the Simonian zingers (flap-A-in-slot-B or not) seem unmotivated (Oscar and Felix, Lewis and Clark, and Paula McFadden and Elliot Garfield have story and character reasons to say nasty things to each other—Alan Baker and Buddy Baker, not so much). The worst flaw, though, is the Father character. He’s terrible. Just terrible. He’s a stereotype of the overbearing father, and he’s a horrible person to his children, his wife, and everyone else. But he never gets a comeuppance, or even a change of heart. The play ends with the character relationships unchanged, which raises the question of why tell this story at all. That’s why Barefoot in the Park is my favorite of the Simon plays I’ve read so far, I think: The characters change because of plot events—in, crucially, ways that seem natural and fitting. To be fair, Come Blow Your Horn was Simon’s first play, and his next four works ( Barefoot, The Odd Couple, the books to Little Me and Sweet Charity) are all much better. Oh, and I haven’t seen the film adaptation, but Frank Sinatra seems, to say the least, miscast.
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Post by needysboy on Mar 4, 2022 21:03:06 GMT
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Mar 4, 2022 23:23:45 GMT
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Post by merh on Mar 5, 2022 14:16:01 GMT
I just finished One Punch Man 1 & 2. They are shipping A Man & His Cat this week so that's 5 volumes about a lonely old man who adopts a cat that's been at the shelter 1 year.
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Post by Marv on Mar 7, 2022 21:52:52 GMT
I just finished One Punch Man 1 & 2. They are shipping A Man & His Cat this week so that's 5 volumes about a lonely old man who adopts a cat that's been at the shelter 1 year. I’ve only ever seen the one punch man anime but I find is pretty damn enjoyable.
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Post by Marv on Mar 7, 2022 21:55:38 GMT
Currently toward the beginning of A Little Hatred…it’s the first of a trilogy but like the 10th book in the shared universe of Joe Abercrombies First Law world. Abercrombie has such an amazing knack for character work. I wholeheartedly recommend dipping into his universe…but reading by release date is the best way to do it. Release date is their chronological order.
Also reading Rose Madder but it’s kind of a back burner read. Every couple of days I’ll read a few pages or so.
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Mar 8, 2022 0:45:34 GMT
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Post by Raimo47 on Mar 8, 2022 18:19:31 GMT
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Post by gw on Mar 8, 2022 19:49:14 GMT
I'm currently reading Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari.
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 8, 2022 23:00:44 GMT
The novelization of The Thing by Dean Alan Foster.
And the true crime book Trail of the Fox.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Mar 8, 2022 23:29:48 GMT
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Post by thekindercarebear on Mar 9, 2022 19:37:54 GMT
I finished 2 necromancers, a bureaucrat, and an army of golems last month.
No, it's not a joke book. 😏 It's a YA book. I needed the levity.
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Post by Zos on Mar 11, 2022 14:04:23 GMT
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Post by theravenking on Mar 11, 2022 14:31:08 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 11, 2022 15:44:29 GMT
"In The Shadow Of Agatha Christie" edited by Leslie S. Klinger (2018). 16 short stories by women authors who wrote mystery and crime fiction from 1850-1917 but whose reputations were pretty much buried by the genius of Christie. I have finished three of the stories and they are excellent. I was happy to have my first encounter with Baroness Orczy's unnamed armchair detective The Old Man In The Corner (it's not an armchair but a seat at a corner table in a London cafe).
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Post by Zos on Mar 12, 2022 16:51:57 GMT
Nice jacket! I presume I'd find it just as unreadable as Jerusalem though. I'll stick to Lost Girls and Halo Jones. The first bit is tough as written in the first person by a neolithic male in a tough vernacular but gets better. .
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