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As I recall it, Dask, it's not really horror. I recall enjoying it as a light mystery, though.


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dask said:
Found this at a thrift store today for fifty cents:

Good quotes from good people. The top is by Boris Karloff, the bottom Vincent Starrett, with an endorsement on the inside by no less a personage than Christopher Morley: "...the most original and enchanting crime story of last year." Crime or horror? Don't know, doesn't matter. The "last year" is right, 1941. Hopes are high for this one. Probably going to be one of my 2017 Halloween reads (if not sooner).
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if you like this, you might look for a couple or so other stories by Heard about "Mr. Mycroft" (=Sherlock Holmes). I haven't read those. I've read Taste but I don't seem to remember anything much about it.

As Gerald Heard, this author wrote The Black Fox, which I recall as a fun combination of Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles and M. R. James's ghostly fiction. I might reread that eventually.
 
Recent book acquisitions include Chabon's Maps and Legends, nonfiction with comments on Sherlock Holmes, Lovecraft, M. R. James, et al.; aesthetic theory in Penguin Classics by Schiller and Hegel (have my doubts about whether I will finish these......); Walter de la Mare's Collected Rhymes and Verses (the poems "for children," to go with the Collected Poems volume for adults); Trollope's Is He Popenjoy? and Dr. Wortle's School and The Eustace Diamonds and The Belton Estate; and Mark Hooker's An American Forger in Wales, a short novel by an eminent Tolkienist.
 
Got my copy of Tolkien's Beren and Luthien yesterday, and a copy of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic today.
 
The dust cover is a little rough, but this is a lovely copy of The Hornblower Companion.

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This just came out in paperback so I picked it up over the weekend and added it to my pile of books using H. P. Lovecraft as a character or tapping into his Mythos.

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I've read a couple of others in this series and want to start at the beginning. If you like police procedurals in locales other than your own (in this case, Venice), they are quite good, and Leon a very graceful writer.

Randy M.
 
Some books I ordered have been trickling in: W. H. Lewis's The Splendid Century and The Sunset of the Splendid Century (these are roughly about the France of Louis XIV), Bernardus Silvestris's Cosmographia (tr. Weatherbee), the Penguin Classics edition of The Quest of the Holy Grail (from the "Vulgate Cycle"), the letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder, Distant Neighbors, and William Morris's Water of the Wondrous Isles.

Bernardus is cited in C. S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet as the source of a reference to the Oyarses or Planetary Intelligences of that novel's myth. But where, in Lovecraft, the reference would be invented, here it's real. I've been intrigued by this for years and Look forward to getting a little insight into what Lewis, as a scholar of medieval and Renaissance literature, was up to, in what he uses so well in his first science fiction novel, which I calculate I have read 16 times. I photocopied a bunch of pages of a study of Bernardus, too, Brian Stock's Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century. I am a great admirer of Lewis's book The Discarded Image, which recreates that medieval-Renaissance view of the cosmos, and I was pleased to see that Stock was a student of Lewis's, while Weatherbee was evidently a student of Paul Piehler, a student of Lewis's.
 
pambaddeley said:
Picked up a hardback of The Regulators by Richard Bachmann aka Stephen King. I read the four main Bachmann books years ago but didn't know about this one. The publishers were continuing the spoof as they refer to finding the MS among the deceased Bachmann's papers, and they have references to Stephen King on the jacket copy and 'other books by' page inside, but still make out Bachmann to be someone else.
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As mentioned in this thread The Regulators ties in with Desperation by Stephen King.
Same names are used but the characters are switched around. Also the nature of the characters, a saintly person in one book is a psycho killer in the other etc.
Both of course are peppered with references to other King/Bachman works and people :)
 
dannymcg said:
As mentioned in this thread The Regulators ties in with Desperation by Stephen King.
Same names are used but the characters are switched around. Also the nature of the characters, a saintly person in one book is a psycho killer in the other etc.
Both of course are peppered with references to other King/Bachman works and people :)
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Thanks! I haven't read Desperation, and don't have a copy. Might get to it eventually but there are a lot of TBRs before that....
 
AE35Unit said:
Picked these 2 up today at my son's school fair. All books 10p each! Never read any Dahl, could be interesting!
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You're in for a treat I'd say. Still remember the one about the person who looks through the window at the peaceful scene with dog basking by the fire .... enough said!
 
We went to a used book store in Trenton, Georgia and got a few things.

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Of SFF interest were The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970) by Wilson Tucker and On a Planet Alien by Barry Malzberg which, confusingly, collects the three novels Scop (1976), In the Enclosure (1973), and On a Planet Alien (1974) in one volume. There was one more but I'm darned if I can remember what it was.
 
Victoria Silverwolf said:
We went to a used book store in Trenton, Georgia and got a few things.

Books Never Ending


Of SFF interest were The Year of the Quiet Sun (1970) by Wilson Tucker and On a Planet Alien by Barry Malzberg which, confusingly, collects the three novels Scop (1976), In the Enclosure (1973), and On a Planet Alien (1974) in one volume. There was one more but I'm darned if I can remember what it was.
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I forgot more than I thought. There were two other books. Return From the Stars by Stanislaw Lem (1961, English translation 1980) and The Silent Multitude by D. G. Compton (1967.)
 
Found this at the retirement home my step-dad lives in, so I "borrowed" it:
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Don't worry, I'll return it after I read it but anyone know who wrote it?
 
dask said:
Found this at the retirement home my step-dad lives in, so I "borrowed" it:
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Don't worry, I'll return it after I read it but anyone know who wrote it?
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"Ellery Queen" was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery.
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Sneaky eh? And there was you probably thinking that was just the name of the main character!
 
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