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Post by kesher on Oct 21, 2015 22:45:32 GMT -6
What??
What's this collection called?
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Post by stevemitchell on Oct 21, 2015 23:18:36 GMT -6
It's called Ghor Kin-Slayer: The Saga of Genseric's Fifth-Born Son. Published by Necronomicon Press in 1997. Amazingly enough, it's still available at $10.00 through Amazon.com.
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Post by kesher on Oct 22, 2015 8:50:37 GMT -6
ORDERED.  |
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Post by stevemitchell on Oct 22, 2015 11:40:39 GMT -6
Kesher, I hope that you enjoy reading Ghor; you will probably be the only kid on your block with a copy!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2015 6:48:17 GMT -6
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Post by kesher on Oct 23, 2015 7:10:32 GMT -6
Dood, I will never be able to unsee that... |
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Post by Otto Harkaman on Oct 23, 2015 19:48:47 GMT -6
LOL Awesome! I actually enjoyed some of John Norman's novels. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2015 3:14:08 GMT -6
I'm gonna be honest, I love-hated Gor from the beginning. My friend havard made me read one of these, many years back, and I have often been heard saying that I will only forgive him for this terrible suggestion if he posts a video of himself reading the first three chapters of that novel - ALOUD.  The truth is, I didn't think Gor was particularly offensive, or bad, if certainly one of those guilty pleasures of male-oriented literature. (Frankly, all the misogyny in those novels pales against the implicit rejection of women that novels like "50 Shades of Gray" transport, so I don't really mind that.) - The real reason I never really connected to Gor was that I read some of the Scorpio/Antares series by Alan Burt Akers when I was a teen, and that sort of closed the genre for me. In 2010, I discovered the John Carter novels and read a few, but the personal connection that I had to all the penny dreadfuls from back in the day was not there any more, of course. Right now, I'm really looking to finish the entire Witcher series before Christmas - reading occasionally, and in tiny bits. Read that one in part last year, but enjoyed it so much that I returned to it. - So much for my personal sense of camp, I guess. |
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Post by Otto Harkaman on Oct 26, 2015 18:02:44 GMT -6
Downloaded audio-books of the whole Amber series written and read by Roger Zelazny, listening to the second book "The Guns of Avalon" Amazing how many times these books have been printed, I think I first read the series starting in the late seventies. This is the cover I remember when I first read this book, fun now listening to Roger Zelazny himself read it.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2015 7:17:13 GMT -6
FWIW, I am starting to collect short fiction that I find to be suitable inspiration for fantasy games over at the Meleon PBP board: odd74.proboards.com/thread/11316/grand-meleon-book-clubNo. I don't want to sell you guys anything. Yes, I prefer to do that sort of collecting in *my* part of the board, if only because I want to get back to this thread fairly often. |
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Post by havard on Nov 7, 2015 16:51:16 GMT -6
I'm gonna be honest, I love-hated Gor from the beginning. My friend havard made me read one of these, many years back, and I have often been heard saying that I will only forgive him for this terrible suggestion if he posts a video of himself reading the first three chapters of that novel - ALOUD. To be fair I never recommended that you read it. -Havard |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2015 3:01:32 GMT -6
Which is a nuance I then missed.  |
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Post by GRWelsh on Nov 11, 2015 18:35:33 GMT -6
I started THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION by Elizabeth Moon today.
Recently finished: EMPIRE OF THE IMAGINATION: GARY GYGAX AND THE BIRTH OF DUNGEONS & DRAGONS by Michael Witwer (not fiction, I know, but gaming-related), A VINTAGE FROM ATLANTIS by Clark Ashton Smith, and also I've been re-reading a lot of Lovecraft again lately, and even tried some Derleth short-stories for the first time --after avoiding them for thirty years. The Derleth "imitator" stories aren't terrible, but I didn't want to taint my appreciation for the real thing, and that was why I avoided them. Recently, I've also been binging on Tolkien... but then, when am I not?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 11:11:26 GMT -6
Paksenarrion, remarkably well done, IIRC.
Moi, starting a German audioplay, "Monster 1983", because I am shallow and like good camp. Bought the Witcher graphic novel, and really didn't enjoy it.
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Post by geoffrey on Nov 12, 2015 12:27:07 GMT -6
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
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Post by ritt on Nov 12, 2015 13:30:27 GMT -6
Just finished The Book of the D**ned by Charles Fort. It's one of the very first works of what we would today call "UFO-ology" from 1919,and it's cosmic conspiracy mythology is very, very different from the modern version with flying saucers, greys, and Area 51: Artificial planets in various odd shapes, city-sized "Arial super-constructions" that fly through deep space on massive coal-burning engines, Earth seeded with life by various weird aliens, then seized and turned into a vast cattle yard for the harvesting of human brain-lube and harem girls, a secret flying ocean in the sky hidden by the clouds... It's exquisitely demented and could be used as the basis for one of the strangest space opera campaigns of all time. Great, mad stuff.
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Post by makofan on Nov 24, 2015 8:54:12 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 11:38:33 GMT -6
Fan fiction. A terror without end.
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Post by angelicdoctor on Nov 24, 2015 19:10:33 GMT -6
 Found today in my company's community library! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2015 23:19:49 GMT -6
I own that one. Solid edition, and, obviously, classic stories. Personally, guys, if you're still looking for a book to read over the holidays, I recommend "The Barrow" by "Artesia" creator Mark Smylie. A classic, not-too-complex dungeon crawl story. More noir than vanilla, but in this case, a pretty good thing. One of my favorite fantasy books in recent years. Moi, currently busy rereading "The Count of Monte Cristo". One of my favorite novels of all time, plain and simple. After that, finally, up to the Brazilian epics by Erico Verissimo. |
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Post by kesher on Nov 26, 2015 10:24:14 GMT -6
Say more about these "Brazilian epics"...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2015 21:21:41 GMT -6
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Post by kesher on Nov 27, 2015 9:25:13 GMT -6
Awesome! I wish I'd known about those before I went to Brazil...
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Post by bycrom on Nov 27, 2015 16:37:03 GMT -6
Currently reading the third book in Mary Stewart's Arthurian trilogy 'The Last Enchantment'.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2015 4:09:57 GMT -6
Awesome! I wish I'd known about those before I went to Brazil... Amazing books, from all I can tell so far. A step out of the US/European bubble of writers. |
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Post by cadriel on Nov 30, 2015 8:49:16 GMT -6
I found a Dover edition of some Burroughs Barsoom novels ( Thuvia, Maid of Mars; Chessmen of Mars; The Master Mind of Mars) at my local used bookstore, and I read Thuvia over Saturday night and Sunday morning. It has some excellent illustrations, which got me looking and I found that the version on Amazon is also illustrated. As a bonus, I ordered it last night and it came before I went to work this morning, so I know what I'm doing on my lunch break. (Namely, I want to go back and re-read Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars since I re-read A Princess of Mars not too long ago.) It's my first time through the second batch of books, but I'm stepping back because a good adventure jaunt is always worth it. |
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Post by Otto Harkaman on Dec 5, 2015 14:37:42 GMT -6
I am having fun listening to an unabridged audiobook of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas  |
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Post by Otto Harkaman on Dec 6, 2015 20:01:33 GMT -6
Besides Dumas I am also poking at Desmond Seward's "The Bourbon Kings of France"  Just finished the part on Louis XIII, I'll have to go over it again, pretty complex events. The most dangerous conspiring woman seems to have been a Marie de Chevreuse or sometimes called Marie de Rohan but she didn't work for Richelieu, she wanted to get rid of him. There seems to even be an Italian opera about her conspiracies against the King, Gaetano Donizetti's tragic opera Maria di Rohan. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2015 1:11:40 GMT -6
I am having fun listening to an unabridged audiobook of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo", produced by NPR, is the single best audiobook read by a single reader that I have in my collection. I recommend you get it immediately. Myself, gaaaaaaaaah, gearing up for a very busy 2016 by reading stash of economy newspapers. Running a startup here in Germany, and while the first year was kind of promising, I'm not trusting my luck. To feed my family, that is the noble quest... And, goodness, as we say in Spain, "no comen poco". |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2015 3:48:00 GMT -6
Not a book, but I've been watching the 19-2 TV series from 2014 lately. (There's an older version of the series, from 2011.)
This has to be the single best piece of fiction I have seen in years; very grim, though, and sometimes overly melodramatic, but very, very intense. My kind of TV.
In books, looking towards Gogol's "Dead Souls"; not at all sure what to expect of that one, though.
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