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1.
DIDN'T YOU ALREADY DO THIS ONCE?
I did, yes. I sometimes marvel at the plans I lay out for myself that never come to fruition. I figured I should make a links-post to the books I actually blogged up rather than the ones I thought I would back in January 2016.
2.
I mad a project out of reading the fifty-ish Hard Case Crime books I've picked up over the years. I made it through ten. Not the fault of the Hard Case imprint, just my time and attention.
1. Double Feature by Donald E. Westlake
2. 361 by Donald E. Westlake
3. The Last Match by David Dodge
4. Say It with Bullets by Richard Powell
5. Joyland by Stephen King
6. Quarry, Quarry's Deal, Quarry's Cut, Quarry's Choice, Quarry's Ex, Quarry's Vote, Quarry's Climax by Max Allan Collins
7. Blood Sugar by Daniel Kraus
8. Killing Castro by Lawrence Block
9. The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
10. Later by Stephen King
3.
BOND...
4.
- STEPHEN KING
(all fiction. Plenty of sub-links in there, too. That link is the most recent Rankings, but you can click off in there to the 2016 revision as well as the original 2013 ones. So generous!)
(all fiction. Plenty of sub-links in there, too. That link is the most recent Rankings, but you can click off in there to the 2016 revision as well as the original 2013 ones. So generous!)
- DARK TOWER REREAD
- The Gunslinger
- The Drawing of the Three
- The Waste Lands
- Wizard and Glass
- Wolves of the Calla
- Song of Susannah
- The Dark Tower
- The Gunslinger
- The Drawing of the Three
- The Waste Lands
- Wizard and Glass
- Wolves of the Calla
- Song of Susannah
- The Dark Tower
- Low Men in Yellow Coats
- Ur
- The Wind Through the Keyhole
- 'The Little Sisters of Eluria' and 'Everything's Eventual'
- Ur
- The Wind Through the Keyhole
- 'The Little Sisters of Eluria' and 'Everything's Eventual'
(Came out after the Rankings above. I didn't bother to review Elevation.)
- Later
- THE MOVIES
Here's a post I called "King's Garage Sale" just covering some of the unfinished drafts of the King's Highway I ended up with. Leave no stone unturned!
And a couple of others: (1) Different Way of Reading Stephen King, and my favorite of them all, Duma Key. There's another few impromptu reviews of Duma Key, each time I did the rankings. I really love that book.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.
- Non-fiction Collections:
Rumbles Left and Right, The Jeweler's Eye, The Governor Listeth,
Rumbles Left and Right, The Jeweler's Eye, The Governor Listeth,
Inveighing We Will Go, Execution Eve, A Hymnal,
Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist, Right Reason
- Personal Adventures at Sea and On Land:
- Coda (books by Christopher Buckley, Van Galbraith,
Christopher Little, and more)
8.
THINGS OF THIS NATURE
9.
SOME RANDOMS
- 2050: An Interview with Joe Zornado
- "April is the Cruelest Month..."
- Dangerous Visions by Harlan Ellison
- Dead Reckoning by Helen Whybrow
- Elric by Michael Moorcock
- The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers
- Ten Spooky Conspiracy Theories (culled from various sources)
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Boy, don't you wish blogging had been a thing long ago, so that you'd have a record of some/all of your reading from earlier in life? I'd love to be able to look back on that sort of thing, although I'm sure in my case it'd be cringeworthy at best. And yet!
ReplyDeleteYes and no. Mostly yes - I'd love to read all my journals, for example, that I kept as a teenager, or the notebooks I kept in my early twenties. I kept consolidating and throwing things out, on the advice of Stephen King and Jim Morrison. But, I'd love to have kept some of those/ read that now. Ditto for blogs from yesteryear keeping a record of my book trajectory through life.
DeleteMine would definitely be cringeworthy/ likely unsharable. But, like you say "and yet!"
I watch these kids with all their YouTube videos. What will they make of them later in life? Internet is forever.
I assume that if you grow up knowing that -- as the next generation certainly will, if not also the current one -- then you develop natural instincts which position you to be better able to deal with such things. But there will be some kids who don't have the same access to tech, and that's going to create unique development gaps. Interesting times, to say the least.
DeleteI left a post that you said you put up but I (in my feeble computer idiocy) can't find. Where is it? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteNo problem-o. The post where you left a comment is here:
Deletehttps://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2017/11/quarrys-climax-by-max-allan-collins.html
but I think your comment was in response to THIS post here:
https://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2020/09/seven-quarry-books-by-max-allan-collins.html