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Gwen in Green finally showed up at the library, too late for your readathon or the green bingo square in GarbAugust, but I want to read it anyway! Looking forward to 'Salem's Lot 😀

I have not read the Back Dalhia but aas a Guns n Roses fan, I am following your opinion and gonna read this one. Great tag Greg!!!

❤ Proust 🇫🇷

I want to read more sci-fi so I am going to take a look at quite a few of these, I already had Hyperion and Roadside Picnic on my list to get to, Hyperion especially I have heard really good things about. Thanks for sharing bud

Well played, sir! Very enjoyable video.

Yayyy, thanks for doing my tag even though you’ve been holding off on doing tags lately ❤🎉

Silly UA-cam deleted my message 🥴 Let’s do this again 🙂 You made this tag so much fun Greg . You had me laughing and your reactions. I literally smiled when I saw the book Dead Inside ! I don’t think anyone would pick that book to read lol 😂 I don’t blame them ether ! Ha!

Can you tell us a few more details regarding the last two works especially the Chinese editions? Titles, Publisher,?

Great responses to the tag Greg! Dead Inside does sound truly revolting, think I will give that a skip. Love The Masque of the Read Death, great Poe story.

Love “The Mask of the Red Death”

I really love Jude the Obscure too. I don’t think I knew you weren’t really doing tags anymore these days. I just tagged you again on a tag that I posted today! 🙄 Sorry. No pressure…😉

Ellroy is a dark writer. He's dealing with some demons and exorcizes them through writing. The Black Dahlia is one of his best.

The Shrinking Man blew me away when I first read it, especially the ending. I still wonder what the other world (microcosm) would be like. Matheson is one of my all-time favorites. His son, Richard Christian Matheson, has done some nice work in short fiction, too. Matheson was a giant. He broke a lot of new ground. Lem did, too. And they both wrote, by today's bloated standards, such small novels (in size only), but ones that packed such huge punches. Solaris's structure is so deceptively simple, yet the premise is staggering.

Jo Walton’s book What Makes This Book So Great? has some of the best stuff ever written about the distinct pleasures of rereading. And a lot about many sf and some fantasy books - you should check it out :) You have some great picks there. They all seem like books with something to give the re-reader. There’ll be a bunch of rereading for me in the next year, too. I turin 59 next week, and plan to really mostly work by women and non-binary authors, and more than my usual by authors of color and works in translation, while continuing to really like or love most of what I read. Off to a good start!

Now I have that Pink Floyd song stuck in my head… 😂

I read The Terror by Dan Simmons. Several people have suggested reading Hyperion, thanks for the snippet and sounds interesting 👍

Great video Greg. Shrinking Man is one of my all time favourites. Roadside Picnic is a fantastic book. Hyperion is worth a reread too, that's a deserved classic. Looking forward to your comments on rereading them.

Well, I must admit to not being a SciFi reader. I tried it about 3 times but the last one you reviewed is tempting me. Darn you Greg (shaking my fist and giggling)

Some gems on here!

I've read the _Hyperion_ series and loved it; read some PKD (but not the one you mentioned); would like to read more Sci-fi in the future. (No Clarke or Asimov?)

What a great list. As you know, I'm new to the genre, so I think I may take some of these as suggestions from you. Thank you! A lot of these sound really terrific!

Great re reading plan. I don't think I've read any of these even once. Did you ever see the movie Stalker? Supposedly based on Roadside Picnic but your description sounds like a totally different story.

I've read a few of these, but the ones I'd most like to reread are Solaris and Hyperion. Whenever I listen to people talk about those two books, I feel like I've forgotten so much of them, or that I didn't really understand them to begin with. I've been thinking about rereading Peter Watts' Blindsight, I've really wanted to revisit the idea of philosophical zombies lately and I feel like so much of that book was lost on me when I first read it

Good video. I'm a Goodreads addict. I'd never heard of Library Thing, but I'll give it a look. I have a little room in my life for yet another addiction.

My "mileage varied"; will seek out the Borges story. Great review.

Loved this. Am really getting cross about book banning now. Great video 😊

I must give some context for Utah, not as an excuse, but as a memory. When I was at BYU, swearing once could make you lose your on campus job. There's probably no way ACOTAR would be in the campus library. Most of the romances there were Amish romances. There were complaints about art professors showing corn when they showed classical statues.

Great video. I really liked Blankets when I Red it a couple of years ago. I was going to cover it in a video with a few other banned graphic novels.

I enjoyed the Maas book. Not sure I’d continue with the series though 😆 no way should it be banned in a public school however. I read Oryx and Crake years ago and can’t remember what would cause it to be banned. I think I’ll read it again. In enjoy Atwood books. I think I’ll read Animal Farm next, I think that one gets banned all the time 🙄

Great reviews Greg! I enjoyed ACOTAR, darker and grittier then expected. Naughty, wicked teenagers thinking about sex, just wow, so totally unacceptable! 😂

Love the video and love the fashion!!!! Read Banned Books! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great video!

So disheartening that in the "land of the free and home of the brave" books are banned... But I see the revolutionary spirit lives on in you splendid book rebels, which restores some hope. Well done!

Greg getting feisty, must be feeling better. Love the Pink Floyd start, the other line of course is, We don't need no thought control, which is another way of saying book bans. Appreciate the heads up about Sarah J Maas - killing a wolf, I'm out - romance 🤮definitely not my kind of read, so thank you for the time saver. Do I think the book should be banned - absolutely not. - many people would enjoy that story and they should have the option to read it. Not for me does not mean, not for anybody. But Utah is not just banning the books you mentioned, according to an article I came across - June 2023 they have also removed Bibles from schools, go figure. Honestly the more I have looked into this issue over the year, the more irritated I become and truly wonder if Orwell was on to something.

Love the title of this video, Greg! And it sounds like a great group. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. I really want to read Oryx and Crake. Blankets is a beautifully illustrated graphic novel - I read it years ago when I was first exploring graphic novels. It's an older book so seems like an odd choice to ban at this point among 13 books. Same with Forever, which I read as a teen (a very long time ago!!), though it is about a first sexual relationship. It's just crazy that all this book banning is going on now (it's always been there but seems more prominent now). Great video!

Teenagers… thinking about sex? 😮 I wonder what I was doing then, back in my teenage years? 😳

Terrific video, Greg!

Awesome video! 👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I might read an Emily Bronte poem for next Poetry Thursday and Victober.

Hi Greg. You’ve touched on a subject here that I have struggled with. I’ve tried Storygraph but find it clunky to use. Library Thing looks good but…….what I worry about most is the possibility of these online sites and apps shutting down or failing. I’m afraid I’d lose all my data. Is this something you’ve taken into consideration?

I was looking around on LibraryThing and I really really like it! I'll probably use it alongside Goodreads just because I've been using Goodreads so long it's hard to give up... but LibraryThing is sooo much easier to use than Storygraph, which is why I stopped using that one. LibraryThing definitely feels like more of a personal catalogue, which I like!

Hi Greg, new to your channel and enjoyed! I was on GoodReads but didn't get on with it at all. I really don't like the oneupmanship of 'I have read more than you' on their. Thank you so much for introducing me to LibraryThing. It does sound much more up my street. Ollie

Oh bugger, I had to sleep this time. I usually catch this one, but missed the one with Dave in it!!! Argh!

Thanks again, guys! Had a blast, as usual!

Interesting conversation

I love this initiative so much I had to contribute! 1001 Paintings sounds really good

Excellent wrap-up, Greg. It seems like a good variety of reads, overall. I highly appreciate your honest approach and thoughts to each book. Great shirt, too!