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"Lakeside Lay-about" indeed. That's how you get your best ideas...

Great responses. Really interesting choices. Roll on the year long Proust readathon 😂

Wow those mushroom books look great. Interesting possibilities, looking forward to your videos! OMG a Bedazzled novelisation 😮

Wow! MKV should be so proud that so many people are making rocket summer vids. Rock on!

Thank you so much for participating! I am just now discovering your channel and am glad to be here! Marcel Proust has shown up in so many lists, including my own. He's the king of this tag for sure.

Marcel sent me a present today -- the Modern Library set of In Search of Lost Time.

It's a nice tag. Of course you kind of have to know something about the book to look forward to it! Some great choices.

Bon anniversaire, Marcel! Your ears must have been burning...

This is such a great idea for a tag, Gavin! Thank you for tagging me. I found your answers very interesting.

Well then.. Happy Birthday 🎈It’s a sign 😅 Hey, I’ve never even heard of this book. Goodness me.. Hope y’all have somewhat of a reading plan come January.

If you are going to read Shaver, you should start with the Lafferty version (Continued Next Rock). The Ray Palmer biography (The Man From Mars) is also good at putting it in context. By the by, la Recherce du Temps Purdue does not translate to remembrance of things past.

So many great books here, Gavin! I love Madame Bovary too. I liked The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and it has a bit of controversy related to it-which we can discuss after you’ve read it. There are others of hers, though, that I liked better. I’m approaching Proust with more apprehension than excitement, but maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised. Great responses. Thanks for doing the tag! 😊

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd isn't the first Poirot, but it is one of the best and they don't need to be read in order unless you really want to. I really enjoyed Childhood’s End. Thanks for tagging me!

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was my first Agatha Christie novel I read, too, but I don't think it's a Miss Marple novel. It was good but not great, which has been my opinion of every Agatha Christie novel I've read.

Hm, these are to be books you are going to read so I am not sure how to do the emotional one unless it's a reread.

*Orphans of the Sky* for the win! 💫 Looking forward to your thoughts about it even though I did read that it doesn’t exactly shine a good light on women.

Three cheers for Otto: hip-hip hurray! hip-hip hurray! hip-hip hurray!

I did read honey west last year. I found it great fun.

Those sound like fun. For the bingo card I will do a lot of pulp films. But I’ve got also an impressive lists of stories and novels I want to read.

Pete and Dud. Blast from the past there.

I’ve had a chance to hear Penzler speak several times, He’s always fascinating.

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Loved this Gavin. You’ve got some amazing stuff lined up. I failed the bingo card last year too. I could not find a book with a cigarette ad in it anywhere. It was the only one I missed. I’m going to try to rectify that this year 😊

Some great picks there! I have a copy of Jalav somewhere I think 😂

"Honey West" sounded familiar, so I had to look it up. It was an American TV show that ran for 30 episodes in the 1965-1966 season and was the first time a woman played the lead character in a network TV series with her character's name as the title. Honey was played by Anne Francis (the producer initially wanted Honor Goldman for the part but she turned him down). It was based on a series of novels written by a husband-and-wife team under the name G.G. Fickling. Wikipedia notes: "Francis first played West in the second-season episode of Burke's Law, entitled "Who Killed the Jackpot?", broadcast on April 21, 1965, which led to this series being commissioned as a spin-off. West drove a Jaguar convertible in the Burke's Law episode and was twice referred to as the "private eyeful". She carried a gun and was trained in martial arts. Honey West was intended to be the American equivalent of characters Cathy Gale and Emma Peel in the British series The Avengers." Frank R. Clamon on UA-cam has the complete series plus extras under the search term "HONEY WEST tv series." (Note: Amy Thorsen's playlist is incomplete.) He also has several other TV series as well as a playlist of TV mini-series. P.S. Could you please send me one of those pixies? Thanks.

Honey West was a short-lived TV series which was aired briefly on the ABC network about 1965.

Whilst he's really entertaining and his novels worth reading (especially the Alms for Oblivion series, which Sabre Squadron is a part), I'm wouldn't call Simon Raven trash. He's very much in the same bracket as C P Snow and Anthony Powell.

This looks like a wonderful stack of trashy treasures!

What an amazing array of trash you have there!

Try not to attract too many flies! Nice list. I have _Ready, Player One_ on the shelf unread. Ill have to take a look. 1967? Basically yesterday. Excited to hear about _When the kissing had to stop_. Thank you!

I would join in Garbaugust, but it's already what I do every month! Cheers!

What a collection! The covers on many of these! Ready Player One doesn't quite seem to be in the same category as most of these, but I'm sure it fits some category or other.

I mean, he's no Paul Verhoven but sure... 😂😘

I absolutely love your deep dives. So much info packed in here some of those magazine covers are really beautiful. You have an impressive collection. Great video 😊

Oh and brilliant opening too! Outstanding!!

Brilliant, Gavin! You have such an incredible wealth of knowledge. I love these copies of the old pulps that you have. Such treasures.

Well, Joe Weider used to be able to sell Dinabol through the male. I used to have this 1970's muscle mag which was loaded up with weights for sale and Arnold pics and yes, steroids.

Maddening that she didn't get the Booker for all three...

I absolutely loved The Name of the Rose. I must reread it soon. I love Agatha Christie books and will be doing my own version asap. Great video. Great tribute to Alice

I think the most interesting 4th of July occurred in 1826. Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on that day.. Adams' last words were "Jefferson survives." But actually Jefferson had died at Monticello a few hours earlier. So one up for John...

Not read any Agatha Christie in years but enjoyed them when I did. Did not know Alice but she came across as a very nice person in her videos. Condolences to her family.

The real crime is having never read Poirot. They are a joy! Hard to compare them to anything else.

Thanks for warning us against THE WATERS OF DEATH: Just by that you've performed a great service through your BookTube participation! MAGIC CARPET ran some excellent stories. The sports pulps have never appealed to me. I may be missing something there. I think Frank O'Rourke may have written for those magazines, and I really like his westerns. The pulp deep dives are fun. Nice first half-year overview! I enjoy your posts. I've thought about launching a channel some day, but I have no idea how some of the BookTubers manage to read so many books within a month, a week, even a weekend!

Nice intro music! And as for imposter syndrome: it's never too late to become a fan! And you do a good job of your reviews despite your initial caveats. I've read a number of Zane Grey books--I'm currently reading RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE for June on the Range--but not read this one, and I don't really know that much about his biography. Your info on his ties to baseball is very interesting. THE NATURAL is very good. I remember liking it, although it was several years ago that I read it; and I read it after seeing the Robert Redford film, which probably colors my memory now moreso than the novel. RE: Black characters: Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers only in 1947. The Negro Leagues existed and thrived before that, of course, but Black players joined the major leagues in significant numbers only starting in the 1950s. I don't recall what time period in which THE NATURAL is set. I try to read a baseball book--either fiction or nonfiction--every few years. The most recent was a few months ago, Percival Everett's SUDER--in which baseball is more of a secondary background item than actually being the main setting of the action. Before that was Jerome Charyn's THE SEVENTH BABE, which is also good.

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Thank you for doing the tag!

Great job with this tag, Gavin. Thanks for doing it.