Your hospitality was definitely a highlight of November for me as well. We really enjoyed getting to know both of you! Lots of fun to see your wife’s pick of the month. Never heard of either the one for November or December.
I've been noticing your TBR shelf over the past few videos and I think it's a really cool idea. Your wife's wild card is also a great idea it allows her to participate in this hobby with you & reinforces thinking about each other. Good stuff! I'm completely jealous of your local bookstore!!!
Thanks for the input, glad you like the new 'features'. Yeah, our local bookstore is great, they price based on a percentage of cover price, so the older books I like are almost always $1-2 each. We have a lot of SF readers in this town as well.
@sfwordsofwonder Awesome, as it should be! I live in the Bay area and all the inexpensive sources of books have decided that "no one wants mass-market paperbacks" so they either recycle them or send them to thriftbooks. Thriftbooks then says you couldn't sell this paper back three for a dollar so I'll put a price of $7 to $10 on it. The other used bookstores in town tend to to bag and price old paperbacks has collectibles. . . Aaaannd surprise surprise; they don't really sell. Self-fulfilling prophecy. However, it makes used book shopping an incentive for road trips!!
I read Pandora's Planet years and years ago. I remember liking it because I thought it was a clever idea done well. It made an impression on me because when you showed the cover I remembered the story. I hope you enjoy it.
Roadside Picnic is definitely on my TBR shortlist... shortlist meaning hundreds of books lol. Glad I found your channel! Starting to dive into more and more old sci fi. Love the content!
My wife has been wanting to read Dragonflight after watching that PBS video on Judy Del Ray. I need to tell her to get on it so she can watch your guys review and harshly judge your opinions. ha!
You had a really excellent reading November - I will go check out the videos you mention. Looking forward to seeing what other people think of Dragonsflight and The Werewolf Principle too, books that I have been re-reading forever, that will be very interesting. And, of course, looking forward to that buddy read I have Larry Niven book out on the shelf and ready to go, though I have a few to get through first.
So cool that you guys got a chance to hang out in person. Roadside picnic is very good. I’ll need to reread it at some point. Also, I just finished a buddy read for Use of Weapons. It was a lot of fun. Depending on your timeframe I’m open to connecting for a buddy read now or in the next month or two. Let me know what works for you. 😀
Hey Bart, I'm thinking either Jan or Feb for Snow Queen or Mote in Gods Eye. Thoughts? I eventually want to read more Banks since I liked Player of Games so much.
I'm sure you'll see the parallel between Rogue Moon and Roadside Picnic and maybe you will enjoy it more than I did. Will look out for that review, cheers!
Well, knowing Roadside Picnic, and dnf-ing Rogue moon, I would say that sounds like a spoiler. I was reading Rogue moon in its original shorter version in the SF Hall of Fame, and the toxic masculinity was too obnoxious. And I'm not one of those people who reads a book from the fifties or sixties and is surprised that the culture was different! It normally doesn't phase me at all. The first half of the story was like "Mad Men plan a moon trip. . . Only Macho Men need apply." It made Heinlein look so, . . . gentle and feminist by comparison. I guess I will have to watch your video and see how the end ties together. Good luck to Ira on that one!
@@salty-walt It's not a spoiler unless your sensitivity is extreme, given that the premise is outlined on the blurb of almost every edition and is provided in any plot summary online.
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Your hospitality was definitely a highlight of November for me as well. We really enjoyed getting to know both of you! Lots of fun to see your wife’s pick of the month. Never heard of either the one for November or December.
I'm hoping your are reading and finding good books on your travels.
@ Less reading, more books! The inverse will be true once I get home.
I've been noticing your TBR shelf over the past few videos and I think it's a really cool idea. Your wife's wild card is also a great idea it allows her to participate in this hobby with you & reinforces thinking about each other. Good stuff!
I'm completely jealous of your local bookstore!!!
Thanks for the input, glad you like the new 'features'. Yeah, our local bookstore is great, they price based on a percentage of cover price, so the older books I like are almost always $1-2 each. We have a lot of SF readers in this town as well.
@sfwordsofwonder Awesome, as it should be!
I live in the Bay area and all the inexpensive sources of books have decided that "no one wants mass-market paperbacks" so they either recycle them or send them to thriftbooks.
Thriftbooks then says you couldn't sell this paper back three for a dollar so I'll put a price of $7 to $10 on it.
The other used bookstores in town tend to to bag and price old paperbacks has collectibles. . . Aaaannd surprise surprise; they don't really sell. Self-fulfilling prophecy.
However, it makes used book shopping an incentive for road trips!!
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What a November! The Hole in the Zero and Roadside Picnic!
I didn't have any issues with Roadside Picnic, which was nice. Hole in the Zero though, definite rereader at some point.
I read Pandora's Planet years and years ago. I remember liking it because I thought it was a clever idea done well. It made an impression on me because when you showed the cover I remembered the story. I hope you enjoy it.
That is good to know, it's always fun to check out some new authors.
Roadside Picnic is definitely on my TBR shortlist... shortlist meaning hundreds of books lol. Glad I found your channel! Starting to dive into more and more old sci fi. Love the content!
I know the feeling, books I want to read this week and books to read this decade, haha. Glad you found the channel.
My wife has been wanting to read Dragonflight after watching that PBS video on Judy Del Ray. I need to tell her to get on it so she can watch your guys review and harshly judge your opinions. ha!
That PBS video was great. I've always sort of dismissed Dragonflight as YA fantasy but I'm going to go into it with an open mind and I hope I like it.
You had a really excellent reading November - I will go check out the videos you mention.
Looking forward to seeing what other people think of Dragonsflight and The Werewolf Principle too, books that I have been re-reading forever, that will be very interesting.
And, of course, looking forward to that buddy read I have Larry Niven book out on the shelf and ready to go, though I have a few to get through first.
Yeah, hopefully later in December works for Ring World but I'm flexible.
So cool that you guys got a chance to hang out in person.
Roadside picnic is very good. I’ll need to reread it at some point.
Also, I just finished a buddy read for Use of Weapons. It was a lot of fun. Depending on your timeframe I’m open to connecting for a buddy read now or in the next month or two. Let me know what works for you. 😀
Hey Bart, I'm thinking either Jan or Feb for Snow Queen or Mote in Gods Eye. Thoughts?
I eventually want to read more Banks since I liked Player of Games so much.
I'm sure you'll see the parallel between Rogue Moon and Roadside Picnic and maybe you will enjoy it more than I did. Will look out for that review, cheers!
I haven't watched your review yet because I usually like going into books as blind as possible, will definitely check it out when I finish it though.
Well, knowing Roadside Picnic, and dnf-ing Rogue moon, I would say that sounds like a spoiler.
I was reading Rogue moon in its original shorter version in the SF Hall of Fame, and the toxic masculinity was too obnoxious. And I'm not one of those people who reads a book from the fifties or sixties and is surprised that the culture was different! It normally doesn't phase me at all.
The first half of the story was like "Mad Men plan a moon trip. . . Only Macho Men need apply."
It made Heinlein look so, . . . gentle and feminist by comparison. I guess I will have to watch your video and see how the end ties together.
Good luck to Ira on that one!
@@salty-walt Stay tuned and thanks for the warning.
@@salty-walt It's not a spoiler unless your sensitivity is extreme, given that the premise is outlined on the blurb of almost every edition and is provided in any plot summary online.
Of Rogue Moon?@@SciFiFinds