Weekly Wrap up 18th Feb - genre classics and some lovely mail
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So glad to have "met" you this week through the Goodreads choice awards video.
I'm glad you met me too - I've enjoyed chatting in the comments!
I think "So long..." is the best of the Hitchhiker books - very different in pace and atmosphere from the others in the series.
Agree!
Royal Flash was one of my favorites.
They';re really fun books
OMG! I just found Aliens Vasquez as well. Aliens is also my favourite movie. It was rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes for years. I can’t wait to read it. ❤
It's great so far!
Completely agree with your thoughts on The Haunting of Hill House. I read it ages ago, but it has left a lasting impression, like great books do. 🙂
Yeah it really does linger with you
I've had something wicked on my shelf and haven't read it, so I think I will be joining in March ! I just finished how to sell a haunted house, and I loved it! With a chop-chop here...and a chop, chop there...
Brilliant re Bradbury, And yes, I finished Haunted House yesterday too and I LOVED it so much
Hope you enjoy Reggie’s book. He’s a lovely man. I saw him do a dramatic reading of a few MR James stories at the World Horror convention in Brighton, and he was wonderful.
I'm really looking forward to it!
Very excited for the video about book snobbery. I hear it too often when people ask me what I like to read and I say horror. I'm a lawyer, and there is a bit of (cough) competitiveness in the field. I call people on it, though. Half my job is reading dry, dense serious sh*t, so when I'm reading for fun I want to enjoy it. Then I ask what do you read? and half the time it's nothing.
Ha! I hear you! I ended up not doing that video, but I will soon
Excellent wrapup with lots of good details and fun moments - love the impromptu unwrapping! One note: Dr Montagu was an anthropologist. And I am fussy.
I'd call you precise rather than fussy
@@CriminOllyBlog 😉 I'll take it.
Reggie Oliver is very good (and so is Tartarus Press).
Excellent - I'm looking forward to it!
I read Eagle way back when, too. No memory of Tower King, though.
It was good!
I’m a relatively new subscriber and I’m happy to be here! I’ve never come across a Crime/Pulp/That Sort of Thing centric Booktuber and it’s nice to know one now.
That's great - very glad you found the channel!
I'm about 100 pages into How to Sell a Haunted House and I want to strangle the character Mark with puppet strings. Other than that, I'm really enjoying it. I'm also reading Don't Fear the Reaper which jumps right into the action. It's nice to be spending time with Jade/Jennifer Daniels again.
I just finished the Hendrix and I loved it. I know what you mean about Mark but I think it's very deliberate.
Hope to read the SGJ soon!
Flashman!👍
Marvellous stuff!
Grady Hendrix is really nailing the High-Concept Meta Horror which we need more of.
He is - I can really see this latest one launching a film franchise
I’m currently reading Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter and Graphic Thrills Vol. 2 by Robin Bougie.
Just finished reading King Spawn Volume 1.
Well those all sound good!
Mr Half a Century!
Shush
5 decades!
@@AnnNovella 1/20th of a millenia
I loved Eagle comic and Tower King was my favourite story. I bought a reprint of it back in 2014 and it is quite brutal . Plus Mick Tempest is such a great name.
I’d really like to read it again. Might have to look up that reprint. That and House of Daemon are probably the ones that made the biggest impact on me back then
@@CriminOllyBlog I had a sort of midlife crisis a little while ago that involved me buying loads of reprints of the 2000AD ,Action, Battle and Eagle comics stories . Cost me a fortune but it's better than buying a sports car. House of Daemon was one of Alan Grant and John Wagner best series and really creeped me out as a kid.
@@richardgill1309 that sounds like a much less damaging mid life crisis than many people have
Stephen Laws is a favourite for me, he's under recognised in the horror genre. Hope you love Spectre. Been subbed for awhile..great vids.
Thank you!
@@CriminOllyBlog how far through Spectre are you?
@@paulflint6254 not started yet!
I’m sure the ‘Royal Flash’ was an inspiration for Captain Flashheart in ‘The Black Adder’.
Yes! They're certainly very similar characters
Just finished How to sell a Haunted House. Really enjoyed it. Will never look at my childhood plushies in the same way again, and ….. SQUIRRELS 👀
Ha! I just finished it too and loved it!
It’s hard not to feel insufficient when faced with the immense speed with which you read 😂
It's literally (no pun intended) the only thing I'm good at!
Looking forward to that Grady Hendrix, I should have pre-ordered it before my reading challenge started, now I have to wait aaaages! You're motoring through yours though! Great wrap-up, as always.
I just finished it and IT IS SO GOOD!
In many ways So Long and Thanks for all the Fish is my favorite of the series. I like that Arthur gets a love story. And Ford's story of the Lizard Government is hilarious. unfortunately Mostly Harmless is pretty charmless and depressing.
I read Hill House for the first time in 2022. Amazing! I agree that it feels surprisingly realistic!
Yes, I really enjoyed Arthur's love story!
I just finished “No Country For Old Men” by Cormac McCarthy and did enjoy it but was a little put off by the death of 95% of the characters, which I was not expecting. I had seen the movie many years ago when it came out but had obviously remembered very little of the story. I want to read “Something Wicked This Way Comes” soon (also saw the film many years ago). It has been on my radar for many years and I recently bought a copy in old paperback finally. I had the same copy which has the painting from the movie poster when I was a kid but I think it got sold. I wanted a nice vintage hard cover but the prices for those are ridiculously high now.
Yeah McCarthy definitely isn't afraid of a high body count in his work!
Entertaining wrap up. If you're dabbling in unboxing it's time to invest in a box cutter for the sake of everyone's sanity. 😁
Ha! Yeah you're probably right. That wasn't great TV
You know, if you’ve still got some of the 50 books undone when you hit 50…change planets! There’s a rocky world, 2 gas giants, 2 ice giants, and a shedload of minor planets out there, all with local years that are 2x or more longer than ours. Pick a planet whose looks you like, or with astrological meaning to you, or associated with a nifty myth, or whatever. Glad to help. :D
Noted! I might try that!
I thought How to Sell A Haunted House was great! I love how Hendrix takes common tropes and puts a unique spin on them. I'm currently reading Don't Fear the Reaper and enjoying it so far. I love Stephen Graham Jones so I'm sure I'll love it.
Finished it yesterday and I thought he did an fantastic job. I'd put money on it ending up on the big screen.
@@CriminOllyBlog as long as they do better than Best Friends Exorcism I'd be all for that lol
@@bluwillowsoaps I’ve managed to resist watching that
@@CriminOllyBlog 🤣🤣🤣 good call!
@@bluwillowsoaps ugh that was such a disappointment that made me so sad!
I hope you have a great 50th birthday bash in April.
Thank you!
Stephen Laws has the distinction of writing I scene that made me want to toss a book across the room. But I was on a bus in Canada, so didn’t actually do it. It was The Wyrm.
I love Flashman. I need to reread them.
I think I've read that one, but a very long time ago. I don't remember having that reaction to it
I personally don’t like Douglas Adams but on similar sci-fi comedy I recommend if you’ve not read him Jasper fforde who beats Adams into a cocked hat. Just watched a very good recent film of Shirley Jackson’s ‘We have always lived in the Castle’ if you’ve not seen it give it a view.
I've heard a lot of praise for fforde - I need to try him
Good morning! I read How to Sell a Haunted House and loved it. I know which scene got under your skin. 🙃
I've just finished it and I loved it so much. But yeah THAT SCENE! UGH
I’ve heard such great things about Shirley Jackson but horror books have *let’s just say* an ✨EFFECT✨on me. I don’t hate them though.
Her short stories are worth a look - some of those are more crime/mystery than horror
I wish I loved How to Sell more 😢. I loved the ending and the puppet nonsense. I just think the pacing didn’t work for me.
I need to read Haunting of Hill House. It’s a classic with my fave trope (haunted house) so it will get done at some point!
Oh no! Sorry you didn't like it more. I finished it yesterday and loved it
Hey Olly. Have you ever read Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson?
I haven't yet, but I think I do have it in the LOA collection
Alieeeeeeeeeeeeeens
Read part 1 of the book since filming this and it’s so good!
Idk if you’ve covered it on the channel but talking of book with Shakespearean inspiration, have you come across ‘Sleep No More’ by P.D. James? It’s an anthology of Horror Short Stories.
I haven't but I do like James - I'll have to check that out
Hmm book snobbery. I do hope you mention the snobbery of not reading sports books 🤣 And war comics seem to be on the nose. Does anyone on booktube review those ? Always wanted to try Flash.
Flash does seem like something you'd like
I was delighted to see you review one of the Flashman novels. I used to love reading those although the last few installments didn't grab me. And I think calling Flashman a cad and a bounder is overstating things. He was a coward and a womanizer but otherwise I think he was moral enough.
Yeah maybe I was a little unfair
is there a link for your wishlist?
There is, but please don't feel like you need to visit it - www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/LKEP6NQ9BKK7?ref_=wl_share
Child of God??? I thought Blood Meridian was the most disturbing McCarthy.
This one was pretty bad too!
A lot of Cormac McCarthy has a “so what?” quality. I love his work, but it’s founded on a deep and intentional nihilism that can be alienating.
Maybe that's it. I've just finished editing my review of Child of God and I end that in a similar vein - "there's something here but I can't quite reach it"
Olly I'm beginning to think you are reading too rapidly to really appreciate some of the classics on your list. I base this on your reviews of Child of God in this video, and In a Lonely Place from a previous video. Without going too deeply into these works, I don't see how you can dismiss the literary merit of these novels not to mention the gripping psychological insight of the respective authors into deviant behavior in both cases. You ask, What's the point? Why would anyone read disturbing fiction about psycopaths, if not to gain insight into the human condition and indeed both of these books are profound investigations into the human psyche, in my opinion. They are both masterfully written, and I would wager that most of your viewers would find them well worth reading. There's no accounting for taste and I don't expect you to enjoy every book that I find exceptional, but when it comes to real, bona fide classics, there is a reason why they are highly regarded by nearly all critical readers, and endure for decades, as these two books have. By the way, Child of God is set in rural Tennessee in dirt-poor Appalachia. Sorry to be critical, I enjoy your channel.
Glad you enjoy the channel - and it's fine to be critical. I'm not expert, just someone who enjoys talking about books. I've actually just filmed a review of Child of God where I talk a bit more about my feelings about it