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RE: The Book Count 2026 - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 04-01-2026
I'm switching to Bouncy House until Carl & Princess return
RE: The Book Count 2026 - Greg - 04-02-2026
Yeah, that's on order from the library.
RE: The Book Count 2026 - Greg - 04-03-2026
Since we are talking about Dungeon Crawler Carl in this thread, I'll leave this here.
Quote:Dungeon Crawler Carl
Variety also has word Christopher Yost (Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok) and Seth McFarlane (The Orville, Ted) are developing a TV series based on Dungeon Crawler Carl—Matt Dinniman‘s series of comedic, dystopian science-fantasy LitRPG books—at Peacock. The story is set after “an alien invasion has wiped out most of humanity and any survivors are forced to fight for their lives on a sadistic intergalactic game show” and follows Coast Guard vet Carl as he “finds himself stuck with his ex-girlfriend’s award-winning show cat, Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk, as they try to survive the end of the world, fighting monsters, aliens, an insane A.I. and even other survivors—all for the sake of good TV.”
RE: The Book Count 2026 - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 04-04-2026
Harrumph.
Vagabond by Tim Curry - Greg - 04-06-2026
Vagabond by Tim Curry
I was a bit disappointed by this book. I thought it would be more fun, but it comes across as a bit dour. Not a great childhood, Curry's father passed away from a stroke when he was young. He didn't seem to get along with his mother. The stories he tells about his times in his most well known pictures comes across as a bit dull. And the stories don't have a lot of depth to them. There are a few good anecdotes but they are few and far between. He does devote a lot of time to the craft of acting and what he does and doesn't like about it. He talks about his process. Voice acting holds a special place for him especially now that his voice is all that he has left. And even the stroke wasn't given a lot of drama.
All told a pretty dull book
RE: The Book Count 2026 - Drunk Monk - 04-06-2026
Any good anecdotes on this?
RE: The Book Count 2026 - Greg - 04-06-2026
Not really. Early on his career he was torn between acting and singing. He devoted a couple years to the rock after being signed by Lou Adler. But lost interest when Adler lost interest in him.
RE: The Book Count 2026 - Drunk Monk - 04-06-2026
That’s too bad. It’s a great tune.
Clown Town by Mick Herron - Greg - 04-10-2026
Clown Town by Mick Herron
More adventures of the Slow Horses. More of the same from Lamb and crew. This time a group of older spies who did bad deeds in Northern Ireland look to blackmail the head of the Park. But things go tit's up. The slow horses do their bad things. Lamb comes in for the clean up.
It's really well written but at this point the series doesn't seem to be heading anywhere. It's like permanent limbo.
King of Ashes by Raymond E. Feist - Greg - 04-16-2026
King of Ashes by Raymond E. Feist
Raymond Feist is still writing. Who knew? I came across his name on Facebook, where is quite active railing against the government. I can't remember the last book of his I ready, but it has to be over twenty years. But Feist continued to write Rift War novels. I think there are over 20 of them at this point.
But King of Ashes is not that. It is not part of the Riftwar Saga. (At least not for now. There are hints that might change) It's starts with a major battle where one of the five kings of Garn is betrayed by the other four. That whole line is wiped out save for one boy who is whisked away and sent to live with a mysterious clan to be raised. There is also a smith who also picks up an orphan as his apprentice.
Fast forward fifteen years. There is fractures between the remaining four kings, as the one king who put together the betrayal plan embraces the one true god and seeks to gain control of all of Garn. The story follows the lives of the two orphans. The one being trained to be basically a mob boss/ninja while the other becomes a great sword maker which will be important because all of a sudden all the kingdoms need swords.
My steady diet of grim dark fantasy makes this Fantasy romp kind of pale in comparison. Lots of cliches I've been reading for years especially the orphan who comes to realize he has magic powers. I was thinking I wouldn't need to visit any more Feist books but the ending kind of picked up with a few good curve balls and I want to see how it ends.
You can never die by Harry Bliss - Greg - 04-19-2026
You can never die by Harry Bliss
Harry Bliss is a cartoonist and illustration most frequently seen in the New Yorker where he also does a lot of covers. This book is in response to the death of his dog Penny, who made frequent appearances in his cartoons. He takes this opportunity to look back on his life. The book is full of stories of his abusive childhood at the hand's of his father and neglect by his mother. He talks about his love for art and the fact that there are at least 10 members of his family pursuing art for a living. He doesn't talk a lot about his brothers and sisters or even his wife, most of the book his dedicated to his own struggles. He talks about his drug use, his alcoholism, the tremendous grief of losing his dog and the fact he is withdrawing from society. There are a lot of moments of levity. The book includes plenty of his cartoons and excerpts from a journal that he has kept for most of his adult life. The pictures from the journal pages are quite informative and show his drawings. But they are a pain in the ass. His handwriting can get kind of sloppy and I struggled to interpret some of the passages.
The book was also down in I'm guessing a prestige format with a thick covers and heavyweight pages, making it kind of unwieldy to ready comfortably. The pages were so thick I could never tell if I was turning one or two pages.
I'm glad I read it. But I'm glad I don't have to read it anymore.
The Hard Line by Mark Greaney - Greg - 04-22-2026
The Hard Line by Mark Greaney
The Grey Man returns. Again. Some foreign actor has co-opted an American Security company to assassinate members of the intelligence community. It is up to the Grey Man and his confederates to stop him. The only problem is that some of the assassins brought in for the kill squads also want to kill the Grey Man for things he's done. Let the gun play ensue.
This was a much better Grey Man book than some previous outings. The plot was tight. The Grey Man didn't have to be super human, he just had to do his job. There were a lot of subplots going on that also broadened the scope of the story, gave more depth to some of the recurring characters. But then the book ended on a cliff hanger. Not a terrible one, but the book was just getting good as more terrible things were happening and it seemed like the bad guys were going to get away with their plan, when the book ended.
I'll see you in a year when the next one comes out.
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Greg - 05-04-2026
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Mr. Tchaikovsky loves to invent new life forms and then tell stories about how they interact with humans. Shroud is a moon of a gas giant in some far flung solar system. It only comes to the attention of a colony ship when it seems there might be some sort of life hidden beneath a thick cloud layer, existing in a punishing gravity. A group of scientists explores the planet from orbit, earning their ability to stay out of the sleep pods by showing results. Disaster strikes and a few member of the crew find themselves on the surface of Shroud, fighting to stay alive.
It is a pretty fun read. Adrian likes to have discussion about the curious actions of the other species and loves to build words where it doesn't seem possible to build worlds.
If he writes it, I'll read it. Except for the Apt series.
Queen of Storms by Raymond E. Feist - Greg - 05-08-2026
Queen of Storms by Raymond E. Feist
Yeah, these books aren't doing it for me. Especially a middle book of a trilogy. This is the book that explains and deals with everything that happened in book 1 while prepping for the big events that might happen in Book 3. Although, I fear there will be a book 4 that I probably will not be reading.
And again, don't have two leading characters named Hava and Hata. It makes hard to keep track. Especially when Hata spent most of book 2 being kidnapped and drug induced. At least Hava did some adventuring. But it all happened really slowly. Lots of chapters of being stuck in the hold of a ship. Meanwhile the blacksmith spends a lot of time riding around trying to get people to join the Baron's army for the big battle coming in Book 3.
Now I did read something that eventually this might all tie back in to the Riftwar Saga. I guess I should expect Pug to show up soon.
Master of Furies by Raymond E. Feist - Greg - 05-18-2026
Master of Furies by Raymond E. Feist
Yeah, I'm done. I don't need a bunch of people sitting around a table talking about how magic works for chapters on end. The big major battle that everything geared to was over and done pretty quick. There's a big evil living in a pit on some island but that is never dealt with. Because of the multiple view points from the four main characters all the characters kind of get short changed.