Books: What have you been reading?

[regnak]

Well I just found out that James Patterson apparently has the rights to Doc Savage now

https://smile.amazon.com/Perfect-Ass...9RWPZBJG&psc=1

I will skip it as it seems to be a disaster like the Shadow novel

[MajorHoy]

Well I just found out that James Patterson apparently has the rights to Doc Savage now

https://smile.amazon.com/Perfect-Ass...9RWPZBJG&psc=1

Well, since that link said "Prof. Brandt Savage—grandson of the legendary action hero", I'm not sure if that means Patterson owns the original Doc Savage (Clark Savage Jr.).
Condé Nast had acquired Street & Smith (original publisher of Doc Savage) in the past; I believe they may still own the property and have the right to license it out.

[regnak]

Well, since that link said "Prof. Brandt Savage—grandson of the legendary action hero", I'm not sure if that means Patterson owns the original Doc Savage (Clark Savage Jr.).
Condé Nast had acquired Street & Smith (original publisher of Doc Savage) in the past; I believe they may still own the property and have the right to license it out.

Well the Wild Adventures of Doc Savage by Will Murray seems dead. I had thought he was out of ideas but this suggested another reason.

[The Darknight Detective]

New Kindle book: Whispering Smith (1906) by Frank H. Spearman.

[MajorHoy]

Started reading

The Hoods Take Over by Ovid Demaris
(orig. published 1957 by Gold Medal Books;
© 1957 by Fawcett Publications, Inc. /
published April 2019 by Stark House Press/Black Gat Books)

[The Darknight Detective]

New books: On my Kindle today I read the short The Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk Jr....



... and tomorrow I'll read Rimrock Trail (1922) by J. Allan Dunn.



On Sunday, I'll take on my hard-copy novel Live and Let Die (1954), the second James Bond offering by Ian Fleming.

[MajorHoy]

New books: On my Kindle today I read the short The Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk Jr....

What?

Not the version with E.B. White contributing to it?

[The Darknight Detective]

What?

Not the version with E.B. White contributing to it?

I wasn't aware of it at all. I might pick it up in the future, though.

[Jim Kelly]

I wasn't aware of it at all. I might pick it up in the future, though.

I picked this up oh about ten years ago, at the now defunct Duthie's Bookstore, for $11.95 Canadian (I wonder if they charged me tax). I was surprised to find it so cheap. It's a nice little book to have. I have a plethora of such reference books. Among them H.W. Fowler's DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH USAGE, the CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE--a large hardcover that I found for a reasonable price at a now defunct second-hand bookstore--THE LITTLE ENGLISH HANDBOOK FOR CANADIANS by Bell and Corbett.

These days, one of my reading projects is the encyclopedia. To be specific, FUNK & WAGNALLS STANDARD REFERENCE ENCYCLOPEDIA, circa 1964. Around the time I was starting school, my parents got the complete set of these. As I recall, they got them on an installment plan, so only a few volumes would arrive at a time. Those books saw me through all my school days. And I didn't just use them for school. I would often wonder about stuff and then go to FUNK & WAGNALLS and get lost in the cross references. I could spend hours like that. And through the years, when I visited my parents, I would check in on FUNK & WAGNALLS again.

I seem to have loved these books far more than my siblings, so when my parents passed away, it was agreed that I should have the set. Then last month I had the idea that I should start at the beginning and read the entire set, page by page, to the end. Just a few entries each day, so I have no idea when or if I will ever finish reading the entire set of 25 volumes.

But it interests me because I am gaining a perspective on all the world's knowledge at a certain point in time (the early 1960s) and from a certain place in the world (the United States of America). And it's fun, too, reading it in alphabetical order, as the subject matter always varies--going from aardwolf to Abbas to Abelard to abolitionists to abstract art to academic freedom to accounting to Acropolis to Adams to advertising.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule. It's set in the High Republic and its what I've been missing from Star Wars.

[MajorHoy]

Started reading

The Complete Cases of the Arson Dick
by Leslie T White
(© 2019 Steeger Properties, LLC) <Dime Detective Library>

[The Darknight Detective]

I picked this up oh about ten years ago, at the now defunct Duthie's Bookstore, for $11.95 Canadian (I wonder if they charged me tax). I was surprised to find it so cheap. It's a nice little book to have. I have a plethora of such reference books. Among them H.W. Fowler's DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH USAGE, the CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE--a large hardcover that I found for a reasonable price at a now defunct second-hand bookstore--THE LITTLE ENGLISH HANDBOOK FOR CANADIANS by Bell and Corbett.

These days, one of my reading projects is the encyclopedia. To be specific, FUNK & WAGNALLS STANDARD REFERENCE ENCYCLOPEDIA, circa 1964. Around the time I was starting school, my parents got the complete set of these. As I recall, they got them on an installment plan, so only a few volumes would arrive at a time. Those books saw me through all my school days. And I didn't just use them for school. I would often wonder about stuff and then go to FUNK & WAGNALLS and get lost in the cross references. I could spend hours like that. And through the years, when I visited my parents, I would check in on FUNK & WAGNALLS again.

I seem to have loved these books far more than my siblings, so when my parents passed away, it was agreed that I should have the set. Then last month I had the idea that I should start at the beginning and read the entire set, page by page, to the end. Just a few entries each day, so I have no idea when or if I will ever finish reading the entire set of 25 volumes.

But it interests me because I am gaining a perspective on all the world's knowledge at a certain point in time (the early 1960s) and from a certain place in the world (the United States of America). And it's fun, too, reading it in alphabetical order, as the subject matter always varies--going from aardwolf to Abbas to Abelard to abolitionists to abstract art to academic freedom to accounting to Acropolis to Adams to advertising.

Oh, I can remember doing the same exact thing years ago when I was a kid. In an age when the Internet wasn't a factor, encyclopedias were a great thing to own.

[MajorHoy]

Oh, I can remember doing the same exact thing years ago when I was a kid. In an age when the Internet wasn't a factor, encyclopedias were a great thing to own.

Back when I was . . . much younger . . . we had this really old set of encyclopedias from back in the early 1930s. (Not sure if we maybe got them from a book sale or if they came from my Grandmother's house.)
I didn't use them for research myself, but the interesting thing was there was no entry for "World War I"; instead, it was called "The Great War".

[The Darknight Detective]

Back when I was . . . much younger . . . we had this really old set of encyclopedias from back in the early 1930s. (Not sure if we maybe got them from a book sale or if they came from my Grandmother's house.)
I didn't use them for research myself, but the interesting thing was there was no entry for "World War I"; instead, it was called "The Great War".

We had two sets: the first was from 1960 (my father originally bought it for his sister for school when he was in the army) and the second was from the thirties (it was before my mother was born, so I don't know what the backstory is there - it also referenced the Great War). Both had sets of classic literature, too - even read some of them.

[Deathstroke]

Author Peter Straub has passed away.