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Post by brutalis on Jan 30, 2017 13:31:56 GMT -5
Finished up Age of Heroes by James Lovegrove. Demigods of Greek Myth are still alive today and somebody is hunting and exterminating them using legendary Greek weapons empowered by the ancient Grecian Gods of legend. A light, witty fast moving adventure which quickly becomes an extended buddies adventure as Theseus and several of his "brothers" of immortality team up to search for the killer who is slowly going around the world executing these infamous Demigods. A splendid afternoon's reading and captures the essence of Greek mythology while updating for current times. Recommend reading most any of Lovegrove's Age Of series: modern stories of mythological Gods and new heroes for the new eon. Each book can be read on it's own and usually follows a different Pantheon of Gods: Egyptian, Greek, Norse etc.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 30, 2017 17:19:37 GMT -5
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 30, 2017 17:38:35 GMT -5
Finished up Age of Heroes by James Lovegrove. Demigods of Greek Myth are still alive today and somebody is hunting and exterminating them using legendary Greek weapons empowered by the ancient Grecian Gods of legend. A light, witty fast moving adventure which quickly becomes an extended buddies adventure as Theseus and several of his "brothers" of immortality team up to search for the killer who is slowly going around the world executing these infamous Demigods. A splendid afternoon's reading and captures the essence of Greek mythology while updating for current times. Recommend reading most any of Lovegrove's Age Of series: modern stories of mythological Gods and new heroes for the new eon. Each book can be read on it's own and usually follows a different Pantheon of Gods: Japanese, Greek, Norse etc. How's he compare to Rick Riordan? I read book 8 of David Weber's Safehold series Hell's Foundations Quiver .. one more book to go. Good series, but it probably should have been more like 5 or 6 books with side stories.. the main characters were barely in the book.
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Post by berkley on Jan 30, 2017 18:27:22 GMT -5
Finished up Age of Heroes by James Lovegrove. Demigods of Greek Myth are still alive today and somebody is hunting and exterminating them using legendary Greek weapons empowered by the ancient Grecian Gods of legend. A light, witty fast moving adventure which quickly becomes an extended buddies adventure as Theseus and several of his "brothers" of immortality team up to search for the killer who is slowly going around the world executing these infamous Demigods. A splendid afternoon's reading and captures the essence of Greek mythology while updating for current times. Recommend reading most any of Lovegrove's Age Of series: modern stories of mythological Gods and new heroes for the new eon. Each book can be read on it's own and usually follows a different Pantheon of Gods: Japanese, Greek, Norse etc. I've looked at those several times while browsing in the bookstore but hav never taken the plunge. Might have to give one of them a go soon, though. (edit:) I've also looked at the Rick Riordan books that Wildfire2099 mentioned but they didn't really catch my interest. Something about the writing felt off to me. Of course, it could be just the fact that I'm far past the age of the target demographic group, but that didn't stop me from enjoying Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 30, 2017 18:38:12 GMT -5
The Red Skull by Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent) The sixth Super-Saga finds Doc and his pals dealing with a plot to sabotage a dam construction site in Arizona. An okay read, but this one didn't really seem to have the gravitas to command the help of Doc Savage. And the villain's identity was pretty well telegraphed from early in the book. The ending was pure pulp though, which is a good thing. Doc's universe would be a very interesting place.
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Post by berkley on Jan 30, 2017 19:21:00 GMT -5
The Red Skull by Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent) The sixth Super-Saga finds Doc and his pals dealing with a plot to sabotage a dam construction site in Arizona. An okay read, but this one didn't really seem to have the gravitas to command the help of Doc Savage. And the villain's identity was pretty well telegraphed from early in the book. The ending was pure pulp though, which is a good thing. Doc's universe would be a very interesting place. Have you looked at any of those new ones that came out a few years ago? I read a review that said the new writer had done a decent job of reproducing the characters and their world.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 30, 2017 22:19:59 GMT -5
The Red Skull by Kenneth Robeson (Lester Dent) The sixth Super-Saga finds Doc and his pals dealing with a plot to sabotage a dam construction site in Arizona. An okay read, but this one didn't really seem to have the gravitas to command the help of Doc Savage. And the villain's identity was pretty well telegraphed from early in the book. The ending was pure pulp though, which is a good thing. Doc's universe would be a very interesting place. Have you looked at any of those new ones that came out a few years ago? I read a review that said the new writer had done a decent job of reproducing the characters and their world. The only one I've read is Doc Savage: Skull Island, which is the Doc Savage/King Kong team-up. It was actually a lot of fun. But probably not a full test of how good Will Murray's other Savage books are because it was a very young Doc in that adventure. Murray has a good reputation of doing pulp work. He took over and ghosted The Destroyer for Warren Murphy. I'd like to say I'll read more of the Neo-Doc's...but there are so many books and so little time.
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Post by berkley on Jan 30, 2017 22:41:49 GMT -5
Have you looked at any of those new ones that came out a few years ago? I read a review that said the new writer had done a decent job of reproducing the characters and their world. The only one I've read is Doc Savage: Skull Island, which is the Doc Savage/King Kong team-up. It was actually a lot of fun. But probably not a full test of how good Will Murray's other Savage books are because it was a very young Doc in that adventure. Murray has a good reputation of doing pulp work. He took over and ghosted The Destroyer for Warren Murphy. I'd like to say I'll read more of the Neo-Doc's...but there are so many books and so little time. Same here. I intend to try some eventually, but haven't even gotten round to reading more of the originals yet, which I want to do first. I did enjoy Philip José Farmer's Doc Caliban pastiches - the ones I've read, that is. A Feast Unknown might not be to the taste of some Doc Savage fans, as Farmer works in some pretty weird sex and violence that is not at all in keeping with the spirit of the original, but the Caliban sequel, The Mad Goblin, is played totally straight. I only wish he'd continued the series. I haven't yet read The Peerless Peer or whatever other Doc Savage tributes he did.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 30, 2017 22:50:20 GMT -5
The only one I've read is Doc Savage: Skull Island, which is the Doc Savage/King Kong team-up. It was actually a lot of fun. But probably not a full test of how good Will Murray's other Savage books are because it was a very young Doc in that adventure. Murray has a good reputation of doing pulp work. He took over and ghosted The Destroyer for Warren Murphy. I'd like to say I'll read more of the Neo-Doc's...but there are so many books and so little time. Same here. I intend to try some eventually, but haven't even gotten round to reading more of the originals yet, which I want to do first. I did enjoy Philip José Farmer's Doc Caliban pastiches - the ones I've read, that is. A Feast Unknown might not be to the taste of some Doc Savage fans, as Farmer works in some pretty weird sex and violence that is not at all in keeping with the spirit of the original, but the Caliban sequel, The Mad Goblin, is played totally straight. I only wish he'd continued the series. I haven't yet read The Peerless Peer or whatever other Doc Savage tributes he did. I have the Ace double of Lord of the Trees and The Mad Goblin. Tons of fun. A Feast Unknown is definitely not for the squeamish. I did like The Other Log of Phileas Fogg. I haven't read the other either. Farmer did do one straight Doc novel. Escape From Loki was published in 1991 and features a young Clark Savage, Jr. escaping from a World War I German POW camp.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2017 23:23:44 GMT -5
The only one I've read is Doc Savage: Skull Island, which is the Doc Savage/King Kong team-up. It was actually a lot of fun. But probably not a full test of how good Will Murray's other Savage books are because it was a very young Doc in that adventure. Murray has a good reputation of doing pulp work. He took over and ghosted The Destroyer for Warren Murphy. I'd like to say I'll read more of the Neo-Doc's...but there are so many books and so little time. Same here. I intend to try some eventually, but haven't even gotten round to reading more of the originals yet, which I want to do first. I did enjoy Philip José Farmer's Doc Caliban pastiches - the ones I've read, that is. A Feast Unknown might not be to the taste of some Doc Savage fans, as Farmer works in some pretty weird sex and violence that is not at all in keeping with the spirit of the original, but the Caliban sequel, The Mad Goblin, is played totally straight. I only wish he'd continued the series. I haven't yet read The Peerless Peer or whatever other Doc Savage tributes he did. Win Scott Eckert is working on finishing Farmer's uncompleted Doc Caliban novel "The Monster on Hold". It's supposed to be out in the summer of 2018.
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Post by berkley on Jan 30, 2017 23:24:31 GMT -5
Same here. I intend to try some eventually, but haven't even gotten round to reading more of the originals yet, which I want to do first. I did enjoy Philip José Farmer's Doc Caliban pastiches - the ones I've read, that is. A Feast Unknown might not be to the taste of some Doc Savage fans, as Farmer works in some pretty weird sex and violence that is not at all in keeping with the spirit of the original, but the Caliban sequel, The Mad Goblin, is played totally straight. I only wish he'd continued the series. I haven't yet read The Peerless Peer or whatever other Doc Savage tributes he did. I have the Ace double of Lord of the Trees and The Mad Goblin. Tons of fun. A Feast Unknown is definitely not for the squeamish. I did like The Other Log of Phileas Fogg. I haven't read the other either. Farmer did do one straight Doc novel. Escape From Loki was published in 1991 and features a young Clark Savage, Jr. escaping from a World War I German POW camp. I haven't read Loki and never seem to see it around in any of the used bookshops I frequent. I have read his Tarzan novel from around the same time, The Dark Heart of Time, which I thought was quite good. Again, wish he had done a few more. My adventure reading lately has been mostly focused on the late Victorian era. I'm finally getting to some of the famous ones I never read as a kid, like Jules Verne ( Journey to the Centre of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues, Around the World in 80 Days, Mysterious Island, etc) RL Stevenson's Treasure Island and Kidnapped, and H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain, as well as re-reading some old favourites, like the Sherlock Holmes books and Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and She.
Over the next few months I'm looking forward to more Stevenson ( Master of Ballantrae and maybe The Wrong Box), more Verne ( Robur le conquérant), Anthony Hope's Prisoner of Zenda, some of Conan Doyle's historical adventure books ( The White Company, the Brigadier Gerard stories), and lots of other stuff I can't think of at the moment. Also, a lot of famous horror writing came out around that time - e.g. Stoker's Dracula, Arthur Machen's short stories. So I have lots of fun stuff to look forward to in the immediate future.
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Post by berkley on Jan 30, 2017 23:27:24 GMT -5
Same here. I intend to try some eventually, but haven't even gotten round to reading more of the originals yet, which I want to do first. I did enjoy Philip José Farmer's Doc Caliban pastiches - the ones I've read, that is. A Feast Unknown might not be to the taste of some Doc Savage fans, as Farmer works in some pretty weird sex and violence that is not at all in keeping with the spirit of the original, but the Caliban sequel, The Mad Goblin, is played totally straight. I only wish he'd continued the series. I haven't yet read The Peerless Peer or whatever other Doc Savage tributes he did. Win Scott Eckert is working on finishing Farmer's uncompleted Doc Caliban novel "The Monster on Hold". It's supposed to be out in the summer of 2018. ooh, that's very exciting news to me. I love the whole scenario Farmer came up with for those books - the Nine, and all that. I haven't read any of Win Scott Eckert's own writing, though. Hope he's up to the task!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2017 23:45:04 GMT -5
Win Scott Eckert is working on finishing Farmer's uncompleted Doc Caliban novel "The Monster on Hold". It's supposed to be out in the summer of 2018. ooh, that's very exciting news to me. I love the whole scenario Farmer came up with for those books - the Nine, and all that. I haven't read any of Win Scott Eckert's own writing, though. Hope he's up to the task! He finished Farmer's "The Evil in Pemberley House", and then wrote the sequel "The Scarlet Jaguar", which featured Pat Wildman, the daughter of Doc Wildman, who is of course, the "real-life" basis for Doc Savage. I enjoyed them both, even if the first volume ventures into "A Feast Unknown" detail a few times. Other than that, haven't read his other work, but I have plans to get to some of his short stories and am eagerly awaiting the Doc Caliban book and the third instalment of Pat Wildman.
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Post by brutalis on Jan 31, 2017 7:42:00 GMT -5
Finished up Age of Heroes by James Lovegrove. Demigods of Greek Myth are still alive today and somebody is hunting and exterminating them using legendary Greek weapons empowered by the ancient Grecian Gods of legend. A light, witty fast moving adventure which quickly becomes an extended buddies adventure as Theseus and several of his "brothers" of immortality team up to search for the killer who is slowly going around the world executing these infamous Demigods. A splendid afternoon's reading and captures the essence of Greek mythology while updating for current times. Recommend reading most any of Lovegrove's Age Of series: modern stories of mythological Gods and new heroes for the new eon. Each book can be read on it's own and usually follows a different Pantheon of Gods: Japanese, Greek, Norse etc. How's he compare to Rick Riordan? I read book 8 of David Weber's Safehold series Hell's Foundations Quiver .. one more book to go. Good series, but it probably should have been more like 5 or 6 books with side stories.. the main characters were barely in the book. Lovegrove's series are more adult oriented with military action, blood, guts and sex without all the specific details derailing them. The military aspects seem fairly realistic and his main characters maintain their depth and voices within the stories. He does seem to do a lot of "throwaway" with minor secondary characters where you believe they will be a larger part of the story only to find them dead or not really involved in the story. I have read the a few of Riordan's books and while they have strong characters and interactions, they are specifically written with the knowledge they are for younger readers. If you can get past that aspect Riordan's books are entertaining if slightly drawn out knowing that there are more books to come.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 31, 2017 8:57:50 GMT -5
That sounds pretty similar to my opinion of Riordan... I read them because my teenager loves them... I thought that were very good for yound adult novels, which makes them quite readable for adults.
I'll have to give those Lovegrove books a shot... looks like he's done some Holmes, too.
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