You may not be familiar with The Thirty-Nine Steps but you'll certainly recognize the general storyline. It's inspired a number of similar tales in our culture, including a popular Harrison Ford movie. 👍
Fun and put a smile on my face as always. I gotta know how the doggie fares before I can read a book they star in. Hope the dogs are ok so I can give City a try. Good job counting all the way to 8 early in the morning! Genius for sure! 😂 my eyes won’t even open all the way til the sun comes up most mornings! Have a great day 😊
When you say Roger and I have returned it suggests that Roger is roaming around when he isn't occupied with making RU-vid videos. Hopefully he is being supervised by the appropriate authorities, and being kept out of graveyards where I imagine he could do some damage.
I man join you on reading 39 steps. Reading Ken Folletts the evening and the morning and picked up a few Keith Laumers that look interesting indeed. Never even seen cormac MacArthur….
Just subscribed. Love your channel. Wow, you got me reading all kinds of great literature. I just ordered the 3 Del Rey Conan volumes and Kull. I really loved your video on finding time to read a couple weeks ago too. But my favorite videos youve made are the Robert E Howard show presentations. I'm also a custom action figure creator and I've started a line of Conan action figures based on the Marvel appearances. But.....that's another story. Anyway, you've really cleared up a lot of confusion on the proper way to read Conan. Can't thank you enough.. so this is a shout out to you sirr......truly a man of taste.
I will be reading 39 Steps and City. My favourite scifi novel is "A Fire Upon the Deep". It leaps DDB's very high bar (you know how tough I am on fiction). You know you have to read it now 🤭
My second half of March is undecided. I planned on yet another attempt at 'The Fellowship of the Ring' by Tolkien but the students are still reading 'The Hobbit' until Spring Break. So now looking at April. Currently in the middle of a rereading of 'Needful Things' by Stephen King. Plan to start Book 2 within 'Shogun' this weekend. Right now thinking of looking at my Kindle library and picking a first read from my multitude of unread cheap buys to keep me on my 2024 goal of one reread and one new read every month.
I've seen the 39 Steps movie - had no idea there was a book! I just read Jungle Tales of Tarzan earlier in February and it was great! One of my favorites of the series so far. The first story with Tarzan at first being interested in the female ape... that was a little weird 😬 But the stories about the witch doctors were fantastic. There was some great humor in it as well
I’m going to join you in reading The 39 Steps. I’ve read it before but I recently bought a paperback edition from Pan so it is a nice excuse to read it again. It is one of the first ‘Man on the run’ adventure novels. An early prototype of the conspiracy novel.
My March TBR: «Brother Red» by Adrian Selby (Grimdark Fantasy, standalone «midquel» to «Snakewood» & «The Winter Road», had planned to do it last year, but had to push it back) «Judas Blossom» by Stephen Aryan (Fantasy inspired by the Mongol Conquest of Persia, same as «Brother Red» pushed over from last year) I will also start on the «City of Victory» Trilogy by Adrian Goldsworthy (Historical Military Fiction set during Emperor Trajan’s Campaigns) and the «Lyonesse» Trilogy by Jack Vance ((Pre-)Arthurian Fantasy). I plan to read one book each of the two trilogies over the Spring Months: The first books in March, the second books in April and the final books in May. My Spring TBR/March MBR: «After Rome» by Morgan Llywelyn (Historial Fiction set after the Roman Empire’s Withdrawal from Britain) «Ash: A Secret History» by Mary Gentle (Alt-Historical Military Fiction inspired by the Mercenary Wars of the Renaissance) «Idoru» by William Gibson (Cyberpunk) «Kings of the Wyld» by Nicholas Eames (Fantasy Humor) Might also get my hands on «Memory, Sorrow & Thorn»,«Sun Eater» and/or the «Second Apocalypse» series by R. Scott Bakker this Spring, but more likely Sommer!
Fortunately, I see I have The Thirty-Nine Steps on my e-reader, so I can join in without having to cheat on my just-started Read What You Own challenge 😅
I am very much impressed, Michael, that you have been able to read that gigantic Great Book of Amber and such a short amount of time. Definitely will be putting that on my TBR as well. Totally random question, but since you love history and historical fiction, have you ever read any of James Michener‘s work?
The Anubis Gates is great. Been reading H.P. Lovecraft's letters to C. L. Moore and Others. Its always interesting to read Lovecraft's letters because I rarely agree with the guy. He was undoubtedly the most important horror writer of the 20th Century. He can get on my nerves. Still, it's good to expose yourself to different ideas.
Fun fact: Mr Standfast is one of the sequels to The Thirty-Nine Steps, hearing you mention a channel with run by someone called that name straight after talking about it made me smile. Also: John Buchan novels are based on coincidence, so it's appropriate...
Gosh, sounds like another action packed month at the Manor. My plan for March is far less ambitious, finish Elric Saga volume 3. After that, escape the multiverse for fresh air, the literary world is my oyster, The 39 Steps .. perhaps, the Best of CL Moore .. perhaps, definately some comics, maybe something golden age themed, and then pick the next Moorcock volume of Tale of the Eternal Champion .. maybe Aubec, maybe Von Bek, maybe Erkose, or maybe Oswald Bastable, no clue yet.
The 39 Steps is a 1915 adventure novel by Scottish author John Buchan. It is about an innocent man who is wrongly accused of a crime and must clear his name. The novel has been adapted for film and stage, including a 1935 film and a 1978 film starring Robert Powell.
The cover of the Kraken awakes looks more like a boy sitting in a chair underwater. Fits a bit more with the title than. But that was what i saw in the cover :) In March i will at least read the book, The picture of Dorian Gray for the very first time. In a readathon another youtuber does. The rest of it, is just what i want and what comes to mind haha. I am a mood reader mosty.
'39 Steps' is a WWI Spy/mystery - an easy, pleasant read. I like Simak, but I think I like 'Why Call Them Back From Heaven' best. As an aside - John Hersey's 'Hiroshima'' is short, a true story and a terrifying one.
I read it for the very first time this past year. Absolutely loved it! I read it on Kindle but before I was even done I knew I needed a hard copy because it's going to be a re-read for me, for sure.
