My pleasure, hope you enjoy them!
Bloody Rose, the sequel to Kings of the Wyld is on sale today. I’m sure Kings was a recommendation I got from here and like usual it was spot on, a great read.
Sharpe
2027
Bloody Rose is an excellent book but quite different from Kings of the Wyld in several ways, especially tone. Don’t expect the same kind of fist pumping “I love you guys!” Vibe. Still highly recommended but be prepared for a different experience.
Yes. I didn’t think it was as good as Kings, but it was still quite a good read.
Kings is straightforward heroes quest fantasy. Let’s get the band back together and travel a great distance and have many adventures along the way to save Golden Gabe’s daughter Rose. Bloody Rose meanders a bit before it gets to it.
Looks like the author has a third Band book in the works.
Not your everyday ebook bargain, but William Manchester’s majestic The Glory and the Dream is on sale for $2.99 today. It’s a political and social history of the United States from 1932 to 1972. And it is one of the finest books of its kind you’ll ever read.
It was my high school government / history textbook, back in the day.
https://www.amazon.com/Glory-Dream-William-Manchester-ebook/dp/B07NMH8ZV4
rshetts
2031
Nice. Unfortunately for me I have three of those and have read both Heart Shaped Box and NOS4A2, so the deal is not for me but I can recommend it. I liked both of the books that I have read quite a bit.
I grabbed it. Thanks for the heads up!
It’s not my typical genre, but Joe Hill’s stuff is great.
Diddums
2034
Thank you sir. Goodbye, Darkness is an absolute classic that I read shortly after the HBO miniseries. The Greatest Generation, indeed.
You’re welcome. Anything by Manchester is good. His The Arms of Krupp is a great history of arms manufacturers and the whitewashing of Nazi capitalists after the war. The first two volumes of his Churchill biography, The Last Lion, are simply superb. The third volume is a letdown, as he didn’t write it; he was dying at that point and partnered with a journalist to do the actual writing, and the quality of the narrative is not nearly at his level. He even wrote a book of medieval history, A World Lit Only By Fire, which is very very good.
I saw this weekend that you can get the entire boxed set of the Churchill bio on Kindle for $9. Even setting aside the weakness of the final of the three volumes, that’s a great price for about 2300 pages of the life of Churchill up to the outbreak of the war. So count it as an ebook bargain, too.
Edit: Also, I see from that link that The Arms of Krupp is also only $3. Another bargain!
Diddums
2036
You save “94%”…well shee-it, how can you not?
I hope his great grandchildren are enjoying the royalties. Thanks again for the heads up.
My pleasure. I ended up buying all of these for my electronic library. I have hard copies of them all, but it’s not out of the question that I’ll have to abandon a lot of physical library when I eventually move again. And, I use some of these books as research materials for my own writing, so having electronic versions of them is quite helpful.
No idea who this author is, but could not pass on 4 novels for $3.99. I’m such a bargain whore.
Looked him up briefly and saw some pictures and I thought, wow, is this guy taking the Stephen King worship a bit far? Looks just like him with that hair and beard. Then I see it’s his son. Hah!
Heart-Shaped Box is really, really good. It’s probably on my top-10 list of books that have stuck with me years after reading it.
Cool. Look forward to it.
Are the 4 books in this collection connected to each other (aside from being by the same author)?
Yeah, he uses the pen name Joe Hill because he didn’t want to take advantage of his dad’s name to get his stuff published. Or bought. It’s pretty well known at this point though.
I think he’s actively better, though. And I like King.
Nope.
There isn’t a defined sequence or reading order or anything, but NOS4A2 makes small references to Horns and Heart-Shaped Box (maybe 20th Century Ghosts too, but I haven’t read that one) to show that Joe has a mini-connected-universe thing going on.
I used to be a huge King fan in my teens and early 20s, but I haven’t followed him in years. I think the last book of his I bought was Bag of Bones when it released back in 1998. Still haven’t read it (or Rose Madder which I bought around the same time).
Anyway, I must be getting old - I now have a vague recollection about knowing his son was also an author. Must have read it somewhere a while ago and just forgotten.
What? Where am I???
