Reading Recap, week 35
Scratch this week, it's a palate cleanser
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Audiobooks
The only one I finished NOT A PENNY MORE NOT A PENNY LESS by Jeffrey Archer, recommended to me by my grandmother, and it was a really fun read. If you’re into Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse, this is right up your alley. It’s set in the 1970s and it’s about an fund manager who swindles four investors out of a million dollars, so they plot to get revenge on him and it goes a little nuts from there.
Print and Comics
I’m working my way through an anthology called WORLD BREAKERS when I have time, the stories are about sentient tanks, I’m five stories in. 2 have been great, 2 have been good, one has been decent. Video to come when finished.
This week’s comics were DESTRO #3 and REDCOAT #5. The Destro book was an improvement in a series that got a lackluster start, but is at least better than the Scarlett book (low bar, Kelly Thompson is a bad writer.) In the last book, Destro ended up in a corporate war with the twins Tomax and Xamot who are also arms dealers. In this one he has to go on the run when the twins (supposedly) send an assassin to kill him, and now he’s got to defect to the Americans/Joes in order to maneuver against his enemies. Corporate and international intrigue. That’s the way to go with a character like this.
As for Redcoat, last month I raised an eyebrow when the story implied that George Washington was an evil secret society master who—like Simon and Benedict Arnold—was immortal, and still working in the late 1800s. I’d have hated for an otherwise good series to start doing this crap, but fortunately the writers leaned into the fact that the writers…have some history knowledge to play with, and it turns out something else is going on. That’s the only soft spoiler I’ll drop
Redcoat continues to be the least-strong of the Ghost Machine books. Note that I said least-strong because it’s still strong on its own, it’s just up against formidable peers in Geiger and Rook Exodus. Speaking of which, Rook Exodus #5 drops this week, and I’m pumped.
I LIKE LIKING THINGS.
Next Week:
I started TROUBLE WALKED IN and liked the beginning, so I’ll finish that one. Most of the other titles I wanted to get to were defeated in the Great Rage Quit. The other two I’m planning to read are SHILOH by Shelby Foote and RED DEAD’S HISTORY by Tore C. Olsson. Comics this week are ROOK EXODUS and VOID RIVALS. Should be a better week.
Get out there and read.