Purging My Entire Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Collection [Part 1]
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
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The classic "maybe" pile, it's what makes us human.
Dude straight up, you got me back into reading. Your videos are to the point and excellent. Just finished blindsight
Good to see that you're making the plans public, Matt, and that you're moving ahead with your plan - I really hope the plan works for you and that it will lead to us meeting up at last maybe. Yep, hold onto that Bester hardcover, that's uncommon and in my view contains his finest work. Onwards, my friend!
Thanks Steve. Hope to find myself in the UK soon.
@@Bookpilled -Looking forward to that, Matt!
Bookpilled and Outlaw Bookseller combo would be sublime. Hope that happens in the bit so distant future.
@@jodeyrust8546 Well, Matt and I are hoping to meet for a beer so it may happen!
@@Bookpilled UK? That does not sound like low cost of living :)
The struggle of deciding what books to keep before a move is a daunting task that I can strongly empathize with. An admirable job thus far! Best of luck with your travels!
Good luck on the travels, really enjoying the channel. Along with outlaw bookseller you’ve rekindled my interest in SF
Awesome collection and best of luck with the move! Last month I read Dying Inside and Blindsight and thought both were excellent. I really liked Silverberg as a writer even when I didn’t particularly like David as a character. And Blindsight was a book where I didn’t necessarily love the reading experience but the ideas were incredibly powerful and I haven’t stopped thinking about them since.
Thanks man. Two killer books indeed.
Moorcock did retitle many of his books so it is easy to get duplicates. Also many were collected together too.
So why are you moving? Are you on the run?
I've always loved the cover art for the Gnome Press editions of the Foundation books. Something I've been on the lookout for forever. Nice to see so many of your books even if it is for the purposes of a purge. And all the best for your future plans!
I thinned down my collection about 15 years ago when I bought my first kindle. I kept most of my favourites but wish I had kept them all now. But like you said, you can always source them from somewhere with enough time and money. Good luck with your travels.
Good luck in your travels!
So tempting, i love the color of the pages they are so aesthetically pleasing
Yeah the Squatch was from me haha. I’m stoked for the whatnot on Saturday! That one should be pretty crazy. Excited for ya and looking forward to keeping up with the journey here on the tube!
THANK YOU! I have been watching this channel (and the other ones) hoping to see a couple books I read, but could only remember the cover. Finally saw one of them "Star of the Unborn". Now I can search for a copy!!
I'm so excited to travel along with you and see what books you pick up along the way. Good luck mate! Enjoy the ride.
Dude, if you are travelling to the UK, you can stay for free in my back bedroom.
It's in Birmingham, if you happen to pass by.
Seriously, you are welcome if ever you are passing through on your travels
That Star of the Unborn book is sold for over 250$ on Ebay.. crazy
I have to do a similar purge this month, tons of books from my TBR shelves need to go. Oh, the pain of it all.
God as someone who recently finished remembrances of earths past I would really love to hear you ramble on it. It made me unable to read some science fiction afterwards because of how impactful it was
what a rough thing to do, but you pulled the bandaid quick and well i think. oh man i would love bran mak morn with the badazz frazetta cover. i had all the supercool 1960s ace conan and edgar rice burroughs paperbacks as a kid that someone gave me and i loved them.
I had actual palpitations watching this. Might have been something to do with watching at 1.5 speed, it felt like your home was in imminent danger and you were forced to make difficult save or burn decisions! Traumatic. 🔥 📚
My older brother spent most of his 73 years accumulating a +1500-book collection dominated by sci-fi and history titles. He died and took NONE with him. His brothers now must decide their fate. Beyond traumatic. IF possible, we the yet-living would trade ALL for another week of his presence. Life is precious, possessions are not. We can decide what we care to, but in the long view, it doesn't matter what we want. Fate disposes.
We possess nothing, we just have things for a while, long or short.
Every time you do one of these, I see half a dozen books I've got to have. Thanks! Astute use of your time leading up to your journey insofar as you couple the chore of weeding out your collection with a great BP post. Cheers and, success in your endeavor. You must be chomping at the bit.
Purge to me can be such cruel language!
I wish you luck on your journey going forward.
I'm new to the channel, your work is so endearing and I appreciate it.
Your critique in a prior video I watched made me want to visit Simulacra and Simulation.
Something I have not read myself, have not seen you reference it yet; but maybe you have as I watch more on my time.
Huxley's Island is something I remember getting from the library back in 2010. Jesus my girlfriend's mom at the time was giving me a ride when I had copy inside my backack.
Thank you for the memory!
👍 but Spinrad's "Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde" is actually a late-sixties short story collection, kind of a mixed bag, some really good but the titular and final tale, at ~30 pages is longest, and imo suffers a bit by comparison with the earlier stories in the collection.
John Varley's "Titan" trilogy ("Titan," "Wizard," and "Demon") is pretty hard scifi, contains no fantasy at all and is breath-taking, I've read it twice. Just remember that at time of writing, we didn't have very clear images of Titan. It could've been almost anything.
Damn dude I wish you all the best of luck on your travels. Remember to have toilet paper and Pepto on the ready lolol.
Norman Spinrad's _The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde_ is a short story collection. The title story at least (I don't think any of the others) shares characters and a style with the Jerry Cornelius stories of Moorcock, but it's not a sequel to anything or the like. The Cornelius stories were Moorock's attempt to do experimental, non-linear, satirical stories about the political themes he was interested in in the 60s and 70s and he encouraged some of the other authors he edited in _New Worlds_ magazine, Spinrad, Brian Aldiss, M John Harrison and others, to use his characters for their own similar stories.
_The English Assassin_ which you also show here, is the third of Moorcock's Cornelius novels and is very good. It was the first one I read, as a teenager, and I had no idea what any of it was about but I loved it and I like it more every time I read it.
I guess our tastes differ. I enjoy the Amber novels, especially The Guns of Avalon--fantastic book! I also hold Fahrenheit 451 in a very high regard. Bradbury rocks! Have you read Something Wicked This Way Comes? Regarding Roger Zelazny... have you read Lord of Light? The short story collection titled The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth? Really liked those.
You like Norstrilia though. One of my faves!
Sounds interesting - going remote - traveling. Yea! Can't help myself - appreciate your take on books - makes youtube more fun.
Over the years I've grown to prefer reading an E Reader. There was a period of time where I fell more into collecting rather than reading. I realized it was an addiction and so I sold off most of my physical books. The majority of my reading is now done through an E Reader. I use calibre to remove pesky DRM.
Send all the discards to me! 😎 Seriously, best of luck on your travels and I look forward to more RUclips from exciting locales!
Moorcock: Keep all those Singletons, they never appear in the wild. "Eternal Champion" never appears & it is the first of it's own with "The Silver Warriors" being second. Keepers. The 4 "Runestaff" novels always *used to* show up in the churn, but they'll disappear when the BBC production of their adaptations starts getting publicity. . . BTW the first book to them is "The Jewel in the Skull".
I know you live him, but all those Silverbergs are always out in the churn, if you need to make space ( "Stepsons of Terra" not so much, but cheap to order.)
Wishing you luck and fulfillment with your travels.!
I'm interested in knowing what your rarer edition of Dune is. I have a Book Club Edition of the original publication (!!!) I found in a second-hand bookshop in Auckland New Zealand back in the early 2000s. Blew my mind!
I’m excited for your future travels.
John Varley is definitely weird. Titan, Wizard and Demon are so good. I actually recently bought them all and plan to reread them (I think I read them 15 years ago).
I hope everything is going ok. Again, Dangerous Visions changed my life when I was 9 or 10 and really it was a benefit. I had a huge collection of thousands of books and sold most and since 2010 I have been exclusively reading on a kindle. Still I remember those covers and the smells of those papers. You seem a little upset so I hope things are well. Did you get around to reading Child of Fortune? I’m your travels please post updates. I find your cadence of voice soothing.
The HUNGER is primo.
Neuromancer! Great book!
Thank you! 📖
I recently ordered some vintage paperbacks from a seller here in Canada and on a whim I asked about Star of the Unborn, and he was asking $89 USD for it. I wonder how much it's gone up since the review.
Hey bra-- can you recommend me some sci-fi where the prose is kind of... more "adorned"..?
I just got done Cordwainer Smith's _Rediscovery of Man,_ but hesitate to move on (back) to _Norstrillia..._ because as an aspiring sci-fi writer myself, I want to read something more in my... pretentious, slightly Shakespearean, etymologically masturbatory, "I've read Chaucer, biotch!!!" style... you know? I am also currently working as an editor for a self-published YA fiction writer... so you can imagine how I lust for something to digest mentally, that doesn't make me feel like I am reading the literary equivalent of paste/pap... you know? I just need something with more linguistic flourishes and style... plain speaking is good up and to a point... but hell man, when I read (and write)-- I WANT some educated English language elitism...!
Go straight to Jack Vance. Dying Earth if you can find it.
@@Bookpilled I read _Dying Earth_ right before _The Rediscovery of Man._ a couple months ago..!
I think maybe I need to do take a break from sci-fi and read some Herman Melville, or Dickens or something for a bit... anyhow, cheers-- thanks for the reply muh man :)
@@JamesPawson If you haven't read Gene Wolfe he is also top flight. Compared often to Melville and deserves the comparison.
@@Bookpilled Gene Wolfe, eh...? I see Wikipedia says his prose is "dense and allusive..." ok yeah, that sounds right up my street actually... _The Shadow of The Torturer_ it is then.. oh boy, what am I getting myself into... haha. :) Cheers!
You need to study the British New Wave writers of the 1960s and after and their American counterparts- as Matt will tell you, I cover them a lot on my channel and he will cover them more as time goes on, I know - Ballard, M John Harrison, Christopher Priest, Keith Roberts, Thomas M Disch, Samuel R Delany, John Sladek.
I’ve lived in Asia for 9 years and I can tell you that finding good English-language SF books (non-movie/TV tie-in) is challenging. That said, every big city here has at least one used bookstore where foreigners dump their books. Still, the selection isn’t as diverse as it is in the West. It’s all the usual suspects (Dune, Foundation, Ender’s Game and Ready Player One). I’m curious where you’re going first. Southeast Asia could be a good option (Bangkok). It depends on what you want to do with your time.
Gonna be reading a lot on Kindle
Remmber to just follow the laws in the low cost of living countries (or any country you go to ) and don't be too surprised when somebody says something wierd or unexpected in those nations.
Most just mean it well and can't express it or are confused. (And starting debates that lead nowhere should be always avoided).
Good luck
If he's not going to Latin/South America, Africa, Middle East, or Russia, I'd say he doesn't have much to worry about. Those are the places I'd likely avoid unless you have someone who can speak natively that you know well.
Stay safe, traveler. I look forward to your journeys. Take us with you. Read well.
Vance's Durdane trilogy is maybe my favorite Vance.
I have Titan and the other two books in the series by Varley, also in hard cover. I'll likely keep them, I have trouble selling hard cover books. I only have a few real collectibles, the best of which is The Green Pearl by Jack Vance, the Underwood-Miller signed edition, in almost perfect condition.
If you are traveling and happen to hit a used book store/flea market/garage sale/ etc, let us know what books you may pick up!
Huxley's _Island_ is quite a strange book. Although supposedly a utopia its themes and ideas make it an interesting complement to _Brave New World._
If you're planning to travel and move, you could take a page out of Damien G. Walter's book, he seems to have settled fairly happily in.. singapore, iirc?
As a book collector I am saddened by you selling off part of your collection but I know of your situation and need to having a manageable collection while you go on your nomadic travels. I hope you will still have time to do book reviews on this channel while you are on the road. I will continue to check both of your channels to see how things are going with you. Best of luck Matt.
Many many more review vids to come
Those are some good books. I might need look out for them.
I really wish I'd gotten off my ass and out of my hometown more when I could have. I traveled some, but not nearly as much as I would have liked, and only briefly out of the US. Be safe, be well. Don't feed the wildlife.
This is my kind of show and tell. It must be painful, though. Feel for ya
The Moon Moth by Jack Vance! What say you?
I bought Dawn by Butler… 5/10?
What was the book that will stay with ? I didn’t catch the title
Star of the Unborn by Franz Werfel
BTW - Thank you for saying "Purge" and not "Un-Haul" (*shudder*). Seriously - I appreciate someone remembering English.
Funny, I left the U.S. and moved overseas last year..best decision ever!
Did you read the moorcocks or did you get them for the covers?
Have read a couple of them
Sell them all. You wont be able to carry hundreds of pounds of books in your luggage.
He's putting the keepers in a storage unit.
@@awldune Bet you a dollar to a quarter he never takes them out of that unit. Storage units have their uses but they make most of their money from indecision and sentimentality.
Good luck selling Poking Holes. It’s not even legal in most of the countries you’ll be going to.
Zelazny was very mid to me. I know that’s probably sci-fi sacrilege but 🤷🏽♂️. I’ve only read Damnation Alley and A Night in the Lonesome October, though.
Haven't read those but yeah, he can wax mediocre sometimes.
watch the movie version of damnation alley for some jolly yuk yuks. jan michael vincent baby!
I had never heard of living abroad before now
What’s the big change ?
Wow alots happened since the last video then! You’re suddenly goin
Let's get down to brass tacks: where do you get your wardrobe? Dig your style. Help out a business casual brother, post it in the comments.
Thanks. All of my clothing is thrifted.
@@Bookpilled Mine too!! I love thrifted clothing.
Don't tell me, let me guess. You fell in love with a gypsy. Yeah, that must be it. 😉
Seriously, though, how lucky of you to be able to travel the world. I never did, and now it's too late. Ah, well. Best of luck in your voyages and will be wishing you good health and safe travels. Cheers! 🍀🌍
How are you going to review books without all your books?
Kindle
I subscribed mainly to find out why?
Frankly travelling continuously and collecting books doesn't really go hand in hand, I wonder how you will reconcile the two
He said in this video or the next one that he would be using an e-reader.
@@shitmandood That's a bit depressing
Definitely trash any Dick, especially Heinlein (I got into argument with one ex about his fascination with heinlein who I just feel he is male version of Ayn Rand), or Vonda McEntyre. Keep what moves you.
What's wrong with Dick? I've read about half his stack. What I've found is it starts to feel repetitive after that 20th book I read. Heinlein, I've only read Starship Troopers. One of my first reads. Not bad.
Great plan to do your thing from abroad...msg me if you pass through Bangkok ... I've been here for a year
8:48 sorry to harp on this point but you are skipping over some sci-fi gold, my dude
If you really want to travel the world, you should join the United States Navy. Aimless travel can be expensive. Traveling just to film a video about your travels may be a big waste of time. That has been done before. Why not take trips away from home for several weeks instead of leaving your city forever?
You must not have watched the whole video carefully. He did say in the video that he would likely return at some point. He's probably just going to move around for a bit and see how the land lays and decide if it's for him or not. If joined the Navy, he wouldn't have time for RUclips videos or reading would he? lol. Kind of a strange solution. I'd say military service would be last on the list at his current age...when's the cutoff date for military enlistment anyway? is it 35? He might already be 35 or near it.
This video makes me sad.
I got Three Body Problem as a Kindle book for Xmas and just started it. It's ok so far, kinda slow going. I was expecting it to pull me but looks like it's going to take awhile to get gud.