Jan
19
Returning to the scene of the crime, your malevolent hosts, Chris Miller and Kris Johnson, bring back another episode of The Secret Lair.
This time, we open the doors to The Secret Library, revealing a few of the tomes that have captured our attention recently.
We both have accounts at GoodReads. We encourage bibliophile minions to create an account and add us as friends. We’ll know you’re a minion if you use the secret phrase.1
Chris read Emperor: Time’s Tapestry Book One and Conqueror: Time’s Tapestry Book Two, both by Stephen Baxter.
Chris also read The Traveler and part of The Dark River, the first two books of the Fourth Realm Trilogy by John Twelve Hawks.
While on vacation, Kris read Alfred Hitchcock Presents The Three Investigators: The Mystery of the Green Ghost by Robert Arthur.
The first tome in The Secret Library is Fatherland by Robert Harris. As we seem to be on an alternative history kick of late, we thought this tale of a triumphant Third Reich in 1964 would be fitting. We’ll be discussing the book in a future show.
Be sure to visit The Secret Lair’s official online community to keep tabs on other minions, give us feedback and get some hints as to what we’ve got planned for future shows.
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Ha! Did I detect a Mark Scott reference?
I don’t know if Chris’ “Excelsior!” was meant to be a Mark Scott reference. As a long-time comic book geek, I took it to be a Stan “The Man” Lee reference. Stan, the former Chairman of Marvel Comics and co-creator of many legendary comic characters (Spider-Man, The X-Men, The Incredible Hulk) regularly wrote a “Bullpen” piece in Marvel Comics and “Excelsior!” was his traditional sign-off.
Wow. I just blogged about my to-read list, and after your review, I may be burning my copy of The Traveler.
Some non-geek librarians at my day job recommended The Traveler; I’d thought about checking it out, but if the series tanks so badly I’ll stick with the other 100+ books on my to-read list. Ok, I suppose it’s more like 9, but still…