John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) “I can’t pass a bookstore without picking something up, but mainstream book publi” — TopicDigg

I can’t pass a bookstore without picking something up, but mainstream book publishing is dominated by what I consider “female authorial voice” (sometimes even from the remaining male authors), and my tastes are a little out of step with it. Robert E. Howard’s pulp fiction of a century ago is quite a palate cleanser. Everyone knows Conan, and I have read some Solomon Kane, but I was completely unfamiliar with his westerns, a genre that I have read very little of. I enjoyed them more than I expected – “American Violence" is a vibe from a mostly lost culture. The stories are all in the public domain now, so you can find them free online or in very cheap editions, but this Passage Publishing collection is Folio Society level nice.