June 2020 Recommended Reading/Viewing

[Coír Draoi Ceítien]

I'm a little late here, but better now than never.

Well, we're in June now, and summer is just around the corner. However, while we have started to open up, thing just keep getting bad. I don't know how to help, as it seems everyone thinks they have the right solution.

In lighter news, I've been given the go-ahead to incorporate other non-fantasy genres into the recommendations, so, with a slight cheat, here are some adventurous titles.

Reading: Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson

One of my absolute favorite books, this quick read - easily finished in a couple days or less - is the definitive codifier of the modern pirate mythos, following young Jim Hawkins as a brief association with an old sailor at his parents' establishment leads to the discovery of a treasure map which points to the location of the horde of the notorious pirate Captain Flint; teaming up with a noble doctor, a bumbling magistrate, and a dutiful sea captain, Jim gets roped into danger quickly when the crew of the ship is revealed to be a secret gang of pirates, led by the legendary one-legged sea cook Long John Silver, a man both dangerously charismatic and surprisingly sympathetic. A classic of Victorian boys' adventure tales, Stevenson's first novel is a bare-bones, rip-snorting riot of a story which shouldn't fail to get your sea legs going.

Trade: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140437681?tag=randohouseinc7986-20
Mass Market: https://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Island-Signet-Classics-Stevenson/dp/1101990325/ref=tmm_mmp_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AFX4DRI?tag=randohouseinc7986-20



Viewing: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)

A watershed in the history of action/adventure films, the first installment of the exploits of occult archaeologist/professor Indiana Jones is considered by many to be one of the greatest films ever made, and for good reason, being a collaboration between visionary director Spielberg and Star Wars creator/writer George Lucas. A homage to the old serials of the Golden Age of Hollywood, this story finds Dr. Jones on the trail of Nazis who seek to unearth the location of the biblical Ark of the Covenant in an effort to make Hitler invincible, tangling with both an old childhood flame and an unscrupulous competitor. Relentlessly fast-paced - so much so that it may be taken for granted today - the film, in my own personal opinion, still holds up to this day and remains a personal favorite.

DVD: https://www.amazon.com/Indiana-Jones-Raiders-Lost-ARK/dp/B0014Z4OMU/ref=tmm_dvd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1591234469&sr=8-3
Blu-Ray: https://www.amazon.com/Indiana-Jones-Raiders-Lost-Blu-ray/dp/B00FZIJ18Y/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2F23ACOSWK882&dchild=1&keywords=raiders+of+the+lost+ark+blu-ray&qid=1591234469&sprefix=raiders+of%2Caps%2C184&sr=8-3
Amazon Video: https://www.amazon.com/Indiana-Jones-Raiders-Lost-Ark/dp/B00GIWIPVA/ref=tmm_aiv_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1591234469&sr=8-3

Well, that's all for now. I hope we have better days ahead of us. Until then, I'll see you all around.