Great Announcement! Love the matching shirts! Slugs was such a fun read. I was a bit obsessed with V as a child.

'Slugs' is a lot of fun, I think you'll enjoy it. I love V. I started rewatching it recently. I'm so ready for GarbAugust!

I loved "V"! For Men's Adventure, I recommend "King Solomon's Mines". Easy read, and fun.

I read Slugs last year and it was amazing. It is was like. One of those classic gory 80s films in book form. Real high class stuff.

That sounded like such a convincing garbage truck. Production value!

Michael, you and Roger make such a great team. Love your channel!

Just read “V” a month ago. It’s both series (and better than you’d expect) - picked a winner!

I also remember V, I watched it as a kid and loved it. This, Max Headroom and Star Trek were my favourite SF series.

The V novels were surprisingly, even exceptionally, well written. Not only the novelizations of the broadcasts but the whole series of regional accounts of the resistance across the country which were concurrent to the events of the mini series. It made it feel even more real since the continuity was so tight. I enjoyed them greatly. It seems to me I recognized some of the authors from the then dominant Star Trek novels. Clearly polished authors.

Great Choice with V Michael. I've had that since 1985. The two miniseries were awesome, the weekly series, sadly not so much.

Roger… in business casual

I don't know if you know this, but you've officially created 1000 videos (1001 to be precise). That's pretty darn impressive

Unfair. Outrage! Shadow isn't suppose to be released until October. You are one lucky guy to get a copy early.

Thanks for the Garbology shout-out, Michael! I'm sure Roger will conjure a copy for you next month...

Mr Roger is very debonair today, an exceedingly lovely shirt, all ready to class-up garbaugust.

V! Loved that show, I think I have that book or something similar.

Oh man you’re in for a treat with Slugs!

Yay for Executioner! I loved the earlier Executioner books by Pendleton. Sucked after the revamp to Stoney Man. V is great. Love the book and miniseries. The weekly show wasn't so good. They had a series of novels with the resistance all around the world.

Shadow of the Smoking Mountain; is that the TARDIS in the background?

If that's the Ray Russell who wrote "Sardonicus," he was an editor at Playboy Magazine!

I am living for the plaid-clad Roger

Totally agree on Hanuvar. The first two are great fun. I will have to wait until October, with the rest of the plebs, before I can get my next fix.

The novelization of V was better than the miniseries, in a lot of ways. I read it multiple times back in the day. I still have that paperback.

Sounds like you've got quite the GarbAugust line up. I'm looking forward to participating, too, but I won't be dressed as snazzy as you and Roger.

V was an amazing series. Staring Freddy Kruger and the Beastmaster! Doesn't get much better than that. I'll just stick with my Conan summer read. I'm currently reading City Of The Dead, by John C. Hocking. I'll probably still be reading it in August. I plan on reading some of the newer Conan pastiche books after. It will lead perfectly into the second greatest book tube event of all time, Cimmerian September! ⚔️

I have a box full of old Destroyer books about Chiun master of Sinanju and his unworthy student Remo Williams that I might break into for Garbaugust

If you want to go real trashy, I dare you to show a prop for Incubus . 😱

Roger looks very groovy in his cool shirt.

You need to read one of the 500 books in the Longarm series

You'll like Slugs. Spoiler alert: slugs kill people in that book! Death Squad's not the best Executioner, but it's not bad. Deviates too much from his "lone wolf" thing, but... gotta read 'em all! And you can never go wrong with Ray Russell. I loved the V TV show, but mostly because I got to look at Jane Badler. That's a definite bonus...

Yes, V was must see television for my twelve-year-old self. One scene that sticks in my mind is an alien, played by Robert Englund, eating a live mouse.

I am for sure reading Mack Bolan #1, as a.cool viewer sent it to me as they had an extra! So definitely participating this year. 😃

I'm really looking forward to Garbaugust and may participate myself. That's got to be one of the best ideas ever! I absolutely loved V back in the day, and collected a number of the books, including the novelization that you have by A.C. Crispin. The novelization covers the original miniseries as well as "The Final Battle" follow-up, so that's why it's so long. It's a pretty good read as far as novelizations go, and expands a little on what we saw on TV. (although not too much). The immediate follow-up to this is a book called "The Pursuit of Diana," which I think is the best of all of the follow-up books that were written in the series. I have the DVDs and went back and watched them recently for the first time in years. The special effects have obviously aged a good bit, and some of the story is cheesy, but there's actually quite a bit that holds up well. Faye Grant is an underrated actress. The original miniseries is the better of the two in terms of writing, but The Final Battle is a lot of fun. The weekly series that followed is best forgotten. LOL Trivia: The creator of V (Kenneth Johnson) was frozen out of the process of creating what became The Final Battle and eventually wrote his own follow-up, which is now out of print and hard to find. Apparently, he also got the original novelization updated and re-released to tie in with the sequel. That book is also out of print and hard to find.

Okay, went through some of my books and I'm like damn that's all I read is garbage LOL. Anyway I got a good genre to start off with in August, It works for all 3 of the 4 prompts for Garbaugust, it's Harem Adventures. But only I'm only going to read one of that genre for Garbaugust. Here all the books I plan to read for Garbaugust this year as it will be my first. Week 1 The Howling book 2, Week to the scarlet Cavern, Week 3 Carnosaur, Week 4 Alien.

Oh, I remember V (haven't seen it since the original broadcast either), but I'd forgotten I actually had the book once until you brought it up.

EARC... electronic advance review copy

Michael I have Lord of the Shattered Land on my nightstand! I did not realized you loved this series too! Andrew a Wizardly Reads just stated recently it was one of the best books he has read.

There are men’s adventure romances, although I suppose you can’t buy any because you’re in the middle of your mind-bending 500 book challenge. Pity. You’ll enjoy GarbAugust anyway. 😺✌️

Wasn’t Julian Trask in Dark Shadows? 🧛🏻

Oh, Mike! Reduced to begging for freebies.😂

Roger looking spiffy! 👀 I’ll be participating but I honestly have no idea yet which books I’m going to narrow it down to. 😅

By chance, I watched the film adaptation of "The Incubus" only last weekend Michael. It stars John Cassavetes and features him using just one expression for every emotion and in every scene. Perhaps he thought he could reproduce his "Rosemary's Baby" success but I assure you that in this confusing and confused movie in which subplots lead nowhere and the ending doesn't resolve the main plot, he did not. I hope the book is better. I do remember "V", I don't think it would hold up well to a re-watching today though. I also recall that DC released a "V" series that lasted about 20 issues. Any reason for Roger wearing a shirt today rather than just his usual moldy bandages?

I fondly remember The Executioner. The first 36 were written by Don Pendleton. They were really good reads except for one of them that was written by another author. (I think it was #5) I've read them all multiple times. The other 2 or 3 or 400 books not so much. The writing was okay, but Pendleton's style was gone, and the premise of the series changed too much.

Trash in August? The whole thing stinks to high-heaven....in the best way possible, of course......

Slugs cover made me literally physically cringe. Better you than me 😂.

I love the books you recommend; have you written any stories?

I vote for V!

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Isn't that cute! Roger and Mike wearing the same shirt! Michael is a master of book review comedy. Kudos! Didn't the _V_ show have those weird looking people that just interacted with normal humans? Like they held down desk jobs and were house wives, etc. But they had weird color and spots and stuff.

One mummy’s trash…

Not a masterpiece at all, but I liked it - that describes the whole Mack Bolan series. But the Destroyer series is funnier.

Shadow OP ... Looks like a misprint in the title...

Let’s get trashy! 🗑️🗑️

I did not like the tongues in V 🫣

Garbaugust huh? Yeah...*all I read is trash.