tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post2271241524461504031..comments2024-03-25T11:29:25.356-04:00Comments on Existential Ennui: The Curse of the Collector: A Hive of Glass (1965) by P. M. Hubbard – Novel ReviewNick Jones (Louis XIV, the Sun King)http://www.blogger.com/profile/17716508525331235684noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-30466938673073794792011-05-18T11:09:47.587-04:002011-05-18T11:09:47.587-04:00It might well be! I'll have to lend you my cop...It might well be! I'll have to lend you my copy.Nick Jones (Louis XIV, the Sun King)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17716508525331235684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-87984933168993008722011-05-18T10:52:58.019-04:002011-05-18T10:52:58.019-04:00I think I should check out this book, it sounds my...I think I should check out this book, it sounds my sort of thing!Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-44158472623232933042011-05-18T06:24:48.271-04:002011-05-18T06:24:48.271-04:00No, I don't think so. I google sometimes too w...No, I don't think so. I google sometimes too when I come across a reference I'm intrigued by in a novel. And judging by the traffic source google phrases I see for this blog, plenty of other people do that too.Nick Jones (Louis XIV, the Sun King)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17716508525331235684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-7544835959945397442011-05-17T22:10:12.324-04:002011-05-17T22:10:12.324-04:00I have a glass cake stand that is so thick and hea...I have a glass cake stand that is so thick and heavy that you'd sooner kill someone with it than have someone kill for it. So when Slade was pouring over pictures of the tazza in Old Glass, I felt compelled to replace the picture in my head with one of a pretty tazza. <br /><br />I find myself Googling things I read about more and more. Am I alone in this?Book Gluttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14569975755798562829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-51598593626119268002011-05-17T15:04:37.981-04:002011-05-17T15:04:37.981-04:00I'm guessing BG wanted to see what a tazza loo...I'm guessing BG wanted to see what a tazza looked like – I did the same thing, I'm afraid, although that was more by way of research for this post. But I have to agree that your tazza's a finer example than mine. In fact, I'm suddenly struck by an overwhelming desire to possess it...<br /><br />Yeah, Sharon's SF remark has me baffled too. Maybe I overplayed the eerie environment bit. Sharon, come back! We're perplexed!Nick Jones (Louis XIV, the Sun King)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17716508525331235684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-81105997424239734782011-05-17T14:37:18.487-04:002011-05-17T14:37:18.487-04:00Unlike Book Glutton I manage to find Hubbard's...Unlike Book Glutton I manage to find Hubbard's books everywhere in Chicago. But I never find copies of the two I so desperately want: <i>A Picture of Millie</i> and <i>High Tide.</i> I have all his other books, most of which I found (all at once no less) for less than $3 each at a huge book sale held in the suburbs out here in the US Midwest. US editions, though, so not very valuable. I did manage to snag a UK first edition with DJ of <i>The Holm Oaks.</i> So far I think that one is the prize in my Hubbard collection.<br /><br />I wonder why Book Glutton had to do a Google search for tazza - it's described specifically in the first chapter in the book. Hmm...<br /><br />Thanks, Nick, for the plug (and to Book Glutton for spotting the piece in the first place) and stopping by my blog. I enjoyed your take on the book just as much as I enjoyed Hubbard's novel. <br /><br />I'll be stopping by regularly from now on.<br /><br />Nice tazza, BTW. But I like my photo better. ;^D<br /><br />(Sharon Henning thinks this book is science fiction! Where on earth did she get that from your review?)J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-55151563211554514772011-05-17T13:36:20.700-04:002011-05-17T13:36:20.700-04:00Very thorough commentary. I haven't read scie...Very thorough commentary. I haven't read science fiction in years but your review tempts me to check the book out (if I can find it)Sharon Wilfonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17466621290140789056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-21858913528378086922011-05-17T11:20:24.792-04:002011-05-17T11:20:24.792-04:00That's a might fine tazza you have. I had to ...That's a might fine tazza you have. I had to Google tazza when I read the book. <br /><br />Also - I had wondered if that was a real town or not - thanks for the answer.Book Gluttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14569975755798562829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-6536079250006229602011-05-17T11:02:20.373-04:002011-05-17T11:02:20.373-04:00It's hard to find even online: there are curre...It's hard to find even online: there are currently only ten copies for sale on AbeBooks. Most of those are paperbacks, a couple of later hardback reprints, and no British first editions at all.<br /><br />Didja like the image of the tazza, by the way? That's a genuine 16th (or thereabouts) century Venetian Tazza.Nick Jones (Louis XIV, the Sun King)https://www.blogger.com/profile/17716508525331235684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448581132479481740.post-85794696195577823402011-05-17T10:11:17.260-04:002011-05-17T10:11:17.260-04:00That is an excellent review - I thought you would ...That is an excellent review - I thought you would go for this book.<br /><br />I had a very hard time finding a copy of A Hive of Glass and then I got one for free. I rarely see Hubbards in the wild (meaning used bookstores), except for paperbacks of High Tide. There is a remarkable place in Baltimore called The Book Thing (http://bookthing.org/) that gives away books. On my first trip there, the first thing I picked up was a second printing of the American edition of Hive of Glass, minus the dust jacket. It was an ex-library copy (from the Free Library of Atlantic City) and was in terrible shape. I had to patch it up with tape. I think the library sold it off for 25 cents. Someone going by the initials PB had the book and did not like it - PB wrote in pencil "a English soap opera with too much thinking."<br /><br />That it was so hard to find until I rescued it from a warehouse of castoffs made me prize this copy much more than most books I acquire.Book Gluttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14569975755798562829noreply@blogger.com