Penguin Books' Great Ideas Series: VanderMeer Versus the Classics, 60 Books in 60 Days, Starting in December

(The Predator: outgunned and overmatched but still fighting...)Many thanks to Penguin Books and in particular Colin Brush for sending me the entire 60-book set of Penguin's Great Ideas series. Not only are these classics, they're presented in gorgeous designs.So here's the skinny: I've set myself the daunting challenge of reviewing all 60 books in the Great Ideas series, one a day, every day from December 13th until I'm done. I'll read one book each night before bed and then blog about it the next day. (Granted, some of these I've encountered before.) A short review, a quote from the book, and a question posed to readers based on my reading of the book. 60 books. 60 days. Will I go mad from the weight of this? Will my reviews more resemble the ravings of the obsessed by book thirty or forty? Tune in to find out. And...Bring it on!Brush also sent the first ten in their new line of horror novels, published as part of the Red Classics series. (More on them in a separate post before December.) These are beautiful books, some of which I haven't read before.A few more photos below the cut (whole set here.)