Huck Finn and Connecticut Yankee. I'm on a bit of a Mark Twain kick right now.
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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I guess tonight, assuming I finish adding the strakes to the last border slide drawer, I'll be starting on Nana's book.
The TSR novels from the late 80s? I don't recall a thing about then. 
Now, a few chapters into Nana's book. The printing is absolutely beautiful, and (except that I wouldn't have used a spine-board) so is the binding.
And the writing is top-notch as well. Some of the things Nana and many of her predecessors went through are downright harrowing.
And the writing is top-notch as well. Some of the things Nana and many of her predecessors went through are downright harrowing.
Good to hear. That's on my Yule list.
Now in the middle of the Denise Crosby chapter. I was completely unaware that she'd posed nude for Playboy. Or that she'd deliberately sabotaged the "naughty milkmaid" scenario that had been planned for foisted upon her.
I asked my son for a random letter to help me choose my next read. He chose "E," so I am now getting to reread The End of Eternity right after Watching the Clock. That should make for a cool double feature.
Christopher, let me say again that I very much enjoy the blend of Trek callbacks, real science, and original creations that you put into your books. The references to stuff like the Red Orbs of Jalbador make my fannish side squee, but the story can also be enjoyed with basically no outside Trek knowledge. The segues into and out of the flashback chapters were done very well and made them feel more motivated than usual. Out of all of the DTI characters, this time Lucsly and Ranjea stood out as the ones I enjoyed reading about the most.
Christopher, let me say again that I very much enjoy the blend of Trek callbacks, real science, and original creations that you put into your books. The references to stuff like the Red Orbs of Jalbador make my fannish side squee, but the story can also be enjoyed with basically no outside Trek knowledge. The segues into and out of the flashback chapters were done very well and made them feel more motivated than usual. Out of all of the DTI characters, this time Lucsly and Ranjea stood out as the ones I enjoyed reading about the most.
Thanks!
Finished Nana's own chapter. Still more harrowing experiences. I wonder why Marina declined to be interviewed (she was the only living woman to decline participation in the book). I wonder if she now regrets that decision.
Fittingly enough for the thread we're in, I'm reading the novelization of Star Trek: Generations alongside the Asimov book. Besides getting into the heads of the characters onscreen and fleshing out motivations, Dillard also adds material for those characters who did not appear in the prologue (Spock, McCoy, Hikaru Sulu, and Uhura). It gives a bit more emotional weight to events and provides some introspection and melancholy.
My memory of Part Two is that it stuck pretty closely to onscreen material, but it includes more of the Geordi subplot that was also seen in the deleted scenes.
My memory of Part Two is that it stuck pretty closely to onscreen material, but it includes more of the Geordi subplot that was also seen in the deleted scenes.
Just finished the DS9 section, with the short chapter on Chase Masterson. She didn't get together with Nana either, specifically about the book, but I'm sure they must have had interactions during production.
Nana did a second chapter on herself. A much longer one. I was completely unaware that she'd been raped, then robbed, at gunpoint. And that she'd been one of the people to put a pair of serial rapists/robbers/murderers behind bars for a very long time, and that the tabloids had not destroyed her career for doing so. With the result that both actress and character were dealing with a great deal of post-traumatic stress.
Nana did a second chapter on herself. A much longer one. I was completely unaware that she'd been raped, then robbed, at gunpoint. And that she'd been one of the people to put a pair of serial rapists/robbers/murderers behind bars for a very long time, and that the tabloids had not destroyed her career for doing so. With the result that both actress and character were dealing with a great deal of post-traumatic stress.
I didn't realise this thread was supposed to be about Trek books. FML
No, I think people post here about everything they're reading, not just Trek.
Even if it were more limited, the Twain books are just background reading for "Time's Arrow," right?
Except "Time's Arrow" got Twain mostly wrong. They showed him in San Francisco on a date when he was actually traveling in Europe, and showed him buoyed by optimism after his glimpse of the future, when in reality he grew more pessimistic and cynical in the subsequent years.
That may have been after he'd lost his shirt investing in a typesetting machine that wasn't practical.
(And yes, I would know that little tidbit.)
(And yes, I would know that little tidbit.)
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The character as seen in the episodes is generally consistent with what is known by the public at large about Twain's personality and writings. It passes the standard for most TV and movie depictions of historical figures or biographies. A date in error is very easily overlooked, and there could be an explanation for the change in attitude like there was in Doctor Who's "Vincent and the Doctor."
Hardly. Consider:
Yesterday, I read the cover story (by a fellow in Colorado modeling the Chicago & Northwestern); today, I read the "Tool Car" column, and a very long article on the scratchbuilding of a contest-winning model of a business car, in HO scale, and the history of its prototype (on a little-known railroad I'd never heard of).
If it has words, and you're willing to publicly admit to reading it, then it's suitable for this thread.
As others have mentioned, that's not at all the case. Feel free to post about anything you're reading, as you did. You're all good.
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