So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Zarm]

The YouTube channel Defunctland has a great five part documentary series exploring the different phases of Henson's career as well. I would highly recommend it. (Defunctland's documentaries are on a professional studio level, generally speaking).

 

[bdub76]

I am currently being made to read Lord of the Flies for school.

There is a version of this book at my library with an introduction by Stephen King. I'd check it out.

 

[Cyfa]

I paused my DS9 post-S7 re-read for The People Collection by Zenna Henderson (which I haven't read in years).

 

[arachnidsGrip]

There is a version of this book at my library with an introduction by Stephen King. I'd check it out.

With an introduction by Stephen King? Neat!

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Now into the chapter where the hotel room farce happens. And we now know where Diredian champagne comes from ("Champagne des Champignons, Methode Inconnu").

******* About 22 hours later *******
Thanks to a protracted World Series Game 3 (I just now looked up the final outcome; note that my two favorite teams are the Angels, and whoever's playing the Dodgers), I only got a few pages further into the chapter: the ice cream parlor scene, the final setup for the hotel room farce, and a Lovecraft reference that I wasn't even aware of, until I did a Google search to find out the significance of Princess Deedee's "Miskatonic University" sweatshirt.

 

[arachnidsGrip]

Last year I tried to read A Clockwork Orange and gave up ten pages in because the Nadsat words were frustrating me. I am now trying again to read it. Weirdly enough it is not as frustrating to me this time. As a matter of fact I almost understand it. Lol

 

[Christopher]

Last year I tried to read A Clockwork Orange and gave up ten pages in because the nonsense words were frustrating me. I am now trying again to read it. Weirdly enough the nonsense words are not as frustrating to me this time. As a matter of fact I almost understand it. Lol

It's not nonsense, it's argot. Burgess was a linguist, so there is a definite sense to Nadsat. All the words are derived from existing language, largely Russian, Cockney rhyming slang, or Biblical references, so it isn't just gibberish.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I haven't attempted to read A Clockwork Orange or Finnegan's Wake, but my understanding is that if you're having trouble with the former, you probably shouldn't attempt the latter.

 

[Smiley]

I'm just over 60% through Lost to Eternity, and the threads' relationships to each other are starting to become more apparent. I will admit to liking the 2024 and 2292 time periods a bit more than 2268, which seems very much like your standard TOS episode most of the time.

When you can have a character muse whether angels like pizza, I have to imagine that feels like a pretty good day for an author.

 

[ace2k]

60 pages into Mel Gilden's TNG story Boogeymen.

 

[John Clark]

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (Second of the Murderbot books).

 

[USS Firefly]

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (Second of the Murderbot books).

Those are good books!

 

[John Clark]

Those are good books!

Yeah, I'm enjoying them. Just finished that one at lunch so will move on to the next tomorrow

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Finished my re-read of How Much For Just the Planet, and am now a chapter into David Mack's latest Star Trek: Strange New Worlds novel, Ring of Fire.

Waiting on deck are Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom, Glen Swanson's Inspired Enterprise, and the third Harry Potter novel (a used Bloomsbury paperback edition).

 

[Greg Cox]

When you can have a character muse whether angels like pizza, I have to imagine that feels like a pretty good day for an author.

I confess: I have no memory of writing that!

 

[Smiley]

It's on page 192 of the Kindle version.

My current Trek reading is the novelization of ST VI.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

When you can have a character muse whether angels like pizza, I have to imagine that feels like a pretty good day for an author.

I confess: I have no memory of writing that!

Sounds like something that would be running through Melinda's mind.

For my own part, I like it just fine. As long as it's a chicken-garlic-Alfredo white pizza, with onions and basil. In fact, I just went through a small of that kind of pizza (from the local ZPizza) for three day's worth of lunch.
Of course, you have to understand that I'm not just a picky eater; I'm the ur-picky-eater, the holotype by whom "picky" is defined. So as you might imagine, I really like restaurants that will construct a dish to the diner's personal specifications.

More common sorts of pizza, on the other hand, well, let's just say I'm in complete agreement with my (entirely fictitious) Uncle Lars, whose reaction, the first time he saw a pizza, was "Who t'rew up on da lefse?"

But getting back on topic, I'm down to about the last dozen or so pages of the October 2025 NMRA Magazine, on my lunch breaks, and I'm still only one chapter into David Mack's latest ST opus.

 

[Greg Cox]

Sounds like something that would be running through Melinda's mind.

For my own part, I like it just fine. As long as it's a chicken-garlic-Alfredo white pizza, with onions and basil. In fact, I

Dare I admit that my favorite pizza is Canadian bacon and pineapple?

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Dare I admit that my favorite pizza is Canadian bacon and pineapple?

What's the worst they could do? Boycott your books? Burn them? What's a Star Trek fan without IDIC?

 

[Christopher]

For my own part, I like it just fine. As long as it's a chicken-garlic-Alfredo white pizza, with onions and basil.

That sounds pretty good. Although I tend to favor vegetarian pizzas with red sauce.