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Finished The Mist. I thought it was overall okay. Starting Nightmare Alley. I recently watched the b&w version of the latest adaptation, and it was great. Looking forward to actually reading the book. It's short, so it shouldn't take long.
The book is great. Dark as hell, and very sexually frank for its era, but compelling.
FYI, the 1940s movie version with Tyrone Power is also worth checking. The Hays Code forced the filmmakers to tone things down a little, but it's still a great movie.
I just finished Batman: Revolution, the sequel to Resurrection. I enjoyed both, but found the sequel to be even better, so if you enjoy this one, I heartily recommend pressing on!
Likewise, if you're in a listening mood, Audible's audio drama adaptation of Mysterious Affair at Styles with Peter Dinklage as Poirot is quite good, as well!
I am reading the colonel and the King by Peter Guralnick, so far great.
After this I am thinking about reading Batman Resurrection, good to hear that it is a good book
I finished up the first collection of the no-subititle Star Trek comic series that ended earlier this year, and I did not like, won't be continuing the series, and probably won't bother with anything else by those authors. I posted my thoughts about it over the series thread.
One that was done I read this week's new issues of ST: Red Shirts and Lower Decks, both of which I liked a lot more.
Now two full chapters into Escape from Freedom. Three early (and therefore subject to change) conclusions:
1. Fromm's thesis is well-reasoned.
2. It complements, rather than contradicts, George Lakoff's Whose Freedom.
3. While those who labeled the Middle Ages "The Dark Ages" certainly overestimated ancient Roman, Greek, and Hebrew civilizations, Fromm underestimates those civilizations.
60% of the way through the book, I have mixed feelings. Each individual scene ranges from fine to engrossing, but the impetus to keep reading for the story as a whole is low. I can tell that it is a labor of love, even making an allusion to False Face from the 1960's show.
Star Trek: Mind Meld (Vornholt)
Richard II (Shakespeare)
The Sword of the Golem (1970) by Abraham Rothberg. A decades-old novel about the Golem of Prague.
Loved this book as a kid, reading it a couple of times, and recently stumbled onto a signed (!), hardcover edition at a used bookstore. Rereading it now for the first time since I was twelve probably . . ..
I finished up DS9 Millenium Book II: War of the Prophets last night, and I thought it was great. The Garfields are fantastic writers, seemed to have a really good handle on DS9. The whole War of the Prophets future was a pretty interesting one. It was a little scary to see how far Starfleet had fallen by the time the Defiant crew showed up. Weyoun was always one of my favorites, and what they did with him here was an interesting little twist on the character.
Once I finished War of the Prophets, I started Simpsons Comics Meltdown, a comics trade paperback collects four issues of The Simpsons comics, 300's Company, The Burger Kings of Comedy, Hotfoot in the Park, 24/7th Heaven, and Coach Me If You Can. The copyright page says they were originally published as #91-#95, but I'm not sure which was which.
Finished Chapter 3 of Escape from Freedom. I'll note that Fromm asserts that where coping with the isolation, uncertainty, and feelings of insignificance and powerlessness, that come with freedom are concerned, the Protestant Reformation created coping mechanisms that are ultimately dead ends.
More than once, reading this opus, I found myself thinking of Douglas Adams and his "Total Perspective Vortex."
Half way through Nightmare Alley book. So far, I think, the film improved upon the material. The backstory with the mentalist book was much better in the film than in the book.
I'm also reading Secret History and Bleak House. The later has been a bit difficult to get into.
I've finished my re-read of Zenna Henderson's The People Collection. While I still enjoyed almost all of the individual stories about these alien telepaths and telekinetics finding their refuge on Earth met with hostility or acceptance, I found the connecting tale a bit of an annoyance.
I've returned to my DS9 re-read with Mission Gamma: Cathedral (Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels) - again skipping the Gamma Quadrant exploration parts and only reading the DS9 & Bajor chapters.
I just read the totality of the Murderbot Diaries. I'd been meaning to read them for years, but I thought that there'd be some confusion trying to get them with the series being a mix of novellas, novels, and short stories. I enjoyed the TV adaptation, though, and saw the new collected editions at a new Barnes and Noble that recently opened in my area, so I figured I'd support the location to make sure they stuck around, and that this new trade paperback run would streamline the reading process and give me a nice set that would look consistent on the shelf.
Then I looked it up and found out that the first full-length novel wasn't included, and it takes place between the two stories in the third collection. And the next novel debuts in hardcover. Great going, David, you played yourself.
Now on to Mission Gamma: Lesser Evil, by Robert Simpson. This novel, the fourth and final one in DS9's Mission Gamma mini-series, is full of excitement from the get go what with picking up right after the assassination of Bajor's First Minister just as they're about to join the Federation. I'm even reading the Gamma Quadrant chapters set aboard the Defiant - so far, anyway.
~ I hope you can pick up the first novel soon. I read it a few years back and rather enjoyed it, then meant to read the rest but haven't got around to it yet.
I adore this Murderbot Diaries animatic, though:
Now on to Mission Gamma: Lesser Evil, by Robert Simpson. This novel, the fourth and final one in DS9's Mission Gamma mini-series, is full of excitement from the get go what with picking up right after the assassination of Bajor's First Minister just as they're about to join the Federation. I'm even reading the Gamma Quadrant chapters set aboard the Defiant - so far, anyway.
~ I hope you can pick up the first novel soon. I read it a few years back and rather enjoyed it, then meant to read the rest but haven't got around to it yet.
I adore this Murderbot Diaries animatic, though:
Oh, I did, and I’m glad I looked up the order to figure it out. I can’t imagine how confusing it would’ve been to go straight from “Fugitive Telemetry” to “System Collapse,” skipping “Network Effect,” if I’d just read the collections I got straight through.
On the other hand, publication order where “Network Effect” was released first and then “Fugitive Telemetry” (probably my favorite one) was a prequel that took place one slot earlier also seems less-than-optimal, so maybe the series is just doomed to be a bit of a mess organizationally.
Oh, I did, and I’m glad I looked up the order to figure it out. I can’t imagine how confusing it would’ve been to go straight from “Fugitive Telemetry” to “System Collapse,” skipping “Network Effect,” if I’d just read the collections I got straight through.
On the other hand, publication order where “Network Effect” was released first and then “Fugitive Telemetry” (probably my favorite one) was a prequel that took place one slot earlier also seems less-than-optimal, so maybe the series is just doomed to be a bit of a mess organizationally.
~ Ah, I'll bear that in mind when I get to reading the series - thank you!
At the moment, I've nearly finished Lesser Evil (which is just as exciting this time around), but I am also reading - and poring over the photos & sketches of - Star Trek Costumes: Five Decades of Fashion from the Final Frontier by Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdman.
This is one my favorite Ds9 books.
