Have you seen Brotherhood of the Wolf? It's one of my hubby's favorite movies.
Many, many years ago. I'll probably want to revisit it once I finish The Red Winter.
Thank you so much, @Greg Cox, greatly appreciated!
There was a certain formula to Wodehouse's work, but it was a good formula, dammit, and it worked.
Every story Wooster makes a bad fashion decision that Jeeves doesn't really approve of. And every story by the end, Wooster ends up agreeing with Jeeves.
The reason this doesn't really bother me is because the narrative and voice is so well done that I can overlook it and still enjoy the story. There aren't that many authors that can do this without me giving up on them. Dan Brown comes to mind with his repetitive plots, where the the only reason to continue reading is for the historical info dumps. Of course, I can get the same thing from a Erik Larson book, and I enjoy those much more.
Have you read her official stuff?
Yes. I have read a couple of her Murderbot Diaries books and short stories. I do want to read her Stargate novelization.
She was put with TJ Klune for the panel I went to. I've read them both. They're very different, so the dynamics for the panel were great. If you haven't read TJ Klune, I recommend his stuff too.
Read the short story, The Happy Breed, at lunch today. It's one of many stories in Dangerous Visions.
This one is especially chilling in the new world we have with chatbots that I now use at work. This is definitely one of the standouts from this collection, and I highly recommend it. One of the best short stories I have read this year.
You do get a little bit of Brave New World in that story, but it's focus on the machines is really spot on.
This one is especially chilling in the new world we have with chatbots that I now use at work. This is definitely one of the standouts from this collection, and I highly recommend it. One of the best short stories I have read this year.
You do get a little bit of Brave New World in that story, but it's focus on the machines is really spot on.
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Patrick Stewart's autobiography, Making It So. This is a book that strangely leaves me wanting both more and less.
There's a line Tom Skerritt delivers about writing in A River Runs Through It that has stayed with me for thirty years: "Again, half as long." And I frequently found myself mentally saying that to Sir Patrick as I read. The text was breezily readable, but it felt misshapen, bloated, frequently dull -- and superficial.
At the same time, I felt he could have gone deeper into other matters. There are some projects, like his race-swapped production of Othello, i wish he had explored. His Star Trek career, and the relationships there, which for most readers would be the selling point of the book, are cursory and underexamined. And I felt more introspection was warranted on certain relationships in his life.
That said, the book is filled with interesting, and often funny, stories, like that of his sixty year friendship with Paul McCartney. (Stewart might not use the word "friendship," but Macca would.) There are surprises, too; I didn't know that Stewart had dated Jennifer Hetrick after "Captain's Holiday." Stewart paints a fascinating portrait of the life of a working theater actor, growing up in poverty in post-war Britain, whose curiosity and love of language led him to worldwide fame.
It's a hard book to hate, but also a difficult one to like. Again, Patrick, half as long.
There's a line Tom Skerritt delivers about writing in A River Runs Through It that has stayed with me for thirty years: "Again, half as long." And I frequently found myself mentally saying that to Sir Patrick as I read. The text was breezily readable, but it felt misshapen, bloated, frequently dull -- and superficial.
At the same time, I felt he could have gone deeper into other matters. There are some projects, like his race-swapped production of Othello, i wish he had explored. His Star Trek career, and the relationships there, which for most readers would be the selling point of the book, are cursory and underexamined. And I felt more introspection was warranted on certain relationships in his life.
That said, the book is filled with interesting, and often funny, stories, like that of his sixty year friendship with Paul McCartney. (Stewart might not use the word "friendship," but Macca would.) There are surprises, too; I didn't know that Stewart had dated Jennifer Hetrick after "Captain's Holiday." Stewart paints a fascinating portrait of the life of a working theater actor, growing up in poverty in post-war Britain, whose curiosity and love of language led him to worldwide fame.
It's a hard book to hate, but also a difficult one to like. Again, Patrick, half as long.
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