His bedside manner must be a hoot. Imagine explaining to some crewman that he has an STD... "Pammy Anderson and Tommy Lee, when the rash started"...
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His bedside manner must be a hoot. Imagine explaining to some crewman that he has an STD... "Pammy Anderson and Tommy Lee, when the rash started"...
^ Or "Shaka, when the balls fell".
The Once And Future King - T. H. White
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Whotheheckcares
The first book: Nice. If you're really, really, really bored, with no internet, it's a suggested read. Terribly long, massively cliché romantic issues, but amusing in places and not entirely uninteresting overall.
Jane Eyre: A book for the psychological masochistic. Most idiotic way to open a book, ever: being depressing and introducing irritatingly mindless characters [minus potential humor] in positions of real power [aka, not political power] and being overall plotless, save for the pathetic romance.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Whotheheckcares
The first book: Nice. If you're really, really, really bored, with no internet, it's a suggested read. Terribly long, massively cliché romantic issues, but amusing in places and not entirely uninteresting overall.
Jane Eyre: A book for the psychological masochistic. Most idiotic way to open a book, ever: being depressing and introducing irritatingly mindless characters [minus potential humor] in positions of real power [aka, not political power] and being overall plotless, save for the pathetic romance.
Sharak is the first Tamarian to have mastered Fed Standard and generally speaks normally.
he did slip once, and got blank looks.
(of course, anyone who has half a brain and knows anything about linguistics knows that episode was fundamentally stupid.)
he did slip once, and got blank looks.
(of course, anyone who has half a brain and knows anything about linguistics knows that episode was fundamentally stupid.)
^^ Well, amusingly, it was a metaphor. Or meta-metaphor. In any case, I see a lot of comedy potential in that character (as Holdy pointed out).
Well, I can see doing something like that, but if it was me, I would have invented an in-continuity reason for them all to get together. For Klingons, it should be especially easy. Some mutual insult to their honor or some other petty warrior thing.
Is this for school or just your way to kill summer? I started 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' by Anne Bronte, it has been enjoyable. I haven't read her sisters' works so I can't compare them. It is rather moralistic in its criticism of society of the time. From the period I prefer Jane Austen her works don't have the feeling that some mad cousin is locked away in the attic. A bit earlier I enjoy Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. Good wry humor there.
I haven't done any serious reading for some time, but I have occasionally been dipping into the odd chapter here and there as needed of The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World - The Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler. Incredible book, life-changing actually - it's definitely making me more positive in a deeper way. 
My next book will be Moneyball.
And, despite the fact that Brad Pitt will be in it, I'll even see the film version.
And, despite the fact that Brad Pitt will be in it, I'll even see the film version.
For school. If I had it my way I'd have more time to read some Star Trek novels.
My next book will be Moneyball.
And, despite the fact that Brad Pitt will be in it, I'll even see the film version.
Moneyball is on my list, as well, though it has nothing to do with the movie; I've actually wanted to read it for awhile, but it kept slipping my mind until a friend recently reminded me (probably inspired by the movie, now that I think of it.)
Am reading a few different things at the moment:
1. Star Trek Typhon Pact: Paths of Disharmony by Dayton Ward. Am almost finished with this one. Basically it details the Andorian reproduction crisis and the political problems caused by one of the possible solutions.
2. Star Trek: Enterprise Logs. This anthology is a collection of different stories written based on incidents in the logs of ships named Enterprise in the 19th and 20th centuries and fictional stories using the same guidelines for the logs of Robert April, Chris Pike, Edward Jellico, Jean-Luc Picard, Jim Kirk, and Rachel Garrett. Very interesting so far.
3. Lessons from the Mountain by Mary McDonough. This is an autobiography that talks about the making of The Walton's TV show
4. The Corvette in the Barn by Tom Cotter. This book shares true stories of old cars literally found languishing in sheds, barns, backyards, under trees, etc that are found and purchased by collectors who them bring them back to life. This book is a part of a series of these books.
1. Star Trek Typhon Pact: Paths of Disharmony by Dayton Ward. Am almost finished with this one. Basically it details the Andorian reproduction crisis and the political problems caused by one of the possible solutions.
2. Star Trek: Enterprise Logs. This anthology is a collection of different stories written based on incidents in the logs of ships named Enterprise in the 19th and 20th centuries and fictional stories using the same guidelines for the logs of Robert April, Chris Pike, Edward Jellico, Jean-Luc Picard, Jim Kirk, and Rachel Garrett. Very interesting so far.
3. Lessons from the Mountain by Mary McDonough. This is an autobiography that talks about the making of The Walton's TV show
4. The Corvette in the Barn by Tom Cotter. This book shares true stories of old cars literally found languishing in sheds, barns, backyards, under trees, etc that are found and purchased by collectors who them bring them back to life. This book is a part of a series of these books.
Sorry to hear it. I appreciate the desire to put great literature into the hands of students, but I have come to loath quite a number of authors by having been forced to read their works in school. Hopefully they aren't complete joy killers. I can't think of 'Last of the Mohicans' without a shudder for the time wasted.
Just finished Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose again. It's my literary comfort food.
Currently I'm reading Stephen Law's The War for Children's Minds and Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet.
What I should be reading, and am not, is my coursework. It's good to know that my study habits haven't improved any since I was single, childless, and living in my parents' basement.
Currently I'm reading Stephen Law's The War for Children's Minds and Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet.
What I should be reading, and am not, is my coursework. It's good to know that my study habits haven't improved any since I was single, childless, and living in my parents' basement.
Just finished Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose again. It's my literary comfort food.
Currently I'm reading Stephen Law's The War for Children's Minds and Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet.
What I should be reading, and am not, is my coursework. It's good to know that my study habits haven't improved any since I was single, childless, and living in my parents' basement.
I enjoyed 'The Name of the Rose' very much long ago. I first read it after the movie came out. Amusingly, the library had to keep it out of the circulation room and you had to request it from the library. It had been stolen numerous times with the film being out. I enjoyed the irony of getting the hidden book.
I'm in the middle of 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker right now. 
At least I haven't been required to read Charles Dickens since 7th grade. There is no author I loathe more.
It's just the fact that I despise things that are a) redundant, and b) depressing.
don't read thomas hardy then. his books are so depressing...
That's a great idea for a book. But... Jellico?
And no Archer? Or Spock, for that matter.- Status
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