So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Greg Cox]

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.

 

[USS Firefly]

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

 

[JD]

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.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

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.