Finished Kremlin's Candidate
I enjoyed the series, but next up it's Architects of Infinity.
I enjoyed the series, but next up it's Architects of Infinity.
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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I started to read Amazing Spider-Man: Election Day last night, but I changed my mind this morning and set that aside in favor of The Never-Ending Story. The TNES movie is one of my favorites going all the back to my childhood, but I've never read the book before. I honestly didn't even really it was based on a book until a year or two ago.
I am reading the Witcher: Sword of Destiny
So far not a great book, and geralt and Yennefer are a weird couple.
Can you compare this novel with the other Witcher novels?
So far not a great book, and geralt and Yennefer are a weird couple.
Can you compare this novel with the other Witcher novels?
The Delirium Brief, by Charles Stross
I'm only a few pages shy of halfway through Paul Hawken's Drawdown, and I'm a few cantos into Inferno, in Dante's Divine Comedy (the Longfellow translation).
I will note that while the title refers only to the fact that the Divine Comedy has a happy ending, and that it's written in what, for its time, was a rather lowbrow style, parts of it (particularly the assigned punishments in Inferno) vary from mildly amusing (e.g., misers and spendthrifts in an eternal shoving match involving heavy objects) to riotously funny (e.g., what happens to flatterers [if you haven't read it, think "bullshit"]).
I will note that while the title refers only to the fact that the Divine Comedy has a happy ending, and that it's written in what, for its time, was a rather lowbrow style, parts of it (particularly the assigned punishments in Inferno) vary from mildly amusing (e.g., misers and spendthrifts in an eternal shoving match involving heavy objects) to riotously funny (e.g., what happens to flatterers [if you haven't read it, think "bullshit"]).
Bryce Zabel's Once There Was a Way, an alternate history of the Beatles from 1968 to 1975 (with an epilogue at some point after George Harrison's death). As you might be able to tell from that short description, the Beatles do not break up. There are two points of departure, which really have nothing to do with one another -- Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show in 1968 instead of Joe Garagiola when John and Paul appear, and J.R.R. Tolkien sells United Artists the film rights for The Lord of the Rings for the purpose of making a Beatles film. It's fiction, obviously, but it's written as a history rather than as a novel. (I'd compare it to Peter Doggett's You Never Give Me Your Money, a real history of the Beatles that covers the break-up and beyond.) It's very readable.
Yeah, they did. They were talking about it before they went to India in 1968, but United Artists wasn't able to get the rights. (Tolkien wouldn't sell them to Saul Zaentz until, I think, 1971.) The casting they had in mind was strange -- John as Gollum, Paul as Frodo, George as Gandalf, and Ringo as Sam. John apparently wanted Patrick McGoohan as Aragorn. I sort of assumed that Dick Lester would have directed, so I imagined that it probably would have ended up looking like Lester's mid-70s Musketeer films, but they were some conversations with Stanley Kubrick. (in the novel I'm reading, it's Kubrick, which is part of the reason why the Beatles stay together -- Kubrick dismisses them as artists, which fires them up to prove him otherwise.) I can't imagine a Kubrick Lord of the Rings movie, and a world without Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange feels wrong.
DC Star Trek comic with that Konom guy.
Star Trek The Next Generation - Reunion by Michael Jan Friedman. This was always one of my favorite early TNG novels.
Doing a quick reread of Phule's Company by Robert Asprin.
I finished The Midnight Front by David Mack.
I then read "Closure", from Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Shores, by James Swallow.
I'm now reading Star Trek: Voyager: Architects of Infinity by Kirsten Beyer.
I then read "Closure", from Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Shores, by James Swallow.
I'm now reading Star Trek: Voyager: Architects of Infinity by Kirsten Beyer.
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