So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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The Searchers by Alan LeMay - I never really knew the movie was based on a novel until I found it in a charity shop. It’s an intriguing mix, characterisation with a sort of Old West travelogue feel, and yet it works. The timescale varies in different sections of the book, being set over periods of hours in some chapters, then skipping through months in others, but all in a way that works in a kind of Tolkien-ish way. Which is to say, it conveys both intimate personal story and epic sweep.
Though written a couple of years before the film, the description of Amos Edwards –Ethan in the movie – is so clearly John Wayne that it does seem to have been written with the intent of being a movie sale, though it’s a little different how much younger the character played by Jeffrey Hunter is here. The ending’s a little different too, but overall feels like a classic Western.
There are a few places where the choice of words – especially in dialogue – is confusing, and makes me wonder whether it’s genuine Old West slang or made-up-in-the-1950s Frontier Gibberish, but it’s not too intrusive either way, and the two main characters feel real. So,yeah, worth the read.
The copy I’ve got has about the first sixty pages or so taken up by a monograph about ‘The Searchers And John Wayne’, and a Making Of memoir of filming it by Harry Carey Jr, so that’s a bonus.
Though written a couple of years before the film, the description of Amos Edwards –Ethan in the movie – is so clearly John Wayne that it does seem to have been written with the intent of being a movie sale, though it’s a little different how much younger the character played by Jeffrey Hunter is here. The ending’s a little different too, but overall feels like a classic Western.
There are a few places where the choice of words – especially in dialogue – is confusing, and makes me wonder whether it’s genuine Old West slang or made-up-in-the-1950s Frontier Gibberish, but it’s not too intrusive either way, and the two main characters feel real. So,yeah, worth the read.
The copy I’ve got has about the first sixty pages or so taken up by a monograph about ‘The Searchers And John Wayne’, and a Making Of memoir of filming it by Harry Carey Jr, so that’s a bonus.
Finished fatherland, great novel!
Tonight I hope to start with "The midnight front" by David Mack
Tonight I hope to start with "The midnight front" by David Mack
Started on "To be taught if fortunate" by Becky Chambers.
Interesting so far.
Interesting so far.
Deuteronomy. Note that Numbers is not a treatise on mathematics.
It was a very different world, back then. And there are some people (definitely not confined to any one religion) who actually think it was a better world.
It was a very different world, back then. And there are some people (definitely not confined to any one religion) who actually think it was a better world.
I bailed on the rest of the Plagues of Night/Raise the Dawn reread. The recapping got to be too much for me, and even original scenes moved at a snail's pace.
I have now moved on to the Cold Equations trilogy. The first two scenes with Geordi/Maddox and Worf/Picard are great, giving us character moments, plot developments, and a bare-bones summary of what we need to know from Nemesis, "The Measure of a Man," and Immortal Coil. I gave this a high rating on initial release, and it is living up to that in its introduction.
I'm a little surprised that The Eternal Tide and The Persistence of Memory do not get discussed more on TrekBBS these days. Each has the return of a major character done very well after they had a polarizing exit.
I have now moved on to the Cold Equations trilogy. The first two scenes with Geordi/Maddox and Worf/Picard are great, giving us character moments, plot developments, and a bare-bones summary of what we need to know from Nemesis, "The Measure of a Man," and Immortal Coil. I gave this a high rating on initial release, and it is living up to that in its introduction.
I'm a little surprised that The Eternal Tide and The Persistence of Memory do not get discussed more on TrekBBS these days. Each has the return of a major character done very well after they had a polarizing exit.
I'm simply not a big fan of bringing characters back from the dead, and it doesn't help that Trek does it A LOT.
David Gerrold wrote a column in Starlog about that, back in the 1980s.
*whew- was told there wouldn’t be any maths involved* Tbh never made it past all the “begetting” and went straight to the NT.
I finished up the Doctor Who: Eight Doctor comic last night, and I started ST: Voyager: Gateways: No Man's Land by Christie Golden. I was in the mood for a TV era Voyager story and this is one of the only two I already own. The other one is the first Dark Matters book, and I really didn't feel like reading a whole trilogy.
It's a musical, right? Gotta be a musical.
Yeah, I'll take this world that has antibiotics, dental care, non-invasive surgery, the ability to travel quickly to places all over the world, the ability to communicate anywhere in the world instantly, and immunizations, thanks.
Also civil rights and democracy, though those are starting to look iffy lately.
Started a reread of Infinity welcomes careful drivers(Red Dwarf) by Grant Naylor earlier.
I'd borrowed Carmilla by Kim Turrisi from the library and finished that before hand. (Short, and basically just a retelling of the first season of the webseries)
I'd borrowed Carmilla by Kim Turrisi from the library and finished that before hand. (Short, and basically just a retelling of the first season of the webseries)
Just finished Joshua. About to begin Judges. Which is not about jurisprudence.
Numbers isn't about math, Judges isn't about jurisprudence -- what were these guys trying to hide?
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