So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[Smiley]

I am almost done with my reread of Star Trek: Revelation and Dust. I really wish that the Keev/Altek chapters were less frequent and shorter, more like interludes. The stuff at the beginning and end with Kira is great, but trimming the Bajora section would have resulted in a much more gripping opening to this five-part arc.

Appointment With Death was still enjoyable, although the advancements in technology and changing of the political landscape would require the motivations for the crime to be tweaked a bit if it were to happen today.

 

[JD]

I finished up TNG: The Space Between this morning, and I thought it was OK. Most of the issues were pretty good, it was well written and I liked the art, but my biggest issue was that it was kind of anti-climatic, and it wasn't even clear at the end if they evens stopped the bad guy's plot. There was also some stuff in the first issue that I thought was a little unclear on what exactly was going on.

 

[bdub76]

Three books going right now: The Fallbacks, The Keeper of Hidden Books, and the Fallen.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Finished Rachel McMillan's "Van Buren and De Luca" duology. Now reading Amanda Dykes' All The Lost Places.

 

[JD]

I started reading Superman/Batman World's Finest Vol. 1: The Devil Nezha written by Mark Waid with art by Dan Mora.

 

[Dr Bonezee]

I’m reading Warpath Deep Space Nine by David Mack. About a third of the way through. Pretty damn good so far.

 

[Smiley]

Ben Bova's Return to Mars (thankfully, more like Mars than the Dan Randolph stories at about 60% read)
Star Trek: A Ceremony of Losses reread
Big Macs & Burgundy (I picked it up for the pairing advice, but I'm learning a lot about wine in the first section)

 

[Greg Cox]

All the Blood We Share: A Novel of the Bloody Benders of Kansas by Camilla Bruce.

Based on a real-life family of serial killers back in the 1870s.

 

[JD]

I finished up World's Finest Vol. 1 last night and start the Doctor Who: The Third Doctor comic The Heralds of Destruction, written by Paul Cornell with art by Christopher Jones.
Worlds Finest was pretty good, it was a fun Superman/Batman team up story.

 

[Smiley]

In A Ceremony of Losses, there is a Typhon Pact planet called Ghidi Prime. This brought to mind two associations for me.

1. Giedi Prime, a Harkonnen world in the Dune saga
2. "Giddy as a schoolboy," a phrase used in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

 

[Christopher]

In A Ceremony of Losses, there is a Typhon Pact planet called Ghidi Prime. This brought to mind two associations for me.

1. Giedi Prime, a Harkonnen world in the Dune saga

Which, as far as I can determine, was the first planet in science fiction to be named "[Something] Prime." So all subsequent uses in SF are echoing it.

2. "Giddy as a schoolboy," a phrase used in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

I've usually heard it as "giddy as a schoolgirl." I thought it was a well-established phrase, but a Google Ngram search shows it (either as boy or girl) to be virtually nonexistent before 1980, so the movie's use may have been anachronistic.

 

[Commander Troi]

I thought "giddy as a schoolboy" came from A Christmas Carol.

 

[Greg Cox]

I thought "giddy as a schoolboy" came from A Christmas Carol.

I thought so too, but turns out the actual quote is:

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody!”

So I guess the Indiana Jones movie conflated "merry as a schoolboy" and "giddy as a drunken man."

 

[Christopher]

I thought "giddy as a schoolboy" came from A Christmas Carol.

Hmm, close. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world."

So I guess it's one of those condensed/misremembered expressions like "to gild the lily," which is from Shakespeare's King John Act IV, sc. 2: "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, / To throw a perfume on the violet, / To smooth the ice, or add another hue / Unto the rainbow...". Although the condensed version loses the meaning of wasting effort on something redundant.

 

[carcinoGeneticist]

Moby Dick.

 

[Krupp]

I picked up the omnibus of Deep Space Nine: Millennium for an absolute steal - like £3 something for about a thousand pages of Trek. For whatever reason I hadn't read it. Just finished book one and man, it is excellent. Some of the best takes on the characters in what really feels like a multi-part episode of DS9. I guess it was written so close to the show that's not surprising. Devouring it.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

The White Rose Resists by Amanda Barratt

 

[Greg Cox]

The new issue of SAVAGE TALES comic: an anthology featuring four new stories, starring Gulliver Jones, John Carter of Mars, Vampirella, and Red Sonja, respectively.

 

[JD]

I started Star Wars: A New Dawn by @JJMiller, I've actually had it for quite a while but just never got around to reading it until today.

 

[Commander Troi]

Just started "Feral Self-Care" by Mandi Em.