So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[bdub76]

Finished A Tale of Two Cities. It was okay, but the character arcs left a lot to be desired. You can tell this was serialized and wasn't planned out too well. Carton's arc is a bit too much for me.

 

[Stevil2001]

Finished A Tale of Two Cities. It was okay, but the character arcs left a lot to be desired. You can tell this was serialized and wasn't planned out too well. Carton's arc is a bit too much for me.

A Tale of Two Cities has a great opening and a great conclusion and an interminably long middle, even by Dickens standards.

I really enjoyed the BBC Radio adaptation narrated by Robert Lindsay, which (quite smartly) makes the first "book" two episodes, the last book two episodes, and the middle book (which is the longest) just one episode! Without all the fat, it works quite well.

 

[Christopher]

A Tale of Two Cities has a great opening and a great conclusion and an interminably long middle, even by Dickens standards.

In other words, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"?

 

[JD]

I took a short break from The War of the Prophets and Q-Space to read the most recent issues of the ST: Lower Decks comic, and ST: Red Shirts. I read all of LD #12 and am currently working my way through RS #3.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Nearing the end of Chapter 14 of John Williams: A Composer's Life. Just finished the section covering Minority Report, and about to begin the one covering Catch Me If You Can. Neither movie ever appealed to me in the slightest. I looked up the former on Wikipedia, and after reading through the plot, I stand by my decision not to see it. As to the latter, I still remember the 60 Minutes segment on Abagnale, which is more than I ever wanted to know about him; I never had the slightest desire to see a movie about him.

@Christopher: what's the new avatar? A new original opus?

(speaking of avatars, one of these days, I'm going to change my own to a picture of me with a Linotype.)

 

[Lynx]

Right now I'm re-reading A Stitch In Time, the biography of Elim Garak made by actor Andrew J. Robinson who played Garak in DS9.

My favorite Star Trek book.

 

[Christopher]

@Christopher: what's the new avatar? A new original opus?

See here: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/trek-writers-original-works.282039/page-27#post-15274386

 

[Zarm]

I finished up the Voyager comics today, and wasn't ready to back to Return of the King, so got the digital version of Star Wars: Kanan Book II: First Blood written by Greg Wiseman with art by Pepe Laraz, and Andrea Broccardo. I'm three issues into it so far and I'm really enjoying it.
I've always liked Kanan from Rebels, and I'm really enjoying taking a dive back into the backstory.

Nice! I always liked Kanan, too; but I'm still back on Fellowship, book 1. Old Tom Bombadil, you know... he's quite a merry fellow.

 

[JD]

I finished up Q-Space this morning, and I loved it. @Greg Cox did an absolutely fantastic job writing Q, and this was a great start to the trilogy. I was a little iffy about Faal and the whole set up with his experiment at first, it just didn't really seem like the most exciting set up for a big trilogy, but as the book went on and more and more complications popped it, it became clear there is more going on than there appears to be, it got a lot more interesting. And of course throwing Q, and (Mrs.) Q, and q into the mix always makes things fun. The one part I was most curious about, the exploration of Q's history did not disappoint, and I'm very curious to see what happens next after where we left off with all of that.
I did decide to take another short break before I moved on to book 2, Q-Zone, and started reading the digital collection of Jim Henon's The Storyteller: Witches. The first issue is the story The Magic Swan Goose & The Lord of The Forest written & illustrated by S.M. Vidaurri.