So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[bdub76]

What's puzzling about your statement, @bdub76, is that Wrinkle was published in 1962, whereas Chainmail, the immediate predecessor of D&D, was published in 1971.

No criticism intended; I'm just very, very puzzled (apologies to Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder).

What are you puzzled about? The character Holly is actually reading the book in season 5 of Stranger Things. An episode is called Camazotz. She refers to a characters as Mr. Whatsit.

This might help. Have you seen season 5?

This Classic Sci-Fi Novel Holds the Key to Unlocking 'Stranger Things 5's Biggest Mysteries

Madeleine L'Engle's classic sci-fi novel A Wrinkle in Time holds the key to understanding the biggest mysteries in Stranger Things Season 5.

collider.com

 

[Allyn Gibson]

What's puzzling about your statement, @bdub76, is that Wrinkle was published in 1962, whereas Chainmail, the immediate predecessor of D&D, was published in 1971.

No criticism intended; I'm just very, very puzzled (apologies to Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder).

I think I understand your confusion. When @bdub76 says "original kids," I think he means the "original kids of Stranger Things," not the characters of Wrinkle. The cast of Stranger Things grew over the decade since the first season, hence "new kids" hanging tough.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I think I understand your confusion. When @bdub76 says "original kids," I think he means the "original kids of Stranger Things," not the characters of Wrinkle.

Actually, it's worse: I thought he was referring to viewers.

 

[Nardole]

Currently reading Mosaic by Jeri Taylor. Enjoying it so far but the Janeway backstory chapters are way more interesting than the "current framing story"

 

[bdub76]

Finished A Wrinkle in Time.

I'm surprise my how much of the plot elements were pulled from this book for season 5 of Stranger Things. Of course, the Duffer Brothers have also borrowed a ton from Stephen King.

I should get Lion Women of Tehran shortly from the library. In the meantime, I'm making my way through Skeleton Crew. I couldn't get into Midnight's Children when I started, so I might not be in the mood for that book right now.

And it looks like a couple of my other holds that I expected from the library to hit next month might hit this month, so maybe I read Train Dreams before the month is over (it's short) and end up starting The Long Walk early too.

I ended up starting Housemaid after finishing Monkey from Stephen King's Skeleton Crew.

Now I'm reading both The Long Walk and Lion Women of Tehran, and I'm half way through the Housemaid. I'm really enjoying the build up in the Housemaid. I can't wait to see the film. I'm a quarter of the way through the Long Walk. It's enjoyable and well done. I'm only a couple of chapters into Lion Women of Tehran, so it's too early to say much about it.

 

[bdub76]

Grabbed this (Dangerous Visions) book today to read once I get through Skeleton Crew, which is my read at work at lunch book. I usually knock out a short story at lunch or over two lunches. Novellas take longer.

Dangerous Visions.

Dangerous Visions - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It's on sale for $1.99 right now at KOBO, and the epub is DRM free.

 

[USS Firefly]

I almost couldn't decide between reading Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky or Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. But I started with Shards of Earth

 

[Greg Cox]

Took a break from The Anubis Gates to investigate Stranger Things: Rebel Robin by A. R. Carpetta.

A YA novel set during the first season of the tv series -- back before Robin Buckley joined the gang in Season Three, so all the spooky supernatural stuff is basically taking place just offstage. We know what's going on in the shadows, but she doesn't . . . yet.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

With Identity Theft finished, I'm now just over a quarter of the way into Travis Baldree's Brigands and Breadknives. Not sure where the breadknives come into play.

 

[korblborp]

*Jump Pay* by Rick Shelley

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Not sure where the breadknives come into play.

The breadknife came into play. Who'd have thought it? A talking, Elder Blade, breadknife. And I rather expect that it will turn out to be a "Chekhov's Breadknife." Maybe more than once.

 

[Smiley]

I just finished the TNG novel Debtors' Planet for the first time. The plot itself is average, but where the book excels is in its character work. Thompson makes good use of the cast and their history. If nothing else, it has a decent follow-up to Wesley's story from "The First Duty."

On Earth, it makes sense to use Al or Alex as a nickname for Alexander, but it just doesn't seem to fit Worf's son.

 

[Damian]

Just finished Lost to Eternity and recently ordered Greg Cox' latest book and looking forward to that after it comes. In the meantime I will read TNG: Pliable Truths by Dayton Ward. It's been a while since I read a TNG novel. It sadly reminds me that I miss the relaunch universe, but it'll be interesting to read a TNG era novel, and it appears a bit of a DS9 prequel too.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Now over halfway through Brigands & Breadknives. 182 pages in, 150 pages to go. Fern and the goblin prisoner have just saved Asterix's life, and the party has arrived at a monastery. Why do I get the impression that the bounty on the goblin's head will turn out to have been placed by her own family, who just want her home safe?

 

[Denise]

I've been reading Karen Russell's Antidote and the second book in Kevin Ryan's series Killing Blow. I like Ryan's books so far, but what keeps taking me out of the story is his use of real names of actors, producers, etc. For his characters. There's Admiral Justman, Lt. Leslie Parrish, Lt. Ordover, Admiral Solow, and so on. I know it's a tribute to these people but it's still jarring in an otherwise interesting story.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

what keeps taking me out of the story is his use of real names of actors, producers, etc. For his characters. There's Admiral Justman, Lt. Leslie Parrish, Lt. Ordover, Admiral Solow, and so on.

Hmm. While I already thought of "Fleet Admiral Bob" as "Admiral Bennett" long before there were any published references to that effect, and while Andy Probert got Tuckerized (apparently self-Tuckerized, at least according to something quoted in Memory Alpha) in TMP, I can see how Tuckerizing somebody the readers might have already heard of would have that effect.

Back to Brigands and Breadknives, I'm now 221 pages in. No judgment here; just an observation: if you went through and listed every occurrence of every word on George Carlin's list of "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television," without unnecessary line breaks, in the same face, point-size, and page size as the type the book is set in, you'd probably have several pages.

 

[ace2k]

Starting Doctor's Orders today.

 

[Smiley]

I reread the last three stories of Enterprise Logs. "Shakedown" is a great Peter David story and a must for Harriman fans.

Currently reading:

A Stitch in Time audio (a terrific story and well done by Mr. Robinson, although I have quibbles with his Quark voice, which sounds like he is just holding his nose while speaking the lines)
Chalice of the Gods (Percy Jackson 6)
Crazy Rich Asians
Godzilla: The First 70 Years

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

"Shakedown" is a great Peter David story and a must for Harriman fans.

I agree. Even if it were a lousy story (which it ain't), it would still have been worth it for the ship names alone.

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[Desert Kris]

I've started reading Diane Duane's So You Want to be a Wizard, first of her Young Wizards series. It's off to a great start, I like how this book doesn't make the reader wait, it gets to the point quickly without dilly-dallying. I like how we as the readers get to read passages out of the protagonist's magic book along with her. And I like that Diane Duane's prose is a bit more focused and streamlined, without going into extensive tangents within any given sentence (since it's for younger readers). I also like how the magic is kind of on the blurred line, where high science and high magic are the same. It reminds me a little of A Wrinkle in Time (and the other Time Quintet books of Madeline L'Engle).