Have you seen Brotherhood of the Wolf? It's one of my hubby's favorite movies.
Many, many years ago. I'll probably want to revisit it once I finish The Red Winter.
Thank you so much, @Greg Cox, greatly appreciated!
There was a certain formula to Wodehouse's work, but it was a good formula, dammit, and it worked.
Every story Wooster makes a bad fashion decision that Jeeves doesn't really approve of. And every story by the end, Wooster ends up agreeing with Jeeves.
The reason this doesn't really bother me is because the narrative and voice is so well done that I can overlook it and still enjoy the story. There aren't that many authors that can do this without me giving up on them. Dan Brown comes to mind with his repetitive plots, where the the only reason to continue reading is for the historical info dumps. Of course, I can get the same thing from a Erik Larson book, and I enjoy those much more.
Have you read her official stuff?
Yes. I have read a couple of her Murderbot Diaries books and short stories. I do want to read her Stargate novelization.
She was put with TJ Klune for the panel I went to. I've read them both. They're very different, so the dynamics for the panel were great. If you haven't read TJ Klune, I recommend his stuff too.
Read the short story, The Happy Breed, at lunch today. It's one of many stories in Dangerous Visions.
This one is especially chilling in the new world we have with chatbots that I now use at work. This is definitely one of the standouts from this collection, and I highly recommend it. One of the best short stories I have read this year.
You do get a little bit of Brave New World in that story, but it's focus on the machines is really spot on.
This one is especially chilling in the new world we have with chatbots that I now use at work. This is definitely one of the standouts from this collection, and I highly recommend it. One of the best short stories I have read this year.
You do get a little bit of Brave New World in that story, but it's focus on the machines is really spot on.
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Patrick Stewart's autobiography, Making It So. This is a book that strangely leaves me wanting both more and less.
There's a line Tom Skerritt delivers about writing in A River Runs Through It that has stayed with me for thirty years: "Again, half as long." And I frequently found myself mentally saying that to Sir Patrick as I read. The text was breezily readable, but it felt misshapen, bloated, frequently dull -- and superficial.
At the same time, I felt he could have gone deeper into other matters. There are some projects, like his race-swapped production of Othello, i wish he had explored. His Star Trek career, and the relationships there, which for most readers would be the selling point of the book, are cursory and underexamined. And I felt more introspection was warranted on certain relationships in his life.
That said, the book is filled with interesting, and often funny, stories, like that of his sixty year friendship with Paul McCartney. (Stewart might not use the word "friendship," but Macca would.) There are surprises, too; I didn't know that Stewart had dated Jennifer Hetrick after "Captain's Holiday." Stewart paints a fascinating portrait of the life of a working theater actor, growing up in poverty in post-war Britain, whose curiosity and love of language led him to worldwide fame.
It's a hard book to hate, but also a difficult one to like. Again, Patrick, half as long.
There's a line Tom Skerritt delivers about writing in A River Runs Through It that has stayed with me for thirty years: "Again, half as long." And I frequently found myself mentally saying that to Sir Patrick as I read. The text was breezily readable, but it felt misshapen, bloated, frequently dull -- and superficial.
At the same time, I felt he could have gone deeper into other matters. There are some projects, like his race-swapped production of Othello, i wish he had explored. His Star Trek career, and the relationships there, which for most readers would be the selling point of the book, are cursory and underexamined. And I felt more introspection was warranted on certain relationships in his life.
That said, the book is filled with interesting, and often funny, stories, like that of his sixty year friendship with Paul McCartney. (Stewart might not use the word "friendship," but Macca would.) There are surprises, too; I didn't know that Stewart had dated Jennifer Hetrick after "Captain's Holiday." Stewart paints a fascinating portrait of the life of a working theater actor, growing up in poverty in post-war Britain, whose curiosity and love of language led him to worldwide fame.
It's a hard book to hate, but also a difficult one to like. Again, Patrick, half as long.
I don’t think I’ve bought that one. My Trek books completist days are well behind me. I saw a comment elsewhere that it’s more enjoyable as an audiobook with Patrick Stewart narrating, which seems likely, but I have too many unheard audios already.
I’ve been reading some Halo tie-ins. It occurred to me the other day that I had bought the game Halo Infinite some time ago and not played it yet, and it’s been quite a few years since I last played a new Halo game. So I started the game, couldn’t remember a thing about where the overall story had left off, and bought some books. There’s a lot of continuity between the games, comics, and novels. One novel down, into the second, and while there’s some world building in the background and characters carrying over, the books are as action-focused as the games so far. Not something I’m going to dig too deeply into, but I’ll have a better idea of what the Master Chief is up to in this new game.
I’ve been reading some Halo tie-ins. It occurred to me the other day that I had bought the game Halo Infinite some time ago and not played it yet, and it’s been quite a few years since I last played a new Halo game. So I started the game, couldn’t remember a thing about where the overall story had left off, and bought some books. There’s a lot of continuity between the games, comics, and novels. One novel down, into the second, and while there’s some world building in the background and characters carrying over, the books are as action-focused as the games so far. Not something I’m going to dig too deeply into, but I’ll have a better idea of what the Master Chief is up to in this new game.
Just finished When Justice Comes by Colleen Coble.
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Working my way through all DS9 - starting with - Terok Nor (Day of the Vipers). Just finished The Moon Is Hell by John W Campbell (classic reread), Half way through The Gordian Protocol by Weber and Holo. Non-fiction finished The Immortal Storm (History of early fandom) (Sam Moskowitz) Reading list for the near future is all DS9 books.
I just stated reading Star trek TOS Identity Theft by Greg Cox I've read 10 chapters so far I like this unique look into Chekov's character and how he's trying to save himself from a really dangerous situation and worried about his Enterprise crewmates and wondering how to stop the bad guys.
Hmm. I have a vague recollection of it. The Reeves-Stevenses. TOS/TNG crossover, with First Contact between Humans and Native Centaurians (no, not like in B5), following (at least somewhat) the long-deprecated Spaceflight Chronology version of who Cochrane was (and giving a phonetic approximation of how the name is pronounced in Centaurian). As I recall, it was quite good, albeit entirely incompatible with the canonical version of Cochrane that would be developed not that many years later. Wouldn't mind re-reading it myself.
Also incompatible with
"Metamorphosis," which stated explicitly and repeatedly that Cochrane was human. ("He's human, Jim. Everything checks out perfectly." "We find you out here, where no human has any business being." "Not coming from a human being. You are, after all, essentially irrational." "I've got the feeling it's one of the pleasanter things about being human, as long as you grow old together." Also the fact that the asteroid environment the Companion created for Cochrane's benefit was identical to Earth conditions, not Centaurian conditions.) He was supposed to be "of Alpha Centauri" in the same was that T.E. Lawrence was "of Arabia" or Helen was "of Troy" -- it wasn't where he was born, it was where he was famous for going. (The episode outline defined him as the leader of the first Earth expedition to Alpha Centauri.) I've always found it strange how many fans latched onto that single line and ignored all the other evidence from the same episode, including his Scottish surname. (Although "Zefram" does seem to be an original coinage.)
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