What are you reading?
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I'll finish Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers as soon as I find it. I had it last night, now it's gone.
Meantime I'm reading through Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America.
Meantime I'm reading through Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America.
I'm planning on starting The Fate of Ten (I am Number Four #6) tonight. I'll take a break from Atonement.
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Godzilla On My Mind Fifty Years Of The King Of Monsters by William Tsutsui
The author has made some observations regarding fandoms.
"...Academics have probed fandom with a vicarious gusto, and have treated Star Trek devotees in particular like cultural lab rats, dissecting their curious behaviors with the conceptual scalpels...."
And....
"....even if many of us continue to imagine the sci-fi audience as demographically skewed toward pimply teenagers, disaffected misfits, and the undateable geeks nobody wanted to sit with in the cafeteria, fandom today defies ready stereotyping. Who would have guessed that most Star Trek fanatics are female....Or that, according to one recent poll, 53 percent of Americans identify themselves as 'Star Trek fans'?
"...one of Godzilla's many Middle Eastern fans was a certain Osama bin Laden, who is said to have watched the 1998 TriStar offering. As a captured al Qaeda operative tolod interrogators, bin Laden harbored the dream of destroying the Brooklyn Bridge, 'the bridge in the Godzilla movie'...."
Godzilla On My Mind Fifty Years Of The King Of Monsters by William Tsutsui
The author has made some observations regarding fandoms.
"...Academics have probed fandom with a vicarious gusto, and have treated Star Trek devotees in particular like cultural lab rats, dissecting their curious behaviors with the conceptual scalpels...."
And....
"....even if many of us continue to imagine the sci-fi audience as demographically skewed toward pimply teenagers, disaffected misfits, and the undateable geeks nobody wanted to sit with in the cafeteria, fandom today defies ready stereotyping. Who would have guessed that most Star Trek fanatics are female....Or that, according to one recent poll, 53 percent of Americans identify themselves as 'Star Trek fans'?
"...one of Godzilla's many Middle Eastern fans was a certain Osama bin Laden, who is said to have watched the 1998 TriStar offering. As a captured al Qaeda operative tolod interrogators, bin Laden harbored the dream of destroying the Brooklyn Bridge, 'the bridge in the Godzilla movie'...."
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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Next weekend, I'm planning to see the Haunting (1963) on the big screen, so I decided to read the novel beforehand. I love the original film version and I've seen it several times, but never read the book.
Next weekend, I'm planning to see the Haunting (1963) on the big screen, so I decided to read the novel beforehand. I love the original film version and I've seen it several times, but never read the book.
Going to be starting The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury tonight.
Just finished Terok Nor: Night of the Wolves. I love any story featuring Kira or Ro, and this had BOTH!
Just finished Terok Nor: Dawn of the Eagles.
Yep, spent all day reading it through in one go.
Yep, spent all day reading it through in one go.
I'm reading I Am Number Four The Lost Files Rebel Allies by Pittacus Lore.
Solomon's Song by Bryce Courtney, third book in the Potato Factory trilogy.
^^ Ah, Great Expectations. One of my favorites.
Third time's the charm: I finally read Wizard of Earthsea from beginning to end. I tried to read this in school, didn't care for it and set it aside. Borrowed a copy from the library several years ago and returned it unread. This week, I pushed through and completed my reading today.
The story was okay, the setting showed promise, but I am really not a fan of LeGuin's writing style. Her run-on sentences twist and turn like a snake, alternately offering too few commas and too many commas. The narrative flows along moderately well at times, but too often the momentum is halted with convoluted sentence structures that would tie Yoda's tongue into knots.
I'm glad I finally finished this novel but LeGuin is just not an author for me or my tastes.
The story was okay, the setting showed promise, but I am really not a fan of LeGuin's writing style. Her run-on sentences twist and turn like a snake, alternately offering too few commas and too many commas. The narrative flows along moderately well at times, but too often the momentum is halted with convoluted sentence structures that would tie Yoda's tongue into knots.
I'm glad I finally finished this novel but LeGuin is just not an author for me or my tastes.
I just finished Jack McDevitt's Coming Home, finally. It was very enjoyable and very character driven, as always. The plot revolved around the search for Apollo artifacts, which, at this point, are almost ten thousand years old. There is a conspiracy and a coverup, of course, and the reason behind it is surprising and touching.
The secondary plot involves the continuing efforts to save the people on the ships trapped in time warps, as revealed the in the previous novel. The particular ship in question includes Alex's uncle (and Chase's former employer), long thought dead, among its passengers. This part of the story felt very anticlimactic, given its importance to the main characters. It should have been the A-plot, and I hope it is the focus of the next novel. It really changes everything about the character dynamics in a big way and yet it was handled as merely an epilogue.
The secondary plot involves the continuing efforts to save the people on the ships trapped in time warps, as revealed the in the previous novel. The particular ship in question includes Alex's uncle (and Chase's former employer), long thought dead, among its passengers. This part of the story felt very anticlimactic, given its importance to the main characters. It should have been the A-plot, and I hope it is the focus of the next novel. It really changes everything about the character dynamics in a big way and yet it was handled as merely an epilogue.
The Tsathoggua Cycle, by Clark Ashton Smith (et al).
