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books (catching up)
Aug. 11th, 2013 05:06 pmIsaac showed a good knack for tying things together in The Left Hand of The Electron. Each chapter is a stand alone essay, but he segues from one to other. I know I won't retain the details, but it was interesting to go, "Oh, that's why..." I'm sure the science is dated at this point, but it was a fun jaunt through a part of the dewey decimal system I don't often enter.
I picked up The Rapture of the Nerds on a whim while in the bookstore up the street, in part because it sounded batty and in part because I wanted to support the bookstore up the street. It was fun, but not great. I think it might have been better in a shorter format. Perhaps I'm just spoiled because while reading it I kept mentally measuring it against Jasper Fforde.
I finished volume one of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Funny thing is the thing I enjoyed the most is reading the stories again. I like the historical context some of the notes gave, but many of them felt like so much fandom wank. I don't want to read footnotes about a bunch of Americans who are trying to "prove" that Holmes or Watson was in America during such and such a time period. So, yeah, love the stories, can't stand the American wankers.
Since then I've been on an almost uninterrupted diet of Terry Pratchett. I finally read Wings and Eric. I should really read Faust at some point.
I bought Mark Hodder's The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack because I wanted to explore some more steampunk and the author is know for maintaining a website dedicated to keeping old detective fiction alive. So I thought maybe if he's a big fan of detective fiction, he could write. Now, you'd think I'd be a little more intelligent than that. Afterall, I'm big on reading and I can't write a story for shit. This books feels like it was written with an eye toward optioning it off to a movie. Many of the scenes read just like a movie script, an action movie script. Don't walk, run, away from this book, on spring loaded stilts if you have no better way.
Today I finished reading Snuff. I think I started it yesterday, but I may have started it night before last. I enjoyed it and got a lot of little laughs out of it. I liked the bits that Sybil got. It felt like this book started out kind of slow, but it was still enjoyable.
29. Asimov's September 2013
30. Isaac Asimov The Left Hand of the Electron
31. Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross The Rapture of the Nerds
32. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1
33. Terry Pratchett Wings
34. Terry Pratchett Eric
35. Mark Hodder The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
36. Terry Pratchett Snuff
I picked up The Rapture of the Nerds on a whim while in the bookstore up the street, in part because it sounded batty and in part because I wanted to support the bookstore up the street. It was fun, but not great. I think it might have been better in a shorter format. Perhaps I'm just spoiled because while reading it I kept mentally measuring it against Jasper Fforde.
I finished volume one of The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Funny thing is the thing I enjoyed the most is reading the stories again. I like the historical context some of the notes gave, but many of them felt like so much fandom wank. I don't want to read footnotes about a bunch of Americans who are trying to "prove" that Holmes or Watson was in America during such and such a time period. So, yeah, love the stories, can't stand the American wankers.
Since then I've been on an almost uninterrupted diet of Terry Pratchett. I finally read Wings and Eric. I should really read Faust at some point.
I bought Mark Hodder's The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack because I wanted to explore some more steampunk and the author is know for maintaining a website dedicated to keeping old detective fiction alive. So I thought maybe if he's a big fan of detective fiction, he could write. Now, you'd think I'd be a little more intelligent than that. Afterall, I'm big on reading and I can't write a story for shit. This books feels like it was written with an eye toward optioning it off to a movie. Many of the scenes read just like a movie script, an action movie script. Don't walk, run, away from this book, on spring loaded stilts if you have no better way.
Today I finished reading Snuff. I think I started it yesterday, but I may have started it night before last. I enjoyed it and got a lot of little laughs out of it. I liked the bits that Sybil got. It felt like this book started out kind of slow, but it was still enjoyable.
29. Asimov's September 2013
30. Isaac Asimov The Left Hand of the Electron
31. Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross The Rapture of the Nerds
32. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1
33. Terry Pratchett Wings
34. Terry Pratchett Eric
35. Mark Hodder The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
36. Terry Pratchett Snuff
