@ossobucotemp,
I get personally offended when Crichton is referred to as Science Fiction (let's not even get into the appallingness of the term 'sci-fi').
BTW is Margaret Attwood considered science fiction? If not then neither is Crichton.
@hingehead,
hingehead wrote:
I get personally offended when Crichton is referred to as Science Fiction (let's not even get into the appallingness of the term 'sci-fi').
BTW is Margaret Attwood considered science fiction? If not then neither is Crichton.
Don't tell Margaret Atwood that her work is science fiction to her face. She bonk you on the noggin.
@tsarstepan,
I'm glad Margaret supports my view that she is not a science fiction writer. She uses science fiction tropes (as does Crichton) but that does maker her or him science fiction writers.
@hingehead,
eh? I don't know, and worse, I'm not interested. Also I've never read Margaret Attwood.
@ossobucotemp,
Early this morning I was trying to get into Machiavelli's Florentine Histories. Well, first, I had to read the interpreter's set of pages, small print, not unintelligible, but somewhat so to me. And there was a fly in the room, a fly that liked me.
Not sure which was more annoying.
Last week, I finished
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy. A first for me.
Bouncing between
The Outsorcerer's Apprentice by Tom Holt and
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.
@ossobucotemp,
ossobucotemp wrote:
I made it through Michael Crichton's Sphere, but I hated every minute of it, or almost. I still wanted to know the ending, which was for a long time never going to end.
Now I'm reading the opposite sort of book, about a year in the life of a good chef and his restaurant, Lutece, described as what happens in one day. I remember hearing about Lutece, now quite a while ago. The book is a little crazy making to me, as the author is admiring of the chef to the max. I like the actual chef, from what I have read, and am learning a lot, but the text is a little gooey for me, a bit repetitive. On the other hand, I'm only about a fourth of the way through it.
Some good recipes will show up, off and on.
The Chef is Andre Soltner.
I've completely changed my mind about this Lutece book - I've learned a tremendous about about food and its production/distribution. I was wrong about gooey writing too. Maybe 20 pages left to go; it's a keeper.
Bulking up on my timely October reading. One short story from finishing Joyce Carol Oates collection of short stories, The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror. #BigMomma still has me on edge.
Started the short yet classic novel by Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House. Technically, a first since I don't believe I actually read the short story, The Lottery when it was assigned way back in high school.
Side note: #BernadetteDunne is pitch perfect as @Audible book narrator.
@littlek,
I'm reading The Inner Eye of Love: Religion and Mysticism by William Johnston
I'm still working my way through The Complete Sherlock Holmes." I'm up to page eight hundred and something.
Enjoying it. My one kvetch. The book is too steenkin' heavy.
Meantime I've fairly used to thumbs down, but I was rather amazed at the blow back about my admitting I wasn't interested in science fiction or, apparently god forbid, sci fi. I don't care about either, despite liking people here.
I have some explanation for that, had anyone given a hoot; I am night blind and do not see stars. Ok, once in a while, but mostly not at all. I don't go out at night with out pals. When I went to Italy for a month by myself (a friend there in the short beginning), I managed all that by myself.
So, you like science fiction. I worked in science for several years and still engage in reading, but not those fiction books.
You want to piss on me for saying the word sci-fi?
@ossobucotemp,
ossobucotemp wrote:
Meantime I've fairly used to thumbs down, but I was rather amazed at the blow back about my admitting I wasn't interested in science fiction or, apparently god forbid, sci fi. I don't care about either, despite liking people here.
I have some explanation for that, had anyone given a hoot; I am night blind and do not see stars. Ok, once in a while, but mostly not at all. I don't go out at night with out pals. When I went to Italy for a month by myself (a friend there in the short beginning), I managed all that by myself.
So, you like science fiction. I worked in science for several years and still engage in reading, but not those fiction books.
You want to piss on me for saying the word sci-fi?
Youll be popular in one thread and an enemy in another. Such is a2k. Dont apologize for your opinion. Ill like sci fi for you..
I am reading Joe Steele, by Harry Turtledove.
It's an alternate history novel, where Joseph Stalin was born in the USA, and still rises to be President, from 1932 -where he defeats Herbert Hoover- to his death.
It's a fun read, well told; the characters use the same language as their counterparts in American film noir from the 1930s-1940s.
Having said that, Joe Steele may be a son of a bitch, but is waaay less a homicidal tyrant than Iosif Stalin was.
@fbaezer,
Is Turtledove still doing that alt timeline stuff? I read a couple of the Worldwar tetralogy back in the day.
@hingehead,
He is. The novel is from 2015.
Turtledove's short story about Shakespeare being captured by North American Indians and becoming one of them is captivating (no pun intended).
@Roberta,
Roberta wrote:
I've started rereading Sherlock Holmes. I have The Complete Sherlock Holmes (over 1,000 pages). So far, I've read two of the short novels, and I'm loving it.
Done. Over 1100 pages. I enjoyed almost all of it. I got pretty good at figuring out some of the mysteries. Mostly the how rather than the who.
@ossobucotemp,
Setting aside a rereading of Kraken by China Miéville. Sped through the first two volumes of Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson.
Also starting a timely reread of 1984 by George Orwell.
Welcome to Hard Times by Doctorow. I don't know how I missed this one. Thought I had read all his novels.
