Wednesday Reading Meme
What I Just Finished Reading
Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan: Meh. Not my favorite of the Vonnegut books I have been haphazardly making my way through, but not the worst either. I suppose I liked the time travel, but the whole thing was so much a parody of pulp SF that it made it difficult for me to take the underlying themes in any way seriously. I got bored by the time they were at Mercury, and I really didn't care by the time they got to Titan. Whatever.
Marko Kloos, "Lucky Thirteen": A short story set in the universe of Terms of Enlistment, which clearly I liked enough to pay an extra dollar for more of. Stuff goes boom real good. What more do you want from a mil-SF short story, dude?
What I'm Reading Now
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince: Apparently she wrote books that weren't The Secret Garden. Did you know this? (I should reread The Secret Garden, but I am afraid that the Suck Fairy will have visited in the meantime.) osprey_archer and
surexit are trying to incept everyone (or at least me) into the nonexistent fandom by writing charming ficlets about the great love and loyalty between the titular lost prince and his aide-de-camp. (And, hey, it's getting me to read the book.) So far I am exactly one chapter in and I am pretty sure I have already met the lost prince; this book, it is not subtle. I gather that later on it turns into an exciting Boys' Own Adventure, and who doesn't like those?
What I'm Reading Next
No idea. Clearly I do not plan these things in advance.
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Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan: Meh. Not my favorite of the Vonnegut books I have been haphazardly making my way through, but not the worst either. I suppose I liked the time travel, but the whole thing was so much a parody of pulp SF that it made it difficult for me to take the underlying themes in any way seriously. I got bored by the time they were at Mercury, and I really didn't care by the time they got to Titan. Whatever.
Marko Kloos, "Lucky Thirteen": A short story set in the universe of Terms of Enlistment, which clearly I liked enough to pay an extra dollar for more of. Stuff goes boom real good. What more do you want from a mil-SF short story, dude?
What I'm Reading Now
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Lost Prince: Apparently she wrote books that weren't The Secret Garden. Did you know this? (I should reread The Secret Garden, but I am afraid that the Suck Fairy will have visited in the meantime.) osprey_archer and
surexit are trying to incept everyone (or at least me) into the nonexistent fandom by writing charming ficlets about the great love and loyalty between the titular lost prince and his aide-de-camp. (And, hey, it's getting me to read the book.) So far I am exactly one chapter in and I am pretty sure I have already met the lost prince; this book, it is not subtle. I gather that later on it turns into an exciting Boys' Own Adventure, and who doesn't like those?
What I'm Reading Next
No idea. Clearly I do not plan these things in advance.
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