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Oddly, I don't think I've done a books read post since July 2. I'm not sure I'm going to remember them all.
27) "The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes" - edited by Sebastian Wolfe. (I thought I had posted about this, but couldn't find it, so I guess either I suck at scanning for content or I just thought about it really hard and never actually wrote it down, which would be s.o.p. for me.) (This and the following book were borrowed from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
littleredhead.)
Since it's short stories, and mostly spoofs, I'm kind of back and forth - I'm not usually keen on short stories to begin with, but some were rather cool.
( cut for getting long, but if you read under the cut be warned to not go too far down if you don't want spoilers for the Master and Commander series... )
28) "Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes" - edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower. Some good stuff in here! Especially an essay by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in which he says the characters are not important, the plot is everything, followed by an essay by someone else where she points out that the plots are often really complete suck and everyone read it for the characters - which Doyle somehow did a great job with even though he didn't seem to understand Holmes at all.
29) "Addams Family Values" - which I don't have the book nearby to check the author, and I wish I did because trust me this adaptation of the movie sucked big time. It was horribly, badly, badly, written, and the cover said this author has written around 40 books, so we all want to steer clear of them, I'm sure, and if I come across the book I'll be sure to edit this and include his name. The movie is probably fun, even though there seems to be some cobbling together of the plot and a lot of going for the easy lines.
30) "Fluke: or I Know Why The Winged Whale Sings" - Christopher Moore. Briefly, not his strongest work. I'm usually a big Moore fan.
I'm trying to think if I didn't read something else, but I can't for the life of me remember at the moment.
Currently I'm reading "Post Captain" which is the second in Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series. I can't imagine I'm going to want to read anything else before I finish this, because it is completely made of awesome, every word. So much slash and poly potential! ( Spoilers! )
27) "The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes" - edited by Sebastian Wolfe. (I thought I had posted about this, but couldn't find it, so I guess either I suck at scanning for content or I just thought about it really hard and never actually wrote it down, which would be s.o.p. for me.) (This and the following book were borrowed from
littleredhead.) Since it's short stories, and mostly spoofs, I'm kind of back and forth - I'm not usually keen on short stories to begin with, but some were rather cool.
( cut for getting long, but if you read under the cut be warned to not go too far down if you don't want spoilers for the Master and Commander series... )
28) "Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes" - edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower. Some good stuff in here! Especially an essay by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in which he says the characters are not important, the plot is everything, followed by an essay by someone else where she points out that the plots are often really complete suck and everyone read it for the characters - which Doyle somehow did a great job with even though he didn't seem to understand Holmes at all.
29) "Addams Family Values" - which I don't have the book nearby to check the author, and I wish I did because trust me this adaptation of the movie sucked big time. It was horribly, badly, badly, written, and the cover said this author has written around 40 books, so we all want to steer clear of them, I'm sure, and if I come across the book I'll be sure to edit this and include his name. The movie is probably fun, even though there seems to be some cobbling together of the plot and a lot of going for the easy lines.
30) "Fluke: or I Know Why The Winged Whale Sings" - Christopher Moore. Briefly, not his strongest work. I'm usually a big Moore fan.
I'm trying to think if I didn't read something else, but I can't for the life of me remember at the moment.
Currently I'm reading "Post Captain" which is the second in Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series. I can't imagine I'm going to want to read anything else before I finish this, because it is completely made of awesome, every word. So much slash and poly potential! ( Spoilers! )