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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.
Some seemed really only vaguely related to Holmes - by virtue of someone having a name similar to his mother's maiden name. In "The Anomaly of the Empty Man" by Anthony Boucher the main character's friend is named Verner. NOT Vernet. Germanic vs. French, right? It was a good story, but apart from that vague connection I couldn't figure out why it was included.
It started strong with "The Martian Crown Jewels" by Poul Anderson, which is a classic and of course I've read it before in other anthologies.
I enjoyed "The Adventure of the Three Madmen" by Philip Jose' Farmer, though it is (as most of his work I've ever read, I think) pure crack crossover fanfic, with The Shadow and Mowglie and a few other characters I didn't even recognize but I know must be out of pulp novels. Who might a Captain Wentworth be? He a fantastic pilot but completely off his rocker, ranting about the enemy planes being giant flying cockroaches. It does suffer from Watson ending up married, but I bow to the inevitable that some people believe Watson was a marrying man.
The very worst story I do think deserves mention for it's horribleness. John Lennon's "The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield" is a pure case of farting into the microphone.
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! Stephen and Jack love each other! But they both seem to be having affairs with Diana, which is causing Stephen to feel jealous for the first time in his life and he's very confused. (*squishes Stephen* Jack loves you!) And then Jack's been wooing Diana's cousin, Sophia, who is his virginal goddess. He doesn't want to compare them at all, because how he feels about them is too different.
And then there's this new ship Jack's been given. He's the first person to learn how to handle it at sea, and somehow this process is just as fascinating, at least to me, as all the relationship stuff. It's front end looks the same as it's back end, yike!
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.
Some seemed really only vaguely related to Holmes - by virtue of someone having a name similar to his mother's maiden name. In "The Anomaly of the Empty Man" by Anthony Boucher the main character's friend is named Verner. NOT Vernet. Germanic vs. French, right? It was a good story, but apart from that vague connection I couldn't figure out why it was included.
It started strong with "The Martian Crown Jewels" by Poul Anderson, which is a classic and of course I've read it before in other anthologies.
I enjoyed "The Adventure of the Three Madmen" by Philip Jose' Farmer, though it is (as most of his work I've ever read, I think) pure crack crossover fanfic, with The Shadow and Mowglie and a few other characters I didn't even recognize but I know must be out of pulp novels. Who might a Captain Wentworth be? He a fantastic pilot but completely off his rocker, ranting about the enemy planes being giant flying cockroaches. It does suffer from Watson ending up married, but I bow to the inevitable that some people believe Watson was a marrying man.
The very worst story I do think deserves mention for it's horribleness. John Lennon's "The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield" is a pure case of farting into the microphone.
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! Stephen and Jack love each other! But they both seem to be having affairs with Diana, which is causing Stephen to feel jealous for the first time in his life and he's very confused. (*squishes Stephen* Jack loves you!) And then Jack's been wooing Diana's cousin, Sophia, who is his virginal goddess. He doesn't want to compare them at all, because how he feels about them is too different.
And then there's this new ship Jack's been given. He's the first person to learn how to handle it at sea, and somehow this process is just as fascinating, at least to me, as all the relationship stuff. It's front end looks the same as it's back end, yike!
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