Member: Stevil2001

hello there i saw your thoughts on Dicken's (our mutual friend) i am studying it at the moment and finding it a tough read, would be really grateful if i could ask you a few things.
thank you.
charltte.

posted by taisk. at 11:36 am (EST) on Sep 26, 2009

False sir! I bought them myself!

posted by legoman666 at 6:19 pm (EST) on Sep 12, 2009

Ha! You're right, the screenwriting book thing is funny. As it happens, all three are required textbooks for a class I'm taking this semester. I thought it was a bit odd that we have three screenwriting textbooks -- I hope they each have something unique to contribute. Thankfully, at least none of them were expensive!

posted by amysisson at 10:41 pm (EST) on Aug 14, 2009

Hi Steve! Good to hear from you. My "Chronological Star Trek Reading/Viewing Project" ending up going on a rather long hiatus awhile back (last official entries on the website I was keeping for it were dated January 2007). Like a lot of my little "projects", I ended up getting sidetracked by *other* projects and haven't gotten back to it yet. I plan to do so, eventually.

Other projects I've begun (and, in some cases, likewise have in a holding pattern):

-- all of my "V" (television series) novels/comics/DVDs in chronological order (2006 got about half way through all of the novels on that one before getting sidetracked)

-- post RETURN OF THE JEDI Star Wars novels/comics/etc. in chronological order (2007 project; barely got started on that one; had only read TRUCE AT BAKURA and THE BOUNTY HUNTER WARS trilogy before getting sidetracked)

-- 1863-1924 fiction/nonfiction/etc. reading project (just started earlier this year; part of larger, what I'm referring to as my "Master Crazy Reading/Viewing/Listening" project, picking four ranges of dates (1863-1924, 1925-1949, 1949-1980, 1980- ) and trying to read all of my own stuff (comics, novels, etc.) and everything else I can find from and about those time periods; started with 1863 and so far have read the first volume of Shelby Foote's THE CIVIL WAR, A NARRATIVE (nonfic about the period) and begun Verne's FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON)

-- comic book related (a.k.a., "superhero prose fiction") novels in original publishing order, more or less (just started; focusing primarily on DC and Marvel related; already have just about all of these but have actually read only a very few of them; spurred on by Wikipedia page I decided to create about the subject (go over to Wiki and type in "List of novels based on comics"); started with BATMAN VS. THREE VILLAINS OF DOOM (1966); I now need to go back and read Lowther's ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (1942))

Otherwise, I've just been busy with work (summer is our busiest time of the year), life, etc. How about you? :)

posted by YoungTrek at 4:54 pm (EST) on Jul 4, 2009

That's what I plan to be doing when I move into my apartment - some of the new shelves are already up, and they need books on them. I may shelve all the Penguins next to each other, instead of intersperse them alphabetically with all the others.

posted by MichaelS at 4:19 pm (EST) on Jun 9, 2009

Whenever I decide to buy an older novel, I try to get the Penguin Classics edition. I'm totally in love with their current design, and I have enough for them to really look good on the shelf.

Now I just need to read them ...

posted by MichaelS at 3:23 pm (EST) on Jun 9, 2009

Gah, I wish there was a way to edit one's comments. tVFoM, obviously.

posted by MichaelS at 3:27 pm (EST) on May 26, 2009

Nope, haven't read tCFoM yet, but I plan to do so in the summer. As we're on the subject already, what do you know about/think of The Invention of Tradition by Eric Hobsbawm? Or his Age of Capital and Age of Empire? Useful/not?

posted by MichaelS at 3:26 pm (EST) on May 26, 2009

The reasons for buying Imagined Communities were a) I stumbled across it while looking for something else on Amazon and it sounded interesting, and b) it looks like it'll be valuable research material. After all, if you're going to build nations from scratch, it helps to know what holds them together and what separates them from each other.

Are you asking because you want to know how it is, or do you want to say that it's crap and I wasted my money? :P

posted by MichaelS at 1:55 pm (EST) on May 26, 2009

Hi

Yes - I wrote a blog: http://theeyeless.blogspot.com/ and on there I said that the best
thing a prospective writer can do is read. By way of example, the books tagged 'eyeless'
are the books I read in the five months I was writing The Eyeless - some are directly
related, research and so on, and others are just what I was reading at the time.

posted by lanceparkin at 8:31 am (EST) on Apr 25, 2009

Hi! Just happened to click on your profile because I saw your name over in Talk. Then I see you're a Star Trek writer! Cool! I wonder if you happened to catch the latest CSI (Las Vegas) episode where they have a murder at a Trekkie Convention. I laughed so!much! It was excellent.

Ok, so live long and prosper,
Collectorator :)

posted by Collectorator at 5:39 pm (EST) on Apr 19, 2009

Hi,

Was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Saw you liked Butcher Boy, and I thought you might like my novel since it's also about a disturbed adolescent and a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like. Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:

http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id...
Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 11:00 am (EST) on Mar 25, 2009

I had a momentary blank when you mentioned 'Doctor Who: Thrilling adventures in time and space'. Yes it is an annual. In the UK it's titled as the the Doctor Who Annual 2006, while in Australia it's just Doctor Who (with) Thrilling Adventures in Time and Space at the bottom of the cover. Check out http://www.timelash.com/tardis/display.a... for info about both releases. The UK one is published by Panini, while the Australian one is published by ABC Books.

posted by tangerinealert at 9:02 am (EST) on Mar 15, 2009

Yay! I didn't know he was going to keep at it with Comet. I'll keep following!!

posted by Wattsian at 12:42 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2009

Yay! Somebody else read and liked Mystery in Space. I squealed like a schoolgirl—inside—when I saw the TPBs at the local comic book store and flipped through and saw, no ... no, it couldn't be. THE WEIRD? THE WEIRD!?!?! I cried when I read that miniseries lo those many years ago and related to his troubled heroism as a pre-teen.

posted by Wattsian at 5:23 pm (EST) on Jan 19, 2009

Thanks Steve,my favorite is Tom Baker,but a close second is Christopher Ecclestone and David Tennant
just because they regenerated my favorite show,much to my daughters annoyance i have got my grandchildren into dr who,so the next generation is started shame there wont be so many episodes in 2009,but the Sarah Jane adventures is very good and i havent heard anything about torchwood.I have a friend who lives near Cardiff and we go on Dr who tours when i go to visit,thanks I will try the books you recommend.talk to you again soon.

posted by cancer53 at 6:27 pm (EST) on Sep 17, 2008

nice to see another dr who fan,like the series but have not read the books which one should you recommend I start with,which is your favorite doctor

posted by cancer53 at 6:04 am (EST) on Aug 31, 2008

D'oh! Fixed the Exile review. (I also have a copy of Sacrifice from the library, but I need to come up with something a bit more verbose and well-thought-out than "Karen Traviss manages to do what I'd have sworn was impossible for her—bore me" before I put up a review for it.)

posted by ATimson at 8:08 pm (EST) on Apr 21, 2008

Your Aaronsohn's Saga review was very helpful to me, very helpful. Thank you for all the specificity you put into it. - ER

posted by EncompassedRunner at 12:19 am (EST) on Mar 30, 2008

Just so you know, the foreigner knows you're talking about him behind his back.

posted by MichaelS at 3:18 pm (EST) on Mar 10, 2008

It makes you… a not very good hypocrite, since you see the hypocrisy.

And my library would be about 40% smaller if I didn't list ebooks—I don't have much of a choice there, I'm afraid, unless I want the foreigner to win the "biggest library" competition. ;)

posted by ATimson at 2:02 pm (EST) on Mar 10, 2008

Congratulations: someone finally survived reading your work and didn't hate it enough to not catalog it. ;)

(Alas, the Austrian gets short shrift because of how LT handles multiple authors. Such is the life of a foreigner?)

posted by ATimson at 3:28 am (EST) on Mar 10, 2008

Hi Steve! I'm very pleased (and relieved) to hear you're happy with the book I picked out as your SantaThing present. It's a favourite of mine, so I hope you enjoy it too. And with the added knowledge of your background - a Jesuit highschool!! - well, it was just meant to be! ;)

Merry Christmas!

posted by felius at 11:40 pm (EST) on Dec 21, 2007

You sure have a lot of books, dude. But you will never win! Bwahahaha etc.

posted by MichaelS at 7:22 am (EST) on Jan 3, 2007

Hey, dude. We share thirteen books. We should be friends!

Be friends with somebody I met on the Interweb? What a strange notion ...

posted by MichaelS at 3:36 am (EST) on Dec 16, 2006