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What are you reading?
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RE: What are you reading?
July 9, 2025 at 4:00 am
(July 8, 2025 at 8:57 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:
(June 24, 2025 at 11:04 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Rereading Pat Conroy's books.  On The Prince of Tides currently.

Still on the search for an author I can get into instead of listening to the same things over and over again.

Which genres fo you like?

It's probably easier to say what I don't care for.  Not a SciFi fan or a horror fan.

Psychological thrillers are good.  I like the Pat Conroy books as they are at least loosely based on his life.  I also recognize the places since many are set in SC.

Boru recently suggested Shutter Island that I listened to on my trip east and really liked it.  The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo book series I have listened to multiple times and am waiting for the new one to come out in September.
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July 9, 2025 at 5:34 am
Was sorting out our book room (because 'library' sounds pretentious) a day or so ago and ran across my copy of David Gerrold's The Trouble With Tribbles, a book I bought when I was in my teens. Basically, it's an account of what he went through trying - and eventually succeeding - in selling a script to TOS.

The writing-for-publication game has REALLY changed.

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RE: What are you reading?
July 17, 2025 at 10:33 am (This post was last modified: July 17, 2025 at 10:36 am by Nanny.)
Just reread Foundation. The lack of female characters seems strange in my current perspective.
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RE: What are you reading?
July 17, 2025 at 2:21 pm
(July 17, 2025 at 10:33 am)Nanny Wrote: Just reread Foundation. The lack of female characters seems strange in my current perspective.

Asimov learned his trade in pulp fiction where the writers didn't know what to do with women (how to involve them into the plot) so he avoided female characters because he also didn't know how to handle them.

Here's an explanation from his memoirs:


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RE: What are you reading?
July 17, 2025 at 2:22 pm (This post was last modified: July 17, 2025 at 2:23 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(July 17, 2025 at 10:33 am)Nanny Wrote: Just reread Foundation. The lack of female characters seems strange in my current perspective.

Just as well - Asimov didn’t write women very well. 

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Edit: Oops. What FM said.
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RE: What are you reading?
July 17, 2025 at 2:26 pm
(July 17, 2025 at 2:21 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:
(July 17, 2025 at 10:33 am)Nanny Wrote: Just reread Foundation. The lack of female characters seems strange in my current perspective.

Asimov learned his trade in pulp fiction where the writers didn't know what to do with women (how to involve them into the plot) so he avoided female characters because he also didn't know how to handle them.

Here's an explanation from his memoirs:



Then again, Heinlein got started in the pulps and didn’t avoid female characters. His early efforts were admittedly pretty clunky, but he got better as time went on.

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