What are you reading?

[arewethereyet]

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.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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.

Boru

[Nanny]

Just reread Foundation. The lack of female characters seems strange in my current perspective.

[Fake Messiah]

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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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Just reread Foundation. The lack of female characters seems strange in my current perspective.

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

Boru

Edit: Oops. What FM said.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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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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.

Boru

[Jackalope]

Re-reading "Lord of the Rings" - I had last read it before the films came out.

I'm supposed to be reading "Slaughterhouse Five" for my book club. I'll get to it after LOTR.

[Mister Agenda]

Robopsychologist Susan Calvin was one of Asimov's main characters in a number of his positronic robot stories. I was a teen when I read those, I recall her being a misanthrope but don't think I was in a position to judge how well or poorly written she was.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Robopsychologist Susan Calvin was one of Asimov's main characters in a number of his positronic robot stories. I was a teen when I read those, I recall her being a misanthrope but don't think I was in a position to judge how well or poorly written she was.

I got the impression that Asimov wrote Calvin as a male character and just stuck a female name on her. It had the effect of rendering her sexless.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

Since Boru suggested Shutter Island to me, I have been working my way through several of Dennis Lehane's books.