![]() ![]() Isolation and disconnection have rushed in with the “advancements” of the 21st century as people are incessantly pummeled with massive amounts of data. ![]() In the not-too-distant future, the world has become addicted to digital communication and time-warping drugs. ![]() We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. This reading group guide for Generation A includes an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club, and a Q&A with author Douglas Coupland. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Yet despite this, one has the impression that publicity images are continually passing us, like express trains on their way to some distant terminus. Usually it is we who pass the image - walking, travelling, turning a page on the tv screen it is somewhat different but even then we are theoretically the active agent - we can look away, turn down the sound, make some coffee. For example, the fact that these images belong to the moment but speak of the future produces a strange effect which has become so familiar that we scarcely notice it. But we accept the total system of publicity images as we accept an element of climate. A person may notice a particular image or piece of information because it corresponds to some particular interest he has. ![]() We are now so accustomed to being addressed by these images that we scarcely notice their total impact. ![]() ![]() Bernard, readers of The Stand get extra information about Kojak, including his pre-Captain Trips name (“Big Steve”) and the fact that he will live sixteen years after the climax of the novel (a fact mercifully revealed before Kojak joins the rest of the BFZ heroes on their fateful journey to Vegas). ![]() Like the passages in Cujo that reveal more about the eponymous St. However, Kojak follows his friends across the country, eventually arriving in the Boulder Free Zone (a little worse for wear, but all right). In The Stand, we get one of King’s most heroic dogs: Kojak! While viewers of the recent CBS All Access Paramount+ adaptation may be familiar with the golder retriever incarnation of the canine, in the novel, he was a yellow lab.Īlso in the novel, Glen Bateman elects to leave Kojak behind as he joins Stu Redman in his journey to Boulder. Bernard’s perspective, the fact that Cujo is fundamentally a good boy who becomes infected with rabies makes his behavior even more heartbreaking. While you may be most familiar with this story from the movie, the novel contains an extra level of tragedy: thanks to the fact that readers get to see part of the story from the St. ![]() ![]() Characters are diverse in terms of ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, and there are references to a same-sex relationship. There's some fighting and violence, including a scene where a parent goads a child into brutally fighting with others. A secondary plotline involves close contact with an extraterrestrial and humans' place in the cosmos. ![]() ![]() Most of the adults are realistically flawed: They have great talents but also very human weaknesses. Space Case Its a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author of Belly Up and Spy School that The New York. Dashiell is pressured into investigating, despite his parents' efforts to keep him out of the drama while the adults grapple with a crisis that could end the lunar mission. Parents need to know that Waste of Space - the third and final book in Stuart Gibbs' Moon Base Alpha series - is another mystery set on an experimental moon base in the year 2041, this time focusing on the attempted murder of an almost universally despised lunarnaut. Stuart Gibbs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Charlie Thorne series, FunJungle series, Moon Base Alpha series, Once Upon a Tim series, and Spy School series. ![]() Mention of Skittles candy and references to Star Wars and Star Trek series. Stuart Gibbs Mystery / Childrens / Middle Grade In the eighth novel in New York Times bestselling Stuart Gibbss FunJungle series, Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungles resident sleuth to find the culprits behind a blown-up whale. ![]() ![]() ![]() Up in the Middle Beyond, meanwhile, the realization grows that the escaped Straumli ship may contain something that will help defeat the Blight. Two human children, Johanna and Jefri, survive-only to become pawns in a Tine power struggle. ![]() One ship alone survives the Straumli disaster fleeing into the Low Beyond, the ship crash-lands on a planet inhabited by Tines, multi-bodied, pack-minded aliens with a warlike medieval culture. The civilizations of the High Beyond realize their peril when even transcendent Powers prove no match for the Blight. A human colony of the High Beyond, the Straumli Realm, experiments with an ancient database, thereby unwittingly unleashing an unstoppable, enslaving predator, the Blight. An unknown being or force has partitioned the universe into ``zones of thought'': at the bottom is the Slow Zone, where intelligence is modest and the speed of light a limiting factor in the Beyond, where multi-light-speed ultradrive travel is possible, thousands of smart races flourish and the Transcend is inhabited by godlike Powers, to which state many races of the Beyond aspire. ![]() ![]() Vast, riveting far-future saga involving evil gods, interstellar war, and manipulative aliens, from the author of The Peace War and the splendid Marooned in Realtime. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prideful but immensely self-conscious, he refuses to touch or make eye contact with others. Knight speaks in a book-like tone, labors over his sentences, and is honest to the point of insult. Knight is initially unhappy to see him, but the author discovers ways to loosen him up. He strikes up a written correspondence with the hermit, now in prison, that lasts for five letters until Knight abruptly ends contact due to the stress of his new life.įinkel travels from Montana to Maine for what would be the first of nine interviews he conducts with Knight in the facility. An outdoorsman and recent father of three children, Finkel sees Knight as a someone who has escaped the noise of the modern world. The arrest makes national headlines and attracts Finkel’s attention. ![]() ![]() Knight was so good at covering his tracks that the only reason for his capture was because a game warden, former Marine Sergeant Terry Hughes, used Homeland Security surveillance equipment in his spare time. The hermit leaves a divided legacy: His raids stirred paranoia within the small town, but his focus on minimizing property damage and taking inexpensive essentials from vacation homes earned him the sympathy of some residents. On April 4, 2013, Kennebec County law enforcement arrest Christopher Thomas Knight while he’s stealing food from a camp facility near North Pond-the last of more than a thousand burglaries over two decades. ![]() ![]() He does not trust his troops blindly, but tests their loyalty, as in Book 2. Agamemnon, however, remains fundamentally concerned with himself, and he has the cunning to manipulate people and situations for his own benefit. Achilles remains fiercely devoted to those who love him but devotedly vicious to those who do him harm he sees no shades of gray. ![]() ![]() He never allows the Achaeans to forget his kingly status.Īgamemnon also differs from Achilles in his appreciation of subtlety. Additionally, he insists upon leading the army, even though his younger brother Menelaus, whose wife, Helen, was stolen by Paris, possesses the real grievance against the Trojans. He always expects the largest portions of the plunder, even though he takes the fewest risks in battle. While Achilles’ pride flares up after it is injured, Agamemnon uses every opportunity to make others feel the effects of his. But Agamemnon’s pride makes him more arrogant than Achilles. When Agamemnon’s insulting demand that Achilles relinquish his war prize, Briseis, causes Achilles to withdraw angrily from battle, the suffering that results for the Greek army owes as much to Agamemnon’s stubbornness as to that of Achilles. Though not nearly as strong, he has a similarly hot temper and prideful streak. 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![]() So, surprisingly enough, this book delves into science. Add in that we’re talking about genetically modified…created…birthed peoples, I’m really experiencing something new to me. By these, I’m referring to action/suspense/romance types of reads. Great start to a new series! ARC provided by NetGalley.įirst up, I don’t read these types of books very often, so I’m not sure I am the best judge. This ends on a HFN but leaves us wanting to know what will happen with Oliver and Luna. An interesting plot, mature writing, likeable characters and it left me wanting more books from the side characters. This had all the elements I like in my romantic suspense books. I'm impressed that this is a debut book for this author. Jake doesn't want to get involved with a natural born, but he will soon learn that he can't stay detached with Kendra even though he doesn't understand what he is feeling. ![]() When he gets recruited to go to Nigeria as part of a protection detail, he meets Kendra once again. These GV's, as they are called, started a rebellion 4 years ago and now live openly with natural borns. He was part of the GovCorp program that tried and failed to create the ultimate soldier in by way of Genetic Invitro borns. Jake Hanson is a genetically engineered ex-soldier. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The deal they were offered seemed almost too good to be true,” writes Gwynne. The saga begins in 1833 when 30 oxcarts carried "an extended family of religious, enterprising transplanted easterners known to their neighbors as the Parker Clan” from Illinois to Texas. In Quanah Parker, Gwynne has found the perfect vehicle for telling that story. But while this is a non-fiction book about war, it is equally a book about two nations trying to control their destinies by whatever means necessary. Gwynne, the former executive editor of Texas Monthly, details the atrocities perpetrated by each side in living color to do otherwise would be dishonest. In truth, the forty-year battle between the Comanche and the white man for control of the Great Plains and Texas was not so antiseptic. ![]() |