How are you enjoying the Hamish Macbeth stories? I get in the mood for reading them every so often, and will read several all at once and then not read any again for another couple of years!
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How are you enjoying the Hamish Macbeth stories? I get in the mood for reading them every so often, and will read several all at once and then not read any again for another couple of years!
Just finished VAN: Precipice. I like how multiple character story lines converge toward the end, really bringing everything together. The Quinn / Bridy Mac dynamic mirrors Pennington and T'Prynn's journey really well and both provide solid humor as well. Again, the thing I've most been impressed with throughout VAN so far is the strength of the characterization and the overall writing. I haven't felt bored or lost or anything lacking.
I've got a few VAN: Declassified shorts to get through before getting to SCE: Where Time Stands Still and then VAN: What Judgements Come.
I've got a few VAN: Declassified shorts to get through before getting to SCE: Where Time Stands Still and then VAN: What Judgements Come.
Just finished VAN: Declassified "The Stars Look Down"....Wow. What a great short story for the Vanguard saga. The descriptive writing was on point.
Still working down my list for 2268 but trying to stay in VAN mode. Do I need to read SCE Where Time Stands Still first or can I move right into What Judgements Come? I didn't see anything about the SCE story or Lovell crew that crosses over into the VAN timeline at this point, but I wanted to be sure.
Still working down my list for 2268 but trying to stay in VAN mode. Do I need to read SCE Where Time Stands Still first or can I move right into What Judgements Come? I didn't see anything about the SCE story or Lovell crew that crosses over into the VAN timeline at this point, but I wanted to be sure.
Where Time Stands Still has no connection to Vanguard, aside from featuring the Lovell crew. They were introduced in the SCE series and later ported over to Vanguard, so there was a bit of retconning at work, there. 
Ben-Hur. Started Easter; read other things while between "books" of that monumental opus. For example, I just finished The Rev'd Sarah Heath's What's Your Story, between books VI and VII, and I'm planning on reading Roz Chast's memoir-in-cartoons, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant between books VII and VIII. I'm on track to finish Ben-Hur on Pentecost, at which point I'll take up Kathleen Cairns' The Case of Rose Bird, followed by Mr. Ward's Hearts and Minds, and Jeffrey Kluger's Apollo 8. And as of this morning, I've got Desmond Tutu's God is Not a Christian (mentioned by an Episcopal priest I know) on its way from an Alibris member vendor.
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I fucking hope so - I'm beginning to wonder if he was paid by the word and trying to buy a new house. I confess to finding myself skimming some of the repetitive descriptions of journeys to rail yards and so on...
Definitely stick with it. One of my favorite endings ever.
The release of the Wonder Woman movie tomorrow inspired me to take a break from How Much For Just the Planet to read the first collection of the Sensation Comics anthology series from a couple years ago. It's a digital anthology series with each story, which seem to average 1-3 issues each, having a different writer and artist. I read the first couple stories yesterday, and enjoyed them a lot.
Read Fraying At The Edge by Cindy Woodsmalll, book 2 in the "Amish of Summer Grove" series.
I have about 2 chapters to go in TOS: The Abode of Life. The story wasn't that bad, i could easily see it on the tv screen as a classic TOS episode. But its very dry when it comes to the character writing. Up next will be TOS: The Wrath of Khan novelization.
Recently, False Colors by William R. Forstchen & William H. Keith, then Hearts and Minds by Dayton Ward and now I'm on to the Alien Covenant novel by Alan Dean Foster.
I finished Tomb Raider: The Ten Thousand Immortals by Dan Abnett & Nik Vincent. I did not care for it.
Overall, it was pretty boring and pointless. I would not recommend it to even the most die hard Tomb Raider fans.
I'm now reading Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hearts and Minds by Dayton Ward.
It's mostly just Lara going from Point A to B to C back to A, while being alternately chased and kidnapped by various mysterious groups of people. The story basically ends with the opposing groups having a gun fight all over a college campus, while Lara tries to hide from them. At the end we still don't know much about the groups that are fighting each other and despite the gun battle the ending is pretty anticlimactic. Also, there are no supernatural elements in the story. How do you do a Tomb Raider story and not have any tomb raiding or supernatural events?
I'm now reading Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hearts and Minds by Dayton Ward.
Hearts and Minds is now "on-deck."
I finished Ben-Hur late last night.
I'm now reading Kathleen Cairns' The Case of Rose Bird. I just got through the introduction this morning.
I finished Ben-Hur late last night.
Judah Ben-Hur is present at Palm Sunday, as are his mother, sister, and the family maidservant. His mother and sister, whom Judah had thought dead, had been deliberately bricked-up in a prison cell infected with leprosy, by Pontius Pilate's immediate predecessor. When Judah brought home news of Jesus having healed lepers, the maidservant (the only one who knew the mother and sister were still alive) brought them the news, risking infection herself. Jesus heals them, and we have a graphic description of the process. Balthazar's daughter is revealed as a traitor, and a spy for Messala (Judah's nemesis). Ben-Hur's army deserts en masse when it becomes apparent that Jesus is NOT Judah Maccabee on steroids, and has no intention of ever being a conquering military leader. Judah and his remaining friends witness the Crucifixion, but the story then jumps to an epilogue, decades later, around the time of Nero's persecution of the Christians. Ben-Hur had married the daughter of the loyal family slave who had, working in secret, saved the family assets, and managed them like a business genius, and the story closes with Ben-Hur leaving on a mission to help the Christians of Rome.
I'm now reading Kathleen Cairns' The Case of Rose Bird. I just got through the introduction this morning.
Before continuing with my reading the books in publication order (next will be The Wrath of Khan novelization), i started TNG: Hearts and Minds over the weekend. I'm about 1/3 of the way through, and really enjoying it so far. I really havent read anything post-Destiny yet, but i have read From History's Shadow and Elusive Salvation. I loved those, so i couldn't wait to jump into this one.
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