So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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I'm almost finished with the 2014 World Book Year Book (I found it sitting on top of a bookcase, apparently untouched).
I took some time out from that, to re-read Greg Cox's short story, "Though Hell Should Bar the Way." Quite good, and I see that Dayton Ward's Drastic Measures does have a (presumably unavoidable) contradiction of it.
And in my car (for my lunch breaks, and no, I don't read it while driving!), I have the May 2018 Smithsonian (cover story on dinosaur fossils in China), to be followed by the (I think) May NMRA Magazine.
I took some time out from that, to re-read Greg Cox's short story, "Though Hell Should Bar the Way." Quite good, and I see that Dayton Ward's Drastic Measures does have a (presumably unavoidable) contradiction of it.
And in my car (for my lunch breaks, and no, I don't read it while driving!), I have the May 2018 Smithsonian (cover story on dinosaur fossils in China), to be followed by the (I think) May NMRA Magazine.
I went back to my 24th century chronological read-through. I'm on TNG: Dark Mirror. I use this great website for the read-through: http://killie-booktalk.blogspot.com/p/star-trek-reading-challenge.html
Last Trek book I read was The Vulcan Academy Murders, by author Jean Lorrah. Very interesting to see the vulcans having to deal with crimes in their very peaceful society.
Just finished Typhon Pact 5 - Plagues of Night (German edition "Heimsuchung").
I'm always reading two books parallel, one by myself (WoDS9 2 - Andor), one together with my son (Typhon Pact). Because of the cliffhanger, we had to start part 6 right after finishing book 5.
I'm always reading two books parallel, one by myself (WoDS9 2 - Andor), one together with my son (Typhon Pact). Because of the cliffhanger, we had to start part 6 right after finishing book 5.
RED COUNTRY by Joe Abercrombie
A somewhat Western-styled fantasy standalone set in the First Law world, with a few characters from that series making appearances. Despite being in the fantasy genre there isn't any magic or suchlike in this one (there was in the First Law trilogy, of course), but it still makes itself a believable world. The plot is both simple and rambling, and filled with interesting, memorable, and generally thoroughly unlikable characters, who are an oddly pleasing mix of stereotypes with depth. There are wise lines, funny lines, and a tendency for the narration to dip into a pseudo-Western sort of verbiage, which mostly works (except that “arse” doesn't, cos it seems too British to me). It's good and epic and filled with wit and character and action, and it works perfectly well as a standalone, so it doesn't matter whether the reader has read the First Law trilogy or not. The downside to this one is a tendency, in the last quarter or so in particular, to labour the perfectly OK – if obvious – subtexts and meanings by having multiple characters state them to each other in dialogue as often as they think them in internal monologues... Still, good for fans of epic fantasy and Westerns.
A somewhat Western-styled fantasy standalone set in the First Law world, with a few characters from that series making appearances. Despite being in the fantasy genre there isn't any magic or suchlike in this one (there was in the First Law trilogy, of course), but it still makes itself a believable world. The plot is both simple and rambling, and filled with interesting, memorable, and generally thoroughly unlikable characters, who are an oddly pleasing mix of stereotypes with depth. There are wise lines, funny lines, and a tendency for the narration to dip into a pseudo-Western sort of verbiage, which mostly works (except that “arse” doesn't, cos it seems too British to me). It's good and epic and filled with wit and character and action, and it works perfectly well as a standalone, so it doesn't matter whether the reader has read the First Law trilogy or not. The downside to this one is a tendency, in the last quarter or so in particular, to labour the perfectly OK – if obvious – subtexts and meanings by having multiple characters state them to each other in dialogue as often as they think them in internal monologues... Still, good for fans of epic fantasy and Westerns.
Just finished TOS: Legacy and was very satisfied with it; especially if compared to most of the novels I read immediately prior, The Abode of Life, The Klingon Gambit, Mutiny on the Enterprise and A Choice of Catastrophes (with A Choice of Catastrophes being the sole reason I wrote Legacy was better than most of the previously read novels)
Was Pike in Legacy?
Yep, he was. Not all that long, but he was. The German title of the novel is Späte Rache, which I find kinda more fitting.
According to the Internet, that's something like "Late Revenge" -- so sort of like "a dish best served cold"?
I just started reading Vulcan Academy Murders today.
Yep. As @Jinn mentioned before, the titel Legacy shouldn't be confused with Lagacies. I can't see any danger of that happening, though. The Legacies novels have their own titles and they weren't translated into German.
I've read most of the TOS novels in German for the sake of convenience. The original titel is ususally mentioned in the German edition, which I find helpful.
I just finished SCE: Where Time Stands Still and thought it was pretty good! I also think I found a really cool easter egg/reference: In chapter 3 Okagawa muses about how as a boy he read about ships that had gone missing over years. He mentions the Ares IV, the Hawking and the Mariposa. Ares IV is a reference to the Mars mission ship that got trapped in Chaotic Space (?) in a Voyager episode, the Mariposa is from TNG: "Up the Long Ladder" and I believe the Hawking to be a reference to the Stephen Hawking from TOS: Across the Universe where the ship was found by the Enterprise. If so, that's really cool and also apparantly went under the radar of Memory Beta: They have an article for the Hawking, mentioned in Where Time Stands Still and a redlink to the Stephen Hawking from Across the Universe.
Continuing with Windows on a Lost World which will hopefully live up to its cool name.
Continuing with Windows on a Lost World which will hopefully live up to its cool name.
I finished up the English version of The Neverending Story last night, I enjoyed it overall, but I did have a some problems.
This morning I started the digital version of comic collection, Lumberjanes (Vol.2) : Friendship to the Max written by Noelle Stevenson & Grace Ellis with art by Brooke Allen, colors by Maarta Laiho, and letters by Aubrey Aliese.
First was just how much of a douche Bastian turned into as the second half of the book went on. I understand what Ende was going for there, but it really made it hard to root for him. That kind of leads into my second issue, which was how little Atreyu was in the second half. We follow him for most of the first half of the book, but once Bastian gets into Fantastica we really don't much see that much of him. I think continuing to follow Atreyu as Bastian started losing himself, would have made some of that easier to take.
I also felt that Xayide's death was a bit anti-climactic, I was really hoping for a face to face confrontation between her and Bastian once he got back to normal, but instead she randomly got trampled by her own soldiers. I wasn't even clear on exactly why it happened.
I also felt that Xayide's death was a bit anti-climactic, I was really hoping for a face to face confrontation between her and Bastian once he got back to normal, but instead she randomly got trampled by her own soldiers. I wasn't even clear on exactly why it happened.
Architects of Infinity by Kirsten Beyer.
Just finished re-reading Brad Ferguson's A Flag Full of Stars.
This being, as I recall, the first time I've read it in full since becoming a museum docent (I only scanned it for the Tarsus IV flashback when the Kirk "Autobiography" was under discussion), I'm struck (in the "shuttle" plot thread) by Ferguson's rather back-assed notions of what constitutes proper conservation of historic artifacts.
Just started re-reading Diane Carey's Best Destiny.
This being, as I recall, the first time I've read it in full since becoming a museum docent (I only scanned it for the Tarsus IV flashback when the Kirk "Autobiography" was under discussion), I'm struck (in the "shuttle" plot thread) by Ferguson's rather back-assed notions of what constitutes proper conservation of historic artifacts.
Just started re-reading Diane Carey's Best Destiny.
TNG Before dishonor, funniest Star Trek book I have ever read. I am face palming every Starfleet admiral that ever walked the earth.
I just started two books. One is the recent English release of the 2nd Prometheus book. The other is I bought an omnibus copy of the "Day of Honor" series a few years back and started reading that. The first is the "Ancient Blood" story from TNG, which has a very grisly beginning.
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