So What Are you Reading?: Generations

Discussion in 'Trek Literature' started by captcalhoun, Dec 22, 2011.

  1. Nyotarules

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    TITAN Fallen Gods
     
  2. JD

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    I started reading the digital collection of the Star Wars: Chewbacca comic miniseries written by Gerry Duggan, with art by Phil Noto.
     
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    Recently read Uhura’s Song for the first time. I know it’s often regarded as a highlight of the ‘80’s Trek Novelverse, but I just didn’t like it. Evan Wilson was just way too “manic pixie dreamgirl” for me. I know she was supposed to be adorable, and mysterious, and cuter than cute as she called Kirk out on what felt like every other page. But none of that worked for me. She was, quite simply, annoying.

    And then, Kagan dragged out the ending to inject more Tail-Kinker (as Evan came to be known) hijinks... she could’ve easily lopped off about 75 pages and had a better novel. Well, at least in my opinion.

    Evan/Tail-Kinker might not be an author-surrogate (Kagan stated she was patterened after her mother) but has every single other annoying characteristic of a Mary Sue. She out-doctors Bones, out-sciences Spock, and out-commands Kirk. She invented some engineering thingamajig that would’ve made Scotty green with envy. She bested Sulu at fencing, and Uhura at barding. I don’t recall what she did better than Chekov, but it wasn’t screaming. Poor Pavel still has to own that one.

    So yeah, a big thumbs-down on Uhura’s Song from me.
     
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    Star trek SCE Sargasso Sea.
     
  6. JD

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    I finished reading the digital collection of the Star Wars: Chewbacca comic book miniseries on Tuesday, and yesterday I started the digital comic collection Amazing Spider-Man: American Son, written by Joe Kelly, and art by a whole bunch of people.
     
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    Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski
     
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    Funny; I always liked Uhura's Song.

    At any rate, I finished The Hunchback of Notre Dame a few days ago. Very tragic ending, but at least Frollo gets it in the end.

    Ye vish! Victor Hugo was verbose. Makes ADF seem downright laconic. Then again, if I weren't a seasoned ADF fan, I probably wouldn't have had the patience for Victor Hugo.
     
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    Finished the German edition of Section 31 - Controll. It was as intense and gripping like the original. And once again it left me shocked and speechless.
     
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  10. Kertrats47

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    Our look at the second book of the Destiny trilogy is up on the Literary Treks podcast: Literary Treks 288: The Golden Girls in Space.
    I've recently finished the third book (our episode on that one will be out next week), and I'm currently reading Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks.
     
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    Dooku: Jedi Lost is a great book!
     
  12. JD

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    Finished up The Amazing Spider-Man: American Son, and started Interphase Book One, by @Dayton Ward and @Kevin Dilmore the last novella in the first paperback Star Trek: SCE omnibus.
     
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    Voyager #12 "Chrysalis" by David Niall Wilson.

    I considered moving on to Book 3 of the Gorkon series but I want to read "The Brave and the Bold" first which I still have to get. I still have several Voyager books I haven't read so I decided to grab one of those for now.
     
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    im back on my 24th century reading kick. I'm currently reading one of my old favorites, TNG: Doomsday World.
     
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    Struggling for a while with the first book of the Dark Passions duology.. so I set it aside to read Alan Moore's and Eddie Campbell's graphic novel From Hell
     
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    On to Fortune's Stroke by Eric Flint and David Drake.
     
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    Let's fake a deal by Sherry Harris
     
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    I'm reading the play Hamlet by Shakespeare .Reading this play reminds me of the Tos tv episode Conscience of the king and Greg Cox's novel Foul deeds will rise.The Shakespeare themes were strong throughout Greg's novel.
     
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