Books you never finished...
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I make a big effort to finish even a really bad book, holding out faint hope that it will improve. Some are a harder slog than others, but I finish almost all. The exceptions are Price of the Phoenix, a few stories in Strange New Worlds and several of the Mirror Universe anthology stories.
Oh, and the TNG anthology. I just could not get into any of those stories at all.
For some reason, Trek anthologies seem to disagree with me, which is odd, since I like short stories.
Oh, and the TNG anthology. I just could not get into any of those stories at all.
For some reason, Trek anthologies seem to disagree with me, which is odd, since I like short stories.
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Have finished everything I started, but "Warped", "The Laertian Gamble" and "Into the Nexus" were a struggle.
The first "Mission: Gamma", with its tiny font and many pages took me longer than the actual "Mission: Gamma" for the Defiant's crew, but I'd just switched jobs and lost my long, long daily commute. However, David R George III's "Crucible: McCoy", which was probably even longer, was a very fast read. So it often depends on mood, motivation and environment.
Yes, but none of them were Star Trek books.
Burning Dreams
Just was completely disinterested one hundred pages in, enough with the freaking horses.
Best Destiny
Yawn... so much boating jargon it bored me to tears.
I've found it really annoying when an author writes an 'origin' story and tries to imprint all their favorite past-times onto the character in question.
Just was completely disinterested one hundred pages in, enough with the freaking horses.
Best Destiny
Yawn... so much boating jargon it bored me to tears.
I've found it really annoying when an author writes an 'origin' story and tries to imprint all their favorite past-times onto the character in question.
Ship of the Line and Flight of the Phoenix. Both impossible to read.
I never finished the third book in the Millennium trilogy (Inferno, I think?). I got so sick of the ridiculousness. In retrospect, I'm surprised I lasted that long.
Flight of the Phoenix was a movie about some stranded folks trying to get their crashed plane flying again, IIRC. The Trek novels by Marshak & Culbreath were The Price of the Phoenix and The Fate of the Phoenix. Which one are you guys referring to?
I had to take an eight-month break halfway through the novel, but I eventually did finish that one. Probably one of the longest books I've ever had to read, and I don't mean the word count.
Otherwise, I've finished every Trek book I started, even the really bad ones that turned me off from the get-go. But I've always been bothered by the thought of books in my ownership (or even just lying about borrowed from others) which I haven't read; I'm anal that way, I guess. At the moment, there's only a handful that fall into that category out of a thousand-plus library: Jedi Trial, which reads like a eleven-year-old gearhead's essay on national pride; Ana Historic, a masturbatory exercise in postmodern feminism; and several books with the words "Jane Austen" on the cover, for which I can't stay awake for more than two pages.
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Yeah, 
it was Price of the Phoenix or whichever the first one was. Never touched the second, but it is sitting on my shelf somewhere.
Somebody beat me to it,mentioning "Warped".
To make matters worse I bought the hardback edition.......
Me too. And the audio edition.
I was with a friend at a big remaindered book sale. She found a stack of MMPB versions of "Warped" for $2 each and wanted to buy one. I told her it was bad, but she was determined. As we approached the checkout, she found a pile of the hardcover version, for $5 each, and wanted to swap it. In the end I offered to pay her $5, or buy her any other ST book in the store, if she'd leave it on the piles.
Well of Souls, that was the name of it 
I also skipped/skimmed some of the stories in Worlds of DS9. I can't abide the Andorian stuff in the relaunch. Couldn't give a flying fuck about Shar and his bloody bondmates and mother, all with ridiculous names, constantly whining and moaning.
So when it came to their solo story I think read about five pages and gave up. Also he was paired up with Prynn, who I also don't care about
The Trill story was pretty gash too, had to start severly skimming it as it lost its head up its own arse more and more.
I also skipped/skimmed some of the stories in Worlds of DS9. I can't abide the Andorian stuff in the relaunch. Couldn't give a flying fuck about Shar and his bloody bondmates and mother, all with ridiculous names, constantly whining and moaning.
So when it came to their solo story I think read about five pages and gave up. Also he was paired up with Prynn, who I also don't care about
The Trill story was pretty gash too, had to start severly skimming it as it lost its head up its own arse more and more.
Immortal Coil. It started slowly falling downhill and crescendoed into an all out avalanche.
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