Books you never finished...

[Cicero]

I've finished every ST book I've read, even when it was painful, like Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath's travesty, The Prometheus Design, or any of Diane Carey's zenophobic, thinly disguised love letters to American Exceptionalism! -- RR

I too, though I disagree with your assessments of Marshak and Culbreath's and Carey's work. (It's xenophobic, btw.)

Actually, the only novel I've never finished was The Plague Dogs by Ricard Adams, whose Watership Down writings count among my favorites. The phoneticized Scottish slang was simply unintelligible. With the book's unpleasant plot, I lost the will to carry forward.

Yep, Trent Roman rapped my knuckles about that upthread! I hate when I suffer from temporary spelling amnesia! Or maybe it's just Halfheimer's -- I only remember half what I'm supposed to! Sorry we don't agree on the merits of the authors I slammed. Carey's work in particular, and her Mary Sue character, Piper, just annoyed the hell out of me. -- RR

I didn't care for Piper at all, either, but I've loved everything else I've read of her work. Best Destiny is one of only two Star Trek books my sister will ever read; she loved it so much she scoured a dozen used book shops looking for her own copy. (She acted similarly in searching for Julia Ecklar's The Kobayashi Maru, which I can only hope has influenced Star Trek's current filmmakers.)

 

[Stephen!]

DS9 - Hollow Men
Worlds Of DS9 Vol1 (Never really started, let alone finished)

 

[DS9Continuing]

^ There's not much you can say on this board that won't get a reaction...

Oh, I don't know. There are plenty of times I feel like the whole board has me on "ignore."

Anyway, I don't think I have ever not finished an ST book. There are some I've not liked once I finished them, and sold and/or gave away.

 

[casey]

I hate to admit the book I have yet to finish, because I have loved everything I have read by Christopher Bennett, but I have yet to get past the first couple of chapters of The Buried Age. I think I have tried three times.

Now, it is not because of the writing quality or anything like that. . . But it seems something always comes up and I get distracted. And then something else that I need to read gets released and The Buried Age goes back on to the shelf.

It was the same thing with To Reign in Hell, but I did finally finish that one.

So, one of these days. . . . . . .

 

[JD]

Don't you hate how that happens sometimes? I swear it's like books or tv shows or whatever get cursed. The same thing has happened to me with Farscape, it seemed like something always happened whenever they got to the second season premier that kept me from watching it until they started over again.

 

[casey]

Don't you hate how that happens sometimes? I swear it's like books or tv shows or whatever get cursed. The same thing has happened to me with Farscape, it seemed like something always happened whenever they got to the second season premier that kept me from watching it until they started over again.

Yes, I hate that, and unfortunately my Master's Thesis is likewise cursed.

But I did finally read about 100 pages of The Buried Age today (when I should have been researching for the thesis, of course). I am determined to get through it this time, come hell or high water. . .