I am busy packing for my vaction and looking at some Trek to take along and one book that caught my eye was Final Frontier. Is this any good? Worth the read?
Final Frontier
- Thread starter Man of Steel
- Start date
RobertScorpio
Pariah
if you mean the book version of the Movie? then yes..it is far better than the movie..
Rob
Scorpio
Rob
Scorpio
No the book written by Diane Carey.
Has nothing to do with the awful movie.
Has nothing to do with the awful movie.
I think it is an excellent book. I read it soon after it was first published and it remains a favorite of mine.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
Yes, if you are talking about Duane's book, then yes it is one of the best from her...which her's usually are..
HOWEVER..the book version of TREK V is still a good read. I have read all of the book versions of the movies and all of the, even TWOK, were better than the movie..(But didn't read FC onward to be honest)
Rob
Scorpio
Robert, the book is by Diane Carey not Diane Duane.
RobertScorpio
Pariah
Yes, you are so right! I always get those two mixed up. When I read your post I checked my handy book shelf..and I stand corrected. Did these two ever co-write a story? I think the books they wrote were my favorites..back in the day when I read TREK books...
GREG COX, I think thats his name, wrote some cool books and were some of the last ones I read. There was one he read, and I can't remember which one, where the humor and the characters were SO right..
But Duane and Carey are the best in terms of how many good books they put out...what do you think?
Rob
Scorpio
They both have their own styles of writing. I personally hate books that have long chapters which Duane has.
diane duane good. diance carey double-plus UNgood
That's alright; I don't think you can be expected to remember the books Greg reads.
Yes, I imagine that can be quite a strain for those whose attention span is, shall we say, somwhat on the smallish side. Personally, I like the novels with a few simple sentences per page and an accompanying illustration. "Watch Worf run. Run Worf, run."
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Most Diane Duane books are written, or at least co-plotted, with Peter Morwood, Duane's husband.
Most Diane Carey books are written, or at least co-plotted, with Greg Brodeur, Carey's husband.
The two women have very different styles.
"Final Frontier" is excellent, BTW - and well worth reading in this lead-up to ST XI, as it is supposedly one of the books that inspired JJ's writers.
Is that really true? I thought he helped with one book and he got cover credit on that one.
Carey I knew about, she used "we" a lot when talking about coming up with plots, etc in VotI, if I remember correctly.
Last edited:
RobertScorpio
Pariah
That's alright; I don't think you can be expected to remember the books Greg reads.
Yes, I imagine that can be quite a strain for those whose attention span is, shall we say, somwhat on the smallish side. Personally, I like the novels with a few simple sentences per page and an accompanying illustration. "Watch Worf run. Run Worf, run."
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
I'm not sure if you're being funny...but both parts of his Euginic Wars were good. You might say that I was inspired by his ability to weeve in different elements of Trek's past (Gary-7) and tell a great story. Some people may call in fanboyish, but if its done really good then I have no problem with it.
Rob
Scorpio
Had it for like, ten years but never read it. Came across it the other day and was wondering the same thing.
That's alright; I don't think you can be expected to remember the books Greg reads.
...
I'm not sure if you're being funny...but both parts of his Euginic Wars were good.
Yeah, but those weren't books that Greg read. Look over the text of the quoted parts again.
(Well, I'm sure he read them in the course of revising and proofreading them, but... well, you know.)
That is categorically not true. The only time Peter co-plotted or co-wrote was The Romulan Way, on which his name appears as collaborator. He often kibbitzes on plots with her, but it's not more or less than what, say, TerriO and I do for each other.
I dunno. I recall several Duane interviews where she discussed her co-plotting with Peter Morwood. The level of Peter's contribution varied from book to book but it appeared to be a similar deal to Diane Carey's work with Greg, and I was surprised how much Peter was involved in several of her novels.
If we must now make a technical distinction between the terms "co-plotting" and "kibbitzing", then I guess that makes me a big exaggerator.
That's alright; I don't think you can be expected to remember the books Greg reads.
Yes, I imagine that can be quite a strain for those whose attention span is, shall we say, somwhat on the smallish side. Personally, I like the novels with a few simple sentences per page and an accompanying illustration. "Watch Worf run. Run Worf, run."
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Dude,
No need for sarcasam.
Everyone has their own method of how they like to read a book.
I hate chapters that maybe have 50 pages because sometimes I have to stop in middle(when there might not even be a scene break) and I hate that. You can lose focus sometimes.
I asked a question and all you had to say was if you liked it or not is all.
But you know what? To each his own.
Similar threads
