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Have any of the novels ever just made you mad? (

Breathe, Rushbo, breathe...take a w'oq and t'oq about your feelings with someone you know won't m'oq you.

...I'm sorry, truly I am...


he he he
 
I'll get it back on topic:

I hated when they used to have yellow dye along the sides of the paper on the books. I was very happy in the late 80s when they didn't need that anymore.
 
Red Sector and Well of Souls both had me feeling pretty upset. Stiles was the most annoying lump of organic matter that I've had the misfortune to read about in the Star Trek novels. The handling of the Enterprise-C characters was bad enough to overcome the tremendous amount of goodwill I had for the Lost Era series and "Yesterday's Enterprise."
 
All this bashing of Stiles....

Frankly...I don't see anything wrong with him. He seemed OK to me. I just didn't like how he and Spock, near the end of the book, seemed to have come all that way for nothing. Spock giving up seemed pretty out-of-character....

Stiles is fine, to me. I.M.A.N.S.H.O.
 
I wasn't mad exactly about Well of Souls last time I read it. More... disappointed. Rachel Garrett didn't become a major part of the story until halfway in - up to about the middle, the book focuses more on characters who are making their debut in this story. It's a novel that based on the cover and description is a story about the Enterprise-C, but the first half is spent away from it and the two characters we knew served on it. Once it returned to the Enterprise, it picked up for me, but again, that was about halfway through. Granted, the book was longer than usual, so that made it a little better, but that first half was a struggle.
 
The best Ent-C material I've seen was the bits from Vulcan's Heart. Even though you knew exactly what would happen to them (and even got to see it first hand).

Or, to put it another way...It was not an ap'oqalypse.
 
I felt so cheated that, as I recall, I literally went straight to a used book store and swapped it for store credit because I didn't want it even anywhere near me anymore.

Overly dramatic? Maybe, but that's how torqued I was at the time.

Haha, no, I know the feeling. I managed to offload my first copy of Warped to a fan club library.

I then bought a big box of Trek books on eBay, and a copy of Warped was in that. I donated it to a charity store.

A friend moved house and left me a bunch of Trek books, and there was yet another copy! I threw that one in the bin.
 
I don't know, maybe it's a sign from the universe that you're supposed to own a copy of it, for your eternal torment. ;)
 
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