So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Warning: It's long. Fortunately, it's also funny.

And assuming you're not up to reading it the original 17th century Spanish (I'd have a tough time reading int 21st century Spanish), it is not without reason that the fairly recent Grossman translation is hailed as one of the best.

 

[Christopher]

And assuming you're not up to reading it the original 17th century Spanish (I'd have a tough time reading int 21st century Spanish), it is not without reason that the fairly recent Grossman translation is hailed as one of the best.

I remember enough high school Spanish to follow the approximate gist of a text in Spanish, but that's about it. So I'll stick with English.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

You're ahead of me: I took German in high school, and just about the most advanced Spanish I know is something a cop friend pointed out, i.e, the difference between "put your hands on your head" and "put your hands on your beer."

I still remember enough German to where I find a certain fast food chain specializing in hot dogs (you know, the one that named itself after a Viennese-style veal cutlet, and got the gender wrong, to boot) utterly ridiculous.

 

[JD]

Oh yeah, it's always fun when you learn enough of a foreign language to realize how stupid some of the names people who don't speak the language gave to things using that language. For example out here we have Table Mesa, and in Spanish mesa means table, so it's Table Table. Of course Tonto means stupid, so The Lone Ranger's sidekick is actually named Stupid.

 

[Reanok]

Star Trek More beautiful than death by david Mack and Star Trek Ds9 Warped by K.W Jeter and Star Trek Strange new Worlds book 8.

 

[arch101]

Just finished Christopher Bennett's The High Frontier and loved it.

 

[USS Firefly]

The Expanse Caliban's War. The books are getting better and better.
The Buried Age by Christopher L. Bennett have to wait a little bit longer untill i continue the book.

 

[Thrawn]

The Expanse is one of those rare series that almost uniformly improves as it goes. The only exception is that book 7 is maybe a little less essential than 5 or 6, but then book 8 blows everything up (figuratively, that's not a spoiler or anything). I can't wait for the last one.

 

[Reanok]

The Bodies in the library by Marty Wingate

 

[arch101]

Non fiction- reading the new TMP art book. When you collect everything you can about a film for 41 years and find out there's STILL new stuff to read and discover.

 

[JD]

Last night I decided to add one more thing to my reading rotation and I started the Image comic Chew, written by John Layman, with art by Rob Guillory. Read through the whole first issue so far, and I'm really enjoying it.

 

[Reanok]

I'm rereading Star Trek Strange New worlds book 5.

 

[Kertrats47]

The latest episode of the Positively Trek Book Club podcast is up, in which we discuss the recent IDW one-shot Hell's Mirror. I loved this one, I thought it was a lot of fun and a really cool premise.

Currently finishing up Malcolm Gladwell's Talking to Strangers, as well as reading Col. Chris Hadfield's An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth.

 

[Smiley]

I finished the Errand of Fury trilogy. I complained about the Terok Nor books that set up things that resolved in DS9 itself, so they were not as satisfying, especially since my memory for minor Bajoran and Cardassian characters is not the best. This had the opposite problem. "Errand of Mercy" is a pretty memorable episode, and I don't think we needed almost half of the third book in the trilogy devoted to novelizing it. The added bits on Earth and with the fleet were appreciated, but the planetside stuff was just exactly what was in TOS.

Fans of military sci-fi and tactical problems with a tolerance for repetition will probably enjoy the trilogy more than I did. I give it three stars, but I am eager to move on to something else.

My next read is quite different from Star Trek: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

 

[MorbidGorn]

Well of Souls by Ilsa Bick

 

[Valin]

"Enigma Tales" by Una McCormack--the first Trek novel that I've read in many years.

"Russians Among Us"--Gordon Corera

"The Odyssey" --Homer (Emily Wilson transl.)

 

[Reanok]

Murder take two by Carol J.Perry

 

[John Clark]

Giving The Beekeeper - No 159 (The Black List) by Steven Piziks a go.

 

[Nx-007]

Star Trek - Titan "Taking Wing" by Michael A. Martin And Andy Mangles.

 

[Reanok]

Three treats too many by Debra H. Goldstein