Think I preferred Ninth House more, but I did like Hell Bent.
Currently, I'm going through Third Degree (James Patterson), but before that, it was After The Fire by Will Hill.
I thought that was an interesting novel.
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Think I preferred Ninth House more, but I did like Hell Bent.
Currently, I'm going through Third Degree (James Patterson), but before that, it was After The Fire by Will Hill.
I thought that was an interesting novel.
Daniel. Including the apocryphal parts (Susannah, which is arguably the first police procedural in western literature, The Three Holy Children, and Bel and the Dragon, which arguably includes western literature's first locked-room mystery.)
Then Hosea. The only book in which you find The Almighty instructing a prophet to (as the late Dr. Gene Scott put it) "go marry a whore".
Then Hosea. The only book in which you find The Almighty instructing a prophet to (as the late Dr. Gene Scott put it) "go marry a whore".
I'm finding the sequel really expects me to remember Ninth House as though I read it yesterday. I'm enjoying it so far, but had to break down and read a synopsis of the first book on-line to refresh my memory since the author does not make much of an effort to recap what happened last book and just assumes you recognize all the names and settings and relationships.
In other words, do not expect "Previously on Ninth Gate . . . ."
I feel your pain. I've been known to sit on early volumes of "arc" novel series when I have reason tn expect that sort of thing.
Meanwhile, I'mback on-quota a day behind quota.
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Just finished the canonical Old Testament, and about to start on First Esdras, one of only three apocryphal books that don't easily fit into context.
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I finished Batman: The Court of Owls. The Talons definitely reminded me of evil Wolverine characters, and they felt like credible threats. I enjoyed the use of Nightwing and Batgirl in the story, and the 1918 World's Fair in Gotham was very fun to read about. The very end did seem a bit far-fetched, even given a story with characters with extreme healing factors and the other bananas stuff along the way, but I'm sure that varies by the reader.
I am about halfway through Take It Off: KISS Truly Unmasked by Greg Prato. It's an examination of the band during their makeup-less years through Carnival of Souls. It has some fascinating perspectives, stories, and details for fans of the band and rock/metal music. If anyone has recommendations for other great KISS books, I would be happy to hear about them.
I am about halfway through Take It Off: KISS Truly Unmasked by Greg Prato. It's an examination of the band during their makeup-less years through Carnival of Souls. It has some fascinating perspectives, stories, and details for fans of the band and rock/metal music. If anyone has recommendations for other great KISS books, I would be happy to hear about them.
True story: My original outline also included a reincarnation subplot, but I was persuaded that was just one fantastic element too many.
Second Esdras. I haven't yet gotten to the really weird parts.
Started on "No Good Deed" by Goldy Moldavsky
Second Maccabees. The weird parts of Second Esdras are tamer than I remember them being.
I just read IDW's Star Trek: Aliens collection, featuring three standalone stories that are basically more entries in their Alien Spotlight series, but I guess the spotlight burned out or something so it's just Aliens now. (Seriously, that's a weak title. Why did they change it?)
The first story depicts a few events in the life of Kahless, but it's one of those comics that prioritizes art over dialogue, so it has very little plot and is hard for a verbally oriented reader like me to follow, with a bunch of uncaptioned flashback panels that confuse it further. The second is about Quark getting reluctantly drawn into his mother's underground railroad for smuggling females off Ferenginar, which felt like it was borrowing a plot from The Orville, and otherwise just seemed like a rehash of Ferengi episodes from DS9, without adding much of anything new. The best one is the Trill story, which starts out seeming like a rehash of Ezri Dax's and Adira Tal's emergency-joining backstories, but turns out to be something different, a fairly effective story using joining in a suitably fresh and interesting way.
The first story depicts a few events in the life of Kahless, but it's one of those comics that prioritizes art over dialogue, so it has very little plot and is hard for a verbally oriented reader like me to follow, with a bunch of uncaptioned flashback panels that confuse it further. The second is about Quark getting reluctantly drawn into his mother's underground railroad for smuggling females off Ferenginar, which felt like it was borrowing a plot from The Orville, and otherwise just seemed like a rehash of Ferengi episodes from DS9, without adding much of anything new. The best one is the Trill story, which starts out seeming like a rehash of Ezri Dax's and Adira Tal's emergency-joining backstories, but turns out to be something different, a fairly effective story using joining in a suitably fresh and interesting way.
The Gospel According to St. Matthew St. Mark St. Luke St. John.
And no, definitely not according to St. John Talbot, from STV.
And no, definitely not according to St. John Talbot, from STV.
Just started on The Dispatcher by John Scalzi.
Interesting so far.
Interesting so far.
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The First Epistle to the Corinthians
Finished The Dispatcher (enjoyed it) and have now started on The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky (So far, I prefer it to No Good Deed, but we'll see)
I enjoyed The Mary Shelley Club.
Just picked up the first issue of the new PLANET OF THE APES comic.
One of my favorite Star Trek V anecdotes is that David Warner thought "St. John Talbot" was a really stupid name.
He talked about it on a podcast not long before he died, complaining that American writers think British characters have silly, unwieldy names. The other example he gave was "Paisley Winterbottom," a character played by Miles Richardson in A Princess for Christmas.
When I read the novelization of Star Trek V, about two weeks before the film came out, I had absolutely no idea how I was supposed to "hear" the name St. John Talbot. "Saint John? His name is really 'Saint John'?" My sympathies lie with Warner here.
Reminds me of an anecdote from Anne of Avonlea - Anne is admonished by the mother of one of her students to call the boy "St Clair", not "Jacob", as he prefers. The boy fights any kid who calls him by the former name, but allows Anne, his teacher, to do so.
I'm enjoying it a lot more than No Good Dead (Which is not to say I didn't enjoy that) - though they have just name dropped a character from that in to Mary Shelley.
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