So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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So far, next up is An Amish Christmas Match by Winnie Griggs.
I've read 129 of my Goodreads goal of 125 books (if you don't count comic strips and Reader's Digest magazines, that is) - I'm 22 books ahead of schedule. Mostly novels, but a couple of Star Trek comics (Echoes and The Dog of War), a handful of non-fiction, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
I've read 129 of my Goodreads goal of 125 books (if you don't count comic strips and Reader's Digest magazines, that is) - I'm 22 books ahead of schedule. Mostly novels, but a couple of Star Trek comics (Echoes and The Dog of War), a handful of non-fiction, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
I read "Possession" last year and enjoyed it. A little darker than usual with a solid ending. Didn't know it was a sequel at the time. "Demons" is on my list for sure. Love the cover art by Boris Vallejo as well.
Finished Demons and started Bloodthirst. It would seem I have plenty of time to read Possession as well, since Amazon hasn't yet shipped my copy of Asylum (would've been better off waiting for it to show up at a local B&N, except that I needed something to ballast my CD of Howard Hanson's first two symphonies to make the minimum for free shipping).
Pity that keeping the whole country unconscious for 28 hours wouldn't cure the country's real-life madness. But that's about as likely as somebody jumping to the moon with the aid of a magic boomerang.
Pity that keeping the whole country unconscious for 28 hours wouldn't cure the country's real-life madness. But that's about as likely as somebody jumping to the moon with the aid of a magic boomerang.
There! There wolf! There castle!
I finished my Seize the Fire reread. My feelings about it have not changed too much in 14 years. It is still overlong while being just good enough for me not to skim or drop it entirely. I did not have as big a problem this time with the big "off-page" events. Unless an author is ready to deliver something special there, then it may be for the best to let the reader imagine how Riker and Tuvok's adventures away from Titan concluded.
I have read moments 50-32 of Why We Love Baseball by Joe Posnanski. The author brings much more variety and good writing than one might expect from a sport that is mostly throwing, catching, batting, and statistics.
My Typhon Pact journey continues with Paths of Disharmony. I was irked at the time by the secession and Vanguard fallout. Now that we have seen how later events play out, I will hopefully be able to enjoy the immediate story being told to a greater degree.
I have read moments 50-32 of Why We Love Baseball by Joe Posnanski. The author brings much more variety and good writing than one might expect from a sport that is mostly throwing, catching, batting, and statistics.
My Typhon Pact journey continues with Paths of Disharmony. I was irked at the time by the secession and Vanguard fallout. Now that we have seen how later events play out, I will hopefully be able to enjoy the immediate story being told to a greater degree.
Now over a third of the way into Bloodthirst. Which is to say that I've been introduced to what, as I recall, becomes a "Chekhov's Stuffed Armadillo."
Finished up Peter David's "Into the Void" a little bit ago and getting ready to start "The Two-Front War" after I post this comment. I know I am way late to the party but this was great!
I am just having fun reading these. No better way to put it. For me it is the perfect series at the perfect time and it is just hitting all the right spots. Even though we are just getting started meeting these characters and setting the scene I am already fully invested and planning the rest of the years reading. LLAP.
I am just having fun reading these. No better way to put it. For me it is the perfect series at the perfect time and it is just hitting all the right spots. Even though we are just getting started meeting these characters and setting the scene I am already fully invested and planning the rest of the years reading. LLAP.
A what?
Currently reading Hamlet. When my dad came aware of me reading it he said, "good luck reading it in any internal voice but Patrick Stewart's". 
I'd thought that Admeral Waverleigh had put more than just words of comfort into his stuffed-and-animated armadillo, "Old Yeller," shortly before his death. That he'd put evidence implicating Mendez into it. I was mistaken. We don't actually find out what message he'd left Kirk in the armadillo until after Mendez and his co-conspirators have been arrested (and referencing the corruption thread in "General Trek Discussions," we evidently get four or five corrupt admirals for the price of one here.A what?
Anton Chekhov once asserted that "If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there." Thus, the "Chekhov's Gun" trope. And, by extension, "Chekhov's Gunman." And Chekhov's Skill, Chekhov's Hobby, Chekhov's _________.
At any rate, I'm now about a chapter or two into Possession, the TNG sequel to Demons. I was wondering who could possibly be so stupid as to want to deliberately open the containers and release the pathogens again. Then I found out it was a Ferengi.
*****
Eight Hours Later:
I've been informed that my copy of Asylum arrived. My CD of Howard Hanson's first two symphonies (which I ordered about 2 weeks ago, just after realizing, on his birthday, that I didn't have a CD of his best-known work, and which was the reason why I ordered Asylum out of Amazon instead of waiting for it to show up at a local B&N) is delayed until probably the end of the month.
*****
The next day:
Finished Possession. Kind of illogical to assume that a metabolic stimulant affecting the host would also affect the pathogens. And that dispersal in space would eliminate the threat: think of how spectacularly it failed with Hactar
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Working my way through The Live of Dax.
Almost halfway through McCormack's Asylum. She gets Pelia's voice spot-on. Parts of it feel like TNG, rather than SNW, though, particularly a few chapters ago, with the diplomatic event preparations.
Finished up the third book in the New Frontiers saga "The Two-Front War". I enjoyed it a lot, especially the interactions between Si Cwan and Zak Kebron. I am glad that I watched Prodigy before getting into these books. I love the way the made the Brikar look.
Looking forward to "Endgame" next to see the conclusion of this exciting start to a series. LLAP.
Looking forward to "Endgame" next to see the conclusion of this exciting start to a series. LLAP.
Is it recommendable? And does Lucy kick some vampire butt?
Anyway, I did start reading "Greater than the Sum" and - I like T'Ryssa already.
Following some "enforced method acting" (after all, "she just ate") in the staking scene:
I found it very engrossing and compelling. And, yes, Lucy eventually kicks some serious butt, both undead and otherwise.
The book alternates between three storylines:
The events of "Dracula," retold and reinterpreted from Lucy's POV. (Turns out she had a secret journal that relates what REALLY went down back then.)
Her post-"Dracula" existence, traveling the world while trying to figure out what to do with her immortality.
A modern-day storyline in which she crosses path with a young woman on the run from an insidious conspiracy -- with deep roots connected to you-know-who.
Hmm, this and
that definitely do sound interesting. Normally, I'm not a horror-kinda-guy, but if it features serious buttkicking dealt by women (in that case: Lucy) it sounds like an interesting read. Thank you very much, the two of you.
The Chronicles of Conan: Volume One, by Roy Thomas & Barry Windsor-Smith, which led to a funny moment last night:
That moment when you finally get an in-joke fifty years later.
I've recently been revisiting some of the original CONAN stories from the 1930s, along with the original Marvel Comics adaptations from the 1970s, which I first read as a teen back in the day.
In "freely adapting" one vintage story, "The God in the Bowl," writer Roy Thomas changed a treacherous aristocraft from a man to a woman because the original prose version lacked any female characters. This leads to the moment in the comic version where Conan angrily rebukes her:
"If you were a man, you'd be headless now!"
Sure enough, in the original story, Conan DOES slice off the guy's head at this point.
That moment when you finally get an in-joke fifty years later.
I've recently been revisiting some of the original CONAN stories from the 1930s, along with the original Marvel Comics adaptations from the 1970s, which I first read as a teen back in the day.
In "freely adapting" one vintage story, "The God in the Bowl," writer Roy Thomas changed a treacherous aristocraft from a man to a woman because the original prose version lacked any female characters. This leads to the moment in the comic version where Conan angrily rebukes her:
"If you were a man, you'd be headless now!"
Sure enough, in the original story, Conan DOES slice off the guy's head at this point.
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