Final book in the A time to series
A time for war and a time for peace - Worf is a bad ass mutha....
A time for war and a time for peace - Worf is a bad ass mutha....
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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I'm currently reading TTN: Synthesis by James Swallow
Seafire by John Gardner
The boys from brazil by ira levin
Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George.
Outsider by Stephen King. Absolutely amazing so far even if it's still just presenting itself as a mystery novel. There must be something supernatural about to happen. I've pretty much avoided all info about the book so far. I think it's better than the last Bill Hodges book so far.
Ah, that one comes out here today... Cool.
i just started reading The Outsider by Stephen King. And i'm about 3/4 of the way through Star Wars: A New Dawn by John Jackson Miller.
Wow, it's been forever since I posted here. I'm going to try to get back into it!
I finally have a lull in the Trek book reading schedule, as I got ahead a bit for the podcast and website. Therefore, I'm finally reading a non-Trek book I've been wanting to read for awhile: American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Nearly finished, and wow, what a story!
I finally have a lull in the Trek book reading schedule, as I got ahead a bit for the podcast and website. Therefore, I'm finally reading a non-Trek book I've been wanting to read for awhile: American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Nearly finished, and wow, what a story!
I am going to reread Misery by Stephen King.
I don't remember much of the book, I believe it's about a lazy writer who lies in bed and a sweet lady who takes care of him.
I don't remember much of the book, I believe it's about a lazy writer who lies in bed and a sweet lady who takes care of him.
Looks like a ripoff of the Martian with "powerful political forces" in play. Bova hasn't had anything decent in 20 years in my eyes and I loved him as a teenager first getting into scifi.
Vortex by Larry Bond
The other day I finished A DAWN LIKE THUNDER by Douglas Reeman
Bloody hell. Somewhat of a slog. Reeman's Bolitho novels under the pseudonym Alexander Kent are great. His WW2 standalones vary wildly- the early ones are good, and he always gives a good sense of place and time, and what it must have been like to live in 1940s with a naval bent. Unfortunately his later ones get lazier every time, and the characters are just a checklist of requirements with no decent dialogue - not even one-dimensional, (But, then, people say that about mine).
This is a later one, from the second half of the 1990s. The plot sounds intriguing, but is frequently glossed over, and doesn't flow; I kept waiting for it to actually move or hit a peak, and have some payoff to the setups, but they just don't come, because a really inept pair of romance plots keep getting in the way and bogging it down to dead slow and stop. The two main guys have each seen a girl for two minutes, and then spend the rest of the book noticing that the other guy must be thinking of her, and signifying their understanding with a non-sequitur that makes them each relieved they know the other guy. I think if it was slash it'd be more believable, and work better. There's even a random murder plot that wanders in from a different book altogether and doesn't provide any mystery, since the person everybody automatically suspects/assumes/hopes did it, actually did it.
The climactic raid is mostly OK, but then suffers from a sudden ending in mid-flow. In fact the whole damn thing, even including the good bits, comes over as a hodge-podge of random elements and none-dimensional characters from which some sort of file corruption has irretrievably deleted a random third of the words in the text, and a desperate editor has glued the remainder together in the frantic last hour before the office closes for a holiday. (The back cover has quotes from The Times and The Sunday Times praising it for being “well-characterised”. They lie, unless they mean the characterisation was dropped down a well and left there.)
Bloody hell. Somewhat of a slog. Reeman's Bolitho novels under the pseudonym Alexander Kent are great. His WW2 standalones vary wildly- the early ones are good, and he always gives a good sense of place and time, and what it must have been like to live in 1940s with a naval bent. Unfortunately his later ones get lazier every time, and the characters are just a checklist of requirements with no decent dialogue - not even one-dimensional, (But, then, people say that about mine).
This is a later one, from the second half of the 1990s. The plot sounds intriguing, but is frequently glossed over, and doesn't flow; I kept waiting for it to actually move or hit a peak, and have some payoff to the setups, but they just don't come, because a really inept pair of romance plots keep getting in the way and bogging it down to dead slow and stop. The two main guys have each seen a girl for two minutes, and then spend the rest of the book noticing that the other guy must be thinking of her, and signifying their understanding with a non-sequitur that makes them each relieved they know the other guy. I think if it was slash it'd be more believable, and work better. There's even a random murder plot that wanders in from a different book altogether and doesn't provide any mystery, since the person everybody automatically suspects/assumes/hopes did it, actually did it.
The climactic raid is mostly OK, but then suffers from a sudden ending in mid-flow. In fact the whole damn thing, even including the good bits, comes over as a hodge-podge of random elements and none-dimensional characters from which some sort of file corruption has irretrievably deleted a random third of the words in the text, and a desperate editor has glued the remainder together in the frantic last hour before the office closes for a holiday. (The back cover has quotes from The Times and The Sunday Times praising it for being “well-characterised”. They lie, unless they mean the characterisation was dropped down a well and left there.)
I finished up The Dresden Files: War Cry digital comics collection, and I really enjoyed it. This was the second Dresden Files comic miniseries I've read, and I enjoyed it even more than the first one I read, Ghoul Goblin. My main issue with GG was the fact that it felt very disconnected from the novels, it took place outside of Chicago, and as far I remember, didn't feature any characters from the rest of the series other than Harry Dresden himself. War Cry, is much more strongly connected to the rest of the series, the story focuses on the war between the Red Court of Vampires and the White Council of Wizards, which has been a pretty big part of the last few books I read. It also features Harry's half-brother Thomas, who is pretty important supporting character in the novels.
After finishing that, I started my next Amazing Spider-Man digital collection, Election Day. If the cover of the first full issue is to be believed it looks like this story arc that starts of the collection, Character Assassination, will resolve two of the big mysteries that have been building up for the last 42 issues. After all the build up, I'm very curious to see what the answers will be.
After finishing that, I started my next Amazing Spider-Man digital collection, Election Day. If the cover of the first full issue is to be believed it looks like this story arc that starts of the collection, Character Assassination, will resolve two of the big mysteries that have been building up for the last 42 issues. After all the build up, I'm very curious to see what the answers will be.
Last Trek book I read was "Kobayashi Maru", from author Julia Ecklar, some weeks ago. It was very impressive to finally know how Kirk beat the famous Academy simulation and stated his "I don't believe in a no win scenario" motto!
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