I found the entire Star Trek: Invasion! 4 book series at my local half price. I never read those back when they first came out. So I just started book 1. Pretty intense opener.
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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What are you doing to your books? :OIt makes me want to re-read it. Alas, the editions of German Publisher Heyne are not of good quality. Some books seem to fall apart after re-reading them too many times. Cross Cult produces books of better quality. Many Heyne paperbacks were worn after reading them once......
Okay, I usually only read them once, but even after more than 20-25 years, they still are in a good condition.
I bought most of them in a used condition. So previous owners might have read the books several times. But I stick with what I said: Cross Cult books have a better qualitiy.
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New episode of Literary Treks is up! Literary Treks 260: Sorry to All the Sela Fans - all about TNG: Death in Winter by Michael Jan Friedman.
I see what you did there...
The Last Phoenix by Richard Herman.
Just finished Trek to Madworld this morning. Fun, as always, although I'm now noticing that Goldin occasionally gets Spock very very wrong.
This evening, I begin Genesis, with the intention of covering the entire KJV, including the Apocrypha (in context, where practical), finishing Revelation within no more than a few hours of showing up for Easter Vigil. Rushing through the Bible at that pace gives one a "big picture" feel one probably cannot get any other way.
Lent begins at midnight. Happy Fat Tuesday.
This evening, I begin Genesis, with the intention of covering the entire KJV, including the Apocrypha (in context, where practical), finishing Revelation within no more than a few hours of showing up for Easter Vigil. Rushing through the Bible at that pace gives one a "big picture" feel one probably cannot get any other way.
Lent begins at midnight. Happy Fat Tuesday.
I tried reading the Bible front to back once, but I didn't get very far -- I got bored with the endless lists of begats in the first couple of books. I think a lot of the Bible must be a compilation of texts based on what were originally oral histories, which would explain the repetitive phrasing -- all those "X begat Y begat Z" passages would've been stuff to memorize by rote as oral history lessons.
But then, it was decades ago and I was reading an OCR-scanned version on an early CD-ROM anthology of world literature, which wasn't exactly the best format for comfortable reading. Sometimes I think I should give it another try, just out of literary/historical curiosity (and the better to debunk fundamentalists, creationists, etc. who misrepresent its contents to fit their ideologies).
Indeed. My own pet peeve is so-called "scientific creationism" or "creation science" (which is not only unscientific, but, lacking any reference to a Creator, not creation, either), AKA "intelligent design" (not very intelligent, as it quite literally looks for God in all the wrong places). That and the inherently eisegetic nature of fundamentalism, given that it is selectively, rather than consistently, literalist (I believe Diane Duane covered that one rather eloquently in Spock's World).
The KJV has the advantage that even though the translators intentionally chose diction that was already somewhat archaic (yet still perfectly understandable to even those who were only barely literate) even in the Jacobean era, their denominational bias was not nearly as extreme as that of many modern Biblical translators. It's just archaic enough to force you to think, yet not remotely as archaic as The Canterbury Tales (much less Beowulf, which I wouldn't even attempt in the original Old English outside of a University-level course in Old English Literature), which I see as a good thing. (And where else are you going to find the phrase, "pisseth against the wall" five times [and "pisseth against a wall" a sixth time] in a religious text?)
And running through it at that pace, struggling to finish in six and a half weeks, the "endless lists of begats" actually move rather quickly (particularly when they involve endless variations on King Soandso doing good/evil, then sleeping with his fathers), because the individual entries become subordinate to the overall pattern that emerges.
The Bible at least generally advances in time the further in you go. The Qur'an isn't in any sort of temporal order -- the Suras are organized in a rough "longest to shortest" order, with some exceptions -- and it's not really even a narrative at all, just God talking first-person about various stuff as compiled from an oral tradition that was written down.
Made a start on the Star Cops novel by Chris Boucher. (It's not new stories though)
Started Traitor winds
Exodus.
And I don't mean as in Leon Uris, Julie Bertagna, White & Meier, Sherman & Shwartz, or Lars Iyer.
And I don't mean as in Leon Uris, Julie Bertagna, White & Meier, Sherman & Shwartz, or Lars Iyer.
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Omission corrected. And I don't think Sherman & Shwartz wrote one called "Leviticus."
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