Well, Shadow Commission hasn't arrived yet (Thought it was out last week, it's next week)
I'm currently reading Stargate Retaliation by Bill McCay.
I'm currently reading Stargate Retaliation by Bill McCay.
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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Hoe are the Stargate novels?
There's a few I've liked, some less so. The Mccay ones were published before the SG1 series, so bear no resemblance to the series. That said, I enjoyed them.
Hathor plays a larger role (though different from the tv version. Abydos is much more involved for the first two of the five books as are a few of the Abydonians.
I finished reading Debt of Honor during the week. I really enjoyed it, I just finished up watching the movies, and this fit pretty nicely in between The Voyage Home and Final Frontier.
I liked T'Cel a lot, she was a fun character to pair up with Kirk.
The bad guys were pretty interesting, and the twist with them toward the end was kinda creepy.
It was interesting to see a pre-Blood Oath and Pre-Enterprise take on the ridged and smooth headed Klingons. I confused me for a minute when Koloth showed up with a smooth head, but then I checked the original publication date and saw that it originally came out before Blood Oath aired.
After I finished that I borrowed Detective Comics (New 52) Vol. 1: Faces of Death written and drawn by Tony S. Daniel. I read the first issue so far, and I enjoyed it a lot.
I liked T'Cel a lot, she was a fun character to pair up with Kirk.
The bad guys were pretty interesting, and the twist with them toward the end was kinda creepy.
It was interesting to see a pre-Blood Oath and Pre-Enterprise take on the ridged and smooth headed Klingons. I confused me for a minute when Koloth showed up with a smooth head, but then I checked the original publication date and saw that it originally came out before Blood Oath aired.
After I finished that I borrowed Detective Comics (New 52) Vol. 1: Faces of Death written and drawn by Tony S. Daniel. I read the first issue so far, and I enjoyed it a lot.
I have finished the Errand of Vengeance trilogy. The third book is mostly one extended battle in and around a space station, so I was skimming to get to the character stuff, which is what I am mostly interested in. I like that we saw a possible first conversation between Kirk and Koloth here to set up "The Trouble with Tribbles" a bit more.
From looking at Memory Beta, it seems that Kell and Karel are supposed to be the sons of future Chancellor Gorkon, but the text seems to indicate that the brothers only have a mother alive. How is that reconciled? Also, is the Lieutenant West we follow in this trilogy supposed to become the colonel from Star Trek VI?
Completely unrelated to Star Trek, Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl is a book filled with some of the best prose I have seen in nonfiction in a long time.
From looking at Memory Beta, it seems that Kell and Karel are supposed to be the sons of future Chancellor Gorkon, but the text seems to indicate that the brothers only have a mother alive. How is that reconciled? Also, is the Lieutenant West we follow in this trilogy supposed to become the colonel from Star Trek VI?
Completely unrelated to Star Trek, Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl is a book filled with some of the best prose I have seen in nonfiction in a long time.
Karel is "son of Gorkon" according to Errand of Fury: Demands of Honor, but as you say, given Karel's father is dead, he can't be Chancellor Gorkon. Karel commits the House to a more honorable existence, which I think is meant to lead to what Gorkon does in The Undiscovered Country, but how that Gorkon relates is not made explicitly clear as I recall.
Started on The Shadow Commission by David Mack
Half way through The Expanse: Leviatan wakes.
So far the book is slow but good except for the terrible Dutch translation.
So far the book is slow but good except for the terrible Dutch translation.
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I finished STTNG: Available Light by @Dayton Ward last night. I'll post my thoughts over in the review thread.
Right now I'm trying a book called The Fifth Season. First book in a trilogy called The Broken Earth. All the books have won the Hugo award for three years in a row, if my information is accurate. I wanted to satisfy my curiosity about an author that could accomplish that. And the story sounded interesting, too.
KEL More beautiful than death - David Mack
MY WICKED WICKED WAYS by Errol Flynn
This slog has taken about three months, bloody hell. It’s a weird one to comment on, cos I think my biggest actual problem is that it doesn’t focus on the bits that I’d hoped it would focus on. Mainly it’s about his travels and tall tale adventures, which are pretty unbelievably embellished [he admits he wants to write a memoir playing up to his rep as trouble] and his statutory rape case [yeah, fun, huh?].
Most of the book, apart from the trial part and some of Hollywood anecdotes that can be checked with the recounts of others, is at best apocryphal. Even the true bits are dubious, such as when he nicks other actors’ experiences and tells them as his own. [There’s at least one fencing anecdote which actually is Basil Rathbone’s on the set of Romeo And Juliet, a movie Flynn wasn’t in; and another which Christopher Lee did to Flynn, but Flynn here claims to have done to some generic unnamed actor]. But there are some good bits of trivia that have been corroborated by others too. Just not as many as I’d hoped for.
The most shocking things to a modern reader, though, are actually the things which seem to have been considered NORMAL in the 1920s, with slavery and underage relationships all over the place.
Flynn and his ghostwriter have given us a fair number of amusing bits, and some poetic bits mainly about the sea, so it isn’t actually badly written or anything, but… I really wanted more behind the scenes stuff about the making of his classic movies. And it felt like a long slog through the jungle itself.
This slog has taken about three months, bloody hell. It’s a weird one to comment on, cos I think my biggest actual problem is that it doesn’t focus on the bits that I’d hoped it would focus on. Mainly it’s about his travels and tall tale adventures, which are pretty unbelievably embellished [he admits he wants to write a memoir playing up to his rep as trouble] and his statutory rape case [yeah, fun, huh?].
Most of the book, apart from the trial part and some of Hollywood anecdotes that can be checked with the recounts of others, is at best apocryphal. Even the true bits are dubious, such as when he nicks other actors’ experiences and tells them as his own. [There’s at least one fencing anecdote which actually is Basil Rathbone’s on the set of Romeo And Juliet, a movie Flynn wasn’t in; and another which Christopher Lee did to Flynn, but Flynn here claims to have done to some generic unnamed actor]. But there are some good bits of trivia that have been corroborated by others too. Just not as many as I’d hoped for.
The most shocking things to a modern reader, though, are actually the things which seem to have been considered NORMAL in the 1920s, with slavery and underage relationships all over the place.
Flynn and his ghostwriter have given us a fair number of amusing bits, and some poetic bits mainly about the sea, so it isn’t actually badly written or anything, but… I really wanted more behind the scenes stuff about the making of his classic movies. And it felt like a long slog through the jungle itself.
More Beautiful Than Death by David Mack
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