So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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Started on Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski earlier.
I love the Witcher novels
Been meaning to read them for a while. I'd read The Last Wish a while ago, but thought it was time to return to the series.
Just read GREATER THAN THE SUM by Christopher Bennett.
Love T'ryssa Chen and she remains my favorite Star Trek EU character. Glad to finally see her origin.
And Hugh. Well....that hit me in the feels given events of Picard.
Love T'ryssa Chen and she remains my favorite Star Trek EU character. Glad to finally see her origin.
And Hugh. Well....that hit me in the feels given events of Picard.
SIN CITY 7: HELL AND BACK by Frank Miller
Yeah, Miller’s a git who hasn’t written anything not offensive propaganda since about 2005, but this is from 1999, and from a charity shop anyway, so what the hell. Solid neo-noir in his stark and occasionally confusing but usually striking solid black and white art style.
The plot is pretty simple, with a guy who looks astonishingly like John Wick saving a girl from suicide and then finding himself framed by people/organ traffickers. Hilarity ensues, and really I’m not sure John Wick isn’t actually literally inspired by this one, even if he ends up being Solid Snake. I’m also not sure that one of the villains isn’t meant to be The Cheetah from Wonder Woman, especially since there’s one colour chapter filled with cameos as the main character has been drugged and hallucinates.
So, striking, a fast read despite the size of the trade paperback, not too demanding, would fit nicely in a movie in the franchise.
Yeah, Miller’s a git who hasn’t written anything not offensive propaganda since about 2005, but this is from 1999, and from a charity shop anyway, so what the hell. Solid neo-noir in his stark and occasionally confusing but usually striking solid black and white art style.
The plot is pretty simple, with a guy who looks astonishingly like John Wick saving a girl from suicide and then finding himself framed by people/organ traffickers. Hilarity ensues, and really I’m not sure John Wick isn’t actually literally inspired by this one, even if he ends up being Solid Snake. I’m also not sure that one of the villains isn’t meant to be The Cheetah from Wonder Woman, especially since there’s one colour chapter filled with cameos as the main character has been drugged and hallucinates.
So, striking, a fast read despite the size of the trade paperback, not too demanding, would fit nicely in a movie in the franchise.
Star Wars: Leia, Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray remains a terrific book. I probably liked it even better this time because I have now seen The Last Jedi and know how Holdo and Crait play into that movie.
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn and Star Trek: Crisis of Consciousness by Dave Galanter were each decent. They had their moments, and I don't feel like I wasted my time by reading them. However, I do think 50-100 pages could have been taken out of each tale, and a stronger, tighter book would have been the result.
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn and Star Trek: Crisis of Consciousness by Dave Galanter were each decent. They had their moments, and I don't feel like I wasted my time by reading them. However, I do think 50-100 pages could have been taken out of each tale, and a stronger, tighter book would have been the result.
I just started "Farthest North" About the Fram expedition
im about 100 pages in of TOS: In the Name of Honor by Dayton Ward. I'm really loving this one. I think its refreshing to have a book set between TFH and TUC.
I finished up the last story in The Dresden Files: Side Jobs short story anthology. The story, Aftermath, was really good. It was actually told from the perspective of the cop who Dresden usually works as she is having to deal with some supernatural issues without him. I always like it when we get stories in a series like this that are told from the perspective of someone other than the usual narrator.
15 – SEVEN OF NINE by Christie Golden.
Only her third Trek book, a Voyager one, and not bad, though I confess I prefer her Assassin's Creed books, which are way better than the Oliver Bowden ones, being written by an actual storyteller and not a tame historian. [Yes, this is an edit cos I Mandela Effected myself into being sure she'd written several Buffy novels, but actually it's only a few short stories.]. The plotline is rather obvious, and tells us too much of what the guest characters are really up to far too early, rather than letting us find out as Seven finds out, but moves along at a nice clip, makes great use of Seven as a lead character, and did a good job of making me want to see how things would turn out. But, you know, my 1998 stuff isn’t my best either.
Characterisation of Seven is really good, the other characters passable, and it’s nice to see a good range of nonhuman[oid] aliens in a Trek story, to a greater extent than the show, which was still running when this came out, could have ever afforded. Use of the Raven motif builds well on the season 4 episode too, and there’s a bonus laugh for page 195 having a line of unintentional Yoda grammar…
Nice nostalgic familiar comfort-reading, that.
Only her third Trek book, a Voyager one, and not bad, though I confess I prefer her Assassin's Creed books, which are way better than the Oliver Bowden ones, being written by an actual storyteller and not a tame historian. [Yes, this is an edit cos I Mandela Effected myself into being sure she'd written several Buffy novels, but actually it's only a few short stories.]. The plotline is rather obvious, and tells us too much of what the guest characters are really up to far too early, rather than letting us find out as Seven finds out, but moves along at a nice clip, makes great use of Seven as a lead character, and did a good job of making me want to see how things would turn out. But, you know, my 1998 stuff isn’t my best either.
Characterisation of Seven is really good, the other characters passable, and it’s nice to see a good range of nonhuman[oid] aliens in a Trek story, to a greater extent than the show, which was still running when this came out, could have ever afforded. Use of the Raven motif builds well on the season 4 episode too, and there’s a bonus laugh for page 195 having a line of unintentional Yoda grammar…
Nice nostalgic familiar comfort-reading, that.
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Not novels, but according to the Buffy wiki she has written two short stories, one in the first Tales of the Slayer anthology, and another in an anthology called The Longest Night.
Argh. Mandela Effect...
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