So What Are you Reading?: Generations

[LK3185]

I tried doing that a little while back, read the books in order of release. I bowed out around book 5 the Prometheus design. I just couldn't get through that one. Alot of those books from the 80s are rough to get through. The more modern stuff by guys like Christopher Bennett, Greg Cox, and Dayton Ward, to name a few, just feel so much more like classic TOS.

I doubt I will give up, I can read pretty fast when im into a book and even though I don't enjoy Prometheus design, it is/was better than Klingon Gambit imo.. So if I can get through that and I did, I should be fine

Probably more difficult will be going into the 90s and switching series.. I haven't finished Voyager yet and my biggest connection is to the TOS characters and then DS9

I think it will be fun in the end though.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

. . . DD even used the unusual device of two speakers alternating in the same paragraph . . .

To the professional writers (and any English professors) here: is there an actual name for that "unusual device"? I've never noticed it outside of the cited Lewis exchange, or DD's homage to it.

 

[Christopher]

To the professional writers (and any English professors) here: is there an actual name for that "unusual device"? I've never noticed it outside of the cited Lewis exchange, or DD's homage to it.

I don't think it's a device, just a practice that's fallen out of use. In a lot of older fiction, you sometimes see quick dialogue exchanges within a single paragraph, but these days that's considered a no-no.

 

[Kertrats47]

New Positively Trek Book Club! This week, Bruce and I tackle another early TNG novel: Metamorphosis by Jean Lorrah.



Currently reading The Lost Era: The Art of the Impossible by Keith R.A. DeCandido

 

[Josh Kelton]

^ Are you going to be reviewing episodes of The Bad Batch on your Kertrats YouTube channel, since there's no new Mandalorian episodes for quite a while?

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Now 1/5 through God Knows. I'd forgotten just how bawdy Heller's King David could be.

 

[Kertrats47]

^ Are you going to be reviewing episodes of The Bad Batch on your Kertrats YouTube channel, since there's no new Mandalorian episodes for quite a while?

Hi Josh, not a bad idea! I'm thinking I might, but we'll see what I think of the first episode. I was never the biggest fan of The Bad Batch during their stint on Clone Wars, but the premise of the series and when it takes place is intriguing...

 

[Cyfa]

Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers, by James Swallow (a re-read).
I'm finding it very difficult to get through due to the impending Occupation - I just have this sense of dread and dull terror as things get worse and worse for Bajor. It's horrible to read (but very well written). Dukat's "faith" in the Union, and how he uses it to justify his actions is terrifying, but the real villain (for me, anyway) is the despisable, self-serving Kubus Oak. He is disgusting.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Now a third of the way into God Knows.
Heller's King David can be downright raunchy when talking about Bathsheba and/or Abishag.

In Heller's version, Solomon is cunning, scheming, and not very wise at all. And most of what is attributed to him, he plagiarized from David.

Then again, Heller's David knows of people and events that wouldn't actually happen until (in some cases) the 20th century.

*******
Now halfway through. And Heller's King David has revisited the matter of the Philistine foreskins, this time with all the gory (and bawdy) details. Including large numbers of women looking in the basket of foreskins (and complete severed "members") and realizing that their (apparently very busy) Philistine lover was dead.

I'm getting Biblical in-jokes that had gone completely over my head 30 years ago. Including David drinking so much at his and Michal's wedding feast that he went out six times to "piss against a wall" (the phrase, "pisseth against the wall," or ". . . a wall", occurs six times in the KJV, from I Samuel to II Kings).

 

[2of1million]

Just started Ghost Ship by Diane Carey, the 1st Star Trek: The Next Generation novel. I read this like 25+ years ago!!!!! LOL I figured I should start reading all these books I've been buying for 99 cents.

 

[Reanok]

I recently read Metamorphisis again. Kertrats I really enjoyed listening to recent podcasts about Jean Lorrahs Star Trek books.

 

[John Clark]

Finished the Kitsune series by Julie Kagawa (generally enjoyed it) and now it's a reread of V by A C Crispin.

 

[Reanok]

I recently re-read several Star Trek books Captain's Glory by William Shatner, Prime Directive by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Watching the clock by Christopher L Bennett

 

[Smiley]

I had a rare 5-star book reading this week: Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter. I love the annotated libretto, and the other parts of the book talk about how the musical came to be.

 

[Cyfa]

I've finished Day of the Vipers (harrowing), and started The Lives of Dax (this must be my sixth or seventh re-read now - I love it!)

 

[JD]

I started listening to the audiobook of Fantastic Four: Doomgate by @Jeffrey Lang this morning. I'm only about a half hour into it, and so far it's off to a pretty good start.

 

[Smiley]

I am rereading and still loving My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane. She does an amazing job of introducing characters and adding depth to them in a very compact number of words. I wish we could have had a Romulan as well-realized as Ael in the live action series (Donatra and the one from "Image in the Sand" are fine but pale in comparison).

 

[Reanok]

Kill Fee by Barbara Paul

 

[indianatrekker26]

Thanks to last months simon and shuster ebook sales, i recently started Star Trek DS9: Twist of Faith. I figured with the upcoming Coda trilogy coming this fall, i was going to re-read the Litverse. Ive understood this is the best starting place. Ive read chunks of the Litverse over the years, but never all of it.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Just finished God Knows (spoiler: Adonijah starts acting like a usurper, rather than merely the heir apparent, and so David names Solomon his successor).

Now re-reading The Wounded Sky, because of the near-verbatim Dawn Treader quote. And I'd forgotten both how good it is, and some of the other nods to other works (there's a Starship USS Eilonwy, a nod to Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain, two years before Disney released a movie version of The Black Cauldron).