I'm about a fifth of the way into The Romulan War. Not excited yet, but still reading.
So what are you reading now? Part 2
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About to start Stephen King's The Dark Half, apparently about a writer whose pseudonym takes on a life of his own. Terror ensues.
I've found that King tends to live up to how interesting his premises sound to me (not that I have a huge amount of experience with him), so hopefully this one won't break the trend.
I've found that King tends to live up to how interesting his premises sound to me (not that I have a huge amount of experience with him), so hopefully this one won't break the trend.
While waiting for Amazon to trap ST: Titan: Synthesis as it lurks in their warehouses, I'm skipping between:
Tank Girl- Armadillo!
The City, The City,
The Creative Writing Coursebook,
The Scar,
Gay Romance Anthology 2009.
Beginning to confuse characters to the point that I wonder if secretly *I'm* TankGirl... or Bellis Coldwine... Or some furry bear-dude... Anyone else do this, skipping across books like napalm lilly-pads?
Tank Girl- Armadillo!
The City, The City,
The Creative Writing Coursebook,
The Scar,
Gay Romance Anthology 2009.
Beginning to confuse characters to the point that I wonder if secretly *I'm* TankGirl... or Bellis Coldwine... Or some furry bear-dude... Anyone else do this, skipping across books like napalm lilly-pads?
The Dark Half, IIRC, was one of the books written during King's booze-and-cocaine years. I remember it as being okay, but not up to the level of what he'd written while at the top of his game.
Just finished VOY: Unworthy. I've now begun the second novel of the Dresden Files, Fool Moon. Titan: Synthesis is waiting on deck. I'm going to have to milk that one for all it's worth, since it's the last new Trek fiction that I'll be reading until Pocket finally gets back to the 24th century next fall (?!?).
I've just been working my way through The Dresden Files myself. I'm 2/3 of the way through Book 4 right now. My introduction to Dresden was the TV series (developed and run by DS9's Robert Hewitt Wolfe), and the books are very different. The show reworked the premise heavily to make it more TV-friendly and cast most of the characters very differently from their descriptions in the books, so mostly I'm making my own mental "casting" choices rather than imagining the show's characters. (The books' description of Murphy is a near-perfect match for Kristin Chenoweth. And I'm going with Clancy Brown for Morgan.)
What did you think of Devil May Care? I read it last summer and thought it was pretty good -- at least as good as the last half-dozen Fleming Bonds.
TOS: First Frontier
It's certainly a better send off than TMWTGG...
The sample they put on the web before publication was crap - "how many Fleming cliches can I squeeze into one chapter?" - which is *why* I waited until I could get one for 50p - about what it seemed to be worth. The book is
mostly better than I expected after that, but frequently annoying as well.
It starts off a bit shakily, with the thing where M is suddenly obsessed with yoga (which never gets mentioned again), then the business with the twins is blindingly obvious (though makes a nice change from Gardner's overused one good one bad formula).
When Bond goes to the Middle East, though, it's great - full-on Fleming style, marvellous stuff. The middle third is better than yer actual Fleming. Except for when Faulks forgets that it's supposed to be 1965 and indulges in a bit of Bush&Blair-bashing, which not only breaches Twain's "covertly preach" rule but does it in an extra standout fashion because its so bloody anachronistic. It's amazing how magically prophetic the characters become...
Unfortunately, the climax comes too early, then you get this extended coda with Bond in Russia, which is annoying because if you're going to make a point of having Bond go to Russia for the first time you should actually have made it the plot, so that it deserves a bigger deal.
Apparently Faulks wrote it for the cash in 14 days - I can't help feeling that if he took a whole month he could have produced a real classic...
Yeah, Brokenclaw is pretty bad.
The story is set in the 1990s and Gardner has a young American agent speaking like someone from early 20th century England....
The pacing is bad...
I recall reading some Raymond Benson some years back, and I may have to revisit those novels I have.
It's interesting: Benson got the job to write Bond novels based on a self-published encyclopedia!
I know your question was directed to lonemagpie, Daddy Todd, but I currently borrowing the audiobook(it's in my book pile)...and I hope to read it soon.
Yeah, Fleming used to take a whole month in Jamaica to write his!
Thanks for the review, David; I quite enjoyed Faulks's book. It was fast-paced and never made me groan -- but I did figure out the twins business early on. The denoument did drag on and on... but otherwise, I liked it a lot. I hope he writes another one.
Haven't read any of them - I'm not interested in that side of the franchise.
I understand...
Thankfully I haven't seen more than a few minutes from the TV series, so I am using my imagination to cast the characters instead of basing them from the show. I know the physical description doesn't quite fit, but I'm using Elizabeth Mitchell as my model for Murphy.
I'm also very early into Fool Moon, and I've been using Katee Sackhoff for my Murphy. I was thinking Nathan Fillion (Filion?) could also be a good Dresden.
I did watch the episode based on the first book after I finished it, but that is the only one I've watched since the show originally aired.
I did watch the episode based on the first book after I finished it, but that is the only one I've watched since the show originally aired.
But Murphy is five foot nothing and looks like a cute, perky cheerleader, in complete contrast to her tough personality. No way is that Sackhoff. Or Mitchell.
Beverly Leech from a decade or so ago might also be a good choice. Though she's not quite as incongruous as a tough cop as Chenoweth would be, as anyone who remembers Mathnet would know.
As for Dresden, I'm sticking with the show's Paul Blackthorne, though Fillion is an interesting option.
Beverly Leech from a decade or so ago might also be a good choice. Though she's not quite as incongruous as a tough cop as Chenoweth would be, as anyone who remembers Mathnet would know.
As for Dresden, I'm sticking with the show's Paul Blackthorne, though Fillion is an interesting option.
I picked up Beneath The Raptor's Wing yesterday and I'm enjoying it so far. One thing I would like to know, is what the time difference is between the setting of this book and the Columbia scenes in Destiny where they end up travelling at relativistic speeds.
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