To answer your question Joel i liked Surak's Soul we got to see the crew working together to try to solve a mystery as why an entire race dies mysteriously. Hoshi has an important part to play in the book as well as Phlox and Elizabeth Cutler too. Malcolm and Trip's friendship is shown in this book. i like some of the backstory you get to see about T'Pol.There's an energy being that claims it wants to help the crew solve the mystery of what happened to the Oani . I know fans either liked this book or didn't. I like J.m.Dillard's other novel the tv novelization The Expanse it's better written than Surak's soul and deals with the Enterprise mission into the Expanse and trying to find the Xindi.there's some well written moments with the Enterprise crewmembers and the changes they go through after the Xindi attack.
So what are you reading now? Part 2
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Fiction: The Sword of Damocles by Geoffrey Thorne (yep, i'm a little behind).
Non Fiction: Just finished Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Zeppo (a good insight on the Marx Brothers and the making of their films) by Joe Adamson and have started The Places in Between (gotta start learning about Afghanistan) by Rory Stewart.
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Non Fiction: Just finished Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Zeppo (a good insight on the Marx Brothers and the making of their films) by Joe Adamson and have started The Places in Between (gotta start learning about Afghanistan) by Rory Stewart.
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I found I'm liking J.M. Dillard's books, so I may check out The Expanse as well...
Tks, Reanok...
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God Hates Us All, by "Hank Moody" 
Textbooks about Middle English .
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I'm currently slogging through Sunnyside by Glen David Gold. I had really enjoyed his first novel, Carter Beats the Devil, when that came out, but this book just seems so meandering and disconnected. I suspect it would have worked a whole lot better if Gold had written it as three shorter novels, one for each narrative.
Ultimately didn't like Devil In The Sky; thought they didn't use the premise well, pretty much squandering the potential for the rest of the book. I thought everyone on the station seemed incompetent; I was throwing out ideas left and right that a crack starfleet team should've thought of, and I was disappointed that the rescue operation turned into another cliched angry-Bajoran story.
I also have read Station Rage, which I enjoyed WAY more than I was expecting due to the cinematic nature of the Sisko/High-Gul conflict, and Objective: Bajor, which was really unusual for Trek but kind of typical recycled general SF, so my opinion there was somewhat middling.
Starting The 34th Rule now; my first DRGIII book in quite some years. I remember not liking him much when I was still in high school as I found his language overly verbose without being interesting, but I'm thinking after a near-decade I very well might have a different perspective.
I Liked the 34th rule by DRG and Armin Shimmerman.I thought it was well written and a nice look into the ds9 characters.
In this book Kira has a book called When the prophets cry that is mentioned inAvatar boosk1&2 plus some other Mission Gamma books and a Bajoran orb that's part of the storyline in the MG books too.
In this book Kira has a book called When the prophets cry that is mentioned inAvatar boosk1&2 plus some other Mission Gamma books and a Bajoran orb that's part of the storyline in the MG books too.
I remember getting to read for fun.
Good times.
Good times.
I'm about halfway through A Life In Secrets, which is mostly a biography of Vera Atkins, who helped run a section of British Intelligence (specifically the F Section of SOE) during World War II. I say it's mostly a biography because it actually concentrates on that period of her life, and particularly on her mission after the war to track down and discover the fates of more than fifty agents who went missing; it also delves into the stories of the women agents of SOE. Fascinating stuff, and I recommend the book.
I'm also spending my nights in bed listening to the James Bond audiobooks. The narrator, Simon Vance, does a fantastic job and has the perfect Bond voice. His women voices are a little strange, but his great American accent makes up for it.
I'm also spending my nights in bed listening to the James Bond audiobooks. The narrator, Simon Vance, does a fantastic job and has the perfect Bond voice. His women voices are a little strange, but his great American accent makes up for it.
I started Guards! Guards!, the first book in the Discworld City Watch series by Terry Pratchett. This is my third Discworld books, and I'm getting to a point where I can comfortably say that Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite authors. These books, along which the Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy books, are some of the funniest things I have read.
I am reading the Vulcan Academy Murders by Jean Lorrah. I'm somewhat disappointed that I think I've figured out the murderer on page 15. We'll see. I just finished Provenance of Shadows (McCoy's installment in the Crucible trio) and started Kirk's - A Star to Every Wandering by David R. George, III. I was really impressed with the Spock book, The Fire and the Rose, but McCoy's just seemed to go on and on and on. And this Kirk one is so far, just too convoluted for me.
Kyt - Amarillo, TX
Kyt - Amarillo, TX
Currently paused between stories in Strange New Worlds 8 and reading Seamus Cooper's Mall of Cthulhu.
*SPOILERS*
I finished Destiny, Book 1 and 2....and currently on Book 3.
It's interesting how many were saying that Trek needed to take the BSG route, or something similar.
I think the TrekLit franchise has done just that; however, Trek has remained 'Trek'. (How to explain it? Well, Trek still has so many people trying to uphold positive values, you have different species, and races willing to help one another for a positive future).
At the same time, space is not all fun and adventure....it's dangerous (for the time being)...and not everyone and everything is clear cut...it's gray...
Deanna Troi getting upset and moody...Picard getting desparate...but you also have cool action sequences...desparate MACO's...sexy, modified Captain Hernandez...(white, silvery toga; tanned, toned, oiled; barely out of her teens....olive skinned; long, dark hair, green eyes...)*sigh*
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ANYWAY...
I was about to post some questions about the Hirogen in a new thread, such as: Are there any Hirogen in any Trek novels? What happened to them?
Then I read a very well-written action sequence concerning them 'on a hunt,' and especially a cool scene where the Takaran, Lonnoc Kedair, takes on two Hirogen....
Interesting book series...
I finished Destiny, Book 1 and 2....and currently on Book 3.
It's interesting how many were saying that Trek needed to take the BSG route, or something similar.
I think the TrekLit franchise has done just that; however, Trek has remained 'Trek'. (How to explain it? Well, Trek still has so many people trying to uphold positive values, you have different species, and races willing to help one another for a positive future).
At the same time, space is not all fun and adventure....it's dangerous (for the time being)...and not everyone and everything is clear cut...it's gray...
Deanna Troi getting upset and moody...Picard getting desparate...but you also have cool action sequences...desparate MACO's...sexy, modified Captain Hernandez...(white, silvery toga; tanned, toned, oiled; barely out of her teens....olive skinned; long, dark hair, green eyes...)*sigh*
***
ANYWAY...
I was about to post some questions about the Hirogen in a new thread, such as: Are there any Hirogen in any Trek novels? What happened to them?
Then I read a very well-written action sequence concerning them 'on a hunt,' and especially a cool scene where the Takaran, Lonnoc Kedair, takes on two Hirogen....
Interesting book series...
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