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So what are you reading now (Part 4)?

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Christopher said:
KingDaniel said:
I finally got round to finishing Vulcan’s Heart. I was disappointed. It had some good bits, but the Spock/Saavik thing was just wrong, the incest was wrong and Spock, pon farr crazy or not, acted totally out of character. His speech patterns seemed wrong to me throughout the novel.
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Why do people keep calling it "incest?" There is no blood relationship between Spock and Saavik. He was her teacher and mentor for a little while, decades before the events of this book.
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Charvanek marries her cousin.
 
Currently Reading Voyager: Unworthy

So far so good. Think I'm up to chapter 11 and still wondering if the remaining original crew will be filling their old roles.
 
Re: Currently Reading Voyager: Unworthy

K, moving in 3, 2, 1...


And my opinion on whether you should keep reading, is absolutely! It's a great book and compliments Full Circle that came before it and sets up the Voyager storyline going forward in such a way it can remain unique from the other Trek series while still being as true to Voyager as it can be given the circumstances.
 
Re: Currently Reading Voyager: Unworthy

I'm putting in another vote for keeping reading, pretty much for the same reasons that LS just gave.
 
I forgot to mention before that I started the third Dresden Files book, Grave Peril yesterday. I really love this series, it's just alot of fun.
 
I recently finished Tales of the Dominion War, which I can reccommend. My next Trek read will either be Greater than the Sum or my starting of the Captain's Table omnibus.
 
I just read the Orion and Borg Alien Spotlight comics last night and this morning. I really liked the Orion issue, I'm a big Pike fan so I always like it when we can get a good story featuring him, so I'd probably give it a 9/10. I thought the Borg one was pretty good, but TBH I'm not entirely sure what it was that Picard convinced the Borg of. Despite that I still enjoyed the story so I'm giving it an 8/10.
 
I've got two books on the go right now, because one's too big to take to work on the bus: David J Howe's The Target Book, a colourful illustrated history of the line that was Doctor Who books for many years, and Lifedeath, a Doctor Who fanthology edited by Kereth Cowe-Spigai and Patrick Neighly. The first one's highly recommended for longtime Doctor Who book fans; the latter is so far a mixed bag of fan and pro stories, many having nothing at all to do with the Amnesty International fundraising theme.
 
I am reading 'William Goldman: Four Screenplays'....(not exactly the screenplays themselves, but the experiences he had while putting those ideas into production).

A good read.

I am also reading a play called 'boom' by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb...(and I'm still trying to find out what the point of the story is)...
 
I'm not sure it counts, but I downloaded read the first volume of the classic fanfic, "Alternate Universe 4" on my eReader after reading about in a Best of Trek. Despite it's subject matter (Kirk leaves Starfleet, gets suicidal, gets over himself, joins secret "Light Fleet" organization) it read far less like fannish wish-fullfilment than Kirk's secretly tooled-up ubership USS Calipso in Captain's Glory.
 
AU4 was supposed to be one of the good fanzine series, from what I recall reading in Star Trek Lives!, the 1975 nonfiction book about Trek and fandom. It took me until 2001 to find one of them in fanzine form and I haven't read it yet... but now that other volumes have been put online on Jacqueline Lichtenberg's website I may finally get around to it.
 
I finished the S.C.E. omnibus No Surrender last night and I am currently reading the Klingon Empire novel A Burning House
 
I'm now on the fourth book (of six) in the Lost Fleet series, and this is some GREAT stuff. Incredibly exciting, and so far perfectly amping up the tension and stakes in every novel. The situation at the beginning of book one already seems hopeless, and that's not even the half of it. This is fantastic.
 
Reading and enjoying Greater than the Sum. I'm ordering Voyager's Distant Shores next, and while I wait for it I think I will try to pick up where I left off in the Stargazer series or try to restart the A Time To. I have the first book of it, but it did't "grab" me the first time I read it a few years ago.
 
Reading THE MUMMY: DARK RESURRECTION by Michael Paine. It's a sequel to the original Boris Karloff film . . . set in the present day, although this wasn't obvious right away.
 
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