So what are you reading now?

[KRAD]

(Though I will say that as an aside, I rather enjoyed the Bacco scenes.)

Ditto, and in no small part because of how dynamic they were, even if they proved futile. That woman gets shit moving.

That's my girl.

Seriously, Dave was kind enough to let me vet the Bacco scenes in all three books, and I think I changed two words in the entirety of it. He nailed the character magnificently. I was very proud.

I just finished Demons of Air and Darkness and it's finish in What Lay Beyond. It was a very good story, although I'm a bit disappointed with the Hirogen. I was expecting a Hirogen invasion of the Federation through these gates after seeing the cover. Talking about the cover: is that weird blue guy on the cover supposed to be Shar? He doesn't look like any Andorian I've ever seen.

There's a reason why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. The original conception was to have head shots of Nog and Shar and show the Hirogen fighting Taran'atar, but the gateway motif didn't leave enough room for that.

And yes, that's Shar.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Still wading through Mere Anarchy, and loving it. Warped is tough going.

Commute reading: Almost done with Dragonfly Falling but because there wasn't enough to read for today, I started on Troublesome Minds. Will finish DF tonight for bedtime reading.

 

[John Clark]

Just starting on Full Circle

Open Secrets is in the post.

 

[KRAD]

Got one story to go in the annotated Holmes Volume 1 (the infamous "The Final Problem"), then it's on to the galley of the latest Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum novel.

 

[JD]

I'm about half-way through Life, the Universe, and Everything and so far I am loving just as much as the other two. I also just found about about the new book being written by Eoin Colfer. Is anyone familiar enough with his work to know if he'll be able to take over for Adams?

 

[OmahaStar]

I finished Voyager: Full Circle last night, and loved it. I had a few issues with the timeline, trying to figure out what went where, but otherwise I thought it was fantastic. I'm very happy to see this series taken over by someone who can write. And do it justice, too.

 

[S. Gomez]

I hate to ask The Dreaded Question, but I can't hold myself back any longer...

Is it best to be familiar with the previous books in the VOY Relaunch to go on to Full Circle?

 

[Smiley]

I did not read the other four books, and I was able to follow it just fine. The book is designed to be a good place to jump in.

 

[RichMerk]

I am reading Cities in Flight by James Blish because I want to finally find out what this Vegan Tyranny fuss is about.

 

[JD]

I did not read the other four books, and I was able to follow it just fine. The book is designed to be a good place to jump in.

Me too.

 

[OmahaStar]

I did not read the other four books, and I was able to follow it just fine. The book is designed to be a good place to jump in.

Me too.

I read enough of them to understand that Ms. Golden, the writer of that god-awful fanfic crap cannot write.

Anything that I needed to know was referenced within the book itself.

With that said, it's helpful to have read the Destiny trilogy. But even without it, the backstory you need is provided in Full Circle.

With the exception of duologies and trilogies, it generally works that way.

 

[Steve Roby]

I read Shatnerquake by Jeff Burk. Silly, as one would expect of a story in which Shatner finds himself surrounded by the characters he played on TV and in movies due to a fiction bomb gone haywire at a Shatnercon, said bomb planted by Shatner's enemies, the Campbellians (fans of Bruce Campbell). Just a goofy runaround with a lot of violence, neither as satirical or surreal as it might like to be. The scene with the two-dimensional animated Kirk was good, though.

Dunno if there's enough Trek-related content to make it worth adding to my website. It's more about the current oddball pop culture icon Shatner of Denny Crane, Priceline, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds on youtube, etc than it is about Kirk.

 

[CaptKirk]

I just finished the first three books in the "Mere Anarchy" series. I was going to read each one separately and then something in between but got hooked and now will finish the entire series!

 

[Rosalind]

I just finished Corps of Engineers: Grand Designs last night. Overall I like this omnibus better than the Aftermath since I enjoyed every one of the stories in this collection whether because it's quite a fascinating technology, or some great moral and emotional stories. Whereas with Aftermath, I only enjoyed half of the stories, though I did read the title story twice.

Over the last month I've been reading:
-- The complete short stories of Hercule Poirot -- Agatha Crhistie
-- This book does not exist: Adventures in the Paradoxical -- Gary Hayden and Michael Picard
-- Enterprise: Last Full Measure -- MAM & AM
-- TOS: Mere Anarchy

The first two books are taking up a lot of my reading times. I'm not very impressed with LFM, so it's quite slow going and I only read it when I'm on the train, which didn't happen a lot last month. I've read all the ebooks of MA already, so that's bedtime reading for me, which means it's going slowly too.

 

[KimMH]

Just finished Galanter's Troublesome Minds. Enjoyed it mightily - Spock-centric during the TOS era. Delves into Spock's brain that makes him both endearingly familiar and still very alien. Fascinating. Five stars (out of 5)

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Just finished Galanter's Troublesome Minds. Enjoyed it mightily - Spock-centric during the TOS era. Delves into Spock's brain that makes him both endearingly familiar and still very alien. Fascinating. Five stars (out of 5)

I assume it dives into "Spock's brain" in the good way, not in the...er, other...way? The organ remains in place, I hope

 

[Bonzo the Fifth]

I've recently discovered the author Haruki Murakami, and have been steadily going through his ouvre. It began when I was given The Wind Up Bird Chronicle as a Christmas gift. Took me a while to get through it, but I enjoyed it thoroughly. Since then, I've read Sputnik Sweetheart and Nowegian Wood. Currently, I'm trying to get through South of the Border, West of the Sun, and I have Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World ready for my next project.

Sorry, been doing a lot of reading this summer.

Anyone else familiar with him?

 

[KimMH]

Just finished Galanter's Troublesome Minds. Enjoyed it mightily - Spock-centric during the TOS era. Delves into Spock's brain that makes him both endearingly familiar and still very alien. Fascinating. Five stars (out of 5)

I assume it dives into "Spock's brain" in the good way, not in the...er, other...way? The organ remains in place, I hope

with a spoon of course!!!

I was hoping someone would ask "Brain and Brain!! What is Brain?!?!?!?"

 

[S. Gomez]

Just finished Galanter's Troublesome Minds. Enjoyed it mightily - Spock-centric during the TOS era. Delves into Spock's brain that makes him both endearingly familiar and still very alien. Fascinating. Five stars (out of 5)

I assume it dives into "Spock's brain" in the good way, not in the...er, other...way? The organ remains in place, I hope

with a spoon of course!!!

I was hoping someone would ask "Brain and Brain!! What is Brain?!?!?!?"

Dang. I almost did.

 

[new_mercury]

still re-reading Summon the Thunder but took time out to read the countdown graphic novel which I enjoyed.