So what are you reading now?

[Stevil2001]

Today I started in on Voyager: Full Circle at long lost.

Also this week, I'm finally getting on top of reading my exam list. This week's readings:
- Adam Bede by George Eliot (finished this afternoon, slow to start but eventually fantastic, then slow to end)
- Hard Times: For These Times by Charles Dickens (will start tonight, though I've read it before, so hopefully it will go quick(er than Dickens usually does))

 

[apenpaap]

Just finished Avatar. I really enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the relaunch. I hated Kira in part 1, though, but she redeemed herself in my eyes in part 2.

 

[Trekarama]

I'm finishing up on Alan Dean Foster's Star Trek Movie Tie-In audiobook, and then will begin Star Trek: Troublesome Minds by David Galanter.

 

[Steve Roby]

- Hard Times: For These Times by Charles Dickens (will start tonight, though I've read it before, so hopefully it will go quick(er than Dickens usually does))

Been ages since I read it, but I seem to recall it being a shorter book and a faster read than the other Dickens I've read (Great Expectations and Tale of Two Cities, both of which I liked well enough). I was supposed to read The Pickwick Papers for an undergrad English course on comedy and satire back in 1983-84. I didn't get a tenth of the way through that one. For Dickens, brevity was not the soul of anything.

 

[Trent Roman]

- Hard Times: For These Times by Charles Dickens (will start tonight, though I've read it before, so hopefully it will go quick(er than Dickens usually does))

Been ages since I read it, but I seem to recall it being a shorter book and a faster read than the other Dickens I've read (Great Expectations and Tale of Two Cities, both of which I liked well enough).

I've read it twice in the last four months; once as part of a regular course curriculum, then again in April because it wound up being part of my paper for that seminar, which I hadn't anticipated and thus not paid enough attention the first time through. It was also, by some startling lacuna, my first Dickens, and I was fairly shocked that this unsubtle and didactic text was the product of such a famed writer. Fortunately I've read more since, and while, say, Christmas Carol is just as overt, the thematic unity works a lot better there than it does in this overlong novel.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[donners22]

I've completed the second Myriad Universes book, Echoes and Refractions.

I was somewhat disappointed, at least partly because I was so pleasantly surprised by the first. I was always concerned that the stories would just go the way of the Mirror Universe books (which I disliked) and just be depressing death and destruction. Infinity's Prism avoided that for the most part, and all three stories were quite positive.

This collection, however, was pretty much what I didn't want. I did not enjoy the first at all, the second had some welcome touches of humour (I could have thought it was a PAD story until the politics came in - easily identifying it as KRAD's work), but again the mass destruction threw me somewhat. That's not to say they're bad stories, they're just not what I look for in most Trek novels.

Peter David is one of my favourite authors and he includes plenty of violence, but sometimes it works for me (Darkness of the Light) and sometimes it doesn't (Tong Lashing). It didn't work for me in these stories.

The third was a bit more intriguing, though I found the ending actually more disturbing than A Gutted World. Interesting, but disturbing.

I've skimmed over the movie tie-in and wasn't too impressed, so I jumped ahead to Kobayashi Maru. Not only does it have one of the most imaginative and interesting blurbs I've read (written by the authors?), the opening is fantastic. It's refreshing to see people writing from the perspective of an alien race throw in more than a couple of words from their language. I haven't got far in, but my hopes are high.

Oh, and well done to Michael Martin's niece for her work on behalf of people with autism. That's a subject close to my heart, and I'd like to hear more about that.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

I finished Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Section 31: Abyss last night and started on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Gateways: Demons of Air and Darkness. Next, of course, is the conclusion, Horn and Ivory. After that I might start on the Mission Gamma miniseries, but I want to get the 3rd one before I start, so I might just read Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse instead.

 

[DaveGalanter]

I'm finishing up on Alan Dean Foster's Star Trek Movie Tie-In audiobook, and then will begin Star Trek: Troublesome Minds by David Galanter.

Lemme know what you think when you get to it.

Dave

 

[Snaploud]

I'm finishing up on Alan Dean Foster's Star Trek Movie Tie-In audiobook, and then will begin Star Trek: Troublesome Minds by David Galanter.

Lemme know what you think when you get to it.

Dave

I didn't realize that had come out yet...I'll have to make a stop at the bookstore.

 

[seigezunt]

I'm finishing up on Alan Dean Foster's Star Trek Movie Tie-In audiobook, and then will begin Star Trek: Troublesome Minds by David Galanter.

Lemme know what you think when you get to it.

Dave

Thta will probably be my next, too. Though I randomly cracked open Alan dean Foster's old ST Logs series and was drawn in...

 

[JD]

If anyone is interested, Amazon has the first 10ish pages of TM up as part of a` look inside feature. I read it the other day, and TBH at first I wasn't sure if I liked the writting style. But after a couple pages I got used to it, and by the end I was really mad that it was over so quickly. So at this point I will probably be getting, unless it gets really bad reviews when it comes out.

 

[Brendan Moody]

I've put Jean Hanff Korelitz's Admission on hold to read the just-arrived Troublesome Minds. I'm about 40 pages in, and am very much enjoying it so far. The prose is... spare, but I've adjusted to it, and the novel absolutely captures the TOS characters and the "feel" of their adventures. Great fun.

 

[John Clark]

I'm giving the new Trek movie novel a run through. After that I've Got A Singular Destiny and The Buried Age.

 

[Trekarama]

I'm finishing up on Alan Dean Foster's Star Trek Movie Tie-In audiobook, and then will begin Star Trek: Troublesome Minds by David Galanter.

Lemme know what you think when you get to it.

Dave

Hi Dave,

Will do.

 

[Trekarama]

I'm finishing up on Alan Dean Foster's Star Trek Movie Tie-In audiobook, and then will begin Star Trek: Troublesome Minds by David Galanter.

Lemme know what you think when you get to it.

Dave

I didn't realize that had come out yet...I'll have to make a stop at the bookstore.

It came out yesterday the 26th. It should be in stores as of today. I know Amazon shipped mine out the other day.

 

[JD]

I forgot to mention before that I started Life, The Universe, and Everything by Dougla Adams early a couple days ago. I'm only a couple chapters into it and it's already a good as the first two Hitchhicker's books. It's early because I actually still have about 80p left on Full Circle.

 

[DaveGalanter]

I've put Jean Hanff Korelitz's Admission on hold to read the just-arrived Troublesome Minds. I'm about 40 pages in, and am very much enjoying it so far. The prose is... spare, but I've adjusted to it, and the novel absolutely captures the TOS characters and the "feel" of their adventures. Great fun.

Glad you're enjoying it! Look forward to you final thoughts.

 

[Stevil2001]

- Hard Times: For These Times by Charles Dickens (will start tonight, though I've read it before, so hopefully it will go quick(er than Dickens usually does))

Been ages since I read it, but I seem to recall it being a shorter book and a faster read than the other Dickens I've read (Great Expectations and Tale of Two Cities, both of which I liked well enough).

I've read it twice in the last four months; once as part of a regular course curriculum, then again in April because it wound up being part of my paper for that seminar, which I hadn't anticipated and thus not paid enough attention the first time through. It was also, by some startling lacuna, my first Dickens, and I was fairly shocked that this unsubtle and didactic text was the product of such a famed writer. Fortunately I've read more since, and while, say, Christmas Carol is just as overt, the thematic unity works a lot better there than it does in this overlong novel.

Hard Times was the first Dickens I ever read (other than A Christmas Carol), about two years ago, and I was fairly underwhelmed. I had to read Our Mutual Friend for a seminar this past semester, and I didn't have the time to get more than halfway through it, but I really liked it, and I'll finish it up this summer, I hope. I really must get around to reading his real biggies someday. (I watched the BBC Bleak House; does that count?)

 

[Brendan Moody]

(I watched the BBC Bleak House; does that count?)

As someone who spent six weeks working his way through the real thing: no, it does not.

 

[S. Gomez]

David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities were my first encounters with Dickens, one right after the other in that order. To be perfectly honest, nothing of his that I've read since has come up to their level, but Bleak House was pretty close. Hard Times is actually one of the two I started didn't follow through (more because I was in the mood for something else), and one of these days I'll get around to picking up Oliver Twist.