well I enjoyed it, I have'nt read any of the a time to... yet but it's in my reading pile all so picked up slings and arrows.
So what are you reading? Part VI
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well I enjoyed it, I have'nt read any of the a time to... yet but it's in my reading pile all so picked up slings and arrows.
I may have permanently altered my to-read pile with my last review at TrekMovie... I decided to do a retro review of "The Yesterday Saga". We don't get a lot of traffic on book reviews... at least not in the combox... but in less than 24 hours, we already have more than 50 comments (yes, a few from me) with many talking about their favorite books from the past and, to my suprise, specifically asking for reviews!
So, it looks like I am going to be moving some older stuff into the to-read pile. Yesterday, I polished off Dreadnought! and I suppose I ought to read Battlestations! next to do a review the so-called "Fortunes of War" mini.
On the audio front, I am on The Road to the Sea by Clarke, one of the last stories on volume 2 of his collected short stories. After this one will be The Sentinel.
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So, it looks like I am going to be moving some older stuff into the to-read pile. Yesterday, I polished off Dreadnought! and I suppose I ought to read Battlestations! next to do a review the so-called "Fortunes of War" mini.
On the audio front, I am on The Road to the Sea by Clarke, one of the last stories on volume 2 of his collected short stories. After this one will be The Sentinel.
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Yeah, I liked it. I will write a review somewhere down the line, but as I'm still way behind with my reviewing (somehow that has become the standard *sigh* ), I have no idea when that will be.
Finished that one an hour or so ago. Nice novel and the first one in ages I read in pretty much one sitting (read a bit before I made that post, but read the majority of the novel this evening).
Next one will most likely be Cast No Shadow.
Titan Books has been reprinting several Sherlock Holmes pastiches in a series called The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I got a copy of The Veiled Detective by David Stuart Davies from the library this week, but after reading the first couple of pages I'm not sure I want to continue (I wanted to read his The Scroll of The Dead, but that was checked out). So it's probably onto the second Vanguard book now.
Just finished reading unworthy(by kristen beyer- the 2nd book in which voyager returns to the DQ).
I finished Hard News from Vanguard: Declassified. I'm now reading Supernatural: One Year Gone.
So far I'm annoyed with Death in Winter. For one thing, he makes a point of saying that Beverly's grandmother had blue eyes. That wouldn't be a big deal, except that the dialog in "Sub Rosa" was explicit that her eyes were green. I can just about quote the scene between Deanna & Beverly from memory:
D: "Your grandmother had remarkable green eyes."
B: "All of the Howard women have had green eyes, except for my mother and me."
It's even a minor plot point in the episode, because Beverly changes the color of her eyes to be green, to be more like all the Howard women in the past who have been involved with Ronan. It just irked me.
And now I'm about a third of the way through and wondering how many novels'-worth of history are being built on here. I've never read any of the Stargazer novels, and yes, there's a lot of backstory filler that's trying to help me along, but I'm really feeling like I jumped into a subset of Trek that Friedman has carved out on his own. It'd be one thing if this were a Stargazer novel, but it's not.
I'm plugging my way through it, but I'm feeling like I'm supposed to know these people and I don't.
D: "Your grandmother had remarkable green eyes."
B: "All of the Howard women have had green eyes, except for my mother and me."
It's even a minor plot point in the episode, because Beverly changes the color of her eyes to be green, to be more like all the Howard women in the past who have been involved with Ronan. It just irked me.
And now I'm about a third of the way through and wondering how many novels'-worth of history are being built on here. I've never read any of the Stargazer novels, and yes, there's a lot of backstory filler that's trying to help me along, but I'm really feeling like I jumped into a subset of Trek that Friedman has carved out on his own. It'd be one thing if this were a Stargazer novel, but it's not.
I'm plugging my way through it, but I'm feeling like I'm supposed to know these people and I don't.
^ Death In Winter tries to do too much at once, and ends up shortchanging most of it, I felt. The Stargazer characters, the plot on the Enterprise, and a lot of the enormous list of random Romulan spy characters feel like they could've been cut entirely. Most of the Romulan stuff is done better in Taking Wing anyway.
Doesn't the woman have two grandmothers?
Join the club. I don't believe I actually even bothered to keep my copy of the book, it was that bad...
Resistance, while an improvement, wasn't much better. And don't get me started on Before Dishonor, the first Trek book in many, many years that I was utterly unable to finish. The bookmark still lays at page 97 where I gave up.
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On the audio front, finished The Sentinel and, with it, volume 2 of Clarke's Short Stories. Decided to take a break for a few days and am currently listening to Final Frontier by Diane Carey in the car. I am missing my cassettes for Web of the Romulans and The Entropy Effect, but I hope to find them and listen to them this week while commuting, then get back to Clarke's 3rd volume of short stories next week.
In dead-tree form, I am revisiting Carey's Battlestations! as I await the arrival of A Choice of Catastrophies.
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In dead-tree form, I am revisiting Carey's Battlestations! as I await the arrival of A Choice of Catastrophies.
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Just finished the magnificent and tragic The Big Rock Candy Mountain, by Wallace Stegner -- the 30-year account of a family living in the early 20th century as the wild west gave way to modernity.
No luck on finding the missing audiobooks, so I am listening to Prime Directive for the balance of the week in the car. It's been several years since I visited the story. I hated the novel when I read it back in the 90's... and have never been a big fan of the audio either... but, since other books have grown on me as I have aged, perhaps this one will too.
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I'm going to try reading Federation by the Reeves-Stevens.
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