Month 18 of 260 (6.92 percent)
Size of list: 83,279 pages (7.1 percent greater than starting size)
Pages read: 9,804 (11.77 percent)
H-list: 2,793/22,674 (12.32 percent)
N-list: 3,038/36,116 (8.41 percent)
O-list: 4,033/24,489 (16.47 percent)
Finished: Labyrinth of Evil, Avatar (books one and two)
Reading: The Dragon Reborn
Added: Avatar Book Two
This month was about fast reading from the big sci-fi franchises. It was nice to just turn pages. This seems kind of silly to say; it's not like I've been reading War and Peace or Capital in the 21st Century here, but after The Uplift War, Star Wars and Star Trek books were fast reads.
Labyrinth of Evil is a direct prequel to Revenge of the Sith, and it includes an interesting backstory for General Grievous that is revealed over a couple chapters from different characters' points of view. When we learn things about Grievous that even he doesn't know, it's a fun revelation. The end, which had to be in line with the beginning of the movie, suffers a little; it's especially hard to believe Count Dooku is so naïve about the situation he's walking into. Still, by tie-in standards, it's a good read; not as good as Death Star or the X-Wing series, but pretty good.
Avatar is a novel spread across two volumes that follows the end of the TV series Deep Space Nine, my favorite Star Trek. This felt like a two-part episode, a pilot for a delayed Season Eight. About half the characters were returning — Dax, Bashir, Kira, Quark — and then there were new characters brought in, mostly new but including Ensign Ro, the Bajoran from TNG. The plot was okay but felt a little thin across this many words. More interesting were the characters and how they dealt with each other — Ezri and Julian dealing with symbiont relationships, Kira and Ro dealing with opposite views of Bajoran religion, Nog and Quark adjusting to life without Rom.
They're books I enjoyed because I already love the underlying characters and worlds; I wouldn't recommend them to anyone who doesn't already.
This month was about fast reading from the big sci-fi franchises. It was nice to just turn pages. This seems kind of silly to say; it's not like I've been reading War and Peace or Capital in the 21st Century here, but after The Uplift War, Star Wars and Star Trek books were fast reads.
Labyrinth of Evil is a direct prequel to Revenge of the Sith, and it includes an interesting backstory for General Grievous that is revealed over a couple chapters from different characters' points of view. When we learn things about Grievous that even he doesn't know, it's a fun revelation. The end, which had to be in line with the beginning of the movie, suffers a little; it's especially hard to believe Count Dooku is so naïve about the situation he's walking into. Still, by tie-in standards, it's a good read; not as good as Death Star or the X-Wing series, but pretty good.
Avatar is a novel spread across two volumes that follows the end of the TV series Deep Space Nine, my favorite Star Trek. This felt like a two-part episode, a pilot for a delayed Season Eight. About half the characters were returning — Dax, Bashir, Kira, Quark — and then there were new characters brought in, mostly new but including Ensign Ro, the Bajoran from TNG. The plot was okay but felt a little thin across this many words. More interesting were the characters and how they dealt with each other — Ezri and Julian dealing with symbiont relationships, Kira and Ro dealing with opposite views of Bajoran religion, Nog and Quark adjusting to life without Rom.
They're books I enjoyed because I already love the underlying characters and worlds; I wouldn't recommend them to anyone who doesn't already.
No comments:
Post a Comment