This has taken me a while to read but man. This book is more modern and I'm not sure if that is the writer or the translator but there are a lot of situations that I have seen in modern books, cinema, etc., and that just shows how important this work is.
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jkb rated More Beautiful Than Death: 4 stars
More Beautiful Than Death by David Mack (undifferentiated) (Star Trek)
Captain James T. Kirk and the Enterprise crew escort Spock’s father, Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan, to a dilithium-rich planet called …
jkb rated How High We Go in the Dark: 5 stars
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter …
jkb reviewed Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
A new translation by Edith Grossman
Review of 'Don Quixote' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
jkb rated Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: 5 stars
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and …
jkb rated Midnight Riot: 3 stars
Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London, #1)
jkb rated The Cold Commands: 4 stars
The Cold Commands by Richard K. Morgan
"With The Steel Remains, award-winning science fiction writer Richard K. Morgan turned his talents to sword and sorcery. The result: …
jkb reviewed Moments Asunder by Dayton Ward (Star Trek: Coda, #1)
Starfleet's finest faces a challenge unlike any other. Tomorrow is doomed. Time is coming apart. …
Review of 'Moments Asunder: Coda, Book 1' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Relaxing with friends
Pretty much any Star Trek novel makes me feel this way and this is no different. And it was fun seeing other characters from other Star Trek shows.
Fun read as always.
jkb rated Hunt the Stars: 4 stars
jkb rated Brotherhood: 4 stars
Brotherhood by Mike Chen
Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker must stem the tide of the raging Clone Wars and forge a new bond as …
jkb rated The Forsyte Saga : 4 stars
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
This list contains different novels of The Forsyte Saga.
jkb reviewed The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway by Una McCormack (Star Trek)
Captain Janeway of the USS Voyager tells the story of her life in Starfleet, for …
Review of 'The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
In a nut shell, I loved this book. Written in 2020 it was nice to hear from Janeway herself about herself. Most of the book is about Janeway's childhood and family. I listened to the audio book so having "Janeway" reading her own book was very comforting.
Now, the book does talk about her time from the Delta Quadrant but it's more of a summation of years and the outstanding facts not in the logs ("shows"). It also gives her side of the story, right or wrong, of some of her actions during her time there. It does not go into too much detail. And that is the unfortunate part. There is a balance the editor Una McCormack had made in how the stories of Janeway's life are written. Everything is a bit of a summary. Though the details in her early life are there; there is still a summation …
In a nut shell, I loved this book. Written in 2020 it was nice to hear from Janeway herself about herself. Most of the book is about Janeway's childhood and family. I listened to the audio book so having "Janeway" reading her own book was very comforting.
Now, the book does talk about her time from the Delta Quadrant but it's more of a summation of years and the outstanding facts not in the logs ("shows"). It also gives her side of the story, right or wrong, of some of her actions during her time there. It does not go into too much detail. And that is the unfortunate part. There is a balance the editor Una McCormack had made in how the stories of Janeway's life are written. Everything is a bit of a summary. Though the details in her early life are there; there is still a summation view over the years. But that was the only downside.
I loved listening to Janeway talk about her life, her decisions, her disappointments, and heartaches. But also, to her challenges and how she rose to meet them to become the Starfleet Captain, now Admiral.
jkb rated Elysium Fire: 4 stars
jkb reviewed Machinehood by S.B. Divya
Review of 'Machinehood' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I throughly enjoyed this book. At first I was wondering where the whole gig/bot economy was going and this definitely takes our current gig economy and traps the poor to middle class stuck in this economy and competing with bots for work.
The next big topic was Generalized AI which is never addressed directly but by the end you have the sense that the biological and not silicon can actually deliver the feared GAI.
The characters feel real and I felt everything that Olga goes through. I even was sufficiently pissed at her brother. But he even redeems himself of being an asshole.
The Buddhist elements I wish were more fleshed out and if the author ever revisits this universe maybe she will.
She's definitely an author I'd continue reading.
jkb reviewed The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver …
Review of 'The Kaiju Preservation Society' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
What can I say? effing John Scalzi can write about almost anything and make it interesting and fun. Kaiju is no different.
The story is a basic three act plot and pretty much all the bad guys are noticable even if they aren't your mustache twirling bad guys.
There is nothing new (save for how the Kaiju exist in an alternate dimension) and I didn't like how they connected our world Godzilla movies to this alternate universe. This is just a fun book with fun characters.