Wrapping up BookTrek 2024
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- B O O K S M E N T I O N E D
Hearts and Minds: / hearts-and-minds
Pliable Truths: / pliable-truths
Collateral Damage: / collateral-damage
Shadows Have Offended: / shadows-have-offended
Making It So: / making-it-so
The Captain's Oath: / the-captain-s-oath
The Face Of The Unknown: / the-face-of-the-unknown
Kahless: / star-trek
F O R G O T T O M E N T I O N
The War Of The Worlds:
This is a Radio Play starring Gates McFadden, Leonard Nemoy, and Brent Spiner that I listened to as an audio only for obvious reasons. I forgot to mention it in my video, but it was entertaining and I loved seeing how these actors played their parts.
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Love the fact that you said you hadn’t read much and then reviewed tons of books that I would be amazed if I got through during the Summer. Love the video, love the way you talked about the books.
Thanks Gareth! ❤ For me that wasn't very many. Had things not gone so poorly in June, I would have continued that trend through July and August!
Enjoyed hearing your reads. Hopefully next year will be better 🖖
Thank you Summer. I'm sure it will be! ❤
I'll have to check out the Patrick Stewart book. Much as I loved Next Generation while growing up, I was also a huge Arthurian legend nerd, so his relatively small role in "Excalibur" loomed large in my mind as well. 😁
Yeah, the objectification business. I don't know about that particular author, but as much as I love the Original Series, I concede that its treatment of women is far from enlightened. Although I've gotta say it's downright hilarious some of the unlikely ways they'll have Uhura contorted at her station to show off those legs. 😂
That being said, I do think people sometimes look too hard to be offended. For example, I was reading that some Original Series reruns eliminate that scene in City on the Edge of Forever where Kirk tries to explain Spock's appearance by saying he's a Chinese man whose ears were mangled when he got his head caught in a "mechanical rice picker" as a child. I mean c'mon, in context, it's a comedic scene where Kirk is inventing a ridiculous lie on the spot and realizes how ridiculous it sounds even as he's saying it. 😂 It's hardly the stuff of real malice, but I don't know; maybe I'm just obnoxious and privileged or something. 🙄
• I was also into Authorian stories as a kid. I saw Excalibur when I was in 1st grade with my dad! I totally forgot he was in it!!
• I'm not at all sensitive about any type of social prejudice in older books. I place everything I read into the context of the time in which it was written, but I don't want to see those things in anything being published these days. People definitely know better now. Even so, it wouldn't normally bother me more than an eye roll, but in the case of those two books, it was out of place and read as creepy. I couldn't find the words to properly explain why.
• Uhura's legs: I have laughed more than once during TOS episodes at the blatant display of female bodies. That show is so old now, that most of it is just funny to see in the midst of a serious plot!
No! Poor Kahless 😢
I know right?
I read The Genesis Wave 1 and 2 after I saw you mention them. I need to get to 3. I enjoyed them a lot (but they did portray Geordi as more awkward than I thought he deserved).
Oh nice! I wanted to read those this time around, but obviously I never got to them. Did you enjoy them? Do you plan to read book 3 and Genesis Force?
@@TheBookclectic I do!
This was so entertaining
Thanks Mark!
I also read Pliable Truths and Khaless for book trek. Bummer you didn’t finish Khaless (I loved it) but I understand how you could have been burnt out on Trek Books by that time.
June was just not a good month all around. I'm certain next year will be fine! ❤
For me, Star Trek novels are my year-long comfort reads, although I have to say that I haven't read any of the books mentioned...my cut-off point was 2011 - maybe it's just as well; it sounds like these new authors don't know how to write Star Trek properly or have an understanding of its characters.
For me the issue has been only been with these really newer ones that come out in trade paperback only. A lot of the really old ones are out of character, but they are charming and fun. When new ones fail in this way, it seems to me that it's because they are taking themselves too seriously. There is no fun or life in them. But I also haven't read alot of these really new ones, so I don't actually know if that's going to be a blanket issue.
I didn't do BookTrek this year due to life, but I'm already planning for next year. Some really interesting reads there great wrap up
Thanks Duncan! I hope nothing serious happened!
@@TheBookclectic No nothing too bad Thankyou
Ok good!
You read a lot, Brandy. Great reviews. I’m very disappointed in Christopher L. Bennett and the objectification of women. I had thought better of him-not that I have much experience with his books. Really thoughtful reviews. Thank you.
Thank you Pat! I still say you should read The Face Of The Unknown though. I really enjoyed that one otherwise! ❤
@@TheBookclectic ok. Will put it on my list. 😊
The objectification of women is disappointing on multiple levels -- it demonstrates a misunderstanding of the character.
I don't about that Randy. Did you ever watch the show? 😂