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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I see you purchased a Star Trek book. Have you been reading some of the new Trek books? They are quite good.
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I've read about 75 of the TOS novels, a smattering of the other series. Picking this up was an impulse buy because it was so cheap - I've already got paperback and eReader versions of it.
I know Christopher Bennett and Keith R.A. DeCandido (well, had conversations with both and met one in person- don't want to make it seem like they're best buddies....) I still follow their stuff, and enjoy a lot of the 'classic' authors who are still writing (Duane, Carey, Perry, others...)
But I started to lose interest when TOS got up into the 90s or so and all of a sudden it was all arcs and experimental lines (New Frontier, SCA - though I've read some, IKS Gorkon, etc. etc.) It's not that I never buy new books, but I've got to have a reason to buy it, where in the old days I'd buy it without looking at the cover. Of course they were $4-$6 back then...
I unfortunately bought two others at the same time as Final Reflection -
Spock's World and
Enterprise: Broken Bow. (Already have Spock's World in hardcover and paperback, and of course saw the other which is the novelization of the Enterprise series pilot.) And I was somewhat disappointed in both.
Spock's World is clearly a conversion from another format, as italicized words
runtogether at least once in
eachparagraph or sentence that's italicized.
Enterprise:Broken Bow was
very poorly formatted, to wit: The left and right margins are literally 10/16ths inch. (!) So the readable text area is just over 2 1/4 inches.
I gave up after page 5.
And in both of them, the Small text is not over 8 pitch - in fact I think it's 6 or 7. Medium is minimum for any readability, and large is what I keep in on - even though I use medium very nicely for almost any purchased eBook.
(Sorry to vent - there's another thread for that.... But I definitely feel like I got less than I paid for on those two - and they
were cheap. And Final Reflection has had maybe two typos that weren't in the original paperback, and one that was, but is very readable.)