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I completely missed this one upon initial release. Thanks for joining in! Love your selection (and thoughtful commentary)!

Great choice for your first western! Great moments of just "feeling" L'Amour's western settings. He always wrote about actual places he had been and knew well, so they read as very real. And yes! I also much prefer the full=bleed cover illustrations! Very enjoyable presentation.

Just came across your channel while looking for other BookTrekkers. Like Brandy, I haven't read this one either. I agree with your view that the crew of the Enterprise are explorers first and foremost. Too often overlooked in more recent Star Trek. Interesting that it covers how the Romulans handle their own explorations. I enjoyed your presentation.

I love this book, it's so compelling. Great video

Watch Part II here: m.ua-cam.com/video/AEwoo_l9JPU/v-deo.html

Finding some great channels through this tag! I love a history heavy list

I agree with all your thoughts, especially liked the "wonder" part. But the video has a weird ending... :)

I remember reading this book when it came out at the start of my senior year of high school. There was a long wait between season 1 and 2 of TNG due to the writer's strike that summer. I was a member of the Star Trek fan club and they interviewed Carey when the book came out. She said that she was kinda forced to write the characters that way because they were still filming Farpoint and she only had that script and a few others, plus the shows "bible", to go on. Picard was impatient, Riker didn't like Data, Geordi didn't like Riker because of how he treated Data, Worf and Yar were hotheads, Troi was just irrational, etc. Great review, sir!! You just earned a new subscriber. 🤓

City on the Edge of Forever a true classic! Your review has encouraged me to pick up Frankenstein again. Thanks!

Hi Joe. I'm so glad you've joined us for a bit of Rocket Summer. I really enjoyed your discussion of Frankenstein. It's a novel I used to love to teach to high school seniors. I enjoyed your comparisons to the notions we have of Frankenstein from popular culture which are very different from Mary Shelley's original conception. Yes, the monster is very intelligent. He reads Milton's Paradise Lost! Mary Shelley had a lot of issues surrounding the issue of motherhood and abandonment: her own mother had died shortly after her birth, leaving her feeling both abandoned and also guilty for "killing" her mother, and she herself had lost several children. The novel is actually dealing, indirectly, with those issues much more than the popular movies would ever lead us to believe. It's just a fascinating novel, I think. Great discussion!

Great picks!!

The series "Masters of the Air" is actually based on the book by the same title by Donald Miller.

Thank you, for tagging me.

I loved this movie. I am sorry you didn't like it. I can't wait for chapter 2.

I recently read a translated issue of Blueberry - a famous Franco-Belgian comic set in the American West. It was really enjoyable. 47 pages in an album - quite worthwhile I think.

Welcome! Excited to see book AND movie reviews! I am also a slow reader and one who has no control when buying books 😂

Hi Joe, thanks for doing the tag, and I might have to keep an eye out for “Secret Race”! Enjoyed your picks (and I’ve heard good things about “Jim”)..

Great review! If you go on to read Roddenberry’s novel it is quite good.

Study some Apache tactics of the time and you'll find, they didn't do running gun battles. They setup ambushes, lured enemies into kill zones and used horses not as cavalry but as mountain infantry.

I'm thrilled these older Star Trek novels (and especially Voyager novels) don't end up in oblivion, but get discussed still to this day :)

Hi Joe. Welcome.. looking forward to seeing your videos

Hey! Just found your channel. I really liked your run down of the books you found. I liked how detailed you are about the books as far as physical condition, the year it was printed, and your opinion on them. I also frequently Half Price Books. It's my favorite place on earth And it's impressive that you dont need to edit! I have to edit my videos because I'm not the best speaker haha. Subscribed!!!!!

True Grit is excellent! ❤

"He flat out has emotions in this." Well, yeah. Data had emotions in the first couple of seasons. They were simple and subtle. His quest was to become more human, not to gain emotions. He wasn't a computer in a humanoid suit; he was an artificial life form. Later seasons turned him into a computer in a humanoid suit, and part of this was to claim he had no emotions. I much prefer the early concept of Data over what he eventually became.

If I'm not mistaken that ship is actually the original Battlestar Galactica.

I haven't read that book since the mid/late 90s and I'd forgotten completely what it was about and watching your review left me wondering if I'd even read it! I did read it though, and the second TNG book which at the time I felt the covers of each book were reversed from what they should have been. The Motion picture book is interesting in a few ways but I don't want to spoil it for you (I should read it again as its been just as long since I read that book!)

Nice shirt! ❤ Yah that book was not great lol. There were things I liked though. For example it explains why Troi is a bridge officer, and there's a pretty detailed description about how Geordi's visor works. But yes. Definitely not canon lol. I went into the novels already knowing they weren't accurate, so I have never had trouble with even the wildly inaccurate ones. I just consider them a bit of fun with the characters and world I know and love. However the later TNG novels are pretty accurate. You will probably like those better. And yes the motion picture novelization was really good! I'm voting you read that one next! ❤

Hi Joe. Terrific review! I only really know about The Original Series, but many people are recommending The Next Generation to me, so I think I will have to venture into it. I really enjoyed hearing you talk about this book, even with its problems.

Great review Joe. I wasn't a fan of Ghost Ship when I read it - for the same reasons you mentioned - the characters were very different from the show. Totally agree, the book was written before the show got it's footing so it's not the fault of the author. Hope you have a great time with your next Trek reads. :)

I purchased "Lonesome Dove" for the reading event, but there's no way I can take that mammoth on this month. I had no idea it was such a chunker!

Welcome to the BookTube community! Sounds like we are kindred spirits. Not only am I a book nerd, but I also once owned and operated a video store. Best of luck with your channel - I look forward to watching more of your videos. Happy Reading!

Welcome to book tube. Still pretty new to this malarkey myself and finding my way around. Best wishes with what you choose to read, I hope you get some great stories. Good luck with your channel.

Hi Joe, welcome to booktube! Very nice video. I'm in the same boat as you with also wanting to talk about movies and TV. Looking forward to seeing more videos from you!

Glad to have you here Joe!

Hi Joe and welcome to Booktrek2024! Its great to see so many people joining in. Hope you enjoy Ghost Ship and The Escape. Looking forward to your reviews 😀

Looking forward to your thoughts on your first Western!

Hi Joe! Welcome, we are so glad you’re here. I’m looking forward to your channel.

You said the magic words (June on the Range) :)

Welcome!

I like the parallel you brought up between world building and real history. I never really thought about it before. 😅 Don’t feel embarrassed about the bookshelves. I have a ton of books but I own more that I haven’t read than ones I have. I buy second hand and so I’ll bring in a large amount of books all of a sudden and can’t keep up with the output. Plus if I don’t like a book, I obviously don’t keep it around, so many books have passed in and then out of my collection. Welcome to BookTube! Hope you enjoy yourself. ❤️

Book Trek and June on the Range are my first BookTube events as well! Definitely looking forward to a summer of good reads and geeking out with fellow Trek fans! 🖖❤️

I haven't read this one, but I enjoyed your thoughts on it. I especially like knowing it has a horror element. I tend to pick my TOS novels based on their covers. I rarely read the synopsis, so that is helpful information!

Hi Joe! I'm so glad to see new BookTrekkers this year! I'll be watching you! Also, you have a really great voice👍🏻, and you look a lot like a young Matthew Broderick! That first TNG numbered novel, Ghost Ship, really isn't great, but it's worth reading just to see what the characters looked like before the show came out and they made changes.

Hi Joe and welcome to booktube! I just read Charlie and the chocolate factory and the sequel!

I like your intentions, and am anxious to see what book or film you do next. My comment concerns the Rick Atkinson volume about the first two years of the Revolution. It was a hard read for due to the author’s literary style. So I hope you enjoy it.

Welcome to BookTube! Love that you enjoy both books and movies. I have actually never read a Roald Dahl book! I've seen several movies, but I don't think I've ever read the original books. Maybe I read the BFG actually?? That's ringing a very faint bell.

Hi, Joe! I'm looking forward to hearing about all bookish things you want to share with us. From an oldie content creator to a newbie, welcome aboard. We're so glad to have you here!