BookTrek 2024 June 15, 2024
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- I discuss two novels that I have read so far for my participation in BookTrek 2024, a summer-long reading event.
BookTrek 2024 is hosted by Captain Vin @revenantreads
and Bridge Officers:
Steve @saintdonoghue
Michael @michaelk.vaughan8617
Brandy @TheBookclectic
Gareth @bookssongsandothermagic
Randy @LiterateTexan
Fred @ReadbyFred
Books read:
McIntyre, Vonda N. STAR TREK: THE ENTROPY EFFECT. Pocket Books, 1981.
McIntyre, Vonda N. STAR TREK: THE WRATH OF KHAN. Pocket Books, 1982.
#booktube #booktrek2024
Excellent thumbnail! And it sounds like you are having a great time in the Book Trek event. Those books sound fantastic! Great video, Pat!
Thank you! It has been fun!
That thumbnail is FANTASTIC!!! - love what you say about the books and I’m even more excited to read the novelisation of Wrath of Khan, a film I completely love, and a book I was planning to read this Summer. Great video Pat!
Thanks, Gareth! Just had some fun with the thumbnail! 😂🖖
That Thumbmail! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
😂 Thanks, MJ! 🖖
Oh my Gosh!! Never before has a thumbnail made me smile & giggle so much, Ms. Pat!! You are so awesome👏🏻💞
Lol! I'm glad I made you smile and laugh! I'm having a lot of fun with this whole Star Trek event!
That thumbnail was the best possible way to start my day! 😄 I love the thought of you as our captain, leading us safely through the space of books! Making sure we dodge the rouge ones and keeping a steady course toward the five star galaxy. (That might sound small, but it’s very great!) You should make posters to sell 😂
Ok I’ll watch the video now 😅
Happy Saturday Pat, thank you for making us all smile today 😊💜
Your absolute joy at this thumbnail has made it totally worthwhile! You just made my whole day! 🥰
@@BookChatWithPat8668 It’s amazing! 😄 I love it!
The video was great too, no wonder you fell in love with science fiction again, when your grew up on Star Trek 😊 Vonda sounds like a genius as well, how cool is she?!
@ellenmadebookclub She’s very good. I want to look for her novels outside of the Star Trek genre.
Opening CZcams and seeing your brilliant thumbnail made my day! Fantastic!
And you just made MY day! Thanks, Hannah! 😂🖖
Fantastic thumbnail! Live long and prosper!
Thanks! 🖖
OMG that thumbnail! You win the interwebs!
😂🖖🛸Just having some fun here! 😂😉🖖
It's still early, but I'm going to predict that your thumbnail will be the "best of the internet" today! Star Trek is so amazing! It permeated our culture in so many ways and continues to do so until this day. I love your reviews of these books and I can tell you really enjoyed reading them.
Thanks, Reney! The thumbnail cracks me up! I’ve had such fun with these old Star Trek books. Just what I needed this week. I hope you’re doing well.
So true, Reney!
It’s absolutely perfect, Pat!
I love it. 😊
@LauraRodriguez-Peace Thank you, Laura! 😂🖖
Pat! You have outdone yourself with this thumbnail!! Who could have foreseen that BookTube would have you piloting a starship through the galaxies??!! So much fun! Not to mention, your reviews of these books have piqued my interest in sci fi as well as Star Trek! What a great way to start the day! Thank you!
June!!! Thank you for this lovely comment! 🥰 So glad you enjoyed the thumbnail! Let’s watch Star Trek movies all weekend! 😂🛸🪐🖖
That thumbnail is outstanding, it stopped me in my scrolling tracks!!!
Thanks! I’m just having fun with this stuff! 😊🖖
Oh my goodness, I LOVE your thumbnail. You look amazing. I loved the film The Wrath of Khan. This author sounds great. I don’t have anything by her in my small collection. I must give her a try. Great video Pat 😊
Thanks, Debs! 🖖😆🛸🪐
Great video Pat! And you can’t go wrong with Original Trek!
Thanks, Grammaticus! I’m having a lot of fun delving into these older gems!
OMG. You have official won Thumbnail of the Month.
LOL! I'm having a lot of fun with this today! Glad you enjoyed, Dave. I just laughed out loud when your comment came across my screen! Such fun!
So interesting to learn about all the extra stuff in the Wrath of Khan book!
She really took a script or screenplay and made it her own novel.
The Entropy Effect sounds great. I really enjoyed her novelization of Khan.
Hi Vin. I did too. I’m going to read her novelizations of the next two films too, I think. I’m having a lot of fun with these.😊
Welcome aboard!
Thank you! 😊🖖
That thumbnail stopped the scroll! I enjoyed hearing about The Entropy Effect - it looks familiar; I mught have read it back in my middle school Spock obsession. I saw some of these vintage Star Trek books at a used bookstore last week and i was tempted! Glad you're having fun with Book Trek!
These old ST books are a trip. Vonda McIntyre is a really good writer of SF outside of the Star Trek and Star Wars worlds. It’s been a lot of fun. I’m struggling with my re-read of Ulysses this time around, and Star Trek has been a welcome escape! Glad you liked the thumbnail. 😂
I had no idea there were such a thing as Star Trek novels! I really enjoy the Star Trek franchise so now I need to look into these books. Your thumbnail is fantastic, so funny. I loved it!!
Hi Bryndis. Thanks. I had a lot of help on the thumbnail! 😃I have only read from the original series, but I think there are hundreds of books from all of the different series. They’re fun!
Excellent thumbnail Pat! To boldly go.... :)
Thank you! Had some fun with this one!
Love the thumbnail Captain Pat!
Thanks, Gavin! 😉
Right?!! Gavin! 🖖🏻
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Loving that thumbnail!!!!
Thanks, Pete. Did I just find out that your name is NOT Pete?😉
@@BookChatWithPat8668 I don't know how these rumors start! 😉
How fun to see you are a fan of Star Trek! Years ago, I read several Star Trek novelizations. I also enjoy Star Trek The Next Generation, which has interesting characters.
Hi Joyce. I only really know the original series, but several people now are recommending that I also explore the Next Generation, so I probably will. It's Book Trek all summer long, so I've got plenty of time, right?
What a wonderful thumbnail, Pat!!!
Thanks, Joshua. Just having some fun here! 😊🖖
I'm loving your thumbnails lately. I think you would have given any leading lady of Star Trek a run for her money after seeing that thumbnail. 😊
As always, another great job on your video.
Thanks, Jay! You are too kind. I had a dear friend help me with this one. I’m having a lot of fun! 😊 Thanks for your kind words! 😊
Cool thumbnail, to infinity and beyond. Enjoy your Trekking. I really want to see the film The Wrath of Khan now, most of my Star Trek awareness comes from the episodes of the original series. Vanda McIntyre sounds like an author to look out for.
Hi Jim. Thanks. I think The Wrath of Khan might be my favorite of the Star Trek movies, but I probably need to see them again to compare. It's been a while....Yes, Vonda McIntyre was the "real deal" as a writer of science fiction. I think she was very good. Hope you're doing well! Have a great weekend.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Hi Pat, I've only watched the first of the Star Trek movies. Previous BookTrek events got me to read some of the books and also take a look at Deep Space 9, which I'd never seen before. My favorite of the books so far has been The Wounded Sky by Diane Duane.
@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff Thanks for the recommendation, Jim. I will look for The Wounded Sky.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 It is with characters from the original series. Scotty has a major role in the plot as he teams up with an alien engineer to try out a new kind of drive in the Enterprise.
@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff it sounds good. I really only know the original series at this point, so this sounds perfect for me.
What an out-of-this-world way to start the weekend, Pat, with your great thumbnail and your fantastic Star Trek book reviews!
I highly recommend the next TV series (with it's own plethora of novels) Star Trek: The Next Generation to you - I watched it as a teen in the 90's. Star Trek: The Next Generation is arguably as beloved as the original 1960's series and is a more than worthy Star Trek incarnation for Gen Xer's such as myself. Patrick Stewart (a Shakespearean actor) is Jean-Luc Picard , the Enterprise's captain, and he is arguably a more beloved leader of the Enterprise than Captain Kirk, especially since Picard is not a womanizer and much more level-headed than Kirk. (Of course, no one in the later Star Trek canon is as a great a character as Spock, in my opinion.) Star Trek: The Next Generation also introduces us to the Borg, an alien race that becomes very important in Star Trek mythology and lore.
I love how, at the end of the day, Star Trek, in whatever incarnation you enjoy, as is the case with most, if not all science fiction, is really about the complexities of being human (or sentient) rather than about space travel.
Thank you for this lovely, thoughtful comment! I have often suspected that I probably would really fall in love with The Next Generation too. I love Patrick Stewart in everything. I am quite sure I would be hooked quickly. I just never moved beyond the original series probably because of my age and my life concerns when The Next Generation came out. But perhaps this is as good a time as any to expand my horizons, so to speak. Thank you for this very thoughtful recommendation! I hope you're doing well. Have a great weekend!
You'll love Star Trek: The Next Generation, Pat, I promise! It maintains the spirit, integrity, and intellectual quality of the original 1960's series and movies while also evolving the franchise. You have a great weekend, too!
@purplepumpkin6894 thanks! 🥰
Wonderful thumbnail! I really need to start reading TOS novels, I only have read Federation which is Kirk and Picard, which was great. I enjoyed Dreamsnake, but I've not tried any of McIntyre's trek yet, The Voyage Home is my favourite Trek movie so I might get that one day.
Hi Aaron. Thanks! I feel like I want to watch the movies again this weekend. I'd never read McIntyre before this. I think she did a great job with both the stand alone novels and the novelization of Wrath of Khan.
Definitely a fan of the original Star Trek 👍 Great summaries and very informative as I haven’t read either of these novels. I enjoyed all the movies Original and Next Generation as they also feature some of the original characters.
Hi Elaine! I am planning to re-watch the early movies. I’ve had a lot of people recommend The Next Generation. I think I need to explore.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 I am also considering watching all the movies again, partly as nothing else on all these streaming channels to watch. Original will always be my favourite but I did like Next Generation and Voyager. Voyager mainly for Captain.
@@Cobaltdragon I think I need to expand my horizons! 😊
@@BookChatWithPat8668 awesome.
Oh I'm so pleased to hear you enjoyed your Star Reads and you're having fun! ❤ I'll be interested to see which Vonda MacIntyre books you read outside of the two franchises and what you think of them.
Oh I've been having so much fun! I just today looked for some of her novels outside of these two franchises. It's looking like I'm going to have to get them used, maybe through Thrift Books, or maybe on my kindle. Will let you know. Really was impressed with her writing style.
Oh my gosh… Pat, who would have known that you’re a Trekkie?!😂 I’ve dabbled into the Star Wars books and wasn’t too impressed but never even knew there were Star Trek books. You’ve made me curious now lol. Also, your thumbnail wins the internet today!
Hi Nicky! I don’t know that I’m a Trekkie exactly, but I was around for the original series, and I loved the early movies. And I’m just having some fun with this event this summer. And the thumbnail-well, I hoped it would amuse! 😂🖖🪐🛸
I'm glad you had 2 hits. I was also a child in the 60's. I did watch the original series when it originally came out. Not sure I saw all the shows when they were first broadcast as opposed to re-runs though
I definitely remember watching Star Trek when it was a brand new show. I had older brothers, and they pretty much dictated what we watched on TV! Hope you're doing well, Stuart.
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Thanks Pat. I am doing well. I hope you are too
@@stuartgriffin1001 glad to hear it! Doing well here too.
Two nights ago watched back to back Star Trek the Motion Picture and the Wrath of Khan. I think there is a nice balance to the two films, the first being more intellectual the second more emotional. With each one having an undercurrent of the other. Did you ever read the comics from the 80's? While I was packing (still not finished moving) my books and comics I came across my Start Trek comic collection and a three part story about Kirk and Carol's early relationship leading to the birth of David and their eventual separation. Maybe that's what got me thinking of the films. Tried to appreciate The Next Generation but I found the episodes and some of the lead characters uninteresting, with the exception of Patrick Stewart as Picard. He was compelling, but not enough to make me watch the series.
Hello!! I don’t believe I’ve ever seen the comics. I’d probably really enjoy them. I haven’t watched the movies in years, but I found myself watching the trailers just yesterday. Time for a rewatch, perhaps?
@@BookChatWithPat8668 Even though I've seen it multiple times, the death of Spock is still deeply moving.
@@LibroParadiso-ep4zt ok, now I think I have to watch Star Trek movies all weekend! 🖖🪐
@@BookChatWithPat8668 I don't remember where I read this, but didn't Arthur C. Clarke have some input in Star Trek the Motion Picture? He isn't in the credits, but I think I read somewhere he had been consulted. The first film is closer to 2001 in exploring the complexities and magnitude of our universe to the point of leaving one speechless and overwhelmed.
@LibroParadiso-ep4zt you know, that sounds right, but I don’t know. I’ll see if I can find anything about that.
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Hi Allen! 😂🖖