What I've been reading
Dec. 29th, 2009 06:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eliyesI've been rereading Lackey books of late. By the Sword and Magic's Promise, the whole of the Owls trilogy and the Storms trilogy -- yes, in that order, even though Owls is after Storms -- and now I'm into Black Gryphon, and will probably read White Gryphon afterwards, and continue pretending the third book doesn't exist. I'll probably hit the Oath books after that. I'm basically doing a round through because I realised how much I'd forgotten, and it's difficult to properly bitch when one can't recall the details.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy them, but there are things in the books and things about Lackey's writing which I feel the need to dissect to keep them from grating on my nerves so much.
I've "finished" the Star Trek Corps of Engineers. Those quotation marks are there because I haven't read through the final story, but I don't intend to, ever. My first attempt was during a lunch break at work, and suddenly there was monkey dissection and my stomach turned. Also, I really dislike Dr. Elizabeth Lense. A lot. I mean, Julian Bashir is also in the story, and I adore him, but he's getting horribly injured and having other bad things happen to him, and none of his support network are there because he's stuck in an alternate timeline with Lense, crashed on a planet full of people who will probably become the Borg. Who dissect (alien) monkeys! Yes, I got all that without reading it.
I much prefer the story with Abramowitz and the Prime Directive. Oh, and I kinda love Vinx. Not so much Stevens, oddly, even though he's the type of charcter I often go for, but he just doesn't have the kind of development to draw me in. Few of the male characters do, I notice. Hm.
And of course there's a lot of fanfic being posted just now as various holiday fic exchanges come to an end. I actually poked at Yuletide today; here are some of the stories I enjoyed:
The Great Radish Precipitation (Fraggle Rock. This could have been an episode. I love the doozers, and Mokie is my favourite Fraggle.)
High Tide (this is about the Inuit goddess Sedna, who is my favourite Inuit deity for reasons I've never quite figured out. I'm thrilled someone wrote about her, and I like the story, too.)
Tape Madness (Sector General. This isn't the best story ever or anything, but slots in neatly with the books, I felt. Especially O'Mara's pov.)
Lesser Fleas (Thoughtcrimes. Probably the #2 all-time best fic for this fandom.)
Counts, Curves, and Cognac (Victor/Victoria. Spot-on for Toddy and Vic's friendship, this felt like a scene that could easily have been in the show.)
And there's a small flock of Vorkosigan Saga fic this year; these are my favourites:
The Rules of Barrayaran Sex Because I love Cordelia and Aral, and this shows them well in a string of little scenes as the timeline progresses.
Last Words In Komarr, Miles mentioned going with a friend to burn an offering at the Massacre Shrine. This is a story about how that could have played out. The friend, obviously, is Duv Galeni.
Giving Hostages to Fortune Gregor's pov as his first son is born. Fluffy family fic.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy them, but there are things in the books and things about Lackey's writing which I feel the need to dissect to keep them from grating on my nerves so much.
I've "finished" the Star Trek Corps of Engineers. Those quotation marks are there because I haven't read through the final story, but I don't intend to, ever. My first attempt was during a lunch break at work, and suddenly there was monkey dissection and my stomach turned. Also, I really dislike Dr. Elizabeth Lense. A lot. I mean, Julian Bashir is also in the story, and I adore him, but he's getting horribly injured and having other bad things happen to him, and none of his support network are there because he's stuck in an alternate timeline with Lense, crashed on a planet full of people who will probably become the Borg. Who dissect (alien) monkeys! Yes, I got all that without reading it.
I much prefer the story with Abramowitz and the Prime Directive. Oh, and I kinda love Vinx. Not so much Stevens, oddly, even though he's the type of charcter I often go for, but he just doesn't have the kind of development to draw me in. Few of the male characters do, I notice. Hm.
And of course there's a lot of fanfic being posted just now as various holiday fic exchanges come to an end. I actually poked at Yuletide today; here are some of the stories I enjoyed:
The Great Radish Precipitation (Fraggle Rock. This could have been an episode. I love the doozers, and Mokie is my favourite Fraggle.)
High Tide (this is about the Inuit goddess Sedna, who is my favourite Inuit deity for reasons I've never quite figured out. I'm thrilled someone wrote about her, and I like the story, too.)
Tape Madness (Sector General. This isn't the best story ever or anything, but slots in neatly with the books, I felt. Especially O'Mara's pov.)
Lesser Fleas (Thoughtcrimes. Probably the #2 all-time best fic for this fandom.)
Counts, Curves, and Cognac (Victor/Victoria. Spot-on for Toddy and Vic's friendship, this felt like a scene that could easily have been in the show.)
And there's a small flock of Vorkosigan Saga fic this year; these are my favourites:
The Rules of Barrayaran Sex Because I love Cordelia and Aral, and this shows them well in a string of little scenes as the timeline progresses.
Last Words In Komarr, Miles mentioned going with a friend to burn an offering at the Massacre Shrine. This is a story about how that could have played out. The friend, obviously, is Duv Galeni.
Giving Hostages to Fortune Gregor's pov as his first son is born. Fluffy family fic.