I was contacted by the author and I received a copy of this book in exchange of a honest review.
DISCOVERING THE BOA strange reading experience.
I was contacted by the author and I received a copy of this book in exchange of a honest review.
DISCOVERING THE BOOK
This is interesting reading which combines several genres in a fairly way. It's like Treasure's Island meets The Mysterious Island with far less pirates substituted by archaeologists.
The cover of the book is very well done guaranteeing a professional writing work.
The novel indeed is very well written with an entertaining rhythm. Creating colorful characters with ambivalent personalities which makes unpredictable their reactions on each scene.
Also, the author developed an alternate world where things are not the same as in our world's history, but with taste and not trying to overwhelming with too much differences. Just the right amount of details to establish that you are in a parallel dimension.
Maybe one of the criticisms is that while it's clearly that the storyline is expected that the main characters will engage in a journey by boat to some unknown island, well, the story took too much time to reach that point, overdetailing how they are able to acomplish that even narrating dead ends in those efforts. I think that a quicker starting point to the journey to the island could increase the possitive impact of the reading.
There are some elements that remain unexplained on the island after the ending of the book and certainly that it's kinda dissapointing since the whole point of the novel is the expedition to the island to discover the mysteries there.
But in general, is an entertaining novel written with style and good taste.
Merged review:
A strange reading experience.
I was contacted by the author and I received a copy of this book in exchange of a honest review.
DISCOVERING THE BOOK
This is interesting reading which combines several genres in a fairly way. It's like Treasure's Island meets The Mysterious Island with far less pirates substituted by archaeologists.
The cover of the book is very well done guaranteeing a professional writing work.
The novel indeed is very well written with an entertaining rhythm. Creating colorful characters with ambivalent personalities which makes unpredictable their reactions on each scene.
Also, the author developed an alternate world where things are not the same as in our world's history, but with taste and not trying to overwhelming with too much differences. Just the right amount of details to establish that you are in a parallel dimension.
Maybe one of the criticisms is that while it's clearly that the storyline is expected that the main characters will engage in a journey by boat to some unknown island, well, the story took too much time to reach that point, overdetailing how they are able to acomplish that even narrating dead ends in those efforts. I think that a quicker starting point to the journey to the island could increase the possitive impact of the reading.
There are some elements that remain unexplained on the island after the ending of the book and certainly that it's kinda dissapointing since the whole point of the novel is the expedition to the island to discover the mysteries there.
But in general, is an entertaining novel written with style and good taste....more
I bought the single comic book issues, but I am choosing thiss TPB edition to be able to make a better ovThe Ultimate Universe is born again…kinda
I bought the single comic book issues, but I am choosing thiss TPB edition to be able to make a better overall review about the storyarch.
Creative Team
Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Illustrators: Marco Checchetto (issues #1 to #4, #6), David Messina (issues #4 & #5)
WITH GREAT MARRIAGE COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITIES
The Maker (aka original ultimate Reed Richards) decides to make the Ultimate Universe lives again, but since the original one was destroyed, he took another universe (Earth-6160) and turned into a new versión of “ultimate universe” obviously on his own design…
…and part of that design was to avoid the origin of several key héroes, including Spider-Man! However, Tony Stark aka Iron Lad took the work of his father, Howard Stark about trying to stop the insidious plans of The Maker and send several spheres with the means to create those héroes, but almost everyone didn’t take the offer or died trying, almost everyone but…
…PETER PARKER!!!
However, Peter Parker was already an adult (with even a beard!), married with Mary Jane Wason and having two children: Richard & May Parker, still already having those great responsibilities, when he got the offer of Tony Stark, he took it and became Spider-Man, getting yet another great responsibility.
I had some doubts about this, since it’s not the same when you are bitten by accident by a radioactive spider and you are a teenager that being a superhero wasn’t his first idea, and now when he is adult with wife and children and he decides to get superpowers to become a superhero, still in this first volume nothing really bad happened, but he is now Spider-man and with his powers always comes tragedy, so I am truly fearful about what would happen in following volumes of this great new comic book.
In this first six months, his career as new superhero came with several mistakes and refining his hero image, but also getting unbelievable allies, and trying to figure out a way to fit his family into this hero gig.
Kingpin is a secret subject of The Maker and he isn’t happy about the existence of this Spider-man, along with other unsuspecting threats, also he is owner of the Daily Bugle, forcing J. Jonah Jameson and other surprising friend to look for an independent option to publish news on their own terms. Kingpin will prove to be a menace that you mustn't take lightly.
This is brave new universe and certainly you can’t take anything granted as previously worked in the original ultimate universe or even the primal Earth-616…
…expect the unexpected! Totally amazing! Certainly ultimate!...more
Time... the Final Paradox... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise Its 304-pages' mission is to explore strange already visited worlds to help oTime... the Final Paradox... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise Its 304-pages' mission is to explore strange already visited worlds to help out the mysterious "Dr. Annika Seven", who claims to be from the future, to boldly go where no Borg has gone before!
I wanted to read this novel but to be honest I didn't expect something extraordinary. The very basic premise was that Seven of Nine, a popular character from Star Trek: Voyager will meet the legendary Captain James T. Kirk of Star Trek: The Original Series. A fun idea to set a meeting of the original ladies' man with the galactic bombshell, but without depth in storytelling.
However, I was happily mistaken!!!
This novel by Greg Cox is truly a work of art which proudly it's a solid Star Trek: The Original Series adventure. Smart and serious. I wouldn't be surprised that "purists" Trekkies may find as "sacrilegious" to mix a character of a spin-off series, specially Voyager, with the crew of the original series. Well, if they don't want to read it, we can't force them. It will be their loss. Since, honestly, as a 20-plus-years' Trekker, I can assure you that this is a remarkable and respectful tribute for the first five-year mission of the original crew of the Starship Enterprise.
This novel is awesome!!!
The story is set in two different eras of the franchise of Star Trek. In the case of Star Trek: Voyager is during the Sixth Season, at some point between the TV episodes: "Good Shepherd" and "Live Fast and Prosper". In the case of Star Trek: The Original Series is at some point of the Fifth Year of its original exploratory mission, because of that it's harder to pinpoint it, it's two years later of the end of the original TV series and very likely then, in the middle of the time of the Animated Series.
This is a stand-alone story, so you can read it without having to read anything before. But, if you have a good knowledge of Star Trek: The Original Series, general familiarity with the theatric films with the original crew, and basic cognizance of the premise of Star Trek: Voyager and who is the character of Seven of Nine, you will be able to enjoy at full a large quantity of references and comments about all that. However, it's not vital to enjoy the mission at hand, since the info who is really linked to the plot would be fairly explained during the novel.
A curious and very good detail is that at some moment, the story mentions events from novels by another author, so always is good to appreciate when an author respects and recognized the work of another fellow writer including it in the plot as something canon of the timeline.
Without affecting my decision of rating with full 5-star rating this wonderful novel. I would prefer some editing in two scenes (don't worry, I won't spoil anything): There is a scene with Seven of Nine and Scotty that it could be way shorter, and there is a scene with some invading Orions that I felt unnecesary. Later, since the story is set at the 5th year of the original mission, it could be fantastic to include the characters of Arex and M'Ress, even now that the polemic about the canonicity of Star Trek: The Animated Series has been settled, after all, in the plot is mentioned a novel by another author, where the canon status of novels is even more obscure. And finally, the Enterprise re-visits some worlds, from TV episodes of Seasons 2 & 3, but nothing of Season 1, while there are a lot of references of the entire TV run, it could be serving for simmetry purposes if some world of Season 1 could be used.
There is a minor continuity mistake in the story, since members of the original crew "recognized" the commbadge of Seven of Nine as the emblem of Starfleet, but during the first 5-year mission, the delta-like emblem was the patch exclusively used by the crew of the Starship Enterprise. Starfleet officers from other vessels and starbases use patches with different symbols, it wasn't until the successful return to Earth by the USS Enterprise that Starfleet decided to unificate the ships' emblems using the one of Enterprise as the "new" standard. So, finding Seven of Nine wearing a commbadge with that particular shape should be a more initial shocking for them.
Highly recommended if you are fan of the Original Series, specially if you like Captain Kirk since he is wonderfully developed here, but don't worry, each member of the original crew will have a fair ammount of stuff to do. And obviously, if you are fan of the character of Seven of Nine, this is a book for you too.
Already between the best novels of Star Trek that I have ever read.
Earth, Russia (then Estonia). AprFair adventure but it could be better!
WHO
The Doctor:
The Fifteenth Doctor
Companion:
Ruby Sunday
WHERE & WHEN
Earth, Russia (then Estonia). April, 1242.
WHAT
I was really excited to read this book since due the title, I was expecting to read something focused on the companion Ruby Sunday (easily one of my favorite top ten Doctor Who companions), but I found out that the title was deceitful since “Ruby Red” was because there people and animals mentally controlled and once they are under control, they show “ruby red” glowing eyes. Therefore, this book could be titled “Crimson Eyes” and it could be just the same. Bummer. Since indeed I selected expecting some revelations about Ruby Sunday mysterious past or at least some adventure really focused on her, however this adventure could be used with any other doctor or companion and it could work just the same.
I really don’t like to name this new doctor as the “Fifteenth” Doctor since I think that there wasn’t any reason to bring back David Tennant to regenerate as the “Fourteenth” Doctor (and don't get me wrong, he is like my third favorite doctor after Tom Baker and Peter Capaldi, but he was already the Tenth Doctor, I don't see any reason to be yet another doctor) and even since he did a “bi-generation”, well, both should be the “Fourteenth” Doctor. Anyway, I used the designation just to identify who doctor I am talking about here. (But again, he should be the Fourteenth Doctor!)
The Doctor and Ruby Sunday (cool name, by the way!) are hanging around in the TARDIS when they receive a distress signal taking them to old Russia, when it was known as Estonia, in 1242, just in time for “The Battle in the Ice” which is about a battle between the Duchy of Estonia and the Novgorod Republic, resulting in the consolidation of Prince Alexander Nemsky as a national hero. (I liked that the author chose something historic but not too cliché or overused in time travel stories)
The distress signal which was crossing space and time, was made by Ranavere Rentara, a young warrior girl, from The Rentarans, an alien mercenary family, which she needed to do a coming-of-age ritual surviving an epic battle, but Ranavere isn’t too thrilled about the idea, so she sends this distress signal seeking a way to escape from there, but not only The Doctor & Ruby catched the transmission but also Ranavere’s sisters that they do are thrilled about the idea of the ritual…
…BUT…
…the signal is also received by The Genetrix, a powerful alien entity with the ability of mentally controlling people and animals.
The adventure is entertained but nothing extraordinary, without any unexpected twist, once you know who is who in the story is like managed under “auto-pilot” without any major surprise. I liked that The Doctor struggles to find a way to avoid that any alien faction would destroy the other but beyond that, the story definitely lacks of a little more of excitement....more
This is a facsimile edition of “The Flash” #123 (Sept 1961) featuring the iconic story of “The Flash of Two Worlds”DC Comics was never the same!!!
This is a facsimile edition of “The Flash” #123 (Sept 1961) featuring the iconic story of “The Flash of Two Worlds” introducing the concept of “multiverse” to DC Comics continuity. I bought a physical edition but I only found this “kindle” edition, so I used this one to make my review.
Creative Team
Writer: Gardner Fox
Illustrator: Carmine Infantino
Editorial Guidance: Julius Schwartz
ENTER: THE MULTIVERSE!!!
Obviously I haven’t original comic since I lack of $83,000, hehehe, but luckily DC Comics published this facsímile edition (that it’s somethin different than a reprint, since a true facsímile published the same advertisements used on the original issue, and even using the same kind of paper and inks (at least something really close to the original ones used back then), therefore one is able to read this iconic story that introduced the concept of “multiverse” to DC Comics, and that’s a monumental concept that changed for the better the way that DC Comics universe works.
The “second” Flash aka Barry Allen travels (by accident) to “Earth-2” meeting the “first” Flash aka Jay Garrick, before that, Jay Garrick was a “comic book character” in Barry Allen’s Earth where Gardner Fox (the one of Earth-1) claims that Jay Garricks’ adventures came to him in dreams. Barry Allen deduced that Gardner Fox, in some way, get “tuned” while sleeping to Earth-2 and in that way, he was able to know about the existence of Jay Garrick.
This “humble” meeting between those two characters (one of the called “Golden Age” of comics and the other from the “Silver Age” of comics) was the first step to a whole anual tradition of regular meeting of the Justice League of America reuniting with the Justice Society of America, evolving to Crisis of Infinite Earths and later to become something bigger with “elseworlds” stories and even ongoing alternate universes titles.
And everything born here.
THE FLASH MEETS THE FLASH
The Flash Barry Allen offers to cover the entertainment in a charity event managed by Iris West (his girlfriend) and when Barry is doing an innocent “magic” trick with a rope, he vibrates in certain frequency and suddenly he is finding himself in other Earth, no longer Central City but Keystone City and son enough he found out that this “Earth-2” was home for Jay Garrick, the “old” Flash.
I like that they didn’t do the cliché fight hero vs hero until they understand that both are in the same side, they since the beginning are cordial and open-minded.
They even join forces (since Jay Garrick was “retired”) to face a new threat made of three rogues: The Shade, The Fiddler and the Thinker.
Since it’s a very old story, maybe it isn’t that good for five stars, but due the monumental effect provoked thanks to this humble story to the way of DC Comics evolved since then, definitely it deserves a full five-star rate.
This is a one-shot comic book about Scrooge McDuck. I bought the physical edition, but since GR doesn't have coveJoin the multiverse duck tales!!!
This is a one-shot comic book about Scrooge McDuck. I bought the physical edition, but since GR doesn't have cover art for that one, I prefer to use the kindle version for my review.
Creative Team
Writer: Jason Aaron
Illustrators:
Chapter 1: Paolo Mottura Chapter 2: Francesco D’ippolito (pencils) & Lucio De Giuseppe (inks) Chapter 3: Alessandro Pastrovicchio & Vitale Mangiatordi Epilogue: Giada Perissinotto
Colors: Arianna Consonni (Arancia Studio)
Lettering: VC’s Joe Caramagna
Reprint of orginal “Christmas on Bear Mountain” by Carl Barks (Script & Art)
Cover: Alex Ross
FOR THE DUCK WHO HAS EVERYTHING
The greatest adventurer who ever lived. The toughest thing in two legs. In any universe. Duck of no duck. ‘Nuff said.
Jason Aaron, old veteran writer in Marvel Comics is a great fan of Scrooge McDuck since he began to read Scrooge’s old adventures to his son, and now he did this amazing comic book with the greatest art team of Italian illustrators ever assembled.
Jason Aaron crafted an ingenious multiverse adventure using as point of origin none other than the very first comic book adventure ever published of Scrooge McDuck (reprinted at the end of this comic book).
You’ll have obviously Scrooge McDuck here but he will face his greatest challenge so far…
…HIMSELF!!!
A Scrooge McDuck from an alternate reality is stealing “The Number One Dime” of each Scroogee McDuck (along with as many Money Bins possible!) and it’s up to our favorite adventurer to settle things.
Along with as many Scrooge McDucks that you can imagine, you’ll have all your favorite companions: Huey, Dewey & Louie, along with Gyro Gearloose and of course, Donald Duck!
And you can bet that the Beagle Boys are around here, of yes!
And while Magica De Spell isn’t in the story (bummer!), she still will contribute with a key magical artifact to the adventure.
Definitely, if you are fan of Duck Tales and/or Scrooge McDuck, you can’t miss this awesomely illustrated and crafty written comic book!...more
This a prose novel of “The X-Files” set after the eleventh season.
THE X-FILES ARE OPEN AGAIN!
I was real excited wheMulder and Scully are back!
This a prose novel of “The X-Files” set after the eleventh season.
THE X-FILES ARE OPEN AGAIN!
I was real excited when I found out about this prose novel following the series after its final (so far) season, the eleventh one, in fact this prose novel is setting the bases about who is who and what’s going on, in this “eXpanded” prose universe, that I don’t how canonical is, since there are talkings for developing a new The X-Files series that depending how they’d doing it, both projects could co-exist without bothering each other.
We find Fox Mulder and Dana Scully after the events of the eleventh season, they’re mourning the death of “their son”, William aka Jackson Van De Kamp, but also living a little less preocupied since The Cigarette Smoking Man is no more and also The Syndicate is past history, and even the insidious Deputy Director Kersh took a sabbatical absence from the FBI…
…but the paranormal cases are erupting in an incredible speed, therefore the higher bosses in the FBI decide…
…TO RE-OPEN THE X-FILES ONCE AGAIN!
Meanwhile Mulder and Scully are trying to live a “normal” life together including the fact that Scully is expecting a child from Mulder (and now they are sure that indeed is a child of theirs!), Mulder is appearing in some paranormal TV shows and Scully is working in a genetical clinic for pregnant women that it helps her too to control her unusual pregnancy due her age.
The new Acting Assistant Director Ruth Morrison contacts Mulder and Scully to offer them to re-activate their special agents status and taking charge once again of the X-Files department, that after some talking, they accepted.
ENTER: AVATAR
Obviously, you can’t have the X-Files without a mysterious informant that this time is a young geek woman nicknamed “Avatar” (the cool one not the one with blue people (in her own words)) by Mulder due a t-shirt wore by her in their first shadowy meeting. Avatar told Mulder that while The Syndicate is indeed dissassembled, now there is a new insidious group known as The Inheritors but with different goals since while The Syndicate was looking for global control, the Inheritors are more interested about getting monetary profit from any available paranormal individual, and that it won’t be much difficult to find since The Syndicate infected a lot of humans, animals and event plants with Alien DNA and that’s the reason of so much paranormal cases appearing now.
I don’t know if I am thrilled about this concept that the new x-files would be due The Syndicate’s Alien DNA, since I think that’s a too easy path to explain why people is doing weird stuff, it’s like first two seasons of Smallville where every single villain was due Kryptonite contamination (I am fan of Smallville but I certainly appreciate when they started to introducing other reasons to have metahumans in the TV series).
Mulder & Scully first new case is too close for confort since it’s about a serial killer murdering pregnant women (and since Scully is pregnant herself, Mulder isn’t too thrilled about the risk) and the x-files factor in the cases is due some weird electrical surges occuring during the incidents, and the things aren’t as they think initially and Scully won’t the same after that!
AD Morrison assigned them a second case to deal along with the first one, in this second case, there is a mysterious assassin killing remnants people from The Syndicate and the x-file factor in the case is due the ability of dissapearing in a smoke cloud, and this mysterious assassing will prove to be a recurring opponent even more dangerous than the good ol’ Alien Bounty Hunter!
Along the way, they’ll meet Cherish Craddock, a gorgeous blond woman able to channel the dead, and Mulder and Scully will have shocking revelations, some from unexpected sources.
I never read anything by Claudia Gray but I was aware that she had been doing good stuff specially in Star Wars and after my eXcelent eXperience reading this The X-Files novel, certainly I’ll do my best to read in the near future some other novels by her.
This a prose novel which is part of the “Annika Bengzton” book series. It’s the second published in theReporting investigation as only in Sweeden!
This a prose novel which is part of the “Annika Bengzton” book series. It’s the second published in the series, but it’s the first to read in chronological order.
DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE WORD
The original title of the book is Studio Sex but it seems that everybody freaks out with the word “sex”, since almost only in Scandinavian countries you can find the novel with its original title “Studio Sex” (and some seldom American editions) but in United Kingdom, Canada and others, you have to read the book with titles such as Exposed, Studio 69 (that ironically I found as a kinkier option than the original one.
The book is about a dead stripper that was working in a sex club, so I can’t understand why so needed to change the book title if the content is totally adult oriented, even since I read a translated edition with a changed title, I am not totally sure if the book content wasn’t edited too, since the name of the sex club in the story is “Studio Six” (that I think some countries even used that name for book’s title) and it’s kinda weird using something subtle when anybody once inside they will know the nature of the club. (In the story is explained that the owner “steal” the name of a radio station program just to bother the program’s owner. But with some changes to the book title, I am not sure if the name of the club in the story is the real original one.)
SWEEDISH NOIR
This is the second book in the series but since it’s the first, chronologically, “introducing” the character of Annika Bengzton, showing her like eight years before of the first published book, and instead of an experimented newspaper reporter, she is still a summer intern in The Evening Post in Stockholm, Sweeden, where even she is kinda new in town.
Annika is checking the phone calls that usually are false alarms or pranks, but she got the tip of a murder in Kronoberg Park, just inside of the Jewish Cemetery, the body of a naked woman is found. She thinks that it’s a real tip and she had to fight to be chosen to be sent since she is still quite new in the newspaper.
Annika begins her own investigation and while keeping in touch of the lead police detective, it’s found that the murdered woman is Josefin Liljeberg, a stripper dancer that she was working in the “Studio Six” (a sex club). Annika formed a connection with Patricia, a friend of Josefin, and found out many information about the deceased woman, like Josefin was girlfriend of Joachim (club’s owner) and even that nearby Josefin’s apartment, there is another apartment of Christer Lundgren, Minister for Foreign Trade, but her investigation is affected since she is accused of harrasing Josefin’s family members, and even she needs to leave Stockholm for a while.
I won’t spoil the solution (obviously), but indeed this is quite an excelent book showing step-by-step how an investigative reporter (no wonder since Liza Marklund, the author, is a reporter in real life (and co-owner of a publishing house!)) does the field work about a murder case from the point of view of a newspaper reporter (instead of a police detective).
This is a review sponsored by the Wildstone University! – ¡Esta es una reseña auspiciada por la Universidad de Wildstone!
This review is bilingual.This is a review sponsored by the Wildstone University! – ¡Esta es una reseña auspiciada por la Universidad de Wildstone!
This review is bilingual. You will find first the review in English and after that, you will find the review in Spanish.
Esta crítica es bilingüe. Usted encontrará primero la crítica en Inglés y luego de esta, usted encontrará la crítica en Español.
REVIEW IN ENGLISH
I live in Costa Rica, I met Les Luthiers in 1988 when a high schoolmate from Guatemala lent me a couple of audio cassettes with two taped presentations from this Argentine group. As you can see, it was needed to involve three countries to acomplish that I would be able to discover the ingenious of this humoristic musical group.
The first two presentations that I listened to were “Hacen Muchas Gracias de Nada” and “Mastropiero que Nunca”, therefore many of my favorite sketches are from those two, such as “La Tanda” (without a doubt, my favorite), also such as “La Gallina dijo Eureka”, “Cartas de Color”, “El Rey Enamorado”, “El Asesino Misterioso”, “Bienvenidos a la Universidad de Wildstone” and “Cantata del adelantado Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras”.
Eventually, several year later, I was able to watch them on video, besides of the mentioned presentations, I want to highlight “El Grosso Concerto”, “Unen Canto con Humor”, “Lutherapia”, “Los Premios Mastropiero” y “Lutherias”, but certainly all of their presentations on video are always ingenious and a lot of fun.
Les Luthiers has had a membership rotation, therefore I want to mention that my favorite members are: Daniel Rabinovich, Marcos Mundstock, Carlos Núñez Cortés (all these already deceased) and Carlos López Puccio (still alive at 2024).
Les Luthiers is a humoristic musical group from Argentine, funded in 1967 by Gerardo Masana, that it have been totally successful in all Latin America and Spain, they write their own material and even they invent their own musical instruments used in their presentations.
This book details their formation and their trajectory, including biographies of the most iconic members, also a funny biography of their most popular fictional character in their sketches which is the great compositor Johann Sebastian Mastropiero.
For any fan of this group, it’s highly recommended this book that it has had three editiones (I read the second edition, but I know that there is a most recent third edition).
CRITICA EN ESPAÑOL
Yo vivo en Costa Rica, conocí a Les Luthiers en 1988 cuando un compañero del colegio que venía de Guatemala me prestó un par de cassettes de audio con dos presentaciones grabadas de este grupo argentino. Cómo ven, hubo que involucrar a tres países para lograr que yo descubriera la genialidad de este grupo musical humorístico.
Las primeras dos presentaciones que escuché fue “Hacen Muchas Gracias de Nada” y “Mastropiero que Nunca”, por ende muchos de los sketches favoritos míos pertenecen a esos dos, tales como “La Tanda” (sin duda mi favorito), así como “La Gallina dijo Eureka”, “Cartas de Color”, “El Rey Enamorado”, “El Asesino Misterioso”, “Bienvenidos a la Universidad de Wildstone” y “Cantata del adelantado Don Rodrigo Díaz de Carreras”.
Ya luego, varios años después, pude verlos en video, aparte de las presentaciones mencionadas, pude ver el resto de videos, donde destaco “El Grosso Concerto”, “Unen Canto con Humor”, “Lutherapia”, “Los Premios Mastropiero” y “Lutherias”, pero ciertamente todas sus presentaciones en video siempre son geniales y muy divertidas.
Les Luthiers ha tenido una rotación de integrantes, por lo que quiero mencionar que mis integrantes favoritos son: Daniel Rabinovich, Marcos Mundstock, Carlos Núñez Cortés (todos estos ya fallecidos) y Carlos López Puccio (todavía vivo al 2024).
Les Luthiers es un grupo musical humorístico de Argentina, fundado en 1967 por Gerardo Masana, que han tenido un éxito arrollador en toda Latinoamérica y España, ellos escriben su propio material e incluso inventan instrumentos musicales que utilizan en sus presentaciones.
Este libro detalla su formación y su trayectoria, incluyendo biografías de sus integrantes más icónicos, así como una divertida biografía del personaje ficticio más popular de sus sketches que se trata del gran compositor Johann Sebastian Mastropiero.
Para cualquier fan del grupo, es altamente recomendado este libro que ha tenido tres ediciones (yo leí la segunda edición, pero sé que existe una tercera más reciente).
CAPTAIN & EMISSARY BUT YOU DON’T GET MUCH OF IT HERE
This a well written book, but it wasn’t what I expected oGood book but not what I expected
CAPTAIN & EMISSARY BUT YOU DON’T GET MUCH OF IT HERE
This a well written book, but it wasn’t what I expected or I’d wish to be, since you have a extremely detail of Sisko’s youth (almost 40% of the book!) and later you have comprehensive information when he was on Starfleet Academy and his early career on several starships and starbases, but when the book is almost finished (around 80% of the book!) is when the narrative arrives to his days on Deep Space Nine! It’s like reading a biography about Margaret Thatcher (and I’m choosing her since she is mentioned in the book since a fictional descendant of her appears there) and you get her youth and early days on politics but once she became Prime Minister the book only assigned a couple of chapter to that. I’m been having this trouble with several recent autobiographies that I’ve read (Captain Picard, Patrick Stewart (maybe the only one that I’ve read both biographies fictional and real life), Michael J. Fox) that they are too detailed about their youths and private life but the details about their careers (that it’s the reason why they’re famous) are quite scarce.
I know that you can watch the TV series to know about his days as captain and emissary, but since this is an autobiography, I found weird that his most relevant accomplishments are too quickly resumed in this book.
SISKO’S EARLY DAYS
In this “autobiography” that, inside the fiction, they are a collection of letters sent by Benjamin Sisko to his son, Jake, while he is still with the Prophets inside the wormhole, you get Sisko’s youth, his life on San Francisco with his family, his medical problem that required physical therapy (by Dr. Pulaski!), his dreams to become starship engineer on Starfleet (that it was odd, I know that it’s canon that Ben Sisko worked in Utopia Planitia Yards and in the Defiant’s project (logically along with Elizabeth Shelby and Dr. Leah Brahms) but during the TV series, with the exception of when he constructed an old solar sail ship with Jake, you never watch Ben Sisko interested in Engineering issues (it’s not like Picard that you have several moments and episodes exploring his passion for archeology and ancient history) (or Captain Janeway that she got personally involved in the solution of many scientific troubles), since it was usually Chief O’Brien who had to deal with engineering troubles and Sisko isn’t around.
You have the first meeting with Curzon Dax and why their friendship is forged. Also, an early meeting with Data before both take their own routes. Even, you have some supportive characters from TNG appearing playing relevant roles in the early life of Ben Sisko.
You also have a great fictional collection of photographs of different moments in the life of Benjamin Sisko, it’s a very nice detail for the book.
Therefore, this a good book, but the lack of importance to Ben Sisko’s life as captain of DS9 and emissary of Bajor, were a major issue for me, to give it a better general rating to the book.
This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps: Most Wanted” book series, and it works like a loose sequel to “Dr.A better reading experience
This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps: Most Wanted” book series, and it works like a loose sequel to “Dr. Maniac vs Robby Schwartz”.
NOT SO HARD TO RATE THIS TIME
While the first book Dr Maniac vs Robby Schwartz wasn’t that good, this loose sequel (since there isn’t any of the main characters of the previous but the villains) resulted a better reading experience since it was more interesting and ambitious, even it has an unexpected twist kinda dark, or at least quite awful to the protagonist of this second book.
DR. MANIAC RETURNS!
In this loose sequel, you have now Richard Dreezer, a different kid, but as you may expected, he is a big fan of comic books (but only that, he isn’t self-published author like Robby Schwartz), he has little brother named Ernie, a female classmate Bree Birnbaun (that she doesn’t like him but she needs to work with him for an assignment) (Richard has a kinda crush for Bree), there is another classmate Marcus Maloney (a kinda antagonist but he isn’t that important).
Richard has some allergies (or at least his mom is convinced about it) and he needs to go a doctor’s office of a physician named Dr. Root, his office is just in front of the Comic Book Museum, where the curator is a character known as Big Kahuna, and soon enough, Richard will pay a visit to the Comic Book Museum (that he knows every inch of it) but he will meet the new inhabitant of the museum…
…DR. MANIAC!!!
Along with the infamous Dr. Maniac, there is old acquaintances from the previous book, The Purple Rage and the Scarlet Starlet, but also new superpowered characters like Captain Croaker and Terry Tadpole, and…
…even Dr. Maniac will have a new mysterious ally!
There are funny details in the story like a “Ditko Avenue” (like in Steve Ditko, co-creator of Spider-Man) and the school is named “Hugh Jackman Middle School”.
As I commented before, while my experience with the previous book with the villlain Dr. Maniac wasn’t the best (not terrible but definitely the book could be better), I found this loose sequel quite imaginative and with a really funny but also kinda dark final twist....more
This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps: Horrorland” book series.
HARD TO RATE
It was hard for me to rate thNot so maniac after all!
This a prose novel which is part of the “Goosebumps: Horrorland” book series.
HARD TO RATE
It was hard for me to rate this book, since the development wasn’t that entertaining, since technically isn’t a horror story but more superhero (or supervillain, actually) action but it’s not that inspired, that honestly, after reading Attack of the Mutant (from original Goosebumps book series) I was expecting an improvement, a revision of the theme, and therefore a better story, that sadly wasn’t the case…
…BUT…
…I found quite interesting that the story uses a narrative style quite similar to Gone Girl, but FOUR years before of the publication of Gone Girl!!! I am not saying that R.L. Stine invented the narrative style with this book, since it may be like The Blair Witch Project which it didn’t invent the “found footage” format, there had been several movies before, but certainly The Blair Witch Project made world popular the format impulsing a lot of new movies like it later. So, Gone Girl made world popular a style that later several authors wrote their own versions, and I found quite interesting that this humble book by R.L. Stine uses a narrative style that basically makes the same kind of impact to the reader, but four years before (without discarding that it could be other examples before).
So, if R.L. Stine was pioneer with a Gone Girl narrative style, why I couldn’t rate better this book? Easy. I hated the Gone Girl narrative style (you can look for my review about it), since I felt ripped off or deceived, like I wasted three weeks of reading. I have to mention that when I watched later the movie adaptation with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, I liked a lot the film, not because the story was any improved, it’s basically a faithfull adaptation giving the same surprises, but for me, it’s different to be deceived or surprised only investing a couple of hours, than three weeks or more.
I won’t get into detail since I don’t want to spoil any of the two books.
COMIC STRIPS OR COMIC BOOKS?
Robby Schwartz has a hobbie of making comic strips (but it’s not clear if they’re really comic strips or actually comic books, which is a different format of the general genre of comics and/or graphic novels) but instead of superheroes, Robby prefers supervillains and all his comics (strips or books?) are about supervillains (I found this quite odd, since Robby complains at some point why he didn’t invent any superhero, since I don’t quite catch what kind of struggle can have those supervillains if there aren’t any superheroes to make a real challenge for them, anyway), and his main supervillain is…
…DR. MANIAC!!!
But there is at least a couple of other villains, The Purple Rage (like some kind of antagonist) and the Scarlet Starlet (some kind of companion), and soon enough it seems that they get into the real world.
Robby has two sibblings, Sam (brother) and Taylor (sister) and a good friend, Brooke, but soon enough they will be targets of his own creations.
The book has a fairly good pacing, but I found the action scenes not much inspired, but I have to give the the names of the superpowered characters are better thought that those used in Attack of the Mutant (but story in the first book was a lot better).
HORRORLAND CROSSOVER
The only thing kinda odd, is that the book is part of a marketing strategy where, after you read the main story, you’ll find a second story where the main characters of each previous book in the Horrorland series are appearing together, trapped in the Horrorland theme park, and while the text tells you what happened so far, if you haven’t read the entire series of Horrorland in order, you won’t get much reading this, if you read the books of this series in random order, like me....more
This a prose novel which is part of the original “Goosebumps” book series
COMIC BOOK WORLD AND REAL LIFE COLLIDING!
SincSurprisingly good story!
This a prose novel which is part of the original “Goosebumps” book series
COMIC BOOK WORLD AND REAL LIFE COLLIDING!
Since I am a comic book collector myself, I found this Goosebumps story quite appealing and even I was surprised that I liked it even more than I’d expected at first.
Bradley “Skipper” Matthews is a comic book collector and even he keeps several of his comic books totally sealed without reading them to avoid losing value (I keep them in protective bas alright but definitely I read them at least once), however the comic book of “The Masked Mutant” is a title that Skipper just can’t not reading it, therefore, each time that the comic book goes out, he read it entirely.
But “The Masked Mutant” is a different comic book since while he is the protagonist of the story, The Masked Mutant (which can manipulate his own molecular structure) isn’t a superhero but actually a supervillain, facing a entire team of superheroes known as “The League of Good Guys” (I have to admit that R.L. Stine could think a little further to come out with cooler names for them) where its leader is The Galloping Gazelle (a Flash-like wannabe).
Skipper has a little sister, Mitzi (that as usual in many R.L. Stine’s stories, she is always pesting his big brother), a friend, Wilson Clark (whom has the unusual hobbie of collecting rubber stamps) and soon enough he meets Libby Zacks (who collects comic books but a different kind of the ones that Skipper usually likes).
Everything is normal in the small town of Riverview Falls, until…
…Skipper finds the secret headquarters of The Masked Mutant, right in the middle of town!
Comic books elements are starting to become part of reality, and while it could a dream come true for any comic book collector, Skipper will discover soon enough that it will become a real nightmare!
I liked a lot the book, having several surprises and twists, where even when you think that the story already ended, that crafty R.L. Stine shocks you one more final time. Maybe my only complain is that there isn't any reason explaining why it's happening this merging between comic books and real life but definitely one of the best Goosebumps books that I’ve read so far (not the best, but definitely between the top list of those that I’ve been able to read so far).
This is the first volume of “Le Petit Spiroy” comic book series. Originally appearing in 1987 for the first time in Watch out for Le Petit Spirou!
This is the first volume of “Le Petit Spiroy” comic book series. Originally appearing in 1987 for the first time in Dupuis Publishing.
This first volume is known as “Say Hello to the Lady”
Creative Team:
Creators, Writer & Illustrator: Tome & Janry
FRANCO-BELGIAN COMICS
The collaboration between France and Belgium in the genre of comic strips & comic books is monumental, figuring many of the most iconic examples of the genre, not only Asterix, but also The Smurfs, Tin Tin, Lucky Luke, Le Petit Spirou, and many, many, MANY others…
…generating their own inner genre named, obviously, Franco-Belgian comics, considered along with United States & Great Britain comics and Japanese manga, as one of the three most influential and relevant examples of the comic book field.
(I plan to read in the future other titles of this genre, therefore, in the first volume of each title, it will be normal to find this same general introduction.)
PICARESQUE BUT CHARMING
While this is quite recent, taking in account that other iconic Franco-Belgian comics were created in the 40’s, 50’s and so on, this is an 80s product and it shows in its picaresque tone that maybe in previous decades wouldn’t work out. This is a child version of the adult Spirou character (which I haven’t read anything) and it seems that while the adult version is proper and serious, the creators decided to give it a double-meaning and picaresque tone to the series but keeping it charming and kinda innocent due that many of the main characters are kids. One good thing is that due the creative team were already seasoned artists, the comic book begins already with the expected look of the characters, not like Tintin or Lucky Luke that you will have to wait for following volumes to find the expected recognizable look of the characters.
Spirou or Le Petit Spirou is a schoolboy wearing his trademark Bellboy outfit (I think to make him recognizable as a younger version of the character) whom is always getting in troubles due being interested in the opposite sex.
The volume started with a short story about a collection of photos left by a deceased photographer capturing indiscreet moments of many people in the town. The rest of the volume are one page gags, were you are introduced to several characters like Vert (his best friend), Suzette (his kinda girlfriend), Mr Mégot (school’s gym teacher), Abott Langelusse (main religious figure in town), Sister Mary Angelique (a beautiful nun), Pepé Spirou (his grandfather) and Mrs. Spirou (his mother), and even you get the introductory gag about Jean-Henri Masseur (which in French is language joke sounding a lot like “your sister” and used by Suzette as a misleading prank since she has a very sexy sister).
Other iconic characters still not appearing in this very first volume, but certainly the book begins with good artwork and charming gags quite hilarious.
I bought this in its printed version but I didn’t find that edition here on GR, so I had to use this Kindle edition that I found
This Doom endures!
I bought this in its printed version but I didn’t find that edition here on GR, so I had to use this Kindle edition that I found
This is a Giant-sized (64 pages) one-shot comic book.
Creative Team:
Plot, Script & Art: Sanford Greene & Jonathan Hickman
Colors: Rachelle Rosenberg with Sanford Greene
Lettering: VC’s Joe Caramagna
Cover Art: Sanford Greene & Matthew Wilson
DOOM VS GALACTUS…’NUFF SAID!
I didn’t choose to buy this comic book but actually the guy in charge of comic books in the geek local store where I buy comics, he was the one who chose it for me, he told me that I need that comic and well…
...he was right!...
…in fact the comic book became in demand getting more value, which I don’t complain at all.
The first thing that got me off guard, it was that it’s not the Earth-616 Doctor Doom, since some Doctor Doom in the multiverse, where in his Earth, all heroes and villains faced Galactus…
…and they lost!...
…even space characters like the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Nova Corps, the Shiar Imperial Guard, everybody lost too!...
…only surviving Doctor Doom and Valeria Richards (that’s why it’s impossible to think about this Doom as the one from Earth-616.
Aaah! But Doctor Doom doesn’t survive…
…Doctor Doom endures! (his words, not mine!)
Galactus is on a frenzy hunger and everything in the universe is in peril…
…and obviously the only hope to stop Galactus is Doctor Doom, whom lost the first round but he is still alive (barely thanks to his magic knowledge), but Valeria Richards looks foor him and everything is set for second round!
Something that I found kinda unfair, it's that I noticed that this comic book got so many attention due the involment of Jonathan Hickman (which obviously is one of the best comic book writers in the industry, in special about Fantastic Four and Doctor Doom) and certainly I'm sure that he indeed collaborated in the project, but I think that the real "father" of this comic book was Sanford Greene, since you can notice that he was involved in all departments to make this comic book.
This comic book is highly recommended to any fan of Fantastic Four, in special of Doctor Doom, Valeria Richards and/or Galactus. Also, I have no doubt that this one-shot was published to start to make current boost to the characters of Doctor Doom and Galactus that both are expected to be relevant in the incoming phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
This is the first volume of “Lucky Luke” comic book series in its “The Complete Collection” American edition. Originally appHere comes Lucky Luke!
This is the first volume of “Lucky Luke” comic book series in its “The Complete Collection” American edition. Originally appearing in 1949 for the first time in Dupuis Publishing.
In this collected American edition are printed seven different stories: “Arizona 1880”, “Dick Digger’s Gold Mine”, “Lucky Luke’s Double”, “Rodeo”, “Desperado City”, “The Buffalo Creek gold rush” and “Lucky Luke versus Cigarette Cesar”.
Creative Team:
Creator, Writer & Illustrator: Morris
FRANCO-BELGIAN COMICS
The collaboration between France and Belgium in the genre of comic strips & comic books is monumental, figuring many of the most iconic examples of the genre, not only Asterix, but also The Smurfs, Tin Tin, Lucky Luke, Le Petit Spirou, and many, many, MANY others…
…generating their own inner genre named, obviously, Franco-Belgian comics, considered along with United States & Great Britain comics and Japanese manga, as one of the three most influential and relevant examples of the comic book field.
(I plan to read in the future other titles of this genre, therefore, in the first volume of each title, it will be normal to find this same general introduction.)
NOTHING LIKE AMERICAN WESTERN…FROM EUROPE!
It’s curious how the American Western is a genre that sometimes is better portraited outside of United States like the Italian “Spaguetti Western” and this Franco-Belgian comic book of Lucky Luke becoming easily the best known and popular “american” cowboy in comics.
I can understand that nowadays is not recommended to promote smocking (but I wonder why drinking alcohol doesn’t have the same kind of witch hunt) but it’s kinda absurd that Morris, its creator, were critized for having Lucky Luke smocking in its classic run since if he was an adult in the old American west, it’s only logical that he would smoking (and drinking alcohol) due in that era of history was normal that, you can’t (or you shouldn’t) re-write history, bad or good, history should be told or portraited like it happened.
In this gorgeous first volumen of the american edition known as “The Complete Collection”, you won’t have the most characteristic look of Lucky Luke (in fact you can appreciate how the look of the face of Lucky Luke is evolutioning during the run of this first seven tales but without still reaching his most recognizable look) but unlike the first story of Tin Tin where the artwork is just awful, here you will find gorgeous artwork in characters and scenarios. Jolly Jumper, his white horse, the “smartest horse in the west”, is without a doubt smart and even sometimes you hear him talk (like Scooby-Doo) but later you can read his thoughts.
Also, you will find an extensive information about Morris, his personal life, his inspirations for this comic book and the impact of the series.
Arizona 1880 (4 stars)
It’s the very first Lucky Luke story with a very cartoonish look in Lucky Luke and while the story is quite simple, it’s quite entertaining and a worthy beginning, where Lucky Luke without much background of his personal past, he reaches Nugget City and having to deal with an insidious criminal and his pair of minions.
Dick Digger’s Gold Mine (5 stars)
Dick Digger is an old man that he can’t just keep his mouth shut about having found a gold mine and the same pair of minions (but just them, the boss is still in jail I guess) are starting to look for the mine without realizing that they already have the map in a bottle of Dick Digger.
Lucky Luke’s Double (4 stars)
Lucky Luke arrives to another town and he finds out that there is a criminal in prison looking just like him (even the same wardrobe!) and the band of that criminal kidnaps Lucky Luke to interchange him in the Town’s Jail.
Rodeo (4 stars)
Lucky Luke in participating in a rodeo event, when a nefarious participant steals the money of the rodeo grand prize.
Desperado City (5 stars)
Lucky Luke arrives to Desperado City which is a very dirty and sinful town, where he soon enough will have to “clean” the town. Easily the best written tale in this first collection.
The Buffalo Creek gold mine (5 stars)
A very funny tale where people starting to think that there is gold in Buffalo Creek which is only a creek but suddenly you have train and a whole town emerging due the bunch of people arriving there to look for the gold. Easily the funniest tale (showing a true old cartoon style of narrative) of this first collection.
Lucky Luke versus Cigarette Cesar (3 stars)
The title explains much of what happens, where indeed Lucky Luke meets this character known as Cigarette Cesar and he has to face him to bring him to justice. It’s not a bad story but easily is the weakest of the collected tales in this first collection.
This a self-contained prose novel which is part of the “Nightmare Room” book series
ANOTHER BOOK LINE
I already read quitA fair entertained book
This a self-contained prose novel which is part of the “Nightmare Room” book series
ANOTHER BOOK LINE
I already read quite a bit of books written by R.L. Stine, but usually they had been from Goosebumps or Fear Street, but this is my first book from Nightmare Room, where it seems that it’s a line oriented for kids but even it looks more family friendly (with zero body count) than your regular Goosebumps novel, and something curious is that when you finish the book, you find a section telling in a general way about the supernatural phenomena that it was developed in the story, and you got a feeling that this Nightmare Room is like an attempt of doing a Twilight Zone for kids.
I BET YOU DON’T HAVE A DIARY LIKE THIS ONE!
Alex Smith is young boy with a terrible vice of betting, therefore he tries to do bets against his schoolmates about anything around them with the goal of winning some money and his current objective is buying a guitar to use with his music band formed by his close friends, Chip and Shawn.
Alex has a noisy classmate named Tessa Wayne, that while they are usually antagonist with each other, it’s clear that both have some mutual romantic interest.
Miss Gold, one of his teachers, gave them to Alex (along with the rest of the class but only Tessa shown real interest about it) of making a personal diary to get some extra points in their grades.
Fate gives the “perfect diary” to Alex coming inside of an old desk that his mom gave him, but this diary is not your regular one, since each night after dinner, written with even his own handwriting, Alex finds a page telling him details about what will happen the next day.
First, he thought that it was perfect to place bets and make money, but…
…with each diary entry, more and more dangerous things are predicted and Alex can’t avoid to happen even knowing ahead about it.
While there isn’t any body count in the story, and there is quite mild the tone of horror developed here, the book is quite entertained to read, maybe my major issue with it could be the quite abrupt and odd way to end the story at its climax (nope, I won’t spoil it) but certainly it wasn’t up to the expectations and therefore I couldn’t give it a better rating.
But, certainly I don’t complain about reading the book, since it was entertained and engaging to read.
This is a stand-alone prose novel, situated right after “Chain of Command” Parts One & Two episodes from ST-TBrilliant idea for a Star Trek novel!
This is a stand-alone prose novel, situated right after “Chain of Command” Parts One & Two episodes from ST-TNG and before “Emissary” from ST-DS9.
Captain’s Log:
The USS Enterprise-D is assigned to arbitrate the negotiations between the Cardassian Union and the Bajoran Provisional Government, after the unexpected annoucement by the Cardassian Civilian Detapa Council ordering to release the planet Bajor and all its population in that world and any other world in the Cardassian Union, along with retiring all military personnel. The diplomatic talks are celebrated at Terok Nor, an uridium ore processing space station orbiting Bajor.
The USS Oceanside, a California-class starship, is assigned to support assistance to the Enterprise-D in the additional mission of giving maintenance to the Terok Nor station and bringing medical help to the Bajoran population at the surface.
Senior Staff:
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Commanding Officer) Cmdr. William T. Riker (First Officer) Lt. Cmdr. Data (Operations Manager & Second Officer) Lt. Cmdr. Deanna Troi (Ship’s Counselor) Lt. Worf (Chief Security Officer) Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge (Chief Engineering Officer) Dr. Beverly Crusher (Chief Medical Officer)
Capt. Tamiko Hayashio (Commanding Officer) Dr. Tropp (Chief Medical Officer) Cmdr. Sarah McDougall (Chief Engineering Officer)
Guest Stars:
Constable Odo (Terok Nor Chief Security Officer) Kira Nerys Garak
LOST CHAPTER
This is indeed a “lost chapter” since this prose novel gives a link between ST-TNG and the beginning of ST-DS9 since it’s situated right after Capt. Jean-Luc Picard was tortured by Gul Madred during the events of Chain of Command and before that Terok Nor would become a Starfleet administered station and be called Deep Space Nine, which I think it’s a great idea for a prose novel in the Star Trek universe.
Where you have the introductions of known characters of Deep Space Nine before of taking their roles, along with reading about the decision of Chief O’Brien of leaving the Enterprise-D but also old minor characters of The Next Generation will return doing priceless cameos, and even character from the “future” of expanded universe prose novels.
PEACE SOMETIMES IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN WAR
After the debacle at Minos Korva where a Cardassian fleet was stopped by the strategy of Capt. Edward Jellico (at that moment in command of the Enterprise-D) the Civilian Detapa Council in Cardassian gives a totally unexpected order of retiring all military presence of the Cardassian Union in the Bajoran system and liberating all Bajoran population in any other Cardassian sector…
…however that order isn’t comply as smooth as you could hope, since the Cardassian Central Command gives indications of damaging all possible Bajoran resources and any Cardassian technology left behind…
…but the worse is that there are secret labour camps in other planetary systems where the liberation order will be changed to extermination process.
It’s up to the Enterprise-D and Oceanside crews to do their best in repairing Terok Nor station, finding the source of a provoked decease in Bajor’s surface, but also finding out about one of those secret camps where an old friend of Ro Laren is kept captive along with many other Bajorans.
Capt. Picard will have his hands full not only dealing with Gul Dukat but also with the now Legate Madred, a very uncomfortable reunion right after their previous torturing meeting. I would wish to have more presence in the story by Ro Laren, and while she does pivotal things in the novel, still I’d love to have her in a more relevant role.
Also, while Garak is on the cover along with Picard, they didn't share any scene and Garak isn't doing really much in the story. (I'd prefer a photo art cover instead of this artistic representation that I guess they don't need to pay to the actors to use them in the cover)
This is a The Next Generation novel but you will have the birth of Deep Space Nine too. Highly recommended for fans of both spin-offs of Star Trek....more
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