Reviews and Comments

I received this book for free in return for an honest review through LibraryThings early review program. It was pretty OK. Nothing particularly insightful, I was hoping to be able to use it as a reference for my kids' 4-H project, but not really going to work for us.

I received this book as part of LibraryThing's early review project.

We are a home school family so having books like this available is always a big plus to us. That being said my oldest is currently in 2nd grade so it will be a time before we use this reference regularly.

It says its visual guide to acing math in grade 4-9 but there are some topics in here that I never touched until 10th grade geometry, so your miles may vary.

From the description I had hoped we would be able to use this as a curricular from middles school math, but alas its more of a reference book than a curriculum. But for what it is, it's well put together, though quite heavy.

received this audiobook as Part of LibraryThing's Early review program.

I spent most of the book trying to figure out what the the author's deal was. Now that I've completed it, I'm still not completely sure. She's a Mormon turned atheist, and she seems to spend much of the book arguing that UFOlogoy is a modern day religion.

The book is more about the people who "study" UFOs than the UFOs themselves.

She doesn't really explain the "Why we See Saucers" mentioned in the subtitle of the book other than a flimsy argument that we see them because we want to see them.

I will say the version of an "official" story about the Roswell incident that she recount's here is the first one I have heard that holds any water.

As far as its quality as an audiobook: I was pleasantly pleased that they are still making CD versions in 2020. In fact when I finally received it I hadn't even realized it was going to be an audiobook, and I love audiobooks on CD. The reader was OK. Her voice wasn't annoying or anything, but personally I always prefer audiobooks that are read by the author.

I received this book for early review. It was pretty OK. Nothing particularly insightful, I was hoping to be able to use it as a reference for my kids' 4-H project, but not really gonna work for us.

I had been wanting to watch Jurassic Park again lately, but with two young night owls it's hard to find a time I can watch a PG-13 movie. I thought listening to the audio book might scratch the itch. It actually made it worse as I wanted to note all the differences I heard if they matched my memory from seeing the film in the 90s or not. returnreturnThe book was fantastic. It's a story we all know pretty well by now but told so much better. The introduction includes a number of children on the Costa Rican mainland being bit by "lizards" a workman murdered by a raptor (which they tell the doctor was a digger accident, and the workman wakes up to say "raptor" which is interpreted as being a cryptozoic creature, and then an American girl was bit by a lizard on a remote beach that caused all of the hullabaloo that required the scientists to get involved. returnreturnwithout giving up too much more, the Story made a lot more scientific sense, having to learn things along the way like the T-Rex only sees you when you move, rather than them just knowing that. Park owner Mr. Hammond isn't a kind grandfather but a mad capitalist who will stop at nothing, and the ending is a lot more believable too.returnreturnThe science behind the story appeared incredibly well researched. If it wasn't than Crichton does an incredible job of making it sound well researched which is almost as good. For someone who normally reads "light" science fiction, maybe science fantasy, this was a breath of relief.

Wow! George has always been one of my favorite Star Trek authors but this blew me away. returnreturnThe book begins seconds before the previous novel ended. U.S.S. Robinson exits the worm whole to find explosions galore and Sisko may never be the same again.

It's certainly an odd story though. 400 pages, only 24 chapters, but a prologue and an epilogue that make up 100 of those pages.

The Romulan praetor is committed to peace even when everything the Romulans have been doing leads the rest of the universe to believe otherwise, but she goes to great lengths to make it reality.

The leaps between the real world, the past, the wormhole are written so amazingly that something that should be incredibly confusing is even easier to follow than if it was in front of your face, and I have never had so may out loud physical emotional responses to ANY book, let alone any Star Trek book.

I got this collection because it contained "With the Night mail" that I had been wanting to read for quite some time. To say I was unfulfilled would be an understatement. Allegedly one of the first science fiction stories, as so filled with made up techno babble it was practically unreadable. Basically treating a blimp as it it where a ship and needing all the same parts, bilge pumps etc., described in detail, with a story that had no plot to speak of. The addition of letters to the editor and advertisements was interesting but detracted from the story. returnreturnThe other stories I read from the collection weren't any better, making no sense and barley readable. It was only after reading a bit that I realized Kipling was the same guy who wrote the Jungle Book, which if it wasn't for LibraryThing I wouldn't have even remembered I'd read before, as it was equally poor. Unlike Jungle Book though, this one ended in my 1 star so bad I didn't finish it pile.

I really felt this was a book of two halves. The first half just didn't keep my interest. Lots of set-up of characters, new ones we haven't met and some new ones just being introduced now. The middle we get a meeting of the Typhon Pact presidents and those of the Khitomer accords, including the newly added Cardassians and Ferengi. Only then does it start to get adventurous and good like a Star Trek Novel should. returnreturnThe Enterprise, still captained by Jean-Luc now married to Beverly Crusher, who is only mentioned & not seen, goes to the Gamma Quadrent with a Romulan Warbird to explore space together as a sign of peace. U.S.S. Robinson, now captained by Ben Sisko, is doing routine star mapping in the Quadrent including a diplomatic rendezvous with the Vahni Vahltupal, who I personally had been wondering about whatever happened to them just days before I happened to read that part. All while back on DS9 Ro and her crew investigate some strange feelings, hunches, readings, etc. which may be all made up, or may be a terrorist plot to destroy the station by the Adorians, or maybe someone else making it look like the Andorians. returnreturnDavid George is one of the best Star Trek authors eloquently putting together scene by scene unrelated characters just like an episode with several plots.

Didn't finish the last one, but this one is due this week, so we'll see how it goes

They kept spelling C3PO as threepio and it took me forever to figure it out. it was less than 300 pages and I couldn't force myself to finish it.

It was Star Trek: Generations before Star Trek VII came out. I'm really not sure which story was better.