Comments | rachelmanija: Spock, Messiah! by Theodore R. Cogswell, Jr. and Charles A. Spano

rachelmanija

Spock, Messiah! by Theodore R. Cogswell, Jr. and Charles A. Spano

Jun 23, 2009 12:00

I did not receive any of the Harlequin titles, which I note all actually exist. Nor did I receive The Very Virile Viking or The Vampire Queen’s Servant, which also exist. I already own Clan of Death: Ninja, and have it reviewed somewhere under the tag genre: ninja ( Read more... )

awesomely bad books, tv: star trek tos, body parts: disembodied heads, genre: fetuses are creepy

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marzipan_pig June 24 2009, 06:37:20 UTC

I love reading your reviews of stuff that I didn't think I would ever WANT to read until I saw your review.

seperis June 24 2009, 17:26:13 UTC

God, I have that book and I still remember staring at it after reading wondering what on earth I'd just read.

Though considering I was parallel reading Price of the Phoenix and that one about the orgasm machine (it was a very Trek summer)...I don't know where I was going with this statement. Except suddenly now I really do want Spock: Starts Major Religion! Sort of.

ellen_fremedon June 24 2009, 18:01:15 UTC

and that one about the orgasm machine

Wait, what? What? Which book is that and why haven't I read it?

seperis June 24 2009, 18:04:10 UTC

It was this--I don't know, almost like a not-threesome of Spock, Kirk, and Free Agent Mary Sue. And there was this machine from Free Agent's homeworld that caused orgasms.

...let me get home tonight and find it. It's one of those I went back to read after I started writing slash and suddenly there was context.

Yes, the machine--granted orgasms for good behavior? Or stopped bad behavior? It was like, psychology 101 gone horribly, horribly awry.

ellen_fremedon June 24 2009, 18:13:06 UTC

Oh god. I read that! In seventh grade! I remember thinking it was very disorganized and didn't make much sense.

Evidently parts of it went way over my head.

(Of course, seeing as it was Marshak and Culbreath, it probably was also disorganized and nonsensical.)

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yahtzee63 June 24 2009, 17:46:12 UTC

I just reread Spock, Messiah! too. I couldn't believe it was actually worse than I remembered.

rachelmanija June 24 2009, 18:06:29 UTC

Did you review it? if not, you should!

dramaturgca January 9 2010, 09:01:09 UTC

I haven't read Spock, Messiah! in at least 10 years. Most of what I really remember is the sequence in the psycholoony's camp with the masks and the belly dancing... I remember being intrigued by the idea of a jewel in one's navel. I also remember thinking that it was ridiculously OOC and not really believing it was part of the same series as the rest of the Trek novels.