Treks Not Taken

It was clever, I enjoyed most of them. He did a good job capturing the style and language of certain authors in particular. I think that I liked the Salinger one best. But Melville made me laugh out loud when he kept putting in things like "(10,000 words omitted on the description of the journey of the shuttle trip from the space station to the ship.)" That isn't a direct quote actually, I don't have the book with me, but that type of thing was hilariously interspersed throughout the Melville version. (I hated MD). If you have read some classics and like Star Trek at all, you'll get a laugh out of it.

I was really looking forward to the Vonnegut one, but it was a little lacking for me.

This book has some hilarious parodies of many famous writers. You need to be both a Trek nerd and a literary nerd to appreciate the genius. Some of the parodies are spot on, although the quality is uneven. There is not much plot, he concentrates on capturing the styles. Some are utterly hilarious. My favorite was the totally sophomoric bad taste humor in "Lady Fed".

Crusher In The Rye is one of the best. "He was in his ready room drinking that totally pretentious Earl Grey tea, like it and his English accent would make up for the fact that he had a completely Frog name. What a complete phony."

Moby Trek (abridged) has interjections like "[Omitted: 10,000 words describing the name and occupation of each crew member, and the contents and show more shipping history of virtually every crate loaded on board.]"

This made me laugh out loud a few times. Great fun. show less

It was clever, I enjoyed most of them. He did a good job capturing the style and language of certain authors in particular. I think that I liked the Salinger one best. But Melville made me laugh out loud when he kept putting in things like "(10,000 words omitted on the description of the journey of the shuttle trip from the space station to the ship.)" That isn't a direct quote actually, I don't have the book with me, but that type of thing was hilariously interspersed throughout the Melville version. (I hated MD). If you have read some classics and like Star Trek at all, you'll get a laugh out of it.

I was really looking forward to the Vonnegut one, but it was a little lacking for me.

Honestly I didn't read much of this book. But the one that makes fun of Bret Easton Ellis is GOLD.