James Holder's Star Trek Book Tag!



I've become addicted to watching Steve Donoghue lately.  I find his talking style very interesting to listen to. 
He is (as Phil Christman pointed out on his blog years ago) the ultimate nerd--with an obsessive interest in everything.  He's just as happy talking about DC comics or Star Trek as he is talking about Church history or ancient Greece or Regency romances.

As someone who spent much of my youth obsessing over Star Trek, it's interesting to hear Steve Donoghue's reminisces about what it was like to watch the original series when it first aired.  (Steve Donghue is old enough to remember.)

Also, interesting to hear that the book that got him into book reviewing was none other than Rabbit Redux by John Updike.  He says the book was so terrible that he had to tell people about how awful the book was, and that's what caused him to publish his own book review.
My own review of Rabbit Redux is here.  I gave it a mixed review at the time.  (I was probably too kind to it initially.)  But the more time passed, the more the book irked me, and later the book made it onto my list of worst books honorable mention category.  As I said at the time:

Rabbit Redux by John Updike (review here) Old Man John Updike writes a book complaining about how those young people won't get off his lawn.  And also how young teenage girls love to have sex with middle-aged men.