The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown

Its good to read a Dan Brown novel once in a while. This 3rd installment of Dan Browns' Robert Langdon series is exactly what you'd expect if you've read Angles&Demons and Da Vinci Code. Overall impressions to story and writing style are very similar to the initial 2 books.

Although longer in pages, there's a lot more fluff built into this book and it might even be simpler and faster to read because he doesn't have more then 2-3 parallel stories running side by side. An annoying part was the almost unnecessary suspense built into tiny inconsequential things to give it a 'Dan Brown' feel.

I'd recommend this book to anybody who liked Angles & DaVinci code but personally I would rank the books as: Angels&Demons > Da Vinci Code > Lost Symbol

Star Trek Academy: Collsion Course - William Shatner

This book is William Shatners spin on the teenage years of Kirk and Spock. It is also a kind of "origins" story of how Kirk & Spock met and why/ how they got into Star Trek academy. The personal interactions between Kirk and Spock in this adventure are exactly what you'd expect, a lot of sarcasm built around a well set cohesive story. There is also a background story running about Kirks pre-teeenage years.

With large text print this is a pretty fast read and the story was interesting enough to keep me engaged throughout the book with a bang of an ending. Filled mostly action and lots of things to keep Star Trek geeks engaged.