This is just too good.

[azurelunatic]

In the midst of reading The Kybalion, I jumped up to let marxdarx borrow my copy of The Wounded Sky. He looked dubiously at it, for it was Star Trek. He loves the TV series, but had a hard time getting into the books. He did read a few in the past, and I queried. I could be his guide to the books, as I'd read nearly all of them, and knew where were the good ones (Diane Duane, John M. Ford, etc.) and where were the bad ones.

One, I mentioned, was a real stinker, and would never, ever, ever make it into my collection; the place for it on my shelf would remain forever empty. When my high school best friend Shawn and I had first started talking to each other, we'd started discussion with my novel of the moment, Q-in-Law, which we agreed to be very good, and went on to other Star Trek novels of our mutual acquaintance. Shawn agreed with me that this particular book was indeed exceptionally horrid, and not worth re-reading. Upon request, I divulged a brief summary to Marx: doorways, on the blink, and Kirk wound up in an alien body...

...It turned out that this had been the very Star Trek book that had turned Marx off from reading them...

Windows on a Lost World, it was. Don't read it. Ever.