sad to here that its agreat series. In general the majority say #3 Orions Hounds was the best one. #1 was rather slow moving, I felt #2 was what kept me with the series.
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It's "Titan," not "Titian." One is a Luna-class ship, the other is a magnificent 16th-century Italian painter.The first Time reading Titian: Taking Wing but months later when I restarted it I flew right through it and loved it.
And ofcourse Titian: Orion's Houndswhich was a very good book in the graet series but it didn't fit me on a personal level very well so it took me a wek to read it instead of one two or three days like the other 3.
Deny Thy Father was to me, a complete borehole and I couldn't get through it.
There was a Star Wars book called The Approaching Storm, that it took me months to get through. I put it down and left it for weeks before going back here and there, finally finishing it.
If I had tried to read Ishmael when I was in school reading a lot of Trek, I wouldn't have been able to finish it, but when I read it earlier this year, I found I enjoyed it. I don't know if that fits the qualifications of this thread, but there it is. :P
There was a Star Wars book called The Approaching Storm, that it took me months to get through. I put it down and left it for weeks before going back here and there, finally finishing it.
If I had tried to read Ishmael when I was in school reading a lot of Trek, I wouldn't have been able to finish it, but when I read it earlier this year, I found I enjoyed it. I don't know if that fits the qualifications of this thread, but there it is. :P
I posted recently that state of mind and life circumstances can certainly affect one's opinions of a particular reading experience.
I found David R George III's "Twilight", which kicked off the four-part "Mission: Gamma", a challenge - despite it being so popular with others. It just never seemed to end, but I'd just switched jobs, lost my four-hour round-trip commute and was now only 15 minutes from home, and was regretting having to be where I was at a certain point in my career. It took me almost a year to complete the four "Mission: Gamma" books. The mission was only three months for the Defiant's crew!
Conversely, I read his "Crucible: McCoy" while on a care-free vacation and I hung on every word. I finished it in less than a week.
I had that problem as well. The TNG one and DS9 were all I could manage. I just really didn't care about the others at all.
Genesis Force was a slow-go for me as well.
Left Hand of Destiny, Book One. I just couldn't get into it, no matter how hard I pushed myself.
I second that. Yuck.
It did improve when Worf turned up... But until then...
Ditto "Genesis Wave 3"; I never related to the two young people, and they were meant to carry much of the story.
But I dutifully finished 'em.
ST books no, but I've mostly stuck to DS9 and the relaunch, and the Genesis Wave... I find parts of them slow, sometimes the parts when a character is in the past or something... but I usually skip them, then read them later and appreciate them pretty well... I just have a weird initial bias.
Non Trek- for some reason I'm having trouble with Dicken's tale of 2 cities- in part because my mom took it... but I got into a rut with it.
I need more ST DS9 to assist me in procrastinating...
Non Trek- for some reason I'm having trouble with Dicken's tale of 2 cities- in part because my mom took it... but I got into a rut with it.
I need more ST DS9 to assist me in procrastinating...
The Rebels Trilogy.
I bought all three when they first came out, but when I tried to read them, I gave up. I don't remember if I bailed on the first one, or actually made it to the second one before quitting. After all these years, I honestly don't even remember what I didn't like about them.
Normally, I try to finish books I start, even if I'm not enjoying them that much. I'm sure I'll try to get back to these someday...
I bought all three when they first came out, but when I tried to read them, I gave up. I don't remember if I bailed on the first one, or actually made it to the second one before quitting. After all these years, I honestly don't even remember what I didn't like about them.
Normally, I try to finish books I start, even if I'm not enjoying them that much. I'm sure I'll try to get back to these someday...
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"The Final Nexus" was the first Star Trek book that I ever owned back in late-1988/early-1989, picked out by my younger sister while she and my Dad were buying books at Crown Bookstore. The thing was that I was more of a TNG fan at the time, and knew little of TOS lore eventhough I watched a lot of the syndicated reruns of TOS between 1984-1985.
By the time I was old enough to appreciate TOS as the standard bearer of the franchise in 1994-1995, I realized that the book's protagonist was a mary sue character for the author and had little basis in TOS on-screen canon.
So, to this day, The Final Nexus is the only Star Trek book that I have ever owned which I started and never finished.
By the time I was old enough to appreciate TOS as the standard bearer of the franchise in 1994-1995, I realized that the book's protagonist was a mary sue character for the author and had little basis in TOS on-screen canon.
So, to this day, The Final Nexus is the only Star Trek book that I have ever owned which I started and never finished.
I do find Chris Bennett's books hard to get into...at first. Like I said if I struggle to enjoy a book it hits the do read pile & I will get back to it. I'm not saying that Chris is a bad writer at all, he's very good. I just think that his books deserve a lot more attention than I can manage at times. His decription of the 'birth' of a star-jelly in Orion's Hounds, brings an awesome development to a creature that was a McGuffin in Encounter At Farpoint. Some times you just want a 'light' read & others something a bit more challenging, Chris is my challenge.
Fearful Symmetry. It's not bad, just insanely boring. It was such a challenge just to keep my interest up enough to move on to the next page. Absolutely nothing happened. It was nothing but filler, keeping the DS9R "alive" between the excellent Mack novel from like 6 years ago and whatever is coming up next.
I did make it through the end of "side one" but constantly wondered how bad the first version was that they had to take it away and give it to another author who produced this version. It was not up to snuff, and compared with the previous entry by Mack, it was a major disappointment.
I really did have to force myself to finish side one. I just could not find it in myself to go on to side 2.
If it had been just plain bad, it would have been much easier to stop reading earlier. Instead, it was boring. Mind numbing. Ugh.
Fortunately I now have Destiny 2 and two new Charlaine Harris' to work through. Yay!
I did make it through the end of "side one" but constantly wondered how bad the first version was that they had to take it away and give it to another author who produced this version. It was not up to snuff, and compared with the previous entry by Mack, it was a major disappointment.
I really did have to force myself to finish side one. I just could not find it in myself to go on to side 2.
If it had been just plain bad, it would have been much easier to stop reading earlier. Instead, it was boring. Mind numbing. Ugh.
Fortunately I now have Destiny 2 and two new Charlaine Harris' to work through. Yay!
That book is now with the public library, and I have zero desire to even try side 2 after sleeping through the first part.
Side 2 is better than side 1, way way better.
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