So what are you reading now? (Part 3)

[reech]

Moving onto the previously mentioned 4400 novels, since I've just re-read Dragonlance.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

I finished A Gutted World by KRAD and have now started on Brave New World by Chris Roberson.

 

[Paris]

^A Gutted World was great. I just finished A Less Perfect Union by William Leisner, which is from the other Myriad Universe book from last year. It was fantastic! I've really been craving both Kirk and Pike stories, and this really fit the bill, albeit in an alternate universe. Great job Mr. Leisner . I'm now going the non-trek route and reading Chuck Klosterman's Downtown Owl. I love his other work, so i'm really looking forward to it

 

[Csalem]

Finished 'The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter' by RTD and Ben Cook. Couldn't put it down, thoroughly entertaining and absorbing, and was actually a nice way to end the RTD era. Was going to say it had the usual brutal honesty you get from RTD but then I read the final entry.

Amazon.com says I should have it waiting for me when I get back from my trip. I'm looking forward to it.

Next up is either Synthesis by James Swallow or The Secret Notebooks of Agatha Christie which includes unpublished Poirot stories.

Now waitaminute. How can a book have unpublished stories? A book is published. That's kind of ... unusual.

Well it is sort of a marketing ploy. The book goes through Agatha Christies notebooks showing the notes, comments and ideas she had for her various stories. Included are the notes for two stories that were never published. Sort of a rough idea of what the stories were rather than completely written tales. Just started book and very interesting.

 

[snakespeare]

Today is a good day to read at least one Poe short story. I'm thinking The Black Cat, but maybe The Tell-tale Heart.

 

[mackula]

Just finished Unworthy (enjoyed it) and started Beneath the Raptors Wings.

 

[ICW]

I enjoyed Double or Nothing and I really enjoyed it. I will now read Meet with Trimpuh and Disaster which is in the book The Sky's the Limit

 

[mbruno]

Next up is either Synthesis by James Swallow or The Secret Notebooks of Agatha Christie which includes unpublished Poirot stories.

Now waitaminute. How can a book have unpublished stories? A book is published. That's kind of ... unusual.

Csalem probably should have said "includes previously unpublished Poirot stories"

 

[ICW]

I finished Meet with Triumph and Disaster and will now read Last Words which is collected in The Amazing Stories

 

[Sci]

Just finished In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect by Ronald Kessler. A good book and an interesting insight into the mindset of the men and women responsible for protecting the President, Vice President, Cabinet, visiting heads of state and government, and their families. Though the subtitle is way too long.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I’ve also been flicking though (again) the FASA TNG Officer’s Manual (hate the games, like the few books i have). It paints a far more colourful (and, frankly, more interesting) version of the TNG universe than any of the Okuda manuals later (at which point the Federation became a bland, small Americans-and-bumpy-foreheads-only club, and technobabble was officially institutionalized). I like the “Free Worlds of Klinzai”, which suggests a truly reformed Empire, as well as the little excepts of meetings and the like. Gotta love the surreal sight of a Starfleet soldier (wearing a Visor for targeting) sitting in the Photon Canon™, and I don’t think you’ll find a Terminator-style cutaway diagram of Data anywhere else. Loads of stuff is “all wrong” (and was “all wrong” back then, rather than the “later proven wrong”) but that gives it it’s charm. My favourite technical manual. Ever. Still.

 

[Christopher]

^Oh yeah, definitely a lot of bizarre mistakes in that one. The one that stands out for me is the claim that Haven was the Betazoid homeworld. (Plus they got the yield of a photon torpedo hugely wrong, grossly underestimating the amount of energy released by the annihilation of a gram of antimatter, but that's more of a technical error than a blatant Trek-continuity error.)

 

[Reanok]

I'm reading Murder on the Maratania by Conrad Allen .I'm really enjoying reading these historical mysteries.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Finished "Under The Dome" by Stephen King and "The Year of the Flood" by Margaret Atwood.

Currently, for the sake of relaxation, I am reading LotR for the sixth time.

 

[ICW]

I just finished the short story Last Words, which basically centers around Spock coming to terms with Sarek's death. I am now going to read the New Frontier novel The Quiet Place

 

[Paris]

I just finished the short story Last Words, which basically centers around Spock coming to terms with Sarek's death. I am now going to read the New Frontier novel This Quiet Place

^Which book is Last Words in ? That sounds interesting.

 

[DevilEyes]

I just finished the short story Last Words, which basically centers around Spock coming to terms with Sarek's death. I am now going to read the New Frontier novel This Quiet Place

^Which book is Last Words in ? That sounds interesting.

The Amazing Stories anthology.

 

[Paris]

^Hmmm...never heard of it...

I guess I'm off to check Memory Beta...

 

[ICW]

The story was touching.

 

[Thrawn]

Starting DS9: Twilight.