So what are you reading, now? Part V

[F. King Daniel]

"A Critique of Spock's World" by Lou E. Mason in The Best of Trek #16. Reading it gave me a curious mixture of annoyance and amusement. The author makes a few good points (if Vulcans are entirely unreated to humans, as Duane says, cross-species mating and thus Spock would be impossible), but they're quickly buried under piles of anal minutae that would make the STXI forum proud. Most outrageous and nonsensical nitpick goes to the stardates - esentially the writer says they're wrong based on his own theories about stardates, which are total bollocks.

 

[BrotherBenny]

My current reading list consists of the following books (K = Kindle) (L= Library) (P = Paperback)

• Zero Sum Game K
• Seize the Fire K
• CSI Shock Treatment K

I'll be curious to hear what you think of Shock Treatment. I have yet to see any reviews or comments on that book.

I'll let you know what I think when I get around to reading it, but I have several books to get through first.

 

[Greg Cox]

My current reading list consists of the following books (K = Kindle) (L= Library) (P = Paperback)

• Zero Sum Game K
• Seize the Fire K
• CSI Shock Treatment K

I'll be curious to hear what you think of Shock Treatment. I have yet to see any reviews or comments on that book.

I'll let you know what I think when I get around to reading it, but I have several books to get through first.

I perfectly understand. My own to-read pile is growing by leaps and bounds.

 

[Starbreaker]

I haven't read a CSI book in years. I'll have to check this Cox fellow out...

 

[Greg Cox]

I haven't read a CSI book in years. I'll have to check this Cox fellow out...

You actually have your choice of two: Headhunter and Shock Treatment.

I certainly wouldn't object to you checking out one or both of them!

 

[John Clark]

You actually have your choice of two: Headhunter and Shock Treatment.

I certainly wouldn't object to you checking out one or both of them!

For myself, I'll probably get them through Amazon at some point. (Our local book stores have even less CSI novels than they do Trek ones nowadays - and that's saying something).

At the moment, my wish list (and unread books on my Kindle) is getting to be on the long side.

I think the last CSI book I found in the shops was the first New York that KRAD did.

 

[Steve Roby]

I'm reading China Mieville's novel The City & The City, which is fascinating and riveting and wildly original and brilliant at exploring the story's odd setting through the form of a mystery novel. If the last third of the book doesn't let me down, this will outdo Jedediah Berry's The Manual of Detection as the most eminently readable novel using detective fiction as the core on which to build a bizarrely inventive world I've read this year. In fact, it's high time I got back to it.

 

[Thrawn]

I just finished my reread of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. Borrowing a phrase from within the book, I can't help but describe it as fractally brilliant; that is, any particular piece, examined carefully, is just as brilliant as the whole. Just a ridiculously awesome piece of writing.

Now: Rough Beasts Of Empire. Halfway through; intrigued, but I'll have to know where this is going before I know if I like it. (As with many DRG3 stories, he plays his cards close to the vest.)

 

[Starbreaker]

So, The Anubis gates isn't exactly what I imagined it would be so far. I'm not really sure if I'm liking it all that much or not, yet.

Boneshaker, on the other hand, is a very fun read so far.

And finally, The Devil in the White City someone manages to make Chicago architecture fun to read about.. who knew?

(I really need to not read three books at once anymore, by the way.)

 

[Smellincoffee]

I'm making good progress with Over the Hills: A Midlife Escape Across American By Bicycle, but Rough Beasts of Empire keeps distracting me. Looks like my question about how Vaughn received his ZSG injuries was answered here.

(As with many DRG3 stories, he plays his cards close to the vest.)

Does he drop noncommittal two or three-word hints as he does here on the forums?

 

[Thrawn]

(As with many DRG3 stories, he plays his cards close to the vest.)

Does he drop noncommittal two or three-word hints as he does here on the forums?

No, he drops noncommittal entire chapters . But in a good way...

 

[Mokona]

I am currently reading the final book of the 'Vampire Academy Series' by Richelle Mead. It's called 'The Last Sacrifice.' The series itself is about a girl named Rose who is a half vampire, or a dhampir out to graduate from 'Vampire Academy' and become the Guardian of her best friend and last of her Royal Bloodline, Lisa Dragomir. At the same time, she struggles with her emotions due to a forbidden romance between her and her instructor Dimitri Belikov.

From what I have read, it is very interesting.

 

[JRoss]

Just finished Zero Sum Game. Very pleased with it. Now reading Seize the Fire.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Reading 'Violent Spring' by Gary Phillips....

 

[OverlordSpock]

Just starting Rough Beasts of Empire. Only two chapters in, but enjoying it so far.

 

[ICW]

Hey guys,

I just finished reading Seize the Fire and I personally enjoyed it, not so sure why there's so much hate for it.

I am now reading the New Frontier novel Being Human

 

[BrotherBenny]

I perfectly understand. My own to-read pile is growing by leaps and bounds.

Greg, to give you an idea of my to-read pile. I have the following:

• About 50 numbered Star Trek novels
• Almost all of Charles Dickens' collected works
• Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse series (still collecting)
• Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series (still collecting)
• Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus series (still collecting)
• Books 5 and 6 of the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik
• Books 3-5 of the Shadows of the Apt series by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Books 6 and 7 of Wilde/Chase series by Andy McDermott
• 20 old New Scientist magazines
• 3 CSI novels
• The Typhon Pact series and new Star Trek books when they come out
• Dirk Pitt novels from Clive Cussler when I can afford them

I think that's about it, though there are a few I may have forgotten.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Finished Over the Hills last night. I'm still reading Rough Beasts of Empire off an on. I try not to read more than one Trek book a week, and I've already read Seize the Fire...but I keep wanting to return to RBoE. Hence "off and on".

I'm also starting Bernard Cornwell's The Burning Land, the most recent release in his Saxon Stories series.

 

[DimesDan]

Hey guys,

I just finished reading Seize the Fire and I personally enjoyed it, not so sure why there's so much hate for it.

I didn't hate it, didn't even finish it to be honest, I found it boring, unengaging and ultimately I am indifferent to it. Of course, if you enjoyed it, you wouldn't understand why some people didn't, same as I can't really understand why people did enjoy it. I just put it down to different strokes and all that.

 

[Defcon]

I perfectly understand. My own to-read pile is growing by leaps and bounds.

Greg, to give you an idea of my to-read pile. I have the following:<snip>

^ Since I have most of it listed anyway for my monthly To Do List:

Books I already have, but haven't read yet:

Tie-in:

Star Trek:
The Children of Kings by David Stern
Academy: Collision Course by William Shatner
Strange New Worlds 10 by various
Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire by Michael A. Martin (currently reading)
Starfleet Academy: The Delta Anomaly by Rick Barba
Starfleet Academy: The Edge by Rudy Josephs
Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire by David R. George III
Myriad Universes: Shattered Light by David R. George III / Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster / Scott Pearson

Marvel Universe:
Spider-Man: Requiem by Jeff Mariotte
Fantastic Four: What Lies Between by Peter David
Wolverine: Road of Bones by David Mack

DC Universe:
Infinite Crisis by Greg Cox

Monk
Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants by Lee Goldberg

Doctor Who (I don't have them yet, but they should be here in the next week or two):
Only Human by Gareth Roberts
Winner Takes All by Jacqueline Rayner
The Stealers of Dreams by Mike Tucker
The Deviant Strain by Justin Richards

Original:

The Calling by David Mack
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
New Blood by various (including Terri Osborne)
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
Klonk! by Terry Pratchett (German translation of Thud!)
Ab die Post by Terry Pratchett (German translation of Going Postal)
The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde

Books I have on preorder:

Tie-in:

Star Trek:
Thypon Pact: Paths of Disharmony by Dayton Ward
TNG: Indistinguishable from Magic by David A. McIntee
DTI: Watching the Clock by Christopher L. Bennett
New Frontier: Blind Man's Bluff by Peter David
TOS: A Choice of Catastrophes by Michael Schuster & Steve Mollmann
Starfleet Academy: The Gemini Agent by Rudy Josephs
Starfleet Academy #4 by Rick Barba
Starfleet Academy #5 by ???
Vanguard: Declassified by David Mack/ Dayton Ward/ Kevin Dilmore/ Marco Palmieri
TOS: Cast no Shadow by James Swallow


Doctor Who:
The Way Through the Woods by Una McCormack
Hunter's Moon by Paul Finch
Dead of Winter by James Goss
Touched by an Angel by Jonathan Morris
Borrowed Time by Naomi Alderman
Paradox Lost by George Mann
The Coming of the Terraphiles by Michael Moorcock (paperback reprint)

Warehouse 13
A Touch of Fever by Greg Cox

Eureka:
Road Less Traveled by Aaron Rosenberg (as Cris Ramsay)

Supernatural:
One Year Gone by Rebecca Dessertine
Coyote's Kiss by Christa Faust

Dungeons and Dragons
Dark Sun: The Abyssal Plague: Under the Crimson Sun by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Original:
One of our Thursday's is missing by Jasper Fforde
Die Nacht der lebenden Trekkies by Kevin David Anderson & Sam Stall (German translation of Night of the Living Trekkies)