So what are you reading, now? Part V

[Defcon]

I'm also about to start The Scattered Earth: The Second Veil by David N. Wilson.

Finished it earlier today and liked it.

Very different in style, setting and feel from the first book The Birth of the Dread Remora by Aaron Rosenberg, but the series definitely is one to watch out for IMO, especially now that KRAD is also involved with it.

 

[OverlordSpock]

Just finished Indistinguishable from Magic. My thoughts on it can be found in the associated review thread.

Moving on to Watching the Clock.

 

[Endgame]

Still a little slow. But welcome to whatever century it needs to be I did buy a copy of "Indistinguishable from Magic" and am still waiting on my copy of the sixth book in the Double Helix series. Read "Quarantine" by Vornholt and read "Double or Nothing" by David then, while waiting on my next novel, I read "A Philosophy of Political Myth" by Chiara Bottici and "Technology and Man's Future" (3rd ed.) edited by Albert H. Teich (1981) for a bit further tech upgrade to understanding science fiction. Currently reading "The Conquest of Happiness" by Bertrand Russell (1930).

 

[S. Gomez]

Finished True Grit by Charles Portis. I liked it a lot, but it's a struggle to see it as its own entity apart from the two film versions.

Now...I've set myself a pretty large reading project. I like to call it 100 Great Novels (or 100 Great Novels In English, given the nature of the list). I did my research and came up with a few significant works that I think give a fairly well-rounded history of the novel in the English language. It's sort of half self-education and half just catching up on all those classics I haven't managed to get to yet. If you want to read more about it and check out the full list, you can visit my blog at the link below. I'll be posting reviews as I go along too.

http://csgstories.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/100-great-novels-in-english/

First up is The Pilgrim's Progress which I consider (along with Aphra Behn's Oroonoko) to be a kind of "proto-novel".

 

[Paris]

I just got "Indistinguishable from Magic" and I'm loving it. Plowing through it in fact

 

[Sakrysta]

I finished the Nemesis novelization in short order. The novel itself was unremarkable, but I especially enjoyed reading the non-fiction bits - John Logan's preface about writing a Trek movie as a lifetime fan, and the behind-the-scenes anecdotes in the afterword but the publicist guy whose name I have forgotten. Both gave me a greater appreciation, if not for the movie itself, at least for what everyone was trying to accomplish with it, even if it didn't quite succeed.

I did find myself tearing up as I read through the aftermath of Data's sacrifice. I am much more at peace with that decision than I was when it first happened. I still think it would have been a stronger story element had they not invented stupid B-4. But I was greatly moved by Data's death.

Next: Rising Son I remember loving this novel. In fact, I spent some time in tears over this one as well the first time. I'm looking forward to refreshing my memory of these characters. Sure would love to see them show up again in the DS9 novel-verse.

 

[Hindemith]

Just started reading DTI: Watching the Clock. After that will be Jodi Picoult's Sing You Home. I also just finished reading Maeve Binchy's Minding Frankie, which has quickly become one of my favorite books of hers.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

I finished Homecoming, the NF story from Shards and Shadows. I'm now reading the next story, A Terrible Beauty (DS9).

 

[Trilliam]

I'm nt reading any Trek at the moment (Waiting for Blind Man's Buff to arrive). I currently reading the Latest Jean M Auel book (People of the Painted Caves or something). After having devoured all her previous books in this saga the minute they were available, and the very long waits between each installment, I have to say that I'm finding this one very hard to get into. All the others I finished in days, this one I've had for over 2 weeks and I'm still less than halfway.

 

[Bishop76]

I'm tearing through the Song of Ice and Fire series. On A Storm of Swords now. These are just so damn good I can't stop reading...

 

[Csalem]

Finished IFM and my rereading of Starfleet: Year One. Still wish the latter book had gotten a follow-up.

 

[Anika Hanson]

Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix, will start on the Typhon Pact series afterwards I think.

 

[wahwahkits]

Vanguard: Open Secrets

 

[Freman]

Voyager: Full Circle.

Loving it so far. Hope future VOY Relaunch books find a way to work Neelix into the action.

 

[Turbo]

I'm still a bit behind (stupid exams). Next up is Indistinguishable from Magic, followed by DTI. Then I'm switching over to Game of Thrones and the rest of the Song of Ice and Fire series if I like the first one. Children of the Storm will be somewhere in the middle of that; I may even stop reading a book halfway through, which I rarely do, when I get that one. Quite excited!

 

[trash80]

Just started reading DTI, didn't think it was out yet in the UK but i guess they can release earlier with Kindle editions!

 

[sulfur]

Finished Keith Richards' "Life" the other day, and started in on 'The Q Continuum' series, with a copy of the SFBC omnibus version. About halfway through 'Q-Space' right now.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Going to be starting to read Starcraft: Heaven's Devils by William C. Ditz.

 

[Rosalind]

Finished True Grit by Charles Portis. I liked it a lot, but it's a struggle to see it as its own entity apart from the two film versions.

Now...I've set myself a pretty large reading project. I like to call it 100 Great Novels (or 100 Great Novels In English, given the nature of the list). I did my research and came up with a few significant works that I think give a fairly well-rounded history of the novel in the English language. It's sort of half self-education and half just catching up on all those classics I haven't managed to get to yet. If you want to read more about it and check out the full list, you can visit my blog at the link below. I'll be posting reviews as I go along too.

http://csgstories.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/100-great-novels-in-english/

First up is The Pilgrim's Progress which I consider (along with Aphra Behn's Oroonoko) to be a kind of "proto-novel".

Interesting list.

Good luck getting through this, as some of the titles there can send you to sleep in 5 minutes flat!

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

I finished A Terrible Beauty, the DS9 story from Mirror Universe: Shards and Shadows. I'm now reading Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Three Gables.