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So What Are you Reading?: Generations

I finally finished ENT: Beneath the Raptors Wings. All in all I'd say it is an slightly below average novel. General thoughts:
Everything with news reports and political intrigue (on Romulus, Earth, Vulcan or elsewhere) is really interesting. Everything with Archer and T'Pol is rather boring and below average. The Trip parts started out slightly below average but got better toward the end. Generally the whole book got better towards the end. There was probably more but I forgot about it...
Next I'm going to read the final Romulan War novel To Brave the Storm. As soon as it comes out (and I mean literally as soon as I leave the store on my way home. BTW I'm a cyclist) I'll read NF: After the Fall.
 
I'm working ST:The Fall series. Finished Revelations and Dust and The Crimson Shadow and am starting on A Ceremony of Losses. I'm enjoying these a lot more than I did the Typhon Pact series. Don't get me wrong, I thought most of the TP series was good, I just like this better so far.
 
Moved on to Long Reach by Mike Lunnon-Wood. It's a re-read, but I enjoyed it the first time way back when.
 
Finished ENT: To Brave the Storm, actually liked it, haven't yet decided yet what to read, so I'll read the Columbia chapters in Destiny, so that I read the whole story within a few weeks.
 
Jinn said:
Finished ENT: To Brave the Storm, actually liked it, haven't yet decided yet what to read, so I'll read the Columbia chapters in Destiny, so that I read the whole story within a few weeks.
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I liked TBTS too, but I'm honestly a little surprised that you did considering that it was mostly all the stuff you mentioned not liking in BTRW and almost none of the stuff you said you liked. :p
 
Idran said:
I liked TBTS too, but I'm honestly a little surprised that you did considering that it was mostly all the stuff you mentioned not liking in BTRW and almost none of the stuff you said you liked. :p
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As am I. I found the T'Pol/Archer interaction... Better than last time, but still a little bit akward. It just... It just doesn't seem right. I think it was the right decision to "fast forward" over the middle years of the war and only look at the important events. One of the most interesting things... er characters in this and in hindsight also the previous novel was Terix. The ending with
Shran and Kolos
showing up and basically saving the day was great and one thing that I completely forgot was that this novel and also the previous novels did a really good job at not making the lack of Human/Romulan face to face interaction seem forced. The whole
Romulan control ships with Vulcan technology easier than without thing
worked really well with the Vulcan politics and not sharing tech with Earth. And because these two things were so well integrated I probably didn't notice them. I also didn't notice until now that To Brave the Storm lacked a satisfying ending to the Nash Evoy story.

Maybe listening to epic Doctor Who music might have slightly enhanced the whole experience...

In retrospect I was a bit to negative about the two previous novels, as well as Last Full Measure. They are all at least average.

So, now that I read every Enterprise novel (not counting novelizations, because I don't read them [though I was tempted to read Diane Carey's novelization of Broken Bow after reading this thread] and Rise of the Federation as Cross Cult releases them without the Enterprise logo on the cover and Christopher stated that he'd have preferred that name)
Outstanding
  1. Rosetta
  2. By the Book
  3. What Price Honor?
  4. Daedalus
  5. Daedalus's Children
  6. The Good That Men Do
Above Average
  1. Last Full Measure
  2. Surak's Soul
  3. To Brave the Storm
Average
  1. Beneath the Raptor's Wings
  2. Kobayashi Maru
Enterprise is probably the novel series with the highest Outstanding to everything else ratio. (At least from my perspective)
 
Having finished SNW:2016, and having recently read both of CLB's DTI e-novellas, I dug out and watched my fuzzy old off-air VHS tape of "Trials and Tribble-ations," just to get Dulmur and Lucsly straight in my mind, before re-reading CLB's first DTI novel, WTC.

(And then, less than 100 pages in, I rechecked Dulmur and Lucsly on Memory Alpha, to make sure I had them straight. Funny: the actor who played Dulmur looked older than the one who played Lucsly, even though the opposite is the case. Then I annotated and printed a picture of the two, for future reference.)
 
I finished reading The Pharoah's secret by Clive Cussler it reminded me of a fast paced Indiana Jones story. I really enjoyed reading this novel a lot.
 
James Swallow said:
Great author, much overlooked. FYI, some of his books have just been re-issued...

As for me, I'm reading Formula One by Bob Judd.
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Indeed. I only ever managed to find two of his previously (Long Reach and Shilling) so I'm very happy to get two more. Hopefully, they'll get around to doing the others as well.
 
Finally forced my way through Legacies: Captain to Captain after several months. Left some thoughts in that thread. I also read Star Trek: Waypoint #2 which was really good.

Currently turning away from the Legacies Trilogy to read through Star Wars: Catalyst before Rogue One next month. Also catching up on some comics like the DC Rebirth books and Doom Patrol and Cave Carson has a Cybernetic Eye.
 
Now Star Trek Force and motions.
And I am looking for another sci fi book, I am thinking about Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey,
or Warship by Joshua Dalzelle.
Or does anybody have a better suggestion?
 
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