I finally finished Pawns and Symbols. It was very, very good. A fascinating throwaway tidbit: apparently Spock can 'see' magnetic fields. I'm sure that has game-changing applications on landing parties. Somehow.
So what are you reading now? (Part 3)
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Just finished Jim Butcher's latest Dresden Files novel, "Changes" and loved it. It's very aptly titled. I recently finished his Codex Alera series as well, and it amazes me how different his two series seem. Codex Alera was a clearly structured story with a beginning, middle and end, where the Dresden Files appropriately feels much more 'ongoing'.
Now I'm halfway through Margaret Bonanno's fantastic 'Unspoken Truths'. I always liked Saavik, and more of her is always better.
Now I'm halfway through Margaret Bonanno's fantastic 'Unspoken Truths'. I always liked Saavik, and more of her is always better.
CSI: The Killing Jar, but I will add a TNG book to that as well. Whichever the next chronological one is on my bookshelf.
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I make it a general policy to wait until trilogies are complete before reading them. I'm looking forward to that one next year 
Sawyer is a lot of fun. I thought that the last book in the Neanderthal trilogy was really awful, though, even after enjoying the first two a lot. I've been a little bummed on him since. I hope the reviews for the third WWW book are high enough that I stay interested.
Sawyer is a lot of fun. I thought that the last book in the Neanderthal trilogy was really awful, though, even after enjoying the first two a lot. I've been a little bummed on him since. I hope the reviews for the third WWW book are high enough that I stay interested.
^ I've tried to read that book 3 times, and failed to get into it every time. All my friends like it, my whole family likes it, it seems like the kind of thing I should love, but I just can't make myself like it. This is also true of anything by Asimov or Heinlein.
I just finished reading Sharpe's Eagle, which falls about midway through Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series chronologically, but it's the first one of the series he wrote. I'd first read this about a decade ago, and recently PBS showed the last two Sharpe movies, and I decided to reread some of the series, mixing it up with other Napoleonic fiction, like Hornblower. (I reread Mr. Midshipman Hornblower last month.)
You can tell Eagle was Cornwell's first book. Oh, you can so tell. There are wild POV shifts that are the literary equivalent of a bucket of water in the face, and wildly divergent scenes connect without any sort of transition. Literary whiplash.
Nonetheless. I enjoyed it greatly.
You can tell Eagle was Cornwell's first book. Oh, you can so tell. There are wild POV shifts that are the literary equivalent of a bucket of water in the face, and wildly divergent scenes connect without any sort of transition. Literary whiplash.
Nonetheless. I enjoyed it greatly.
I'm reading Jude the Obscure, in part because I own it, in part because it's written by Hardy, and in part because this is my third try to read a novel recently. My mother keeps taking my books- she reads the end, tells me what it is, then reads the whole thing by reading random sections and insisting on ruining the books for me. But I must finish!!
She did it to Grapes of Wrath, but I got through it, but I couldn't go through Crime and Punishment like that...
She did it to Grapes of Wrath, but I got through it, but I couldn't go through Crime and Punishment like that...
The only Hardy I've read was Tess of the D'Urbervilles at university, but I've seen a TV version of Jude. Christopher Eccleston! Kate Winslet! And a whole lot of despair and misery. Worth tracking down, based solely on seeing it; don't know how it compares to the book.
Currently reading STO: The Needs of the Many. Dunno if it's ever going to cohere into anything like a novel, but aside from that, I'm actually rather enjoying it.
Currently reading STO: The Needs of the Many. Dunno if it's ever going to cohere into anything like a novel, but aside from that, I'm actually rather enjoying it.
Currently I am reading Star Trek: Preserver.
now you need to go on and finish the trilogy. chapter 1 of book 3 is one of the few times when I went "holy crap, how did this book got published without any controversy?" and "how will they put this on screen?"
I definitely belong to the group of 'loved the trilogy'.
I've decided to re-read the TNG/TTN relaunch, beginning with "Taking Wing." Then i will flip to TNG "Resistance," back to TTN and so on.
Well, according to wikipedia, there actually has been quite a bit. I think it just hasn't been played up as much the ones like Harry Potter.
I finished Star Trek: Inception and finally started on The 4400: Promises Broken by David Mack.
There were a few people complaining back in late 2007 when Northern Lights was released in the cinema, mostly from the normal religious nut jobs who and the like who complain about such things so I didn't pay too much attention to it all. I do own Northern Lights, The Amber Spyglass and The Subtle Knife but haven't read them yet, I may read them after I've finished the Rebus Novels or just stay in Scotland and read Trainspotting, I'm just not sure though.
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