So what are you reading now? (Part 3)

[Cap'n Crunch]

I finished A Stitch in Time earlier tonight. I've got to say it's one of the best Trek novels I've ever read. Of course any novel featuring Garak is automatically good, but ASiT is made even better because he's on every page. I've now started on the Star Trek anthology, Enterprise Logs. I'm currently reading the first story, The Veil at Valcour, by Diane Carey.

 

[ncc71877]

I just finished TNG: Losing the Peace, and am now reading The Romulan War. I'm having trouble getting into Beneath the Raptor's Wing, not even a hundred pages in, but Archer 'sounds right' to me in this book, not so much in Kobayashi Maru, weird.

ncc71877

 

[Smiley]

I finished A Stitch in Time earlier tonight. I've got to say it's one of the best Trek novels I've ever read. Of course any novel featuring Garak is automatically good, but ASiT is made even better because he's on every page. I've now started on the Star Trek anthology, Enterprise Logs. I'm currently reading the first story, The Veil at Valcour, by Diane Carey.

FYI, the book does get better after the two naval stories. Don't give up!

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

I finished A Stitch in Time earlier tonight. I've got to say it's one of the best Trek novels I've ever read. Of course any novel featuring Garak is automatically good, but ASiT is made even better because he's on every page. I've now started on the Star Trek anthology, Enterprise Logs. I'm currently reading the first story, The Veil at Valcour, by Diane Carey.

FYI, the book does get better after the two naval stories. Don't give up!

Oh, I'm not going to give up. I'm the kind of person that when I start reading something, even if it's really bad, I still have to finish it. I even finished The Prometheus Design and The Laertian Gamble.

I've now finished The Veil at Valcour, and am about to start on World of Strangers.

 

[Daddy Todd]

Don't forget David McIntee's Born for Adversity.

I ordered both new Space:1999 books. I'm looking forward to seeing what Lonemagpie has written.

 

[seigezunt]

Just finished Inception. It was...okay, but fairly insubstantial.

Now reading The Good That Men Do, as I just finished watching ENT for the first time, and would love to undo that terrible finale episode.

 

[Paris]

Just finished Inception. It was...okay, but fairly insubstantial.

Now reading The Good That Men Do, as I just finished watching ENT for the first time, and would love to undo that terrible finale episode.

^As you'll see, TGTMD will take care of that nasty little 'finale'.

 

[Smiley]

I'm re-reading Strange New Worlds 8 and 9. I know I've written words about them in the past, but I can't find those old reviews now. This time, I am circling the stories I really like in the Table of Contents to remind me which ones I should revisit.

 

[JD]

Since I finished Precipice, I'm reading SCE: Past Life. I've been reading one SCE novella between every two or three novels that I finish

 

[Thrawn]

^ I actually started SCE last month, and I'm alternating each novel I finish with an SCE novella. I'm in the middle of Ambush right now, and so far I'm not too impressed; I loved Cold Fusion and Invincible, I thought Riddled Post was pretty cool, but all the rest have been mediocre at best. Those who've read further, do things improve or is this series just not for me?

 

[ronny]

^ I actually started SCE last month, and I'm alternating each novel I finish with an SCE novella. I'm in the middle of Ambush right now, and so far I'm not too impressed; I loved Cold Fusion and Invincible, I thought Riddled Post was pretty cool, but all the rest have been mediocre at best. Those who've read further, do things improve or is this series just not for me?

I totally think it got better. I read the first couple of the paperback collections years after they came out and I was underwhelmed to say the least. I don't remember at what point I started to get into it more, at work and can't look through the list, but it does get better.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

Yesterday I read World of Strangers by Diane Carey and Though Hell Should Bar the Way by Greg Cox. Today I read Conflicting Natures by Jerry Oltion. Those are the WWII, April, and Pike stories, respectively, from the Enterprise Logs anthology.

 

[S. Gomez]

It's been awhile for me since I've read any SCE, but I can safely say that I do think it improved.

Speaking of it being awhile...It's come strongly to my attention lately that I've fallen a bit behind in my TrekLit readings. I was enjoying the DS9 Relaunch and other series up to Warpath (which was newly published at the time), when I stopped to take a little break--and lo and behold it's been since then that I've really read any of it, aside from Vanguard: Open Secrets. And of course that means that my memory of what I have read is hazy at best. So I'm wanting to re-read the ones I have on the shelf and then catch up with the more recent books. I'm starting with the omnibus of Mere Anarchy. Looking forward to it!

 

[ronny]

^ I actually started SCE last month, and I'm alternating each novel I finish with an SCE novella. I'm in the middle of Ambush right now, and so far I'm not too impressed; I loved Cold Fusion and Invincible, I thought Riddled Post was pretty cool, but all the rest have been mediocre at best. Those who've read further, do things improve or is this series just not for me?

I totally think it got better. I read the first couple of the paperback collections years after they came out and I was underwhelmed to say the least. I don't remember at what point I started to get into it more, at work and can't look through the list, but it does get better.

OK, unexpectedly had a few minutes. I took a look at the contents of the books. On the first couple of books, it's some of my favorite authors but sorry to say not my favorite stories by them.

I'm thinking things started to look up in book 4 (No Surrender) and books 5 (Foundations) and 6 (Wildfire) were great. After book 6 there's the occasional slow story but for the most part it's pretty solid. I think book 11 (Wounds) is my favorite.

 

[stonester1]

Star Trek Titan-Synthesis. Intriguing premise and set up, easy to get into. Looking forward to how this developes.

 

[Thrawn]

^ I actually started SCE last month, and I'm alternating each novel I finish with an SCE novella. I'm in the middle of Ambush right now, and so far I'm not too impressed; I loved Cold Fusion and Invincible, I thought Riddled Post was pretty cool, but all the rest have been mediocre at best. Those who've read further, do things improve or is this series just not for me?

I totally think it got better. I read the first couple of the paperback collections years after they came out and I was underwhelmed to say the least. I don't remember at what point I started to get into it more, at work and can't look through the list, but it does get better.

OK, unexpectedly had a few minutes. I took a look at the contents of the books. On the first couple of books, it's some of my favorite authors but sorry to say not my favorite stories by them.

I'm thinking things started to look up in book 4 (No Surrender) and books 5 (Foundations) and 6 (Wildfire) were great. After book 6 there's the occasional slow story but for the most part it's pretty solid. I think book 11 (Wounds) is my favorite.

I've heard enough about Wildfire that I'm definitely reading until then before I decide to stop. I love me some Mack-killing-spree-action.

 

[Steve Roby]

I am finally reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. Only 60 or 70 pages in so far.

 

[Sci]

Taking a break from The Family to read the expanded version of David Mack's wonderful The Sorrows of Empire. Then it's back to The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. After that, I'll either be reading Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance or Fareed Zakaria's The Post-American World. And after that, I think I'm going to rectify a long-standing reading list deficiency and find myself a copy of Issac Asimov's Foundation.

Also, I've been interspersing a lot of these books with articles from Foreign Affairs.

As you can see, I'm a bit of a dork.

 

[mbruno]

Finished Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Abyss a little earlier this evening and started Titan: The Red King. After that it will be either Beneath The Raptor's Wing or The Buried Age.

 

[S. Gomez]

I am finally reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. Only 60 or 70 pages in so far.

I loved it. And there are very, very few contemporary mainstream novels about which I say that. Not that I want to overhype it.