I just started Vanguard: Harbinger by David Mack last night. I'm not big on the original series timeline but I find the idea intriguing. Plus that Destiny trilogy was awesome so I have faith in the author.
So what are you reading now (Part 4)?
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And he declared his work to be superior to Star Trek.
Think im gonna get back to the huge amount of TOS books i bought last winter. I found #1 through #99. Gonna start tearing through those finally. Been reading star wars the last 4 months, time for a switch.
How has Star Wars been treating you? I'm finding the later series more and more difficult to get through. I've only read the first two books of the Legacy of the Force series and I can't find the motivation to start the third.
OK, here I am to disagree with you. IMHO, Speaker for the Dead is the only good book in the Enderverse.
I often wonder what happened to the old, compassionate Scott Card who wrote that one. He was somehow replaced by a doppelganger sometime in the early '90's, about the time he was rewriting The Book of Mormon into a 5-volume sci-fi series (the Homecoming saga.)
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I'm still debating on whether or not I should delve into those huge ass books....
And that kind of gets into my debate on what to read in the immediate future:
Ender novels...or the Foundation novel series....?
Then there is 'Mutiny on the Enterprise' again...and other non-sci-fi novels I just acquired that are lying about....
The Honor Harrington series and related Honorverse books are very good, but you have to like military sci fi and political discussions both to enjoy them fully. Weber really does like politics and his space battle descriptions are second to none. If you do get into these books, start with the first Honor book (On Basilisk Station) and work your way through them as its a continuing story.
I have not read the Ender books (I have several, but unread so far), but have heard they are really good.
Foundation is excellent, but not my all time favorite, although I thought Foundation and Earth was pretty cool.
You might check out the Dune books if you haven't already. Great stuff.
I finished The Plot Against America by Philip Roth a few days ago, after a reading marathon until 4 am in the morning or so. Needless to say, it was an intriguing read. The way the crisis in the book was resolved didn't seem totally plausible to me but that's a minor complaint.
I got up to book 7 of LOTF. It's been an alright series. It does get better, by about book 5 or so.
Now I'm reading Star Trek #1: The Motion Picture. So far its better than the movie!
^ I liked it up through book 5, but found book 6 to be the worst, most childishly inane SW book in years, and couldn't bring myself to continue after that.
I don't understand why making Jacen evil had to make him stupid, and the climax where Luke beats him and then just walks away for no reason (except, I suppose, that series wasn't over yet) pissed me off severely.
I don't understand why making Jacen evil had to make him stupid, and the climax where Luke beats him and then just walks away for no reason (except, I suppose, that series wasn't over yet) pissed me off severely.
That sounds like typical Luke Skywalker BS to me. The bad ass Luke from ROTJ died a long time ago. I suppose I'll have to finish the series eventually. I've read well over 50 of those SW books and I can't quit for good. I liked a fair share of the New Jedi Order, but it was at least 5 books too long. So much for the glory days of the Thrawn trilogy, the Anderson's Jedi Academy trilogy, and the great Rogue Squadron books...
^ Well, even your "glory days" were chock full of their share of stupid crap. Pretty much everything between ROTJ and NJO that wasn't written by Zahn, Stackpole, Allston, or (debateably) Anderson was terrible.
For my money, NJO was the best quality/crap ratio the Star Wars line ever hit, especially with the pretty solid random hardcovers around that time (Survivor's Quest, Tatooine Ghost, Rogue Planet, etc). But it's been pretty inarguably downhill since.
For my money, NJO was the best quality/crap ratio the Star Wars line ever hit, especially with the pretty solid random hardcovers around that time (Survivor's Quest, Tatooine Ghost, Rogue Planet, etc). But it's been pretty inarguably downhill since.
And was reborn as the Joker.
I've only read one SW book and it made such an impression on me that I cannot remember which one, nor remember anything about it, and swore off reading that tripe until hell freezes over.
ST books are far superior.
ST books are far superior.
That is a pretty big generalization, don't you think? There are great Star Wars books and there are crappy ones. There are good and bad Trek books too. I think Star Wars is better able to latch on to readers because they are canon. For a long long time that is the only way SW fans could get their fix of new stories.
A problem I find with the SW books is that they have a roster of about 60,000 characters that they use on a regular basis. Anytime there is a main character in the book I'm not familiar with I have to go look them up on Wookiepedia to see if I should know who they are. They might have appeared in a book I read over 10 years ago.
I think it was a Zahn book, but no I don't think it's a generalization. I have been on the Trek BBS for several years now and every time someone mentions a good SW book (which is quite rare) another ten say that it's crap and then add that this series or that series was worse.
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^ Well, I read all of the SW books for about 17 years straight, and in my opinion for most of that time they were pretty reliably better than Trek. Trek didn't really get reliably good until Ordover left, in my opinion; Marco really made Trek work for me. I think the average SW book was substantially better than the average numbered Trek novel.
And of course there are differences of opinion; it's pretty hard to find a Trek novel that someone doesn't like, too.
And of course there are differences of opinion; it's pretty hard to find a Trek novel that someone doesn't like, too.
I finished the DS9 novel Betrayal. The author, in my opinion, nailed the characters dialogue but the story was weak. For instance, the Cardasian defector Berat hid on the Station on the Cardasians wanted him returned to them badly. So why not scan for Cardasian life signs? Two would show up: Garak and Berat.
I am now reading the S.C.E. omnibus Wild Fire
I am now reading the S.C.E. omnibus Wild Fire
Not a Trek book, but I just started in on The Hunt For Atlantis by Andy McDermott, who posts here, and am thoroughly enjoying it so far. (about 110 pages in, reading in the garden while reaching out to pick raspberries...)
It's a great book, and the next 5 are equally as brilliant...they're written like Hollywood blockbusters and I can't wait for one to be turned into a film.
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