So what are you reading now (Part 4)?

[Smellincoffee]

Just finished Fallen Heroes. That was morbid.

I recently read that as well. I enjoyed it despite it's morbid theme.

Spoil me: What was the morbid theme?

You asked for it!

Spoiler: Fallen Heroes

The book opens with Odo and Quark being thrown three days into the future to find the station littered with corpses -- over five hundred, including the station's officers, crew, and civilians. Some were shot by bullets, some were killed by falling debris, and others by bombs and an unknown cause that the pair eventually figure out.

While Odo and Quark are walking through the station, the author switches to the vantage point of the senior staff and we read as they're slowly whittled down while trying to defend against squads of armored invaders. No one is spared, not even kids. The only two survivors are Jake and Molly: Jake takes Molly into the bowels of the station. It's set in season one or thereabouts, so they're both young and Molly just missed seeing both of her parents killed in the schoolroom.

It's a gripping story, but dark. The author (Dafydd ab Hugh) often has Odo and Quark encounter the corpse of a fallen friend right after or right before we switch to the crewmembers' perspective and watch them die.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I'm halfway through Demons. The only scary moment was at the start when I realized it was...another Mary Sue story!!

 

[AN_D_K]

Can't get the new typhon pact book in the uk yet ... So reading children of kings while I wait.

I can't believe it has done the wayne's world "not!" twice in the first three chapters

 

[CaptainSarine]

Reading Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson, but have put that on hiatus while I read Zero Sum Game. Liking it so far!

 

[Almost Unique]

60 pages of Zero Sum Game left...really loving it, will probably finish it today. Then it's on to PAD's Treason, unless I change my mind when I look at my yet-to-be-read shelf. Does anyone know where there might be decent summaries of After the Fall and Missing in Action? I can scarcely remember what happened in those for some reason, I like to be "in" the narrative. At least I can remember the last comics pretty well (Turnaround I think it was called.)

 

[JD]

Memory Beta appears to have some pretty good NF character bios.

 

[DimesDan]

Can't get the new typhon pact book in the uk yet ... So reading children of kings while I wait.

Have you tried ordering it off the book depository? I ordered it last Thursday evening and it came in the post yesterday morning.

 

[AN_D_K]

Have you tried ordering it off the book depository? I ordered it last Thursday evening and it came in the post yesterday morning.

I used to do that but now I get them on Kindle. Basically, Amazon lied about it's release dates and now I have to wait 6 weeks.

 

[DimesDan]

Have you tried ordering it off the book depository? I ordered it last Thursday evening and it came in the post yesterday morning.

I used to do that but now I get them on Kindle. Basically, Amazon lied about it's release dates and now I have to wait 6 weeks.

Right, ok, I'm sure they didn't lie and the release date for the hard copies here is sooner than December I'm sure. So what's stopping you from buying a hard copy from the book depository then?

 

[Smellincoffee]

Decided on Warpath last night. Good stuff, though I was confused at first about the "General Kira" plot. Currently there are one two many Illiana Ghemors for me to get my head around.

 

[AN_D_K]

Right, ok, I'm sure they didn't lie and the release date for the hard copies here is sooner than December I'm sure. So what's stopping you from buying a hard copy from the book depository then?

I want it on the Kindle. I already pre-ordered it. It's the whole reason I bought the thing. I'm running out of space for all the books I got.

They have been saying 26th October for ages. It still says that as it's release date. But looking at S&S UK it's the 9th Dec for them.

 

[DimesDan]

Right, ok, I'm sure they didn't lie and the release date for the hard copies here is sooner than December I'm sure. So what's stopping you from buying a hard copy from the book depository then?

I want it on the Kindle. I already pre-ordered it. It's the whole reason I bought the thing. I'm running out of space for all the books I got.

They have been saying 26th October for ages. It still says that as it's release date. But looking at S&S UK it's the 9th Dec for them.

I don't know about you, but I've always been told I want gets nothing

As for not having the space, nor do I, I make the space though, or I box up old books and then store them away.

As for deciding between ordering a book online and getting it through just a week after the States, or waiting a few weeks and then buying it in a bookshop, I normally do the latter, this time though, and the first time I did this since Destiny I ordered it online. To me, books are a "luxury" item, I don't need to own any, but as I like to read, I tend to buy more of them than music or DVDs and it's always nice to have a brand new one.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

I recently read that as well. I enjoyed it despite it's morbid theme.

Spoil me: What was the morbid theme?

You asked for it!

Spoiler: Fallen Heroes

The book opens with Odo and Quark being thrown three days into the future to find the station littered with corpses -- over five hundred, including the station's officers, crew, and civilians. Some were shot by bullets, some were killed by falling debris, and others by bombs and an unknown cause that the pair eventually figure out.

While Odo and Quark are walking through the station, the author switches to the vantage point of the senior staff and we read as they're slowly whittled down while trying to defend against squads of armored invaders. No one is spared, not even kids. The only two survivors are Jake and Molly: Jake takes Molly into the bowels of the station. It's set in season one or thereabouts, so they're both young and Molly just missed seeing both of her parents killed in the schoolroom.

It's a gripping story, but dark. The author (Dafydd ab Hugh) often has Odo and Quark encounter the corpse of a fallen friend right after or right before we switch to the crewmembers' perspective and watch them die.

Damn that DOES sound dark! (However, that premise seems to fit the DS9 universe, though).

I think it's already on my reading list, but I may have to move it up...

 

[JD]

Even though I'm already reading three books, I'm thinking I might want to start one and only one more for Halloween. I'm thinking something supernatural, so I'm trying to decide between Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Strain, the third True Blood book Club Dead, the first Hollows book Dead Witch Walking, or the fourth The Dresden Files book Summer Knight. Anyone have any recommendations for which one of them to read?

 

[Joel_Kirk]

^^
Well, you can read Guillermo del Toro's book and tell me is it worth a read. (I've actually recalled positive reviews; but that could be poor memory).

In other news:

I'm reading Ed Lin's 'This is a Bust'...

Pretty interesting...

 

[Smellincoffee]

DS9 fans who've not read Warpath may want to, just for this passage from page 148:

As soon as Bashir returned his attention to the monitor, Tarses resumed his presentation. "Now," he said, "as you see here, the postganglionic nerve--"
"That's a preganglionic fiber," Bashir interupted.
Tarses did a double take toward the screen. "Are you sure?"
"Positive." Bashir made a sweeping, it-doesn't-matter- gesture with his hand. "Please, continue."

I finished the book last night. Good stuff, though I'm not enthusiastic about the Kiras, Kiras, everywhere story arc.

Next up...Titan, book one I think.

 

[CaptainSarine]

Just finished Zero Sum War. It was pretty good, though not as great as I had been hoping. The characters all seemed off for some reason, and Dax didn't seem like Dax. Still, it was a fun read.

Now reading City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. Not bad so far.

 

[Almost Unique]

Changed my mind when I found the new Ambrams-verse YA novel in my book shop. So I'm reading that before Treason. Should be a quick read, the typeset is huge. Read 56 pages last night, and so far it's thankfully nowhere near as dumb as a YA novel could be. I'm actually liking it

 

[Trek Survivor]

Currently reading "Masks" by John Vornholt. Good book, enjoying it.

 

[mbruno]

Just finished Zero Sum War. It was pretty good, though not as great as I had been hoping. The characters all seemed off for some reason, and Dax didn't seem like Dax. Still, it was a fun read.

Now reading City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. Not bad so far.

You mean you finished Zero Sum Game?