So what are you reading now (Part 4)?
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Recently completed "Inception" which was rather bland. Moving back to the New Frontier saga with "God's Above"
If I bought the guide book it would probably help but I do find I can figure out most of the "techno" terminology he uses. The problem for me is more that he has introduced so many characters (probably approaching 200 by page 900), coupled with the fact that he bounces the story around so fast and so often that I find it difficult to follow.
Maybe I'm just used to Star Trek books which usually just follow the story of a few characters with only a handfull of concurrent story-lines.
I finished The Children of Kings. It was enjoyable, but I fail to see how it's "a prequel to that 2009 film" as claimed in the afterward. Entirely unimportant, but I also noticed that Spock's pre-Enterprise ship and captain's names were changed from Vulcan's Glory, which the book is otherwise consistant with. I liked that the Orion story picked up on a thread from an old novel (Spock's World, I think it was), that the Orions are degenerate remnants of an ancient super-race.
Up next - The DS9 Millennium trilogy.
Up next - The DS9 Millennium trilogy.
Star Trek books generally require little focus. That's not meant as a bad thing to the authors. They usually focus on a handful of characters and generally involve one planet. It's hard switching between that and epic sci-fi.
I actually read a large portion of the Confederation Handbook before I started on the trilogy. I was confused about Adamists and Edenists, Voidhawks and Blackhawks when I was reading the first chapter, because he just throws all those things out there. I should have just hung in there though, because he does explain things within the first 75 pages or so.
I'm going to start reading The Children of Kings tomorrow.
I'm surprised you're both having trouble getting the hang of The Reality Dysfunction; I found the enormous cast of characters exhilarating, and didn't have any trouble keeping track of anything, even though it took me three months to read the whole trilogy.
To each his own, I suppose.
To each his own, I suppose.
I still think it's interesting. I really like Syrinx, but really don't give a crap about building rafts on Lalonde. 
Finished The Lost Symbol. What a massive let down. I hope something happens to stop the film of this being made. Seems like a waste of time, especially since I think National Treasure is much better. But that is only my opinion...
Have started 'How Much For Your Planet' by John M. Ford. Strange book so far.
Have started 'How Much For Your Planet' by John M. Ford. Strange book so far.
It only gets stranger...
I'm reading War and Peace, and because my brain felt about ready to implode from lack of understanding I picked up Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer to read when I don't feel up to memorizing a bunch of new Russian names.
Starting in on The Good that Men Do, because the first two novels of the Destiny series haven't arrived in yet.
Finished Trill: Unjoined the other day. Now reading Bajor: Fragments and Omens.
now on my 6th book in a row, reading the TNG books in chronological order, "A call to Darkness" by Michael Jan Friedman.
I re-read DC comics' The Mirror Universe Saga, this time the collected version I recently recieved as a gift (with some pages printed upside down). I loved it. Again.
Gotta comment on Kirk's lips on the cover - they're like a cross beteen Jack Nicolson's Joker and latter-day Micheal Jackson.
Gotta comment on Kirk's lips on the cover - they're like a cross beteen Jack Nicolson's Joker and latter-day Micheal Jackson.
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