So what are you reading now (Part 4)?
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Destiny trilogy finally arrived through the post, so I put The Good that Men Do aside to start on Gods of Night. It's kept my attention admirably for the last couple of hours...I was very pleased that the book opened with the old DS9 crew, including Sisko and Jadzia.
I just finished Matterhorn which is a novel about the Vietnam war, the other day. Now I've started rereading The Lost World (yes, the Jurassic Park sequel). What can I say...I remember really digging it 15 years ago and I love the franchise. I'll probably go back to Trek after I'm done with it.
Xenu Cruise, the original "Jurassic Park" novel is the first book I ever read, back when I was wee lad of five years in 1993. "The Lost World" sits comfortably alongside it, albeit missing its cover these days, on my bookshelf. They're both pretty decent books and still hold up, IMO.
Say, you're from the Big Apple, too, eh? Any chance you reside in Co-Op City, Bronx? That's where I grew up and where I convinced my parental unit to buy me "Jurassic Park" from a Woolworth's in '93.
I just finished "Tales of the Dominion War" and I'm about to start on "The 34th Rule".
Say, you're from the Big Apple, too, eh? Any chance you reside in Co-Op City, Bronx? That's where I grew up and where I convinced my parental unit to buy me "Jurassic Park" from a Woolworth's in '93.
I just finished "Tales of the Dominion War" and I'm about to start on "The 34th Rule".
Nope, sorry. I live in Astoria, Queens. I just read "Jurassic Park", the book, for the first time a few months ago. I think the film version is better than the book, but the book of "The Lost World" is better than the movie.
D'aw, oh well. Would have been pretty wild. I don't know, I thought both the film and the book were great for the first. The book definitely outpaces the film for the sequel though, and I actually like the film sequel.
Now, that third movie... that was terrible.
Now, that third movie... that was terrible.
I've started reading the TOS novel, The Lost Years.
I'm about to start Laura Miller's The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia.
I read the TPB of TNG: Intelligence Gathering today. Much better than IDW's previous TNG miniseries, The Space Between. I'm still working on Bajor: Fragments and Omens from Worlds of DS9, Vol. II.
I've just finished the first DS9 Millenium book. Has my brain failed or did Sisko just open up a wormhole in Quark's bar, destroy Deep Space Nine and unleash the aplocaylpse just to spite Kai Winn?? 
All it needed was a scene mid-disaster where Sisko turns to Kai Winn and goes "See? They were real!"
J+G R-S's stuff is totally OTT, but I love it!
On to The War of the Prophets!
All it needed was a scene mid-disaster where Sisko turns to Kai Winn and goes "See? They were real!"
J+G R-S's stuff is totally OTT, but I love it!
On to The War of the Prophets!
Just started to re-read "Greater than the Sum" after re-reading "Resistance", "Q&A", and "Before Dishonor". It's great seeing Christopher 'fix' the sketchy characterizations from BD in the first quarter of GttS.
Halfway through The Reality Dysfunction now. I'm about to the point where I won't be able to put it down.
Since the last time I posted here, I've read two books. The first was Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds. It wasn't quite as great as I had expected after being so impressed with Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days earlier this year. A few twists too many for my taste, though the ending was pretty cool. The thing that intrigued me in the first place is also present here: the excellent fleshing out of an universe and its occupants. It's really impressive. Reynolds must have had buikt this universe in his head for it being so detailed in the first book already. Also, there are a lot of interesting ideas in it that will hopefully get more attention in the subsequent books. I'll definetely continue reading the series.
After that I was in the mood again for some Star Trek, so I read The Sorrows of Empire by David Mack. It's great, though I'm not sure Spock's analysis that the Empire has to fall even after having been turned into a republic is correct. Anyway, the book inspired me to read a number of other Mirror Universe stories, namely the first few in Shards and Shadows until the Stargazer entry and The Worst of Both Worlds in the Glass Empires anthology (I had already read Age of the Empress). Except for the Stargazer story I enjoyed all of them.
The Doctor Who book I ordered took its time getting to me, so I took up Die Ästhetik des Widerstands again. Looks like the protagonist is finally getting to the Spanish Civil War - well, after he concludes his epic thoughts about the workers movement in Germany between 1918 and 1937, anyway. If he keeps up the pace the war will be over before he gets there. Maybe that's the point.
After that I was in the mood again for some Star Trek, so I read The Sorrows of Empire by David Mack. It's great, though I'm not sure Spock's analysis that the Empire has to fall even after having been turned into a republic is correct. Anyway, the book inspired me to read a number of other Mirror Universe stories, namely the first few in Shards and Shadows until the Stargazer entry and The Worst of Both Worlds in the Glass Empires anthology (I had already read Age of the Empress). Except for the Stargazer story I enjoyed all of them.
The Doctor Who book I ordered took its time getting to me, so I took up Die Ästhetik des Widerstands again. Looks like the protagonist is finally getting to the Spanish Civil War - well, after he concludes his epic thoughts about the workers movement in Germany between 1918 and 1937, anyway. If he keeps up the pace the war will be over before he gets there. Maybe that's the point.
euew... ugh. hate that book. the other WoDS9 books are great though.
i'm currently reading the mission gamma: cathedral (second time) and Voyager: string theory book 1. and yeah, i multitask a lot
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