I'll grab it, then. I do have the New JC Chronicles trilogy but have not read them yet; nice to know Hour Of The Wolf takes place after the NJCC trilogy...hate reading stuff out of order.
So what are you reading now (Part 4)?
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I'll grab it, then. I do have the New JC Chronicles trilogy but have not read them yet; nice to know Hour Of The Wolf takes place after the NJCC trilogy...hate reading stuff out of order.
I just finished 'A Time To Sow/Harvest, and I have to say I really enjoyed this duology so much more than the first two books in the series (Born/Die). Interesting story, very compelling, I could hardly put it down at the end. I was a little disappointed by the rushed ending (seemed to wrap itself up in two chapters!) but you know a book is good when you put off everything else to read it. Have just started book 5 in the series- good fun!
Where as I took for ever to read them and found them extremely boring, it's one of the reasons I haven't progressed further than Harbinger in the Vanguard series because I had such a bad time with Sow/Harvest - I liked Born/Die though and I skipped Love/Hate to go straight to the trilogy of Kill/Heal and War and Peace.
Anyway, I've not long finished Federation by the Reeves-Stevens and then the Rats trilogy of Rats/Lair/Domain by Brit Horror writer James Herbert and now just started the Complaints by Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin.
Oh, I've not quit on it, I loved James Swallows Vanguard entry in Shards and Shadows and I do have a copy of Summon the Thunder, I've just not progressed further than Harbinger yet.
I'm juggling between reading Stephen King's "The Stand" and getting back into the TOS novels in numerical order that i've been reading on and off. Just starting "Yesterday's Son"
I've started Star Trek Log 7. It's weird. I liked the launch of the Enterprise under Captain April (I want to know more about this crew! Also interesting is that ADF put it 40 years prior to TAS), I was weirded out at the fourth-wall breaking mention of Franz Joseph's old blueprints, and I'm having trouble swallowing the nonsense about the alternate universe. I love "The Counter Clock Incident" cartoon, but it's a lot harder to suspend disbelief at the cartoonish silliness of it all in book form.
I just got done reading The Good That Men Do. It takes the mess of TATV and actually tells a half way decent story out of it. 
Just started in on Inception. So far, it's not exactly a page turner but then I'm only 5 chapters in. We'll see.
Just started in on Inception. So far, it's not exactly a page turner but then I'm only 5 chapters in. We'll see.
The Reality Dysfunction is begging me to read the last 100 pages or so, and I'm really struggling. When Joshua Calvert, Syrinx, Ione, or Quinn Dexter is the primary focus, this novel shines. There are some very interesting characters and some of the biggest ideas ever put into print (affinity, Tranquility, Edenists vs. Adamist, the Ruin Ring). However, Peter Hamilton has serious trouble when it comes to action scenes. He can write masterful conversations, some amazing sex scenes, and even keeps me entertained in a couple of hundred page interlude when the main character goes to pick up a shipment of alcohol. He CAN'T write action scenes to save his life in this novel. I never know what's going on and have to constantly backtrack to make sure I didn't miss something any time the book starts moving at a fast pace. There are also just a few too many characters he lost track of about 500 pages ago that he hasn't come back to yet (Quinn, Mzu, Syrinx). It's very irritating. I can't help but be fascinated by this overblown novel though.
I'm currently reading "Kahless" by Michael Jan Friedman. However, by the time I finish my train ride home tonight, which is about an hour long, I would have finished that book and started, "The Brave and the Bold" book 2 by Keith R. A. DeCandido.
How was it? I've got a copy, but haven't read it yet.
It's a fun way to spend the afternoon.
Yep. Nails the zombie movie cliches, and has lots of Trek tidbits. There's even the occasional character with more than one dimension.
KingDaniel, keep reading Star Trek Log Seven. It's been many years since I last read it but I remember liking the way Foster resolved the story.
As for me, I'm about the last person on Earth to start reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Saw the movie not too long ago and liked it, so I'm giving the book a shot. (Somewhere, I fervently hope, is someone who thinks The Girl With the Pearl Earring is part of the series. The cognitive dissonance would be hilarious.)
KingDaniel, keep reading Star Trek Log Seven. It's been many years since I last read it but I remember liking the way Foster resolved the story.
As for me, I'm about the last person on Earth to start reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Saw the movie not too long ago and liked it, so I'm giving the book a shot. (Somewhere, I fervently hope, is someone who thinks The Girl With the Pearl Earring is part of the series. The cognitive dissonance would be hilarious.)
nah, i only finished it last week and have yet to start the second book. haven't seen the movie yet though.
I finished Olympus Descending the other day. I'm now reading DS9: Warpath. Only two more after this and I'll be caught up with the DS9 relaunch, at least until Rough Beasts of Empire comes out.
Someone just turned me onto the Agent Pendergast novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. I have read Relic, Reliquary, Cabinet of Curiosities and Still Life With Crows over the last two weeks. I have two more on the way from Amazon along with my copy of Star Trek: The Original Series 365, which I plan to read first. They should all arrive tomorrow.
I am about to go dig up my copy of Q-Squared to read tonight. I am in the mood for a little more Peter David.
I am about to go dig up my copy of Q-Squared to read tonight. I am in the mood for a little more Peter David.
Finished both A Singular Destiny and Losing the Peace. Now I'm going to take a step away from Trek until the Typhon Pact comes out, or at least until I get around to making a second attempt to get thru the first book of the Terok Nor trilogy.
Picked up Six Easy Pieces and can't wait to get started on it. It's been about 10 years since I read my last Easy Rawlins novel. After that is a Jack Reacher story One Shot. I was first introduced to Lee Child with the Pursuader novel.
Picked up Six Easy Pieces and can't wait to get started on it. It's been about 10 years since I read my last Easy Rawlins novel. After that is a Jack Reacher story One Shot. I was first introduced to Lee Child with the Pursuader novel.
I actually read Twilight... it wasn't that bad. I was actually entertained all the way through. It definitely is geared towards younger readers like the first couple of Harry Potter books though.
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