So what are you reading, now? Part V

[JD]

I'm almost done with Mort, but I'm not gonna start anything else until I finish Club Dead, Zero Sum Game, and Tears of Eridanus. I'm not sure yet what the next thing I read will be. I'm trying to decide between Rough Beasts of Empire, Summer Knight or the Last Days of Krypton.

 

[ST-One]

Started reading Death Trick by Richard Stevenson this morning.

 

[indianatrekker26]

On my 17th TNG book in a row, "Fortune's Light." About halfway through it, almost at the point where i'm getting burned out. But i picked up Lee Child's "Killing Floor" to break up all the scifi. I'm reading both right now. I still intend to read every TNG book in chronological order. Started with the encounter at farpoint novelization, and still going.

 

[Starbreaker]

Mercy Lynch, recently widowed and taxed to exhaustion by caring for Confederate wounded in Richmond, must cross the war-torn nation to reach her estranged father, who lies dying in the Washington territories. After her dirigible is shot out of the air, Mercy joins Horatio Korman, a Texas Ranger with an agenda, on the Union’s famous steam engine, the Dreadnought. On their trail are desperate Confederate soldiers and a zombified Mexican legion.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I've now finished Rough Beasts of Empire, and now I'm going to start on The Bourne Deception by Lustbader. I thought I had read it but I don't remember doing so when it came out in '09, so I'll have fun with it. Then I'll read The Bourne Objective, the latest one.

Are Lustbader's novels more related to the original Ludlum novels or the Damon movies?

Lustbader's novels follow on from Ludlum's but they are nowhere near as good. Deception is the 4th and Objective is the 5th, and each one gets steadily worse. For a man who is supposed to be in his late 50s/early 60s, Bourne is surprisingly spry and quite able to outsmart, outrun, etc. everyone 20 years younger.

It's adventure fluff at this point. YMMV.

 

[ICW]

I just finished reading Rough Beasts of Empire and I LOVED it.

I am now reading the S.C.E. omnibus Aftermath

 

[David R. George III]

I just finished reading Rough Beasts of Empire and I LOVED it.

And there was much rejoicing....

 

[Rosalind]

I just finished reading The (Noticeably Stouter) Book of General Ignorance, that was a lot of fun.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Finished the excellent To End All Wars today: it's a history of the great war as seen through the eyes those who fought it in and fought against it -- generals, mothers, labor leaders, socialists, Christian pacifists, striking soldiers, that sort of thing. Very evocative: it puts a human face on the immense suffering.

I'm starting in on Shadows on the Sun by Michael Jan Friedman. My next serious read will either be Sex on Six Legs or The Age of Absurdity. That first book is about insect lives. ;-)

 

[Lynx]

Still reading about Steve Marriott. Fantastic musician! But what a tragic end.

Yesterday is dead, but not my memory.

Those words from one of his songs makes me think of Star Trek in some way too.

 

[JD]

I've decided that my next book is going to be Road of Bones, the first book in James Rollins' Sigma Force series. Well, it's kinda the first, kinda the second, there's another book before it that introduces one of the characters and the Sigma Force concept, but the main team is actually introduced in this one.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Finished the excellent To End All Wars today: it's a history of the great war as seen through the eyes those who fought it in and fought against it -- generals, mothers, labor leaders, socialists, Christian pacifists, striking soldiers, that sort of thing. Very evocative: it puts a human face on the immense suffering.

Who's the author? I can find four or five books with that exact title on Amazon, and it sounds like the kind of book that I'd enjoy reading. World War I has a strange fascination for me; it was such a tragic, unnecessary thing. The To End All Wars that looks closest is Adam Hochschild's, which hasn't come out yet.

 

[JRoss]

Just got Rough Beasts of Empire, very excited about it. I think it's a great idea to have one Typhon Pact book about the Romulans and the Tzenkethi, which keeps us from having one book about a virtually unknown species.

 

[Snaploud]

I read Star Trek: Burning Dreams. It was a bit of a disappointment (particularly the mutiny part--a rip-off Crimson Tide, except not written as well).

 

[Smellincoffee]

Finished the excellent To End All Wars today: it's a history of the great war as seen through the eyes those who fought it in and fought against it -- generals, mothers, labor leaders, socialists, Christian pacifists, striking soldiers, that sort of thing. Very evocative: it puts a human face on the immense suffering.

Who's the author? I can find four or five books with that exact title on Amazon, and it sounds like the kind of book that I'd enjoy reading. World War I has a strange fascination for me; it was such a tragic, unnecessary thing. The To End All Wars that looks closest is Adam Hochschild's, which hasn't come out yet.

It's Hochschild's -- I was sent an advanced review copy. I've never read him before but think I may dig into his other work.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Thanks for that, Smellincoffee. I'll pick it up in a few months.

 

[S. Gomez]

^I think I might have to check it out, too. I love history.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Well, then, hope you both enjoy it!

 

[JRoss]

Haven't had much time to read, just finished the first chapter of RBoE. I like the in media res intro. My only issue is the cover. What's up with Sisko's hair and that turtleneck?

 

[David R. George III]

Haven't had much time to read, just finished the first chapter of RBoE. I like the in media res intro.

I always like to start with a bang.

My only issue is the cover. What's up with Sisko's hair and that turtleneck?

Within the ongoing Deep Space Nine saga, we last saw Sisko on Bajor, not serving in Starfleet, so why should we see him wearing a uniform? As for his hair, that just might get covered within the novel itself....