So what are you reading, now? Part V

[OverlordSpock]

Crisis on Centaurus. So far (only about 40 pages in) there's a lot to comment on...

Crisis on Centaurus has always been one of my favorite of the "old school" TrekLit novels. I've read that book at least a dozen times.

I just finished DTI: Watching the Clock (brief review in associated thread) and have moved on to Blind Man's Bluff.

 

[S. Gomez]

In addition to Robinson Crusoe, I've started reading the third book in C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy, That Hideous Strength, after listening to the first two again on audiobook.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

I finished Indistinguishable from Magic yesterday and then read Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire. I've now started on Mass Effect - Revelation.

 

[Snaploud]

I just read the three Dread Empire's Fall books by Walter Jon Williams, and I'm now about 60% through Fuzzy Nation by Scalzi.

 

[timothy]

still reading a singular destiny all most through with it and loving it.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I read The Sea Wolf sixteen years ago, but I still remember it very well. It's a great book.

Oh, indeed! ("I did it! I did it! With my own two hands, I did it! I wanted to cry aloud...")

 

[BrotherBenny]

I'm reading three books at the moment. CSI: Dark Sundays, but the lack of section breaks thanks to the incompetence of Pocket Books is bugging me so I haven't read much of it.

Andy McDermott's The Sacred Vault is brilliant as always with plenty of action and good characterization.

Invisible, an Ivy Malone mystery by Lorena McCourtney which is a cozy mystery I'm reading to get a feel for the genre.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'm reading the VOY trilogy Dark Matter while waiting for my Bab 5 trilogies to come in the post.

 

[James Cole]

After finishing the Vanguard series, I'm starting to get caught up with two other books series, A Time To/TNG relaunch and The Lost Era.

I just finished A Time to Be Born. Vornholt's Masks is one of my all time favorite TNG books, but this book, while not bad per say, was just very underwhelming. You can do whatever Paramount licensing will let you get away with with the TNG characters, are unconstrained by future movies, yet you get a very connect the dots book to start this series off, a routine assignment gone bad (hell this plot was used by MJF in his early DC Comics run in the late 80's) instead of something epic. The Wesley/Traveler subplot could have had a lot more meat on it as well. Too much padding in the beginning to get a duology out of this story doesn't help with the pacing either. Plus the Starfleet bureaucracy as the enemy reminds me too much of the worst parts of Homecoming/The Furthest Shore from the VGR relaunch.

My plan is to alternate A Time To books with the Lost Era books I never got around to reading when they first came out. Up next for me is KRAD's Art of the Impossible and then A Time to Die.

 

[timothy]

TRANSFORMERS # 16-19
G.I. JOE COBRA WAR
G.I. JOE VOL.2 #1
SNAKEYES #1

 

[JD]

I've decided to cut back to just one book at a time, and right now that book is going to be A Game of Thrones. After that I'll probably do Rough Beasts of Empire. Not sure yet what I'll read after that.

 

[timothy]

now reading LOCKE and key welcome to lovecraft.

 

[Endgame]

Just started reading "Indistinguishable from Magic" by David A. McIntee; and, yes he does make some use of suspense. For continued reading about Nazi history, I am also currently reading "The Nazi Dictatorship" (4th ed.) by Ian Kershaw. Recently read "The Principle of Normalization in Human Services" by Wolf Wolfensberger (1972). And recently bought DTI novel. Still reading "Pursuit of Unhappiness".

 

[Thrawn]

Finished Mistborn. Fantasy isn't my usual genre, and I'm not especially fond of Vin (the Chosen One archetype almost never appeals to me), but Sanderson is definitely a great writer. If I'm going to end up loving any story that plays with these tropes I usually don't like very much, it's going to be this one.

On to book 2.

 

[ICW]

I just finished reading Blind Man's Bluff by Peter David. I started it in late April but school work (specifically finals week) had me put the book down.

I am now going to read DTI: Watching the Clock

 

[Steve Roby]

Vornholt's Masks is one of my all time favorite TNG books, but this book, while not bad per say, was just very underwhelming.

I did think Vornholt's A Time To books were fairly bad per se, but I've gone off on that too many times already.

Just started reading The King's Coat by Dewey Lambdin, first in his series of Alan Lewrie naval adventure novels. Bought it a while back, inspired by Allyn Gibson iirc, and finally reading it now.

 

[Endymion]

Right now I'm finishing up The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson. Next up is The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla.

 

[Smitty]

Started Vanguard Harbinger this morning. Loving it!

 

[Smellincoffee]

Just finished Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Tiger.

 

[timothy]

I want to read the dune saga including brian herberts book as well as frank herberts novels. and I was wondering if any one knew the correct reading order of these books?