So what are you reading, now? Part V

[F. King Daniel]

Best of Trek #15. I just need #17 and I've got them all!

I've said before that the books get worse as they go on, but I don't think that's entirely true. While the earlier volumes are still my favourites, I've really enjoyed the last few I've gotten. There's a bit of a polite timeline war going on in the articles and letters, which usually start with "Ignore X, Y and Z timelines you've read, this is how it REALLY is..." and one even ended with an ultra-smug "Sorry to have burst your bubble, authors of timelines X, Y and Z, but as you can now clearly see... I'm right."

 

[S. Gomez]

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?

I haven't read them all, but from what I've heard it's best to read all of Frank Herbert's original series, then all of the prequel/sequel works in publishing order.

Frank Herbert:
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse Dune

Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson:
Prelude To Dune Trilogy:
Dune: House Atreides
Dune: House Harkonnen
Dune: House Corrino

Legends of Dune Trilogy:
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
Dune: The Machine Crusade
Dune: The Battle of Corrin

"Dune 7":
Hunters of Dune
Sandworms of Dune

Heroes of Dune:
Paul of Dune

Though personally I got as far as Heretics of Dune and couldn't finish it. All my attempts since have faltered at either the second or third book. I think I'm pretty much just sticking with the first one, the only one I've re-read multiple times.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Really digging Precipice by David Mack. Interesting to have a Vanguard book that doesn't use the station as its primary setting!

 

[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?

I haven't read them all, but from what I've heard it's best to read all of Frank Herbert's original series, then all of the prequel/sequel works in publishing order.

Frank Herbert:
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse Dune

Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson:
Prelude To Dune Trilogy:
Dune: House Atreides
Dune: House Harkonnen
Dune: House Corrino

Legends of Dune Trilogy:
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
Dune: The Machine Crusade
Dune: The Battle of Corrin

"Dune 7":
Hunters of Dune
Sandworms of Dune

Heroes of Dune:
Paul of Dune

Though personally I got as far as Heretics of Dune and couldn't finish it. All my attempts since have faltered at either the second or third book. I think I'm pretty much just sticking with the first one, the only one I've re-read multiple times.

cool thanks for that. so I should read frank's books first and then go onto brians stuff thanks.

 

[S. Gomez]

^ No problem. Glad to help.

 

[OverlordSpock]

Finished up Blind Man's Bluff. It was fun, but not the best New Frontier book.

I'm not continuing my Vanguard re-read with Reap the Whirlwind.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Finished DTI: Watching the Clock on Friday and am now halfway through ENT: The Good That Men Do. (Which means I'm finally getting around to reading the Enterprise relaunch.)

 

[BrotherBenny]

I'm almost finished with Andy McDermott's The Sacred Vault and it's just as good as the rest of the series. Great action scenes, good characters and a great story. The best thing about these books is that they're kind of written like Hollywood blockbuster movies in the vein of Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider.

Next up will finally be book five of Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, Victory of Eagles, and then Trudi Canavan's The Ambassador's Mission, the first book in her sequel trilogy to the Black Magician's Trilogy.

 

[indianatrekker26]

I'm almost finished with Andy McDermott's The Sacred Vault and it's just as good as the rest of the series. Great action scenes, good characters and a great story. The best thing about these books is that they're kind of written like Hollywood blockbuster movies in the vein of Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider.

Next up will finally be book five of Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, Victory of Eagles, and then Trudi Canavan's The Ambassador's Mission, the first book in her sequel trilogy to the Black Magician's Trilogy.

i just picked up the first two books of his series. Looking forward to reading them after i get caught up with James Rollins' books. I'm also been back on my chronological TNG book reading. Close to wrapping up "Dark Mirror." Then onto "Vendetta"

 

[BrotherBenny]

I'm almost finished with Andy McDermott's The Sacred Vault and it's just as good as the rest of the series. Great action scenes, good characters and a great story. The best thing about these books is that they're kind of written like Hollywood blockbuster movies in the vein of Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider.

Next up will finally be book five of Naomi Novik's Temeraire series, Victory of Eagles, and then Trudi Canavan's The Ambassador's Mission, the first book in her sequel trilogy to the Black Magician's Trilogy.

i just picked up the first two books of his series. Looking forward to reading them after i get caught up with James Rollins' books. I'm also been back on my chronological TNG book reading. Close to wrapping up "Dark Mirror." Then onto "Vendetta"

McDermott used to post here occasionally before he began writing more. I don't remember his username though.

 

[RandyS]

I'm only twenty pages into Star Trek: Watching the Clock and am already hooked.

And this comes after I swore not to read another Star Trek novel for a little while after being dissapointed by the last 100 pages of Indistingishable From Magic.

 

[Anika Hanson]

Just finished the Devil's star by Jo Nesbo.

 

[Snaploud]

I finished Fuzzy Nation, read Swarm (Star Force series #1) by B.V. Larson, and read through most of Extinction (Star Force Series #2).

 

[James Cole]

This week I read The Art of the Impossible by KRAD and A Time to Die by John Vornholt.

The Art of the Impossible was excellent. Definitely the best KRAD book I've yet to read. Continuity was used the right way and he made the Klingons interesting, especially their buried history and obtaining warp technology from the Hur'q. Liked the bit about Elias Vaughn operating out of Starbase 47 with T'Prynn plus Ian Andrew Troi's death.

A Time to Die was slightly better than Be Born, but when the book returned to the battlesite it fell apart again. It felt like a rough draft with its mangling of the English language in spots plus managing to contradict the continuity of Be Born (the "only" Ambassador class ship in the debris field etc). I didn't buy Wesley's love at first site romance or the antimatter entity antagonist, but it was brought down in a cool way. I hope the A Time to series really picks up from here. These books should have been so much more, but since I can see the hand of John Ordover in some of the book developments I'm not sure who should get the blame for this one.

 

[Kertrats47]

Since the last time I posted, I've finished reading Christopher L. Bennett's Watching the Clock and Peter David's latest New Frontier outing, Blind Man's Bluff. Blogger, unfortunately, deleted my review of Vendetta, so I'm working to restore that one and write reviews for the other two. Right now, I'm reading Margaret Wander Bonanno's Unspoken Truth and also still reading Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

I finished Mass Effect: Revelation and read Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Three Garridebs. I'm now reading DTI: Watching the Clock.

 

[Christopher]

I ... read Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Three Garridebs. I'm now reading DTI: Watching the Clock.

Interesting, considering that there's a fair amount of Holmes and Watson in my portrayal of Lucsly and Dulmur. I'm wondering how they'll compare when you read them back-to-back.

 

[Anika Hanson]

A singular destiny, in preparation for the Typhoon pact books.

 

[JD]

Typhon, one "o".

 

[Defcon]

Doctor Who: The Way through the Woods by Una McCormack (paper book) and Corps of Engineers: Turn the Page by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore (Kindle).