Out of sheer curiosity, which translation?
I just got and finished Full Circle today (I broke down and bought it in the bookstore today, since Amazon kept playing with my ship date - guess I'll have to send copy #2 back once it gets here).
So what are you reading now?
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Out of sheer curiosity, which translation?
I just got and finished Full Circle today (I broke down and bought it in the bookstore today, since Amazon kept playing with my ship date - guess I'll have to send copy #2 back once it gets here).
The world-building for the Napoleonic wars is brilliant. The writing is superb, the language is in keeping with the times, as are the social mores. And Temeraire is treated like a character in his own right, not just a prop character. I would recommend it.
And I haven't even finished the book yet.
A German one. I read the Reclam edition (our version of Penguin books) by Roland Hampe. It's a modern version (as opposed to the translation by Voss, a contemporary of Goethe) but still in hexameters, so a bit artificial and archaic. There's also a prose version which I couldn't find in stores to test-read, so I bought the standard. It's supposed to be as close to the original as possible, which is important to me as Homeric Greece will be one of the topics of my final exams in Ancient History.
(Sorry for rambling on...)
Cool. Did you know that Peter Jackson has bought the rights to the book(s?) and plans on doing a movie?
I'm reading the Robotech series by "Jack McKinney". I used to read them all the time when I was younger, but haven't touched them in a decade. I felt it was time to revisit them, and I'm enjoying them quite a lot. But I'm already suffering Trek withdrawls...
I have started Full Circle but am still very much at the beginning of the book. It is very early days but so far I can already say I like it and am definitely curious.
I just got my new prescription reading glasses due to my new farsightedness, so I'm thinking of actually reading something for the first time in a long time. It'll probably not be fiction though. I think I'm finally going to read Represent Yourself In Court: How to Prepare & Try a Winning Case. Just because I can. 
Unsurprisingly, I did squander the chance. In fact, I should be writing one of those papers now. I am continuing to inch through The Satanic Verses; meanwhile, I have read a few books for school:
- Three Dublin Plays by Sean O'Casey
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot
Warpath is great!
Out of curiosity, did you only read the books that ToF has, or have you read them all up to Warpath and just happen to have bought ToF...?
Star Trek: new Frontier book 4. The first 3 are brilliant, dont think I have read a book by Peter David that was not above average.
This made me snarf my iced tea, but honestly I found Karen's books to be the best of the previous nine-ology, so this isn't all that encouraging (though I like Christie's work a lot more than you do...).
Any chance of a review?
Yay!
It's also generally very gratifying to see A Singular Destiny and Mere Anarchy mentioned so often.
Me, I'm reading an advanced reader copy of Laurie R. King's latest Sherlock Holmes/Mary Russell book, The Language of Bees.
I think so, but it won't be before the end of the month/beginning of May. With my current workload, I can't justify writing anything that doesn't go towards my degree. (I also haven't finished the book yet, for much the same reasons.)
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I had given TrekLit a rest a few years ago, and I'm just now getting back into the swing of things. I'm just about to start the flip side of Fearful Symmetry, then I'm on to Destiny and post-Destiny releases. After that I've got some catching up to do with a bunch of stuff from 2006 up to Warpath (where I started with in getting back into TrekLit). A long ways to go!
SCE Grand Designs TPB. waiting for OATS, FC and MA to arrive from Amazon.
I ended up buying ToF and Warpath. I have read the DS9 re-launch novels, but that was over the last N years and I was wanting to read them all again in a little bit more sequentially rather than over several years
Also my source for the books is not part of my life any longer so it's hard to just snag one.Now they just need to do the Mission: Gamma books the way they did ToF.
I'm setting aside the re-read of The Incarnations of Immortality in order to read Full Circle. 
Well I got my copy of Mere Anarchy yesterday along with Over A Torrent Sea but they have to wait for the only author I will not stop reading to start a Trek book is Clive Cussler. So the plan is to finish The Navigator, then the two Treks and after that I might finish Flashman.
Last night, I finished the first Percy Jackson story called The Lightning Thief. There were parts of it that felt like direct lifts from the first Harry Potter book, and the preview of the next book at the end didn't help. It feels like the author is trying to take Harry Potter out of England, set him in America, but instead of being about wizards, it's about the Greek gods. Percy is the son of one of the Olympian gods, with a human mother. He's one of many half-blood demigods wandering around the modern world. It's a fast, easy, breezy read, and I did enjoy it.
Next up is Terminal by Brian Keene.
Next up is Terminal by Brian Keene.
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