So what are you reading? Part VI
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Finished the latest Vanguard novel a couple of days ago (review here), and now I'm reading one that I missed from last year: David Stern's The Children of Kings.
Cool, yeah, I guess nobody could see that S U falling.....but as far as the other points I've heard them before are little tid bits i enjoy. Im glad Bill turned out not to be a racist and call Data LT. all the time. That would be weird. I remember thing after only seeing season 7 of tng when i first read this damn what did Data do to piss Riker off!! And who is that guy in the middle of the cover! Also i didnt kno who la forge was in red, and i guess just assumed that they were in thier old uniforms with no collars. Also I thought thier heads were too round and fat in the cover art.
I was in a happy mood when i made that post. Quite jovial indeed. TOnite. Sleepy. But I really liked Ghost Ship its one the first trek books I bought. My newest: Department of Temporal Investigations from Barnes and Noble in Bel Air Maryland for eight dollars and some cents. Im on page one hundred forty seven. A tought one to read when i am sleepy, but super when i am awake! Thanks for the info overall i love many of Ms. Careys books. They are very good. Im one of the few who thought ship of line was good fun even if others didnt like it, good to see Frasier back in action one more time.
Finished SCE: Past Life, then read SCE: Oaths. I'm now reading SCE: Foundations.
I've been on a nostalgia kick, reading a bunch of old SW novels in publication order. Verdicts so far:
Heir to the Empire - even more amazing than I remembered.
Dark Force Rising - ditto.
The Last Command - I still think Thrawn's death is anti-climactic when it didn't have to be, but still great.
The Truce at Bakura - kind of boring.
Jedi Search - crap.
The Courtship of Princess Leia - crap.
Dark Apprentice - crap.
Champions of the Force - crap.
The Crystal Star - crap.
...so yeah, Bantam really dropped the ball after starting off so strong with Zahn's trilogy, huh?
Heir to the Empire - even more amazing than I remembered.
Dark Force Rising - ditto.
The Last Command - I still think Thrawn's death is anti-climactic when it didn't have to be, but still great.
The Truce at Bakura - kind of boring.
Jedi Search - crap.
The Courtship of Princess Leia - crap.
Dark Apprentice - crap.
Champions of the Force - crap.
The Crystal Star - crap.
...so yeah, Bantam really dropped the ball after starting off so strong with Zahn's trilogy, huh?
i'm really thinking about going back and re-reading the TNG relaunch beginning in chronological order with Titan: Taking Wing.
At least Bantam gave us the X-Wing series, which I absolutely loved.
For myself, I'm reading Worlds of DS9: Andor. Haven't had an opportunity to pick it up in a few weeks, though, due to school. I'm currently reading Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary for my Constitutional History course.
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Honestly there are days that I wish that The Powers that Be had broken the mold after the Thrawn trilogy. But there were some excellent series that were sprinkled in among the basurra. For instance the X - Wing series is among my favorites. But they were few and far between. Honestly Zahn is the only author that seemed to get ALL the elements of the original trilogy right in his books. Although Aaron Allston came very, very close.
Back to the topic, finishing an amazing book - "A world on Fire" by Amanda Foreman. It is a history of the British involvement in the American Civil War. Gives you a new perspective on that conflict and how it presaged the First World war.
I read and loved the X-Wing books, so I'm looking forward to getting to them, but I didn't read most of the others that weren't by Zahn. And when we're talking about those, it seems like some people like the Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy...but not many, some people like Hambly's two books...but not many, people usually think the Han Solo trilogy and Shadows of the Empire are pretty good, and the rest is crap. Not a very good track record.
(I read the New Jedi Order twice and loved almost every book both times, so it's not like I just don't like Star Wars.)
I must say, I'm a little surprised that Shadows of the Empire has such popularity. I've read it and I thought it was pretty poor, with the exception of any scene from Xixor's viewpoint. Honestly, if the entire novel was just Xixor wandering around gardens, eating at restaurants, and going shopping it would have been pretty enjoyable. As it is, the rest of the novel simply detracted from the pleasant story of An Average Day In The Life Of Prince Xixor.
That's the only TNG duology we ever did. I (without Greg) was going to write part of the "A Time To" series but by the time it came around, my mom was dying with cancer and my dad needed my help so my heart wasn't in taking anything on.
This little Stephen King book called 11/22/63
yeah, let us know what you think of it, I am considering this one, just waiting to see what the reaction is
I actually really enjoyed the Jedi Academy trilogy, and thought Courtship of Princess Leia was OK.
Yes, well, you're wrong. 
(Just kidding...different strokes for different folks and all, I know. But the Jedi Academy Trilogy...man. No one DID anything. Everyone ended up everywhere by coincidence, and no one made any decisions or faced any consequences. It was just a chain of action sequences carried along by happenstance.)
(Just kidding...different strokes for different folks and all, I know. But the Jedi Academy Trilogy...man. No one DID anything. Everyone ended up everywhere by coincidence, and no one made any decisions or faced any consequences. It was just a chain of action sequences carried along by happenstance.)
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