So what are you reading? Part VI

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Just Finished : Game of Thrones - Review below
Next Up : Naked Heat (Castle Series tie-in.....what can I say, I miss Castle )

So I'm coming to the Game of Thrones books pretty late in the game it would seem, though given how long the 5th book took to come out, I may still be waiting for the end for quite some time. That being said, I read a fair amount of reviews praising Martin as being the next Tolkien and that these books end up being the darker, grittier Lord of the Rings. For the most part, I'd say Game of Thrones lived up to those lofty expectations and aside from a few places where the book got a bit tedious, it ended up being a great beginning to what is clearly and epic, grand story. There's a great balance between mystery, action, character/world-building, political intrigue and other elements that the world and it's characters are very well realized and you feel for someone who ends up suffering or even dying. The book's not afraid to go against conventions at time and a lot of the characters are shades of grey. It'd be easy to go on and on about what a great start Game of Thrones was, but suffice to say that all in all, I'd consider it one of the best fantasy books that I've ever read and one that promises to be the beginning of a great adventure with lots of twists and turns.

 

[Lonemagpie]

Finished (eventually - it was helluva slow going, but worth it) April Blood, a history book about the Pazzi conspiracy in Renaissance Italy, which I'd been piqued to read up on by playing Assassins Creed 2.

Then read Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh, which is great.

Now onto Slaine - Warrior's Dawn, which is a trade paperback collection of the first 30 or so episodes of the Slaine comics series from 2000AD, and Sharpe's Gold by Bernard Cornwell is in my jacket pocket for reading on the move...

 

[Steve Roby]

Reading the new Vanguard book, Declassified, as an ebook. Yeah, I have the print edition, but when we bought Kobo Touch ereaders on the weekend and got a gift certificate, Declassified was the obvious choice.

 

[Caesar753]

Just started Excalibur: Restoration. I wasn't that pleased with Renaissance, so I'm hoping Restoration is better and satisfactorily ties of the Excalibur miniseries.

 

[ICW]

Finished up The Demon, the S.C.E. two-parter. Was mildly entertaining though nothing special.

I am now reading the DS9 numbered novel Devil In the Sky

 

[JD]

Just started Excalibur: Restoration. I wasn't that pleased with Renaissance, so I'm hoping Restoration is better and satisfactorily ties of the Excalibur miniseries.

Uhgh, Restoration was my least favorite book in the miniseries, and probably in all of NF.

 

[John Clark]

Finally got round to starting on the Warehouse 13 novel by Greg Cox. I'm enjoying it so far

 

[Caesar753]

Just started Excalibur: Restoration. I wasn't that pleased with Renaissance, so I'm hoping Restoration is better and satisfactorily ties of the Excalibur miniseries.

Uhgh, Restoration was my least favorite book in the miniseries, and probably in all of NF.

Worse than Renaissance? I plot with Burgoyne and Selar was ok, but I got really sick of Lefler. Does NF find its groove again after the Excalibur series?

 

[MagGu]

Just Finished: TNG: Before Dishonor

Now Starting: Typhon Pact: Paths Of Disharmony

(yeah, I'm reading way out of order, but the important part is: I HAVE read Destiny, so I'm good)

 

[Daddy Todd]

Just started Excalibur: Restoration. I wasn't that pleased with Renaissance, so I'm hoping Restoration is better and satisfactorily ties of the Excalibur miniseries.

Uhgh, Restoration was my least favorite book in the miniseries, and probably in all of NF.

Worse than Renaissance? I plot with Burgoyne and Selar was ok, but I got really sick of Lefler. Does NF find its groove again after the Excalibur series?

I can't say; Restoration is the last NF book I've ever read. Just can't seem to force myself to read any more after that one.

 

[Thrawn]

^ You should read the next three. Stone and Anvil is the best book in the series, easily.

After that, it sort of wanders off; Stone and Anvil feels enough like a finale, though, that it's a good place to stop.

 

[S. Gomez]

Re-reading the first Barsoom book, A Princess of Mars before finally going on to the next two books. Seeing a few pictures from the upcoming movie got me all excited.

 

[ryan123450]

Kinda off topic, but does anyone recommend the transformers trilogy novelizations and their respective prequels, I think all by sometime-Trek-novelist Alan Dean Forester?

 

[JD]

Just started Excalibur: Restoration. I wasn't that pleased with Renaissance, so I'm hoping Restoration is better and satisfactorily ties of the Excalibur miniseries.

Uhgh, Restoration was my least favorite book in the miniseries, and probably in all of NF.

Worse than Renaissance? I plot with Burgoyne and Selar was ok, but I got really sick of Lefler. Does NF find its groove again after the Excalibur series?

Not really. There are some good books afterwards, but they are alot more inconsistent from then on. Oh, and I forgot about Cold Wars, I actually liked that one even less than Restoration.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Kinda off topic, but does anyone recommend the transformers trilogy novelizations and their respective prequels, I think all by sometime-Trek-novelist Alan Dean Forester?

Alan Dean Foster, just sayin'

 

[ryan123450]

Yep, sorry. I was walking through the mall on my iPhone when I posted and had a brain fart.

 

[BrotherBenny]

No worries.

I'm currently reading Shadows of the Apt book 3: Blood of the Mantis (about 80% of the way through)

Next up:

1. CSI: Dark Sundays by Donn Cortez
2. Star Trek: Cast No Shadow by James Swallow
3. Shadows of the Apt book 4: Salute the Dark
4. CSI: Skin Deep by Jerome Preisler
5. Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes by Steve Mollmann & Michael Schuster
6. Shadows of the Apt book 5: The Scarab Path
7. CSI: Shock Treatment by Greg Cox
8. Star Trek: Vanguard: What Judgements Come by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore
9. Shadows of the Apt book 6: The Sea Watch

After that I'm starting on the Dresden Files but the above list should last me about nine weeks, depending on how much time I get to read.

 

[JD]

I realized yesterday while I was looking for something to read after I finished the first story in Vanguard: Declassified, that I had never read "Brave New World" from Echoes and Refractions, the second MyrU collection, so I started that. I love the alternate Enterprise crew that is featured in the story.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I finished Crisis on Centaurus. It was enjoyable. But what was the point of Alec MacPherson? Why did he exist? The author retcons poor Scotty down into one of "the twins", the Enterprise's miracle-working engineering duo, and it turns out to be for no reason whatsoever. Poor Scotty.

I also read Q&A, which was a disappointment. The first half of the book could have been cut without any impact on the story (when it eventually happens) whatsoever. And then the story happens and my reaction is "That's it?"

 

[Smellincoffee]

Every year I like to read a book in honor of the national holidays of the United States, France, England, and Germany. Since tomorrow is Bastille Day, I am reading Seven Ages of Paris by Alistair Horne and The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.