Just finished the Babylon 5 Technomage triology (pretty good), the DS9 Millenium trilogy (an awful mess), and Frameshift by Robert Sawyer (surprisingly good for something I picked up from the shelf as an impulse)
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Grocka: Actually, I never really developed a liking for Whyte's books after Skystone... Haven't picked up any of the sequels since I posted that message. IMHO, Whyte is just too damn dry to make reading fiction fun. Thirty-page explanations of Roman army formations and the like.
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry is presently half-finished buried under a heap of Western Civilization textbooks.
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Tom perhaps it because of my strange taste in reading, I regularly read old history texts, and this is sorta what I like. Whyte seems to fit right into that. Oh and I didn't even notice the date on that post. I was wondering how a post got so big on me when I just checked the board yesterday. d'oh.
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I'm reading "The Guns of the South" at the moment. Pretty well written thus far.
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quote:Originally posted by akb1979: New Frontier books? Yeah, read them all (up to "Being Human" - any more out?) and the Section 31 books and first two DS9 relaunch books. Just wish that I could read books all day for a living - parents say it doesn't pay - what do you lot think?
Amazon doesn't have any more recent than 'Being Human'. I may have to order 7 and 8; my local bookshop only ever has the first few and 'Restoration'. Are the DS9 relaunch books any good?
As for your idea, well, you never know till you've tried
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Have been reading almost nothing but Buffy books at the moment. I am taping the new series on Sky for a friend as she doesn't have Sky. I think she is repaying me in books. I am getting two a week from her at the moment. I have almost read every Buffy book written in the last couple of months. I have the new Anne Rice vampire chronicle (Blood and Gold) to attack next. I read Merrick a couple of weeks ago and would highly recommend it to any Anne Rice Fan. On the shelf is Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. Not that I like horror or vampires or anything 8-)
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Currently, I'm rereading "Gorky Park" by MArtin Cruz Smith for the n zillionth time. I really, really, REALLY like the Arkady Renko books, although "Havana Bay" was a little iffy. I don;t really have any NEW books, though. Too poor.
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I'm currently reading a new book that's just been published by one of my old history professors. It's Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War by John M. Hart. It's a pretty fascinating look at American industrial and financial influences in Mexico over the past century and a half.
I've also got a couple books around here from the O'Reilly series of web and Internet references. One is Javascript: The Definitive Guide; the other is VBScript in a Nutshell.
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I'd say BNW has an unconventional plot, but one nonetheless. An odd book, that.
I'd also say Jeff's not-so-good-natured prodding of Omega is getting tiresome.
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Just re-read "Red Sector" by Diane Carey.. great book. Before that was "Spock--Messiah!".. wierd book.. SCE "Miracle Workers" & "Have Tech, Will Travel;" ENT "Buy the Book;" Gateways "Doorways into Chaos" (yuck! editors shouldn't write!); "Demons of Air and Darkness" (love the DS9 relaunch); "Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonian Soong" [woo-hooooo! it all makes sense now]; "Shadows on the Sun" (my first time, making wonder how i ever liked MJF's writing, its a bit of a stinker..).. pending me getting a Waldenbooks gift certificate and actually buying another Trek book, I'll probably reread "Dreadnought!" or Section 31 "Cloak" next.
Non-trek, I've been reading "Fahrenheit 451;" "Hitler and Nazism" text; Fleming's "Thunderball;" "The German Navy in World War II" text; Satie's "Memoirs of an Amnesiac;" Bradbury's "I Sing the Body Electric" compilation; and the compilation "Mars, We Love You" My literary comics picks lately for (re)reading: The collected "Watchmen;" "Vext" by Giffen (Ambush Bug too!); the "Inferno" comic; Vertigo Verite's "Girl;" Marvel's "Generic Comic Book" one-shot
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