This is book six in a series of books by Robert Jordan called "The Wheel of Time." It is a well-written sprawling science fiction fantasy saga about a young man who is born to end up battling with...
The rampant mary-suism, the perfect (and morally superior) aiel, the spanking the lectures from Rand and the wise ones, and the sister-wives have at last done me in. I liked this series at first...
This book has a great start, but when the story moves to the lifeboat the weight of the allegory sinks the book (no pun intended). As soon as the animals on the boat were listed I immediately felt...
I listened to the audio CD, which until the end I hugely loved ... The ending is a serious literary error. Gratutitious, sophomoric. It wouda took GUTs for Martel to just end his fabulous story...
The Wheel of Time series is doubtless epic in its proportions. In this volume (Book 7), our main characters are split into three basic storylines: 1. Mat, Nynaeve, and Elayne search for the...
I admit that I'm addicted - despite the s.l.o.w. progress, constant female bickering, and frequent fashion details. I want to see how this dang series ends...will it?
Everyone seems to not notice the word crossroad in the title of the book.... Robert Jordan has always been the best at giving details and his book CoT does not fail at that. The book is an...
This was without a doubt everyone's least favorite WoT book. The plot never moved forward, it was just a collection of what was going on at the exact moment from the event that took place in the...
Boy this book takes like half the book to finally get into anything meaty. I tried reading this book several times before I just put it down. The writing in this book also doesn't seem very clear...
This is book five in a series of books by Robert Jordan called "The Wheel of Time." It is a well-written sprawling science fiction fantasy saga about a young man who is born to end up battling with...
This book has it's moments, and a three-star book isn't a bad one. This just isn't a great one, but it could've been. While I took great joy in seeing Nynaeve humbled, there was just too much of...
I begin to get the sensations that many other reviewers have outlined from my reading of book 5. The pace seems to be slowing down, apart from the obligatory speed-up in the last 100 pages, there...
A year or so ago I read Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, and found it pretty enjoyable and thought provoking. Enough so that I picked up the follow-up book, Son of a...
Not a direct sequel to Wicked - despite possessing thematic similarity - but nonetheless beginning where it left off, Son of a Witch is an interesting character study, political analysis, and...
This book contains long periods of boredom with minimal amount of interest. It is a true let down from it's predecessor. The author should have stopped while he was ahead.
Fahrenheit 451 written in the 1950's describes a future to which we still may be on our way. The book follows main character ,Guy Montag a fireman, though as ordinary as this sounds his job is to...
I am frustrated by the sloppiness of this book. From what I understand, Bradbury sat in a library and wrote it in a few weeks, and it shows. Montag is introduced as a man happy in his job. The...
This was one of my favorite books in high school, and reading it again had a certain charm, but my issue with it can be summed up in a small quote from an interview included in the final pages.
The novel starts out well, the Enterprise finds a major artifact on a distant world and investigates. Then they go through the window and turn into crabs.
There are flaws; how the alien race can have a "name" for themselves that translates into a verbal sound (Kh!lict) when their language has no sounds, but is one of color and movement, is a question...
Windows on a Lost World is one of the more technical Star Trek novels. My background lies more with the humanities, so I felt the story dragged a bit, but even though I wasn't particularly...
Solid but not as entertaining as his first four X-wing novels
Michael Stackpole returns to the adventures of Rogue Squadron with the eighth book in the X-wing series, Isard's Revenge. The first seven books were all set together in the chronological order of...
Going from one of Allston books in this series back to Stackpole is like trading in your Porsche Boxster for a Fort Escort......It really slows down and the ride is a lot less fun. The first 3/4...
As far as I'm concerned, this book ties for my favorite X-wing book, coming in dead-even with The Bacta War. I like that the threads of the surrounding universe are pulled together here, starting...
Pretty much as advertised--last TNG episode as novel
This book takes the last Star Trek: TNG episode and turns it into a decent, short novel. Having seen the episode a few years back, I read the book already knowing the story. But the novel does a...
There are a couple of major quibbles I have with the plot, however, and while it is not the fault of the book that the flaws are there (they were there in the episode) I still find that I can't...
This is a marvellously well-written fragment of a story; as suggested by the "Book One" in the title, it is not a complete story unto itself; it has no ending. Were it not for that fact, it would...
There is one interesting thing about this book: all the good stuff happens in the last ten pages, so now I have to debate whether I want to continue or not.
In the wake of the Genesis Project debacle the Federation attempted to destroy all record of it and placed Dr. Carol Marcus in hiding. While they were successful, they were not successful enough....
Bored with his new life of teaching classes at Starfleet James Kirk signs on with his brothers children to start a new life on a colony world. Strange i've been following Trek books for some time...
Fairly predictable - Isn't a full "Original Crew" story
I was home visiting family recently, and when I left, I borrowed this book from my brother for the flight home. It's 280 or so pages, and I read the entire thing waiting for my plane in the...
After reading the first two books, I'd definitely liken Genesis Wave to a Star Trek-style Disaster film - ala' The Poseidon Adventure or Towering Inferno. The big difference is that we know exactly...
This pickes up only minutes after book one concludes. I was glad to have it on hand to finish a very suspensfull cliffhanger. This trillogy, however, seemes to suffer from 'Trillogy...
After reading 4 or 5 chapters I decided this wasn't worth my time. Where's the action?! It's basically only conversation after bloody conversation and the dialogue between the characters isn't very...
The first two Genesis Wave Books really did justice to the premise of the Genesis Device and pointed out what Captain Kirk feared that this device could and would be used as not a life giving piece...
I was also going to title this review "ARRGGGHHHH!!!!". After two solidly-plotted books, the Genesis Wave saga falls completely to pieces with this third book. A Bajoran Priest steals a Genesis...
Genesis Wave I & II were excellent reads. I was a bit hesitant about Genesis Wave III wondering what else could be said but the story and especially the characters quickly put my fears to rest. The...
Although I am just finishing this book, I felt compelled to say what a great book it is! I think this was Armin Shimerman's first book for DS9 stories, and he and David George produced what should...
This is my first Deep Space Nine novel. My son and I got into the series (which I totally missed in first run because of living in Taiwan) and I promised not to watch any episodes without him. To...
I have to admit that I tried reading this book four times. Each time I would get part way into it and still feel the same, and put it aside. I will read through just about ANYTHING, so I am...
When Quark inadvertantly activates an alien signal device, invaders infiltrate DS9 and slaughter ensues. Although badly written, this book features a tight, creative plot that would have made a...
This book is a good example why the Star Trek series accept story ideas from outside the writing staffs, and an equally good example why the scripts themselves are written by the experts. The plot...
I thought it was kinda depressing since Bashir died (hes my favorite character) but the plot is good other than that and the fact everyone but the boring characters are killed...
Legends/history behind the Ferengi rules of acquisition
One of the best new ideas to be introduced in Star Trek, the Next Generation, was the Ferengi Alliance. While they are rapacious like the Klingons and Romulans, they are not warlike, unless you...
This omnibus consists of four ST:NF books: "House of Cards", "Into the Void", "The Two-Front War" and "End Game". ST:NF basically tells the stories of the USS Excalibur and its crew - and it's so...
If I'd bought each of these books separately and paid 6 bucks a pop for them, I'd have been annoyed. As it was, I spent not too much money for an enjoyable four hours or so. They're not too...
Oh, my GOD! This audio version of the popular New Frontier introduction story absolutely destroys everything the books fought so hard to achieve. To totally create a brand new series for the most...
Just wanted to say that I received this book in very good condition and that it came very quickly. I appreciated that and the low cost. As for the contents of the book - I am sure those who like...
Maybe 2 1/2 Stars... Great ideas but this book didn't do it for me.
First of all, I would like to say for the record that Captain Kirk is my favorite character and that I am still overall very happy that Kirk is still alive and kicking (in the Shatnerverse anyway)....
Avenger ties the Odyssey Trilogy together brilliantly. Kirk and Picard, as we saw in Generations, make a fantastic team. One of my favorite parts of Star Trek novels is expanding on a single piece...
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