What are you reading? - I'm sure some of you read

[Arthur Dent]

. Book 2: Shield of Lies was absolute shit.

It was a real dissapointment. I liked the concept of the political infighting and propoganda tactics, but the execution was crap. And the anti-everybody philosophy of the aliens has been done before and better by other writers. I think the only importance that carried over into the later books is the rise and fall from power of certain politicians in the Republic.


Still reading the New Jedi Order series. It's got good and bad points. What I don't like is that just about every book in the series is written by a different author, so there's no consistency of style. Some are really well written, others read like the authors first professional attempt at a novel. But the story is good and SOMEBODY is dictating a consistent and entertaining arc.

It's like one author came up with this whole story arc, wrote an outline, then gave the different "chapters" to his friends to keep them employed. It would be a better story if it was all from one author.

When I'm done, I'm going to get the box set of The Hobbit and LOTR trilogy and re-read them for the first time in ten years.