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Summary: Good piece of writing
Review: This book helped me to get an insight to during and behind the scenes of the dominion war that went on during DS9. I hope that other people like it and read it.
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Summary: Novelization - do not buy unless you collect
Review: This book is just a retelling of several TV episodes. I bought it only because I collect the books. For an original story buy book one (very good story!).
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This book was one of Diane Carey's better efforts, and one of the best novelisations I've read of any star trek episode. It was really written well, starting off with the attack on DS9 in 'A Call to Arms' right up to halfway thorugh 'Sons & Daughters' inclusive. Personally, I really enjoyed the first part describing the attack on DS9, Sisko's speech, and some details into the attack the Torros III shipyards. This book is a must for all those fans of DS9, and if you're not a huge fan of it consider it anyway, it's good. Go Carey!
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Summary: Bad
Review: This is just a retelling of some episodes. If you've seen them just get the TNG ones. This is a waste of money.
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Summary: Good story, bad writing.
Review: This is not Diane Carey's worst effort, not by a long shot. Still, as is frequently the case in her writing, there are places where her word choice is, to put it charitably, questionable. It's never as bad here as it is in, say, "The Search", or some of her other earlier works, but it is still noticeable that she's trying too hard to be "clever and creative", and generally succeeding only in being distractingly odd. The story itself, being mostly an adaptation of several episodes of the "Deep Space Nine" television show from the time period of the "Dominion War" of the book's title, is good, and the changes that Ms. Carey has made are as often improvements as not, and generally don't seem to detract anything from what we saw onscreen. But as of the writing of this book, at least, she had yet to learn that being a "wordsmith" (which seems to be what she wants to think of herself as) does NOT involve playing such games with the language as to distract attention from the story she's telling.
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Summary: Not the Dominion War, maybe JR. ST.
Review: This review is for the Dominion War (DW) 4 book set. I hoped that the people in charge of star trek could have written a series of books that gave us some of the grand sweep of the war in our galaxy that earth could have lost. THIS WAS NOT THAT SERIES. A better Title would have been SNIPPETS FROM THE DOMINION WAR (a lttle french military inuendo there) as we learn very little about the Dominion War.Star fleet takes their greatest leader Picard (is kirk dead again?) and puts him in charge of a commando operation that has little chance of success in a tiny back water to a great war. We see virtually nothing of that war, only that the federation getting slaughtered. At least Picard knows to use two teams, instead on relying on only one team. Of course it is not the publishers fault that I assumed they would fill in new information about the DW story with fuller richer detail. That would have been to much work. What was i expecting from a non-Shantner book. SPOILER!!. At least they don't kill a popular character, which is why i gave 2 stars instead of 1. I knew the plant from the beginning. Cone on. How many of you were shocked to learn who the saboteur was. A slow piece of junk defeats 3 enemies? Enterprise shows up right on time WAY behind the lines of the most guarded thing the dominion has? This series would have better placed a Junior Star War series, featuring Picards, Rikers Troys geordis and datas children.
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Summary: Not the Dominion War, maybe JR. ST.
Review: This review is for the Dominion War (DW) 4 book set. I hoped that the people in charge of star trek could have written a series of books that gave us some of the grand sweep of the war in our galaxy that earth could have lost. THIS WAS NOT THAT SERIES. A better Title would have been SNIPPETS FROM THE DOMINION WAR (a lttle french military inuendo there) as we learn very little about the Dominion War. Star fleet takes their greatest leader Picard (is kirk dead again?) and puts him in charge of a commando operation that has little chance of success in a tiny back water to a great war. We see virtually nothing of that war, only that the federation getting slaughtered. At least Picard knows to use two teams, instead on relying on only one team. Of course it is not the publishers fault that I assumed they would fill in new information about the DW story with fuller richer detail. That would have been to much work. What was i expecting from a non-Shantner book. SPOILER!!. At least they don't kill a popular character, which is why i gave 2 stars instead of 1. I knew the plant from the beginning. Cone on. How many of you were shocked to learn who the saboteur was. A slow piece of junk defeats 3 enemies? Enterprise shows up right on time WAY behind the lines of the most guarded thing the dominion has? This series would have better placed a Junior Star War series, featuring Picards, Rikers Troys geordis and datas children.
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Summary: great book!
Review: This was a really good book
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Summary: About novelizations....
Review: While I'm certainly sorry to have disappointed those who weren't expecting this book to be a novelization, I do have to point out that the words "A novelization by Diane Carey" appear on the front cover, and the back cover lists the episodes it was based on. Further, the DS9 books in Dominion War do contain about 40% new material.
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