Well, I finished The Lies of Locke Lamora last night and realized anything I read next would pale in comparison, so I opted for something I don't really expect a whole lot out of, other than to be marginally interesting - enough for bedtime reading, in any case. So I went with a Star Trek novel I picked up for fifty cents: The Children of Kings, by David Stern. It's set during the time when Captain Pike headed up the Enterprise, with Spock as his science officer and Number One as his first officer, just as it was during the original pilot episode of the original series. It's weird not knowing (or remembering) any of the characters except those three, but so far it's okay. The Klingons are rumored to have developed some sort of "cloaking device" (imagine that), and the Orions are going to come into play at some point apparently.
Johnathan