| | Comment from (2003-03-08) |
| Weber's greatest flaw is that he's too goddamn wordy. Everything has to be turned into a speech. People always seem to have time for a blasted 4 page soliloquy on like the nature of cheese or something. Come on! Do people really think or talk like that? Another peeve I have with Weber is his chracterisations. Weber's chracters are either great men and women of the utmost courage and Honor (pun greatly intended) or illogical, heartless bastards. Where are all the people in-between? The poeple like you and I, just living our lives and trying to survive? At first I thought he was being sardonic or satirical, I mean the main character, of his most popular series, is named Honor after all. But two books into the Honor Harrignton series I realized that the man is utterly serious. In a lot of ways the man reminds me of Anne Rice, the leaden romantisim just makes me want to use his books for kindling. Needless to say I did read almost the entire series. I stopped at War of Honor because frankly I was reading the books for epic space battles, nothing more and the entire thing got real old, real fast as soon as Honor made Admiral and started flying a desk. |
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| | Comment from (2003-03-07) |
| One of the best authors. His specialty is military stuff, and he can get a little boring and too detail-oriented, but overall his work is of excellent quality.
Although I would say his works lack vision (thousands of years in the future there are few robots, humanity's genes are basically the same as now, etc), he is making a clear effort in later works to make up good excuses for this.
But don't let this turn you away from experiencing the Honor Harrington series, which is in the top 5 best sci-fi series of all time IMHO!
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