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I didn't like the tree cat thing either but I did enjoy On Basilisk Station anyway. Couldn't get through the second book though.
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12-20-2013, 04:39 PM | #18 |
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The treecat never bothered me, although I can imagine Weber thinking early on "I have a strong woman protagonist, but I need something else to bring female readers to military SF. I know! Cats! Chicks dig cats!"
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I had the same problem with the political and weaponry details. That's why in the later books, I did a search for treecat/Nimitz and only read those scenes.
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I read the first one didn't think it was anything that special then lost interest in the second one within a chapter or two I just found the whole going to a sexist planet plot a bit insulting as a male and gave up with the entire series.
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That planet actually becomes a very important part of the series... I hope you give that book, at least, another chance. I can't say much more without giving too much away.
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Agreed, the author seems to think ahead, bringing in minor plot elements that blossom a few books down the line. If you like the writing at all, keep going.
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If a SciFi book cover has one of those feline alien species pictured on the cover (or a dragon), I won't even bother to pick it up. But I womaned-up and read the first HH book because I had read so much praise about the series, and I found out that I didn't mind Nimitz (though I still think that's a stupid name for him, and rather anachronistic of Weber to think that someone of HH's time would place that much importance on Admiral Nimitz). I stopped thinking of him as "cat" cat and instead as a different species with some cat-like similarities. He also serves as a means to bridge HH's social awkwardness in the early books. His evolution as the series progresses is interesting. Bite the bullet, put up with the stupid mental image of a cat constantly perched on an officer's shoulder, and just pretend that Nimitz is something else that doesn't annoy you. The series is just too good to let a thing like that turn you off it. |
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They are, but do you honestly think that Chester Nimitz falls into the same category of "military genius" as them?
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Yeah, like 'Nimrod.'
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