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View Poll Results: Which of the following David Weber series do you recommend the most? | |||
Dahak | 4 | 14.81% | |
Empire of Man | 5 | 18.52% | |
Multiverse | 4 | 14.81% | |
Safehold | 5 | 18.52% | |
War of God | 8 | 29.63% | |
Bolo | 0 | 0% | |
Furies | 1 | 3.70% | |
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12-13-2011, 09:57 AM | #1 |
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I have read the Honorverse and Ring of Fire series by David Weber and I am looking forward to reading another one of his series. Which of the following of his series do you recomend the most:
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12-13-2011, 11:46 AM | #2 |
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I can not recommend just one. I like Empire of Man, Safehold and War God. I enjoyed all three immensely and have reread them many times. The Empire of Man is a coming of age series. It follows Prince Roger as he changes from a spoiled Prince to a man worthy of inheriting an Empire.
Safehold is basically about trying to rebuild the Human Race to be able to defeat the Gbaba. Unfortunately the surviving leaders of the Expedition felt hiding was the only answer and set the colony up to not have any memories of Earth and to keep them at a primitive level via a Theocracy. The War God Series follows Bahzell Bahnakson and his friend Brandark as they embark on a series of adventures. This one is a Fantasy Series. I enjoyed all three series. Apache |
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12-13-2011, 09:28 PM | #3 |
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I have only ever read Honor Harrington and the spinoffs. I really like them.
I have the Safehold books but haven't gotten around to them yet. |
12-13-2011, 09:39 PM | #4 |
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I've only run across one Weber book that I thought was mediocre. I would say that I enjoyed the War God series the next after the Honor series. I also liked his Stars at War series, I think they were the first books he wrote with Steve White.
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12-27-2011, 12:35 PM | #5 |
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Empire of Man is the series that gets the re-reads from me on a regular basis. It's got a great universe, interesting and evolving characters, adventure, terror, suspense, humor, love and sorrow. It's a great series.
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12-27-2011, 02:51 PM | #6 |
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I'd hardly call Ring of Fire Mr. Weber's Series. I suspect Eric Flint my have something to say there.
That being said? I'd not really recommend any of them. I've read the Safehold series and find it seriously needs an editor who could rein in Mr. Weber and actually tighten up his writing. And the ebook price is significantly higher than my gag-point. But that being said, I have enjoyed the ones I've read, putting them just on the slightly plus side of positive. Say 6 out of 10. Maybe 7 at a stretch. I won't buy any more of them, but I'd be interested if they were published by Baen, rather than Tor. (Baen shows signs of actually being able to edit their books, and their publishing policies are more in keeping with the modern world we live in.) |
12-27-2011, 03:42 PM | #7 |
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i want to love david weber but someone needs to sit him down and tell him that info-dumps don't make for exciting reading.
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12-27-2011, 03:48 PM | #8 |
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12-27-2011, 11:40 PM | #9 |
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i just read his book Out of the Dark not too long ago and cringed at the page after page of info-dump dialogue between the aliens and repetitive action. its a 500 page or so book, easily 150-200 could have been chopped. dry and redundant doesn't even begin to describe it.
its especially maddening because his action scenes are second to none, i know the man can write. Last edited by xg4bx; 12-27-2011 at 11:43 PM. |
12-28-2011, 04:18 AM | #10 |
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He's definitely got a case of late 21st century auctorial bloatblight.
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01-01-2012, 05:12 PM | #12 |
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I liked the Dahak books - particularly the first two. One thing they have in their favor is that they're early works and thus relatively short.
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01-01-2012, 08:43 PM | #13 |
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