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One of my favorite authors is Steven Brust. I've read all his books multiple times, except Dragon, which I'm just slogging through for the second time. Now, Brust's "Taltos" books are about an assassin, which at face value I would think I would like even less than military fiction. Except that they aren't, really. As my mother pointed out after I got her to read them, the main character is really a detective as much as anything else. There's often a body or two somewhere in the story, but the story is usually about trying to figure something out, often something with larger social consequences to the characters.
Dragon, however, has a lot of straight military action. And... it's boring, at least to me. I find, as I'm re-reading, that I'm skipping all the military stuff and just re-reading the "good parts," about how Vlad is trying to solve the problem that has led to the military action. That part is interesting to me. Camp life and battle scenes aren't, especially.
(I'm still trying to get Brust to get these books into digital versions-- he just changed Personal Assistants, and the old P.A. was very interested, but I don't know the new one as well.)
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