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Originally Posted by MachinegunDojo
Wow thanks guys, I'll be reading for a while now. The honor harrington series is where I am starting and I wasted a good deal of time at work today because of it reading it on my phone while waiting for software to install on 20 machines so I'd read in between times while doing 3 machines at a time(only one USB drive for an entire school lol).
It's a great book so far and I'll have to reread it due to not understanding a lot of the details. Personally I don't like the writing style too much; way too scientific and pro longly detailed; but it manages to peak my interest so it obviously ain't bad at all.
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I assume you began with
On Basilisk Station?
Yes, there is a fair bit of background and expository detail. Weber has created a complex and multi-faceted world. He's actually pretty good about incorporating it into the flow of the books without becoming too obtrusive.
While it isn't necessary to know anything about European history to enjoy the series, it's even more fun if you do. As mentioned, Honor Harrington's career parallels both C.S. Forester's fictional Horatio Hornblower and the real Admiral Lord Nelson. The Star Kingdom of Manticore bears a strong resemblance to England during the Napoleonic Wars, and the Republic of Haven looks an awful lot like France during and after the French Revolution. And Weber has lots of fun with the physics, to let him have ships of the line drawn up in space and whaling away at each other with lasers, grasers, and capital missiles in tactics straight out of Napoleonic War naval battles.
The last I knew, plans were fairly well along for a TV series featuring Honor Harrington. Various parties were interested, treatments were being written, and it was at the stage of lining up financing for production. We'll see. (Several of the HH books have made the NYT Best Seller list in hardcover, so the series has credibility as a candidate for adaptation.)
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Dennis