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Originally Posted by artifact
So I've tried yet again to read the oft praised and suggested first book of the Honorverse and yet again fizzled out.
I like Space Opera. I like MilSciFi. Women are great (Go Kris Longknife, Vatta, and so on.) What I can't stand is that dang tree-cat. It just bugs me. So please, does it die in the second book and I can grit my teeth and wade through the first one and have the other 27 (guesstimate) novels of the Honorverse to look forward to?
I see one of those cat-things on the cover of one of the later books. I think I'm doomed. Its going to be one of those serieses everyone else adores and I'm left to pine about weeping over my eReader mewling 'if only...'.
artifact |
I felt the same way that you did when I found out about the treecat. IMO, cats are fine in other people's houses, unless they have more than two of them.
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.
