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Originally Posted by radius
Well guys, I have read both of those and I am still not a John Ringo apologist  I'm glad you found something you like to read though.
For the Empire of Man, IIRC it was competently written, but coming from a former colony, I'm not a fan of books where the heroes just blow away the wogs without any kind of nuance. |
Well, I come from the original colonies that broke away
and I found that the repeated examples of how the New Model Army is superior to barbarians got rather tedious, and is a series that I couldn't read straight through. I skipped the third book entirely, which is probably just as well, because from the details about it included in the fourth book about the evil Saints (who want to return planets colonized by man back to nature through Holocaust style slave labor and commando operatives named Greenpeace, gee, bludgeon us with your right wing views please Ringo & Weber), I probably would have hated it. The fourth book was mildly more interesting because it's set on Earth, but I still found it to be mostly just skim worthy.
I started out liking Weber's Honor Harrington series, although I sometimes felt like I was reading an info dump about the French Revolution and the evils stemming from it and communism, but it's another series which gets tedious if you try to just read through. There's actually a SF fan organization based on this series, they like to wear Royal Manticorean Navy uniforms and throw parties at SF conventions.
Bujold's Vorkosigan series, on the other hand runs the gamut from SF military/romance (yes, really), murder mystery, straight war stories, comedy of manners, revenge and more. I think I could read it all again straight through.
In many ways, the Miller & Lee Liaden stories have a lot in common with Bujold, but I'd say they're a bit heavier on the romance.