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Originally Posted by sirwired
I avoid anything John Ringo has written in the last few years. He started out his (still short) career strong, but has veered far off into polemic (some of his stuff makes Tom Clancy look like a flaming lefty), and that most certainly is not my cup of tea. (His recent "Tuloriad" had the core of a great book, but had too many pointless characters tossed in from other books in the universe, and he added a thoroughly insulting Afterword.)
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I think I've read about half of Ringo's work, and mostly liked it, but I can understand why others haven't. I don't have a problem with _Ghost_and sequels, for example - while BDSM isn't my kink, it doesn't offend me, and I see the series overll as wish fulfillment fantasy, not to be taken seriously. And I knew Ringo was right wing through the wall coming in, and make allowances as required.
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And RAH's The Cat Who Walks Through Walls... WTF? Maybe I just haven't read enough RAH to appreciate it properly, or maybe it really was a very pointless, plotless, book.
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It's not the strongest of RAH's works, though it's far from the worst. How much of Heinlein
have you read? You might see what you think of _The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress_, which Cat is a sort of sequel to.
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Dennis