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Originally Posted by konrads
The reasons of the iterations always make me roll my eyes as well, but that's probably because I'm Belgian and don't think that highly of patriotism.
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I finished the first, and while I liked the minor twists at the end, much of the last quarter of the book was battle scene boredom. In a battle, all I'm interested in knowing is who won, who lost, who lived, who died, and what the issues were. I'm
not interested in long lists of ship names and types, firing long lists of weapon types. With quick cuts and proper music it's not too bad in a movie, but in a novel it's basically a way to cure insomnia.
It's like the
Lord Kalvan novels by H. Beam Piper and sequels by John F. Carr. The interesting stuff is the modern man (who falls into a medieval alternate history complete with castles and knights in Pennsylvania) figuring out how to make workable paper and so on. Every time a battle scene is inserted, I just get bored. Which makes it a pity that as the series went on, you got less of the socio stuff, and more play-by-play battles, such that I didn't bother buying the latest volume.