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Originally Posted by Darqref
In each of these three books, I believe the writing is better than either author would normally achieve writing alone.
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I have to agree with this since I always get really annoyed reading Flint's solo books
I wonder how much of a collaboration the Belisarius series really was? The main idea (which seems like a re-hash of the Drake/Stirling books really) likely came from David Drake, and possibly some of the outlining, but the writing "in the small" doesn't seem at all like Drake to me.
I hate the way Flint gives the characters modern, anachronistic attitudes; the way a character will make a joke or pun at the end of one chapter, only to have other characters be doing something related at the beginning of the next chapter; or how he repeats the same damn jokes in every book. If I wasn't hooked on this style of story I would never have made it past mid-way of the second book.
The strange thing is that I think Flint is probably a great editor.