02-12-2008, 01:32 AM | #16 |
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Wow thanks guys, I'll be reading for a while now. The honor harrington series is where I am starting and I wasted a good deal of time at work today because of it reading it on my phone while waiting for software to install on 20 machines so I'd read in between times while doing 3 machines at a time(only one USB drive for an entire school lol).
It's a great book so far and I'll have to reread it due to not understanding a lot of the details. Personally I don't like the writing style too much; way too scientific and pro longly detailed; but it manages to peak my interest so it obviously ain't bad at all. Anyways, back to reading I go until I pass out The small screen makes reading slower, but I like it that way as I tend to scan and not actually read sometimes. |
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Yes, there is a fair bit of background and expository detail. Weber has created a complex and multi-faceted world. He's actually pretty good about incorporating it into the flow of the books without becoming too obtrusive. While it isn't necessary to know anything about European history to enjoy the series, it's even more fun if you do. As mentioned, Honor Harrington's career parallels both C.S. Forester's fictional Horatio Hornblower and the real Admiral Lord Nelson. The Star Kingdom of Manticore bears a strong resemblance to England during the Napoleonic Wars, and the Republic of Haven looks an awful lot like France during and after the French Revolution. And Weber has lots of fun with the physics, to let him have ships of the line drawn up in space and whaling away at each other with lasers, grasers, and capital missiles in tactics straight out of Napoleonic War naval battles. The last I knew, plans were fairly well along for a TV series featuring Honor Harrington. Various parties were interested, treatments were being written, and it was at the stage of lining up financing for production. We'll see. (Several of the HH books have made the NYT Best Seller list in hardcover, so the series has credibility as a candidate for adaptation.) ______ Dennis |
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I also recently finished Scalzi's 'The Android's Dream' which was a great read too.
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IMHO, David Weber is not a good writer. What he is, though, without a doubt, is a good story-teller. As far as writing "style" goes, though, he's pretty bad.
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By any chance are there any Asimov stories available free on Mobi format?
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Shame, I'd even buy them all just to have them. I love the short story about the super computer that turns into God after the universe ends. "Let there be light" It simply doesn't get better than that. |
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I have his Foundation trilogy on my Sony and they also sell a few others of his books for the Reader. I think I, Robot and one or two others. I see now that Mobipocket has these same titles and perhaps a few more.
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I haven't yet, it's been a couple days too.
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I think someone posted here about a converter from azw to plain mobi. Edit: sorry, didn't notice you said "free". |
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And you can't buy Kindle books without a Kindle (as far as I know).
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Are you sure? I thought that you only need a US-based credit card to buy kindle books.
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