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Summary: Enjoyable Space Opera
Review: David Weber's Honor Harrington's are an enjoyable retelling of the story of Horatio Nelson, set in space, with his main character, Honor Harrington, paralleling the life of Nelson. The details are good, the books are exciting, and the character of Honor an interesting one. The books have a few minor flaws. Weber's writing can be clunky in spots (though the books are exciting enough that it's easy to ignore this). What I tend to find a tad more annoying is that all the folks we run into who are against Honor (the military enemies as well as the lowlifes she meets in her own Navy) are clearly bad guys. I tend to prefer the Patrick O'Brian approach, where not all the French naval officers we encounter are villians. Despite this, though, the books are still good ones. Their strong points make up for their weak ones. One final note on book ratings here at Amazon. If I really liked the book, why did I give it 3 stars? My rating system tends to be that 5 stars are reserved for the best of the best -- War and Peace, Don Quixote, and so on. 4 stars are for "this is a very, very good book," and three stars are "this is an above average book, a fun read." Clearly others on the list use the Amazon rating system differently than I do. (I also prefered their old 1 to 10 rating system, under which I'd have probably given The Honor of the Queen a 7.
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Summary: This is a great book
Review: From start to finish, this book went 100 mph. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a great space opera yarn.
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Summary: Bigoted, unimaginative, and ill-informed.
Review: Honor Harrington is assigned as military escort of a diplomatic mission to Grayson, a world dominated by a fundamentalist christian church whose doctrines "oppress" women. Grayson is locked in conflict with Masada, an even more "backward" chuch-dominated anti-woman planet. In this book, two of Weber's worst traits come to the fore. First, his virulent bigotry against anything resembling traditional, organized Christianity. Religious characters are never treated sympathetically in Weber's books. They are always the bad guys. (See, e.g., Crusade.) The good guys are always post-Enlightment moderns with no religious element in their natures. At the end of Honor of the Queen, the traditionalists are either dead or have seen the error of their ways and become enlightened moderns escaping the trappings of their religious heritage. Second, Weber's PC need to have "strong" women characters. Weber's books espouse a strange sort of feminism in which women military comanders demonstrate their equality with men by getting a lot of people killed. Weber's women military commanders are perfect Clausewitizians whose attitudes towards combat and casualties are reminiscent of Sir Douglas Haig. They are always going over the top and getting slaughtered, although they manage to crawl to victory at the end. I have two problems with this model of future military affairs. First, I find it hard to believe that women military leaders would commit to the World War I sort of mass casualty warfare in which Honor engages. If the "difference" feminists are correct, as I suspect they are on this issue, we would expect female military leaders to be far more parsimonoius with their troops. An even more fundamental problem is that I doubt whether any post-modern society would accept the sort of mass casualties Weber envisions. Readers who find Weber's vision of combat plausible are directed to John Keegan's "The History of Warfare," which ably critiques Clausewitz and presents a radically different version of warfare in the future.
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Summary: Mirrors today's headlines
Review: Honor Harrington is on a diplomatic mission to Yeltsin's Star. Why was she chosen? She's a woman. However, the
planet she's going to, Grayson, thinks a woman's place is in
the house. There's a problem with Grayson----a big problem. It's at war with the neighboring planet of Masada.
Why are these to planets at war with each other? Religion.
The Graysons and the Masadans are both members the Church of Humanity Unchained founded in Idaho in the far
future by the Reverend Austin Grayson. The planet's namesake. He and his followers leave Earth way before the
SKM and PRH are founded. The early Graysons who'd combined Christianity with environmentalism, didn't want any part of technology. When they reached Grayson, they
found out that they couldn't live without technology. So Austin Grayson decided to soften his beliefs somewhat. The
hardliners didn't like this so they left Grayson for Masada and set up a government not unlike the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Masadans view the Graysons as the Apostate. So who's backing the Masadans? None other than the Peeps themselves. Their Sultan Class battlecruiser, Saladin, is in the area. However, it's known as
the Thunder of God. The commander of the Navy of the Faithful is Sword of the Faithful Matthew Simonds. Sword
Simonds hates the PRH and he thinks he can use them until they're of no further use. He finally leads a mutiny against the PRH's crew and takes over the ship. Honor,
in the meantime, has learned that her patron, Admiral Courvoiseur, has been killed and the survivors of his ship
are taken to Blackbird Base where the women in the crew are brutally raped. Honor herself is wounded in an assassination attempt on Grayson's leader, Protector Benjamin, whose brother is a Masadan agent.
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Summary: offensive
Review: I find this book offensive. It degrades my religious beliefs. As a traditional catholic I started reading Basilisk staion and did'nt like it. Then I read Honor of the Queen and apparently, the Grayson's are right
Rating:
Summary: offensive
Review: I hate to admit I read this book. As a traditional christian, as you wish to call me, I was a little suspicious with the first chapter. First, I read On Basilisk Station and didn't like it. Nevertheless, I gave Weber a chance to make it up in the next book. The Graysons are right. Manticore's lucky they don't get crushed because the are so weak. They allow women to participate. It's a disgrace. Basically, I think it's a sin to read this book.
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Summary: Bearable.
Review: I liked the story mostly because of the introduction of Graysons and their culture. The space battles are all nice and good, but you can only read so much of them before becoming extremely bored.
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Summary: Honor totally rocks!!
Review: I really loved this book!! All of the characters (with the exception of the Masadans) were protrayed as real people with flaws and virtues. Weber manages to write a great military science fiction yarn and keeps the story somewhat grounded in reality. He doesn't shirk away from exploring the possibilities of what would happen to female soldiers fighting an enemy that views women as little more than breeding stock. I loved the character of Nimitz. I am a dog person but the thought of a pet cat (or companion) who is intelligent enough to play frisbee and has real hands to catch with. Wow! Where do I get one? All of the Manticoran Naval officers come across as undeniably heroic and altruistic. Even to their deaths. They make Picard and company look like a bunch of dilettantes. When a space battle is engaged, you just don't hear about there being casualties you feel it along with the captains. When a person gets wounded they stay wounded and are not mirculously healed by story's end. Also finally somebody writes a space opera in which the crews don spacesuits before taking their ships into combat!! I have lost track of the number of sci-fi movies or stories in which you see the crew being sucked into space during a skirmish and they aren't wearing more than a t-shirt and slacks. Lastly for some readers who think Weber is bashing Christians. He is not. I am a Christian and if you read carefully, it says the Masadans and Graysons don't believe Christ was the Messiah (in fact they tossed out the entire New Testament) therefore they aren't Christians. Weber doesn't really give them a name but he definitely doesn't call them Christians. So if you are worried about the morality of reading this book. Don't its a good safe read. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: A great read.
Review: I thought that this novel was fantastic, it has an interesting military and even scientific depth that is often lacking in most sci-fi works. The story is rich and strong giving many points of views, and a great flow that keeps the reader constantly interested in this page-turner. I thought that the plot was well made and was greatly structured, I couldn't wait to see what was goiung to happen next. I greatly reccomend this book to everyone especially to those who like military action novels with more depth than action.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!
Review: I was pleasantly surprised that the second book in this series was better than the first (which was awesome). The character development of Honor Harrington in the book is solid and deep. Action packed, good story. I passed this and other Honor Harrington books because of the female lead character. I made a BIG MISTAKE. The is one of the best sci-fi book I have read in a LONG time. Honor Harrington makes other space heros (Cpt. Kirk and company) look like whimps! But read On Basilisk Station first.
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