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Summary: a good book
Review: I liked this book.It has good plot and good chacters. Its just that it says so much about the Third Intersteller War and The Wars of Shame that i got tried of it. I also want them to write about them. But it goes on how the Federation's navy is badly under strength and then in he loses so many SD's in Parsifal,Loreiel,and Thebes that it seemed to contrdict one another.
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Summary: A good read
Review: If you're a fan of the Harrington books, or the Empire series by Weber you'll enjoy this. It's not a very deep book but it is entertaing. I do have to say after reading solo projects by both White and Weber, it's pretty obvious that Weber is a much better author. I have to wonder how much of the book was written by which author?
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Summary: Shallow but entertaining
Review: If you're a fan of the Harrington books, or the Empire series by Weber you'll enjoy this. It's not a very deep book but it is entertaing. I do have to say after reading solo projects by both White and Weber, it's pretty obvious that Weber is a much better author. I have to wonder how much of the book was written by which author?
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Summary: One Awesome Space War
Review: Lets face it..the plot and charicters arent that deep, but I dont think thats the purpose. Nor are the incredibaly losses Weber creates (which is my personal belife that it IS the future of war.) The focal point are some awesome space battles. Like, really, really great ones. No other sci-fi author I have ever read has quite a grasp on destroying space navies that Weber. Note: Oreder of books you should read: Crusaid In Death Ground Insurrection
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Summary: One Awesome Space War
Review: Lets face it..the plot and charicters arent that deep, but I dont think thats the purpose. Nor are the incredibaly losses Weber creates (which is my personal belife that it IS the future of war.) The focal point are some awesome space battles. Like, really, really great ones. No other sci-fi author I have ever read has quite a grasp on destroying space navies that Weber. Note: Oreder of books you should read: Crusaid In Death Ground Insurrection
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Summary: a good book
Review: Nothing deep here. Just pulp, space opera reminding me of the E.E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensmen" series. Lay down US$5.00 and escape for a couple of hours.
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Summary: "Lensmen" of the 90's
Review: Nothing deep here. Just pulp, space opera reminding me of the E.E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensmen" series. Lay down US$5.00 and escape for a couple of hours.
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Summary: Superior Space Opera
Review: Superior sweeping space opera novel. If you are familiar with the game StarFire...this is for you, required reading. If you are not familiar with the StarFire universe, this novel does an superb introduction to this universe.
The Theban religious jihad motivation, corrupt Theban theocracy, morally confused Theban military, and the characters on both sides are fleshed in as real people. The Orion code of Honor is explained and their motivations. The Thebans thought they had to save Terra even if they had to kill the humans to help them save themselves from the demon Khanate of Orion.
Enough explosions, technology tricks, grand strategy and small personal incidents against the background of a major interstellar war to keep me reading....the generous treaty is similar to that ending the war with Imperial Japan in 1945, a costly invasion avoided. If you are a military historian or a hard core military SCI FI type, this is required reading....A much superior effort to the current release, "In Death Ground"
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Summary: Deeply flawed as wholly implausible, with annoying dialogue.
Review: The basic premise of Crusade is that an alien race on the brink of the Second Industrial revolution is visited by human refugees from an interstellar war. The Thebans form a religion based on the notion that Terra (the planet) is divine. The core of the novel thus is so implausible, as to make it impossible to suspend disbelief. One of the real problems in writing SF is coming up with plausible characters that are not humans with cardboard alien paste-out faces. The Thebans and Orions come across as humans in fancy costumes. A more serious problem, which is shared by Weber's Honor Harrington series, is Weber's implausible view of war in human future. I commend to his attention John Keegan's magisterial The History of War. Keegan contends, I think correctly, that modern First World societies will not tolerate full-scale wars with massive casualties. Future wars are likely to look a lot more like Somalia or Bosnia than World War I. Yet, Weber has people behaving as though they were fighting the battle of Verdun. It is simply implausible. A related issue is his overly PC use of female characters as senior military officers. War historically has been a male pursuit and, insofar as the type of war Weber writes about is concerned, it seems unlikely to change. The feminization of American armed forces, for example, has occurred concomitantly with the increasing unwillingness of American policy makers to accept high casualty military scenarios. If the "different voices" feminists are right, the idea of a female version of Douglas Haig is wholly implausible. Finally, the book is seriously marred by Weber's tin ear for accents. Several of his books feature characters with scottish accents, which are always badly done. Same here. All in all, quite disappointing and lacking the virtues that redeem the Honor Harrington series from many of the same flaws.
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Summary: Hyperactive enough to make Doc Smith blush.
Review: These books are so much fun to read you don't even worry about the iconsistencies, stock characters, contempt for democracy and civil rule, and unbelievably profligate waste of life and equipment. I mean, how many superdreadnoughts can one navy lose, for cryin' out loud! Even with all this, notice I gave the book 5 stars. That's simply because it carried me on such a wild, breakneck ride that I didn't just not have time to notice any of these lackings, I DID NOT CARE! Good stuff, kids!
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