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Summary: High quality
Review: Joe Haldeman is so very underrated. There is so much good writing in this book I don't know how he does it. He put a lot of work and heart into this and it shows. This is classic sf and best of all it deals with so many real social and technological issues relevant even right now. The characters are real, not the usual stuck up cardboard cutouts you get in sci-fi. There are very few sci-fi authors who are willing to take on and discuss possible solutions to humanities problems (too risky), rather they just fly off into space centuries from now and say science fixed it or the holocaust reset everything, convenient! Joe Haldeman is not avoiding difficult social issues which make a lot of sci-fi seem dorky and pie in the sky. Better still he uses difficult social issues as he bread and butter. However this does not mean that we do not get giant hi tech mechanical killers and the like, Haldeman brings them on big time and they are very convincing. I was put off by some of the reviews here of Forever Peace and I'm glad I ignored them.
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Summary: Great ideas...
Review: This book has some great ideas in it, including things which really make you think about some of the possibilities for the future. I recommend it on that basis alone. The ending of the book is a little weak I think, but overall it's a good read.
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Summary: Some great ideas...
Review: .. this was my first book my Joe Haldeman and it had some great ideas in it, I really enjoyed some of the plot twists he put in, they make great conversation pieces. The story was somewhat lacking, I thought the ending was sort of a cop-out, but otherwise, not a bad sci-fi book.
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Summary: BORING!
Review: I LOVE to read but...the writing was less than impressive AND it was so boring I couln't stand it long enough to finish it (A rarity for me!).
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Summary: It had to happen -
Review: I found a book by Joe Haldeman that I didn't like, and I REALLY didn't like it, for several reasons: The narrative switches back and forth from first to third person. Come on, I learned not to do that in junior high English! Plus, the switching is very frequent; every 4 or so pages. Very difficult and frustrating to keep track of what's going on. The plot is poorly contrived. It doesn't flow as well as his other novels. The amount of sexuality in the book. Not to be prudish, but good grief! With each Haldeman book I read, I notice more and more of an emphasis being put on this. Well, there's even more here, and it seemed very out of place. Actually, the first 10 pages are a good example of what this book could have been - Haldeman's trademark good writing. Afterwards, it just degenerates. Don't bother with it.
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Summary: blah!
Review: A Hugo that really disappoints me. Too much "stream of consciousness," messy point-of-view (either you write in first person or you don't), bland plot, oh-so-intellectual and detached genius-like characters . . .. Could have been written fifty years ago, in the best pulp tradition. Please! SciFi can do better than that.
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Summary: Somewhat of a letdown
Review: I've read almost everything Haldeman's written, and I found this book lacking. I'm no literary critic, so I'll just say that I lost interest (but finished it anyway). I do recommend 1968 (and also WAR YEAR, his first book about Vietnam). I also have greatly enjoyed his other science fiction books (MINDBRIDGE, ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED, and the WORLDS trilogy being my favorites). FP wasn't terrible. Just a bit dull.
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Summary: Amazing! Sci fi at it`s best.
Review: This not quite sequel to Forever war is just as good as the original, with complicted characters and a great story. I recomend this book to any reader.
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Summary: A geat book!!!
Review: This was the first book I've read by Haldeman, but it won't be my last! I like a book to challenge me, and this one did at many levels. I found some of the scenes disturbing - and I like that. A good book entertains you, surprises you, and wakes you up to new ideas. This book succeeds on all three fronts. If you like thought provoking science fiction, you will love this book.
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Summary: Forever Peace added a new author to my short list.
Review: I read this book before reading any other Haldeman stuff. Matter o' fact, I didn't even know who he was until I read this. I think it's an excellent, extremely well-paced, almost cinematic SF tale that opened my eyes to the newness of his work as compared to a lot of the other SF tripe out there. Now, after reading _Forever War_, I can see how some might say this is derivative, but I'd have to refine that and say that only the technology and the universe he creates seem derivative. The characterization is _much_ more convincing. Who was Mandala, anyway? Julian was a much more round character. Also, the soldierboys of _Forever Peace_ make infinitely more logical sense in the technological universe. I guess he hadn't thought of them yet when he wrote _Forever War_. I'm starting to ramble. This book is great. It hooked me to a new writer, and it puts Haldeman in the first tier of SF writers that I love. He's right below Heinlein, Herbert and Card for me. (ps, the price ain't bad either.)
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