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Summary: A classic in its own time.
Review: The author, David Feintuch, really does have a "fine touch". I've come to look forward to all his books. His stories -move- and he makes me care about the characters. Such a well-woven weave of words is bound to be considered a classic by any who care to read them. What more can I say
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Summary: Feintuch's Voices ...
Review: The book is written in the first person with a number different narrators. All these storytellers are supposed to be children (or young teens) but none of their voices is even remotely convincing. Feintuch spends much of this narrative outlining (sometimes using what I see as racist patois) how whiny, unreasonable, and downright stupid the characters are. Example: "My voice what Changman call sullen .... My voice come in squeak. I bring it low, Redface." (p. 22) The story, compelling as some elements of it may be, cannot overcome Feintuch's sophomoric writing.
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Summary: Weakest and Bleakest
Review: The Seafort saga would not, by any stretch, be called a romp in the park by anyone. Nick himself is a hard character to warm up to, the future is not a pretty one and bad things happen to good people more often than not. However the previous 4 books were worthwhile reads. Not easy reads all the time, but worth the effort. This book though as my title proclaims is the weakest, and bleakest of the series. The next book Patriarch of Hope is much better and redeems this one. In this book Nick is removed from his strengths and is landbound as the elected leader of Earth, off and on. He is responsible for his own child as well as a child of a friend. We get to become all too familiar with the down and dirty slums, and down and dirty politics of the world and Nick's dysfunctional family. All the characters come across as unsympathetic and not likeable. Very little hope, very little redeeming about the plot. Drawn out, depressing and it is really hard to believe you've cared about Nick before, and harder to believe you'll care about his child in the next book. You could probably skip this one and not miss a beat by heading to Patriarch's Hope. If you must complete the series, be forewarned, this is hard work to get through and there isn't much payoff.
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Summary: Unbelieveable, boring and hard to read.
Review: There is apparently a series of these, of which this is the only one I have read. This book could not make me suspend my disbelief at all. The motivation behind the basic premise of the main character was unbelieveable - and this made most of the subsequent actions silly. Unfortunately, it was also boring, as something like three quarters of the book was an introduction to the last quarter, which amounted to little more than a city riot. I also find books which hope for authenticity by imbuing their characters with EXTREMELY badly accented speeches very hard to read. Sorry, but the other books in this series must be better...
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Summary: The worst book in the series
Review: This book was a major disappointment. As opposed to the other books in the series it was slow moving and had almost none of the classic 'space opera' scenes that defined the earlier books. I would encourage others who have read the earlier books not to waste their time on this one. I can only hope that his next book returns to the classic writing style of the first 4 books.
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Summary: One of the most "real" science fiction books ever!!
Review: This latest book by the Campbell 'best new author' is the culmination of a brilliant series. The only living author who prompts me to turn to the back page when I first pick up his books to check on the release date of his next book. David Feintuch is, without doubt, the future star of science fiction
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Summary: Hope Series-Feintuch
Review: This series was unique in its dark nature. I kept saying, "Any normal human would be driven nuts by now". But I devoured the series. I couldn't put it down. The "tolerence" message was just a smidge heavy handed, giving it 4 instead of 5 stars. I bought in totally to the world and I was both comforted and disturbed. The series reminds me of early Hienlein in nature but rougher. I appreciate the challenges of the Navy more now, and that has influenced how I read other books about Navy characters. There is a story here, not just hack and slash.
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Summary: Weaker than the other books, but still good.
Review: Voices of Hope is completely different from all other Hope novels. But, the story is so detailed and exciting, you don't really care. The Trannie language could have been a bit more comprehensible.
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Summary: My least favorite of the Seafort books
Review: Voices of Hope is quite different from the other books in the Seafort series. It is told from several points of view, including that of Nick's son Philip, Adam Tenere's son Jared, and two members of the transpop culture represented in earlier books by Eddie and Annie. While the differing narratives are occasionally interesting, I found none of them as compelling as Nicholas Seafort's narratives in the other novels. Furthermore, the transpop chapters are written in a dialect I found almost unreadable. There is more violence in this book than in the others, and the transpop setting of most of the novel is bleak and disturbing. This story is gloomy even for a Seafort novel! I don't recommend it. You can skip it and go on to the next book without confusion.
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Summary: My Favorite in the Seafort series
Review: Voices takes a very different sort of look at Nick Seafort's world and is a much more real and powerful book than the rest of the saga. Warning though, this book is not a big gaudy space opera, like the others. Nothing against space opera, but serious speculative fiction has its place too, and this is definately serious speculative fiction.
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