So I'm looking for another series of books to devour. Honor Harrington, I've heard good things. What's the consensus?
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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Jul 01, 2011 2:59:52 pm PDT #15489 of 28293
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Typo Boy - Jul 01, 2011 3:02:21 pm PDT #15490 of 28293
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Never liked that series. Characters two dimension, prose flat. And she bonds with intelligent telepathic cats! well an additional negative for me. Her greatest character flaw is being too modest and not realizing how awesome she is. Another negative.
Others may disagree and think she really is awesome.
Pix - Jul 01, 2011 3:12:37 pm PDT #15491 of 28293
The status is NOT quo.
Despite the ridiculously excessive technical descriptions, I have a soft spot for that series. Always loved it. It's been years since I read it, though. I do remember thinking the writing got much better after the first couple of books.
Ginger - Jul 01, 2011 3:25:53 pm PDT #15492 of 28293
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I liked the first six or seven, but then I had a Mary Sue overdose.
A series I read recently that I really loved was Kristine Smith's five Jani Killian novels. I like sf that drops you right in the middle of a different civilization and lets you scramble to catch up, which these do. It's about the uneasy relationship between humans and an alien species.
Jessica - Jul 01, 2011 3:25:56 pm PDT #15493 of 28293
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I never got past the first one for the reasons Typo mentions. (I started reading it literally days after learning the term Mary Sue, and the telepathic cat was just too much for me to get past.)
I want James Alan Gardner to write more Festina Ramos books. Speaking of kickass military SF female characters.
Consuela - Jul 01, 2011 4:57:55 pm PDT #15494 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I'm looking for another series of books to devour.
Kate Elliott's "Crossroads" series, starting with Spirit Gate.
Sherwood Smith's Inda series.
Tanya Huff's "Valor" series, if you like kickass military women.
I really liked a lot of Elizabeth Moon's "Familias Regnant" novels, although I'm less excited about the most recent series (which is unrelated, I think). Oh, and I hear Moon has revived the Paksennarion series, although I haven't read them.
Martha Wells' The Wizard Hunters series is good, and I hear good things about the new series, starting with Cloud Roads, although I haven't read it yet.
askye - Jul 01, 2011 5:26:40 pm PDT #15495 of 28293
Thrive to spite them
Ooh I like the Valor series! I haven't read the recent one though, I may see if I can get it through interlibrary loan.
meara - Jul 01, 2011 9:17:03 pm PDT #15496 of 28293
Yeah, I loved early Elizabeth Moon, and then got burnt out on it.
A series I read recently that I really loved was Kristine Smith's five Jani Killian novels.
LOVE. LOVE. Own them all, wish she'd written more stuff. They're complex and interesting and unusual.
sumi - Jul 02, 2011 7:40:02 am PDT #15497 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
George R.R. Martin says that there were 180 copies of ADWD shipped out by Amazon.de before the mistake was figured out.
Typo Boy - Jul 02, 2011 10:41:41 am PDT #15498 of 28293
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
If you are looking for good military fiction Lois McMaster s Bujold Miles series is good stuff. Although she has lots of kick ass women, only a few of her books in that series feature women. Shards of Honor, and Barrayar for a kickass women hero. Barryar also gives a whole new meaning to the term "shopping" that is full of awesome.