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Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: an0n on April 09, 2004, 12:09:11 am: WTF?!?

Don't get me wrong, I liked everything upto and including War Of Honor, it's the goddamn follow-ups that're pissing me off.

WoH finishes with Emily basically saying "Go ahead, Honey, **** her brains out", then every book after that is just crap that just expands on things that've already been clearly established in previous books.

Granted, some people might give a damn about the first time someone caught a Treecat stealing ****, but I don't.

I like my stories to be linear, clear, concise and to follow up their ****ing cliff-hangers with some goddamn CONCLUSIONS!!![/b]

Nothing pisses me off more than "Look, we've started another inter-stellar war, but now let's go back in time 5 years and tell you about the genetic slave trade".

*grumbles*
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: kasperl on April 09, 2004, 03:11:36 am: uh, yeah.

the 'cat stuff was reasonably fun, granted, but the rest is, indeed, bloody crap. have you read the one about the historians going after the Alphane thingy's? i still haven't figured out what time period that was playing in.
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: Shrike on April 09, 2004, 03:17:22 am: Soon the sollies will be building superweapons and Honor will have to go on a quest to reform the geenie knights or something.
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: kasperl on April 09, 2004, 03:21:26 am: it looks like Weber is stil the only one actually writing about the Honor charactar, aside from that one avalanche thingy.
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: Shrike on April 09, 2004, 03:26:35 am: Honor is just weber's alter-ego mary sue. Or else she emits bozo-rays that make her enemies suck.

Or both.
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: Turnsky on April 09, 2004, 03:38:18 am: *idly wonders what the hell is this all about*
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: kasperl on April 09, 2004, 04:00:24 am: http://baen.ghostwheel.com/

click the honorverse link on the bottom of the page.
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: Martinus on April 09, 2004, 07:37:02 am: [color=66ff00]You guys read these in electronic form?
My eyes would be burnt out of me after a few chapters. :)
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Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: kasperl on April 09, 2004, 08:23:47 am: and that is why a TFT screen owns, and also why i want that e-paper to hurry up a bit.
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: Setekh on April 09, 2004, 08:41:37 am: Quote
Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]You guys read these in electronic form?
My eyes would be burnt out of me after a few chapters. :)
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I printed mine out before I read them. ;)

*still waiting for Styxx to pop up*
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: mikhael on April 09, 2004, 09:41:01 am: Quote
Originally posted by Shrike
Honor is just weber's alter-ego mary sue. Or else she emits bozo-rays that make her enemies suck.

Or both.

I vote for both, but I have to admit, I still love the books so far. So far Weber is the only scifi author that's written about a Navy that feels authentic to me. It matches up with my experiences in the US Navy and the people I worked with in the British Navy.

For that proper 'feel', I'm willing to forgive the fact that Honor Harrington is the future space navy equivalent of Ferris Bueler and Parker Lewis.
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: an0n on April 09, 2004, 11:06:19 am: Nah, for all the perfection and seeming invincibility, Honor is cool. Because you always know if someone pushes her just that extra little bit she'll fu[color=23423][/color]cking snap and go on a killing spree.

But what a ****ing cop-out. The Andermani are all "Death to the Peeps", White Haven's just about cum in his pants and Theisman and Pritchart are out to conquer the galaxy then they completely cut you off.

I could understand maybe one book of back-tracking. I'd have liked to have heard more about slavery even if it was backtracking, but a whole ****ing series of books? Most of which weren't written by Weber? No goddamn way.
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: Grey Wolf on April 09, 2004, 08:21:53 pm: What? an0n, are you talking about the anthologies? That seems to be the only thing that your initial post seemed to suggest. Those are supposed to be out of continuity.
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: an0n on April 09, 2004, 08:57:08 pm: Yeah, basically the entire Worlds of Honor series is a piece of crap.

EDIT: And Changer of Worlds.

And why does FictionWise say WoH and CoW are anthologies 2 and 3? What was number 1?
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: mikhael on April 09, 2004, 10:09:20 pm: More than Honor: Anthology 1
Worlds of Honor: Anthology 2
Changer of Worlds: Anthology 3
Service of the Sword: Anthology 4

If I remember correctly, that is.
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: an0n on April 09, 2004, 10:19:01 pm: Not according to FictionWise.

More Than Honor must be #1.

I completely forgot about it, for obvious reasons.
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: mikhael on April 09, 2004, 10:23:33 pm: Yeah, I already corrected it and added anthology4.
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: kasperl on April 10, 2004, 04:29:15 am: can't get that last one on ghostwheel. odd.

and yeah, one book of backtracking was fun, and the treecat stuff is kinda nice when you overlook all the continuity errors, but this is getting bloody annoying.
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: Singh on April 10, 2004, 04:36:53 am: uhhhhhmmmmm....honorverse?
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: kasperl on April 10, 2004, 05:57:28 am: jesus.
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http://baen.ghostwheel.com/

click the honorverse link on the bottom of the page.

you don't bother to read, now do you?
Title: Honorverse - What the hell?
Post by: Singh on April 10, 2004, 06:29:16 am: nope, i just skip through ;)