Several layers of referential

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One of the links mentioned in comments to the post mentioned in this post by james_nicoll amused me...

The Princess Bride version of David Weber

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[jedibuttercup]

All too true. =)

I made it exactly four books into Honor Harrington before giving up. Same with Safehold. I seem to have better luck tolerating his shorter-series wackier stuff, such as Dahak and The Bahzell... though with the fourth Bahzell book coming out, I'm sort of bracing for impact and hoping he doesn't manage to make that one tiresome, too.

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Pretty much the same here. Avoid his one-off alien invasion book, Out of the Dark, it's dire and has a surprise ending you will spot coming a mile away.

[jedibuttercup]

Heh. Too late there. I laughed myself sick when the right turn into lunacy started picking up speed; I kind of wanted to cross it over with "Falling Skies" ... except for the fact that I'd have to read it again for proper research. *wrinkling nose*

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It reminded me of the "Posleen meet Cthulhu" plot I've been thinking of for ages - why settle for the lesser evil?

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I love the Harrington books, but I've always been good at skimming past things, and at this point I'm too invested in them to quit. I don't even mind those parts so much, though I wouldn't miss them if they were excised... mind you, at least some of his audience can't get enough of those parts, I assume.

My own problem with it increasingly focuses on the way the stories seem to be progressing slower and slower - I didn't really have a problem with it until I realised that it took him about a quarter of the newest book to reach the part where the last one ended, which is a bit silly. I think it's in part because he makes the bigger picture increasingly obvious, that the actual progress each book makes towards it seems so much smaller, but nonetheless...

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Sounds about right - I've pretty much given up on them.