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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[danel4d.livejournal.com]

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.