OT - Thoughts on the Honor Harrington series

[Narrew]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
The similariies between HH and SEIV are natural since both David Weber and Aaron Hall drew their inspiration from the Starfire game.

Actually it was Weber and another person (cant remember his name) that wrote a couple of books based on Starfire and they helped to design it (to what extent I am not for sure, but I remember Webers name on the early Version, which led me to the books) and you could almost picture each ship slot being filled with something.

Many long series of book tend to get boring, but Weber has become a better story teller as he wrote more books.

About Honor being a hero and able to do everything. As you follow her through the series, she is super focused, so when her lover got killed in a duel, she methodically learned how to duel and shoot a pistol, when she was the Sword of Grayson, though she never weilded a sword, her hand to hand combat skills and her ability to KILL allowed her to kill a Grayson radical (mainly because he never killed, he only participated in tournies). So is she an expert in everything she does, or is she a very motivated and focused individual, I would like to think the later, kind of wished I had that focus, but I am lazy.

So the HH series are one of the better series I have read, and I have read some of Webers other Sci-Fi and liked it also.