OT- Honour Harrington movie

Randallw · #1 December 23rd, 2005, 08:41 AM

Personally I didn't like the Honour Harrington book I tried reading once, but I know there are some fans here.

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22073

sachmo · #2 December 23rd, 2005, 03:35 PM

Neat!

Baron Munchausen · #3 December 23rd, 2005, 07:56 PM

Very interesting. Given the 'formulaic' nature of the stories I suppose it has the potential to spawn a lot of sequels if they get the first one right.

ZeroAdunn · #4 December 23rd, 2005, 10:25 PM

The first one was pretty good, but the series didn't seem to go anywhere. If it wasn't for the very descriptive space combat I would probably consider them utter crap.

AgentZero · #5 December 23rd, 2005, 10:42 PM

More or less agreed. The whole series has been criticized (can't be arsed spelling at 1:40am) for flat characters & lack of development, but the space battles are just so gosh-darn sweet. Still I read War of Honor a while back and it was nothing but politics, intrigue, unrequited love, etc and I spent the whole book thinking, "Shut up and BLOW SOME S*** UP!!" So there you have it.

Randallw · #6 December 23rd, 2005, 11:24 PM

Hmm perhaps I'll need to give it another go. The one I read started with 2 people by a fire talking about her being captured or something and there was some sort of talking cat. I gave up.

narf poit chez BOOM · #7 December 24th, 2005, 12:44 AM

It's one of those series where, if you can't or don't want to follow a few dozen characters, you're quickly going to get bored.

As far as I can tell, DW wants to do a huge, epic, rebirth-of-civilization...Epic.

I've followed the plot, and from the looks of things, a lot of things are going to come crashing down if the right strings get pulled.

But yeah, there are a *Lot* of books.

Phoenix-D · #8 December 24th, 2005, 03:25 AM

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Randallw said:
Hmm perhaps I'll need to give it another go. The one I read started with 2 people by a fire talking about her being captured or something and there was some sort of talking cat. I gave up.

You started toward the end of the series. Find On Basilisk Station; it starts the series and is a better book, to boot.

(except for one excruciatingly badly timed infodump near the end)

Starhawk · #9 December 24th, 2005, 10:02 AM

I like DW but i mainly want him to hurry up and make a fourth book to the DAHAK series I want to know how it ends Damn it!

BUt yeah HH is a good series if you like epics that have more then just war....stuff goes boom.....war. You have to like finance and politics which is okay with me as this kind of thing does interest me

I also like the fact that he doesn't do the Star Trek thing and pull starships out of his ear, they actually have to be BUILT, crewed and repaired.

mrscrogg · #10 December 26th, 2005, 12:41 PM

I think Lucy Lawless of " Xena " fame would make a perfect Honor Harrington