Audiobook finished
Jan. 26th, 2009 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyOff Armageddon Reef by David Weber
...or as I came to think of it, A Robotic Horatio Hornblower in King Arthur's Court...In Spaaaaace!
Yeah, it was like that. I'm relatively underimpressed. I was originally planning on going on to the sequel, then halfway through I definitely wasn't, then at the end, maybe.
It was pretty interesting how Weber's naval battles with sails and oars and cannon read exactly like his space battles with hyperspace and gravity generators and bomb-pumped xray lasers. I don't know for sure whether that indicates that war is a universal constant, or whether his writing is just all the same.
...or as I came to think of it, A Robotic Horatio Hornblower in King Arthur's Court...In Spaaaaace!
Yeah, it was like that. I'm relatively underimpressed. I was originally planning on going on to the sequel, then halfway through I definitely wasn't, then at the end, maybe.
It was pretty interesting how Weber's naval battles with sails and oars and cannon read exactly like his space battles with hyperspace and gravity generators and bomb-pumped xray lasers. I don't know for sure whether that indicates that war is a universal constant, or whether his writing is just all the same.
