[TML] Honor 'Just call me Horatio' Harrington was Re: Environmental domes

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Environmental domes


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You know, that's about when the series lost it for me as well.

I stopped reading it at "In Enemy Hands", and frankly, it was more  
like I was choking down the last couple of books because they're  
supposed to be good, more than anything else; they're all so damned  
repetitive, and I got really tired of the political ham-handedness of  
it all.

That's unfortunate, because the first few are REALLY good; it's just  
too bad Weber sank pretty quickly into Steven King xerox-novel mode,  
cranking 'em out.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
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[joel]

I have the first 11 Honor Harrington novels, and (as far as I know) ALL of
the Hornblower novels.

The 2 novels where Honor is captured (after a heavily outnumbered battle),
her death is announced, and then she escapes freeing some prisoners to boot
- lifted verbatim (almost) from when Hornblower was captured (after
attacking - yes, attacking) 4 ships of the line.  He ran his ship aground,
burned it (so the French couldn't use it), escaped with 2 of his men (one
with a single leg), made it to a port town, got some British prisoners and
liberated a previously captured British ship/sloop.

The last 3 or 4 books were SO political - left me pretty disappointed.

-Joel