This book is wonderful! It's one of the few modern books that has managed to make me really excited about current SF. Some have complained that this author[return]sounds a little bit too much like Heinlein (Starship Troopers, especially), but I don't at all see how that's a complaint; the world needs more Heinlein's.[return]Anyway, Old Man's War is better written and pased than Starship Troopers ever comes close to being. Yes, it starts slow, but come on. It starts out with[return]a bunch of 75 year olds; how fast do you expect things to move? Anyhow, it needs the slow start to build up important ideas that relate to the rest of[return]the plot. The characters are all interesting, the plot has some original twists, and the writing is as good as Heinlein's. What more do you want? I look[return]forward to seeing much more from this author in the near future.
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fastfinge rated Expendable (League of Peoples, #1): 5 stars
fastfinge rated Total Recall: 1 star
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (Scholastic Books)
Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop. plane …
fastfinge rated Wielding a Red Sword (Incarnations of Immortality, #4): 4 stars
Undead and Unappreciated (Queen Betsy, Book 3) (Berkley Sensation) by MaryJanice Davidson (Queen Betsy ("Undead") (3))
Reluctant vampire queen Betsy Taylor may rule the topsy-turvy world of the undead, but now Betsy's discovered that she has …
fastfinge rated Geis of the Gargoyle (Xanth): 4 stars
Geis of the Gargoyle (Xanth) by Piers Anthony (Xanth (18))
fastfinge rated The Dark Side of the Sun: 3 stars
The Dark Side of the Sun by Terry Pratchett
1988 UK Reprint of the original Corgi print from the same year.
fastfinge rated With a Tangled Skein (Incarnations of Immortality, #3): 3 stars
fastfinge reviewed Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (Old Man’s War #1)
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about …
