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Posted: 9/23/2016 2:13:40 AM EDT
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Excellent start to the series. Tapered off from there.
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Posted: 9/23/2016 8:06:57 PM EDT
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He's written some excellent books, too bad he's a hard corp Progressive.
The Old Man's War series was great, and so was "The Androids Dream" and "Agent to the Stars" both extremely funny. After Old Man's War he seems to have drifted off into a blind alley. |
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Posted: 9/24/2016 9:38:40 PM EDT
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Loved it. Check out Armor by John Steakley.
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Posted: 9/25/2016 8:13:12 PM EDT
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I'd recommend Redshirts. I knew just enough about Star Trek to understand all the inside jokes.
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Posted: 9/26/2016 1:03:03 AM EDT
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I read the whole series. Like said above, after it starts out great with Old Man's War, which I think is nearly as entertaining to read as Starship Troopers or The Forever War, and very much in the same vein, it goes down hill from there.
In real life, Scalzi is a king sized douchebag, if that matters to you. |
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Posted: 9/26/2016 9:19:40 AM EDT
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Old Man's War was a great book, I loved it. Scalzi kept the theme of "The Galaxy is a brutal place and we're going to have to do fucked up things if we want to survive." Later books it becomes "Turns out everyone else in the galaxy is kind and peaceful and it's all our fault that there's so much war" and it becomes a very thinly veiled criticism of Bush era America. |
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Posted: 9/26/2016 1:07:14 PM EDT
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Loved it. Check out Armor by John Steakley. This (to both). |
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Posted: 11/19/2016 8:37:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'd recommend Redshirts. I knew just enough about Star Trek to understand all the inside jokes. Enjoyed the Old Mans War series. |
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Posted: 11/19/2016 11:17:33 PM EDT
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I read Old Man's War a month or two ago, really really enjoyed it.
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Loved it. Check out Armor by John Steakley. Hell yes, Armor is real good. |
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Posted: 3/5/2017 8:17:12 PM EDT
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Guess I'm gonna have to be 'that guy'. I liked Old Man's War well enough, but I wouldn't call it on par with Armor or Starship Troopers. Probably a bit better than than Honor Harrington (Scalzi's a better wordsmith than Weber).
And Redshirts...I guess I was expecting too much, seeing as how it won a Hugo and all. I mean, it was fun, but it wasn't that much better than, say, Ready Player One. Pretty good, but overrated is how I would describe Old Man's War and John Scalzi's work in general (though I have only read the two books, so maybe I'm not giving him a fair shake. He was, after all, involved in making Stargate Universe, which probably would have been my favorite Stargate series if it had gone four or five seasons.) |
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Posted: 3/6/2017 3:43:40 AM EDT
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Guess I'm gonna have to be 'that guy'. I liked Old Man's War well enough, but I wouldn't call it on par with Armor or Starship Troopers. Probably a bit better than than Honor Harrington (Scalzi's a better wordsmith than Weber). And Redshirts...I guess I was expecting too much, seeing as how it won a Hugo and all. I mean, it was fun, but it wasn't that much better than, say, Ready Player One. Pretty good, but overrated is how I would describe Old Man's War and John Scalzi's work in general (though I have only read the two books, so maybe I'm not giving him a fair shake. He was, after all, involved in making Stargate Universe, which probably would have been my favorite Stargate series if it had gone four or five seasons.) IMO Ready Player One was far better. I found Redshirts to be...decent, but hardly anything that deserved an award. OMW was good, but he seems to be getting more and more derivative as time goes by. |
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Posted: 6/19/2017 3:32:47 PM EDT
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I read it based on recommendations here on arfcom. The narrator was good and the story was good enough to keep me engaged, with a few cool elements--but overall average. I have not picked up anything else in the series or by this author.
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Posted: 6/20/2017 10:39:47 AM EDT
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Once, a Hugo meant a great read.
Now, pretty much means "SJW trophy work". I include Redhirts in that category. So, no more Barefoot Johnny for me. YMMV. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 11:18:03 AM EDT
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I found Old Man's War to be fun and imaginative. Forever War was thoughtful, has some of my favorite book physics, and I loved how far out it got towards the end. Starship troopers was exciting, intelligent, and showy. I wanted to like Armor, but I just couldn't get into it.
I tend to avoid sequels written after an initially successful sci-if book that I like. I think ai'm still suffering from trauma from the Dune series. 
While I'm glad I read the first OMW, I feel like I'm not missing much by staying away from the sequels. |
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Posted: 6/23/2017 5:17:37 PM EDT
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If you like this type of book, I would highly recommend Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos.
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