Finished reading David Weber's book On Basilisk Station. It's a military scifi book about starship commander Honor Harrington who is banished to Basilisk Station, place where all the miserable failures are sent to serve, after she failed in wargames. If that wouldn't be bad enough, the enemy is planning to capture Basilisk Station (with a cunning plan™).
It ain't the best book in the world, but it's still a fun little story. There were lots of things that annoyed me in the book. Most characters were pretty shallow. Main character is almost omnipotent and all-knowing Mary Sue type of person. Author goes off topic few times – like in the middle of final battle, two ships are chasing each others and reader suddenly gets a long history lesson about the ships propulsion systems. Never the less, despite it's flaws I liked it.
On Basilisk Station is the first book in the series, so it might be little bit raw and rough on the edges, but it got my attention and I am definitely going to check out more of Mr. Weber's books. Read a better review about the book in http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-743-43571-0.html they only gave it 3 out of 10 points 😀
The book (and many more) is available for free from publishers website http://www.baen.com/library/
More nitpicking about the end battle, contains a spoiler so http://rot13.org/
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Edit: Tuesday, July 28 2009
Finished reading the 2nd book in the series, The Honor of the Queen and it was definitely better than the 1st book. Honor Harrington isn't such a mary sue anymore and Honorverse is looking more and more interesting. 3rd book is also freely available, but maybe I should buy it, paperback costs only 6,20 € in my local bookstore…
:hi:.Nice link.. I’ll try it out later though.. it’ll probably work for mobloggers :up:
Here’s a direct link to the 1st book http://www.webscription.net/pc-304-1-on-basilisk-station.aspx2nd book is better, but it’s always better to start from the beginning.
I’ve started reading Mother of Demons by Eric Flint but as I’m a fast reader I’ll be checking that out mighty soon :D.. Very mobile compatible if you read it online 🙂