[LMB] OT: ISO Calibrated Book Recommendations

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:04:00 -0400 (EDT), alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca 
wrote:

 > I read all three in the trilogy to figure out why I hated
 > them. Technically, they're well-written, except for the fact
 > that one whole class of character is cardboard. But morally,
 > ethically, and in terms of respect for the reader, they have
 > major problems. IMHO Scalzi's hommage to Heinlein consisted
 > of taking all that was bad in Heinlein and removing almost
 > anything that was good.

I've just started the first volume, and so far it impresses me more as 
an hommage to Haldeman's _"Forever war" than to Heinlein. And I like 
Haldeman. So it goes.
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