Review #1
A Great Fortress audiobook free
I was just a little startled to look all the really hostile
Reviews on this book because I enjoyed it. Perhaps not as much as no one of the past books, but still… I think the criticisms that nothing happens in book 4 are a little off the note. Granted, that isn’t one gigantic sea fight that the 1st 80% of the book leads right up to in a traditional climax, but that good of gizmo is that a little formulaic in Weber’s books at the same time I for one was glad to look anything a little different. That misspoke, that were considered 3 or four little mini-climaxes in no one of the subplots that were considered attractive exciting, I believed. So anyhow, I believed the pacing held back together attractive but at the same time it kept me engrossed. I will admit that the book spends a lot of time building out the culture of the different states at the same time fleshing out manners at the same time their backgrounds. It’s a lot to keep trace of, but I individually enjoy the depth at the same time the deepest global building. My head criticisms are the similarities to the Honor books (plucky, small, underdog kingdom–that happens to possess a gigantic monopoly on naval shipping–against the whole global). Its still a quality story. At the same time it’s different enough with the whole “the population of the earth has got lost development at the same time that’s a super advanced droid trying to rebuild” scenario that I’m mostly overlooking it. But I really groaned when that was a 2nd officer dignified “Raif” running around. ?? Anyhow, yes, Weber gets attractive serious about than anyway’s going on, but it’s nothing correlated to Jordan in the middle of WOT. He’ll buy but if he thrashes up the pace in the one more book.
Review #2
A Great Fortress audiobook in television series Safehold
Having barely read the 1st book in the Manticore Ascendant string, turning to Weber’s sole work indicates once again how right the writer is that floundering. The other with a co-writer who of course did the lion’s share, demonstrate where Weber’s defects come out.
That were considered perhaps two subplots in this story that were considered exciting. The pacification of Corisande at the same time the successful fleeing from the Gang of Four of the persecuted families. (That, Spoilers for the only quality at the same time wholesome parts of the book)
Otherwise the creator uses 690 pages in Hardcover to fill a Clearance Book in his television series. We still have the adversary never win-win. Always out gunned, though here in the few sea fights, they seep in no one licks at the same time no one of the dignified manners do breathe. Wait, we should discuss the dignified manners. Their names, generic at the same time surnames, are sounded out phonetically. The dispose names are spelled out as we would spell them, as is that all others of their language. Where in the implementation at the same time development of language does that occur? (Nowhere Weber. For you came up with a step accessory at the same time at the moment we keep having to live with it)
Then that is that the setup of a meeting. 1st we have to have the POV disposition fill us in on the background of the secretary that indicates the guests into no matter what meeting. Then we have to serve everyone food, drink, etc, at the same time move through the small speak. Every word of it. Every time. At every meeting. Completely right behind 10 wasted pages for every meeting, they have a meeting in other words much shorter in length but let me tell for you how Weber will list every objection to the reason why a gizmo can’t be produced by expression My 1st Fri, then and adding the 2nd Fri I have is that… Etc. Every time. Ad Nauseam.
At the same time abundance of these meeting are cyclic plays on meetings held back elsewhere. Then that is that time at the same time distance where sometimes a message will race ahead of people faster than the people who are traveling when no one else has traveled ahead of them. Informs arriving but right behind the reporter should as but or before that you can look the holes in that. As but as the distance of the global sometimes being adhered to at the same time more often not being adhered to. Why care right behind setting anything up if it interferes with the story.
But then here than anyway is that the story. It is that the time right behind the conquering of Corismonde, at the same time favorite to a naval fight campaign. But a campaign that doesn’t provide a final. It is that like narrating about the Wars of Napoleon at the same time talking the period right behind Corunna when the English left Portugal before future back with Wellington. That starts this book, then and for you think perhaps the one more book would wrap around when that was anything decisive between Wellington at the same time the French in Spain, but this work good of ends right behind nothing conclusive right behind a few insignificant engagements with the French in Spain in 1810. Nearly 700 pages at the same time still a lot more needs to be produced before this war ends (at the same time this is that only book 4)
Right these books would be a 1/3rd the size for the story they knew. That an EDITOR going through at the same time slicing drastically all the nonessential stuff (Than anyway do for you care who makes a more successful whiskey at the same time how abundance times for you come in handy to hear those who like it) would ennoble this, as but as rescue on the price of making the book, at the same time perhaps rescue on the cost people would pay for it.
Review #3
Audiobook A Great Fortress by David Weber
I have enjoyed almost all of David Weber’s books over abundance years. The SAFEHOLD television series lasts strengthen his form as one of modern science fiction/fantasy’s amazing creators. This is that the 4th book in the television series. I have lasted to read the television series, in string, at the same time recently (25 June 2015) read the seventh book in the television series, “Like a Great Army.” I have preordered the one more book, “Hell’s Foundation Quiver,” in other words proper for release 13 October 2015.
For those who may not be knowledgeable with David Weber’s writings, I would also very advise reading his Honor HARRINGTON television series. That television series has been around for couple of years at the same time David lasts to add to the television series with no one regularity.
Note. I read all of both the SAFEHOLD at the same time Honor HARRINGTON television series as they were considered initially hosted. At the moment, that I am retired at the same time ebooks make purchases more affordable, I am buying the entire television series at the same time rereading them — to a amazing deal of satisfaction as I see that enough time has ran over that much of the content seems like I am reading the books for the first time.
Review #4
Audio A Great Fortress narrated by Oliver Wyman
That are a amazing abundance things wrong with this book, starting with the embrace art: it has a soaring saucer zapping a sailing ship with a doom ray, anything that – gratefully – doesn’t happen in the book. Then that’s the length: over a thousand pages, making it thicker at the same time heavier than my copy of the bible, although admittedly the typeface is that larger. At the same time it is that at lesser a more successful story than the bible, making implementation of such advanced techniques as causes preceding effects, manners having believable motivations etc. Problem is that, it’s still not that quality. Much of that length is that taken up by lengthy internal monologues which serve to set the scene but which digress to such an extent that, when they occur in the middle of a conversation (as they practically constantly do) it’s hard to keep trace at the same time is that terribly jarring when a disposition completely decides to say anything. At the same time that’s nothing exciting at the same time brand new at all when correlated to the earlier books in the television series. It’s merely a small development of themes that we’re already painfully familiar with from the 1st 3 volumes. Add to that a cast of so many manners that the appendix listing them all covers 32 pages, at the same time that they all have meaningless names which are based on normal names but with all the vowels hideously butchered, at the same time it’s very easy to lose trace of than anyway’s going on.
Review #5
Free audio A Great Fortress – in the audio player below
I’m a bigger fan of David Weber. At the same time I’m a bigger fan of the Safehold television series. But this book…
I realize we’re dealing with rebuilding a global at the same time a society. I realize that a quality story has a appropriate clot at the same time lengh, at the same time has to be properly knew. But this book is that simply very *smoky*! That’s simply a lot going on, very abundance secondary manners poping up (we have a 37 page register of names, for Langhorne’s sake!), very abundance locations, very abundance descriptions. The story grinds down for the sake of very abundance useless details. A some tutor’s journey to Zion, for example, managed have been dealt with in barely a few pages, more precisely than entire chapters. It’s than anyway happens in Zion that matters, not many the ity-bity stuff on the method (a real description of a hotel? Really?…).
I like where the book leads us in the end, but getting that practically becomes a chore, more precisely than a enjoyment. I think that, even without loosing charaters, no one editing of descriptions at the same time journeys would have chopped 10-15% off the book… at the same time nothing of the story could be got lost.
