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John perry becomes a soldier at the age of 75 when he joins the colonial defense force. The reader is brought into a new and exciting reality while simultaneously gaining insight into the way the human condition is changed by the experience of aging. ... Read More
To be honest, i am still reeling from the final chapter. If you like military sci-fi this book is for you.
Cons
The slavering devotion to this book makes me slightly ill. It is clear this author has not experienced war in the slightest. It's obvious a left-winging liberal wrote this book. This book is one of the paragons of the genre?
Old man's war' is just a generic mil-scifi (scifi in the most superficial sense) written for young adults. The science fiction part is probably one of the lamest i have read in a long time. For a reader like me, who lurks on the darker more speculativ... Read More
The main character is untouchable and emotionless. There is no real danger, and the characters are all stereotype characters. The dialog is terrible. There are a few characters that befriend the main character, but they are basically just introduced a... Read More
John scalzi's writing is terrible and flat. Comparisons to heinlein are nowhere near the mark imho. Scalzi is either unable or unwilling to write with that kind of relevance.
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Quality
This is what sci fi should be like up there with the classics
Finishing this book left me with the same feeling i had when i read the forever war years ago
I am now looking for the next in series
Competitiveness
The only thing that kept this from being a fivestar book for me was the middle section
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My angry feelings on this book can be summed up in two sentences 1 im angry there hasnt been a sequel since 2015 and 2 im angry netflix has yet to make it into a movieseries
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I put off reading this book because i usually prefer not to read books written in the first person
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It was like forever war and starship troopers
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Very much in the mode of heinlein’s starship troopers except instead of a bunch of fresh kids it’s old farts looking for a new start
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New tech but much of the same problems of making a hostile universe safe for human colonization
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I put this one off for entirely too long
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Last really great one was the long run by daniel keys moran
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No however it reminds me of when i was a kid reading space adventure stories
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