I'm no John Ringo expert. Heck, like I've mentioned before on other threads I don't really read Baen Book (I've gotten better at that, by the
way). I'm certainly not going to read neo-con revenge-porn (the first three seasons of 24 was enough). But I have to say that I wasn't as turned away
from John Ringo's work as I was when I flipped through Von Neumann's War.
Story goes, from what I understand, alien robot things take over Mars in order to take over Earth. And sheer American cussidness beats them back like the
dirty stinking foreign invaders they are. Rah. And it's not like it's a bad idea. There's probably a very good idea in there. But Ringo and his
co-writer just hacked it up.
And let me say that it wasn't the politics of it that turned me away from this book. I have read Vernor Vinge and he's some sort of Poul Anderson
libertarian capitalist. I've read and enjoyed Poul Anderson. No, no. It was the bad writing. Just, just awful.
There must be something about John Ringo that makes people come back to his work. Maybe this was just a particularly bad book of his. Every writer has
something that's awful.
But this is it for me and Ringo. No more will I feel guilty about avoiding him. No more. Much like the Wolves of Calla was the last Stephen King book I will
ever read, I am done with him.
-murmur
Oh, and, um, sorry about the rant.
way). I'm certainly not going to read neo-con revenge-porn (the first three seasons of 24 was enough). But I have to say that I wasn't as turned away
from John Ringo's work as I was when I flipped through Von Neumann's War.
Story goes, from what I understand, alien robot things take over Mars in order to take over Earth. And sheer American cussidness beats them back like the
dirty stinking foreign invaders they are. Rah. And it's not like it's a bad idea. There's probably a very good idea in there. But Ringo and his
co-writer just hacked it up.
And let me say that it wasn't the politics of it that turned me away from this book. I have read Vernor Vinge and he's some sort of Poul Anderson
libertarian capitalist. I've read and enjoyed Poul Anderson. No, no. It was the bad writing. Just, just awful.
There must be something about John Ringo that makes people come back to his work. Maybe this was just a particularly bad book of his. Every writer has
something that's awful.
But this is it for me and Ringo. No more will I feel guilty about avoiding him. No more. Much like the Wolves of Calla was the last Stephen King book I will
ever read, I am done with him.
-murmur
Oh, and, um, sorry about the rant.