Uroboros wrote:hanuman wrote:Cauldron is an awesome book, and anyone who differs from me can go stick it where the sun doesn't shine.
This is a directly antagonistic opinion, and it isn't needed at all.
What the book suffered from was a distinct lack of editing. It's evident not really by the continuity errors, nor the teleporting character, but the spelling and grammar errors. If I am remembering correctly, there was even a superimposed sentence somewhere in there as well.
It also felt like first-draft writing for much of the first half, particularly the Cachet/Anton scenes. It took until they arrived on Mesa to actually feel that Cachet and Zilwicki were actually themselves, and not a Post Diaspora version of the Hecklers from the Muppet Show.
However, the end half of the book is very tight. I enjoyed pretty much every bit of it, and I think the end of the book is one of, if not the, best I've seen written from him up until this point. Now, unless we want Baen thinking it's peachy to put out half-finished products, and we, as consumers, will just buy it blindly, we should stand by our induvidual rights as customers and address what we see as issues so they don't crop up again.
Hey, I didn't mean to be antagonist, nor did I say the complainers shouldn't complain - it's their right to do so if they wish. But this was not meant as a highway for them. I honestly enjoyed the book, faults and all, and feel that the complainers are making a mountain out of nothing.
