Just For Fun: Rose Gets Funny

ywing14 wrote:I'm always a little bit jealous of people who started with OBS.

I was flying to Hungary to visit family and my mom purchased me A Short Victorious War (great call on her part since like since like 20 years later I am posting on the author's website forum). But I sorta had to work my way back and read the other books after that.

You should be. You should be green with envy!

Gangrenous grene.

roseandheather wrote:

CmdrAthenaAprilist wrote:
OK, so what about the Torch series? (among my favorites in the Honorverse)

CoS: ::joins the 'oh look Victor's improvising again' club::

ToF: ::learns that this is not a fan club::

CoG: ::joins the 'Victor you're fucking insane' club::



To be honest, that entire trilogy is, for me, just a blur of Victor Cachat being fucking awesome, Michael Oversteegen being utterly hilarious, and a lot of crying. Oh, and Victor and Thandi in bed together.

Don't forget Berry and Hugh Arai

roseandheather wrote:FiE: boy, Honor has awesome friends. also i love sonja now.

And thank God for her friends. She'll need them for all of the enemies she seems to effortlessly make, behind the scenes, by simply doing her job well.

I never could get over how vehemently someone like Honor, who is everything you'd want a naval officer and a citizen of the Star Kingdom to be, could be so hated.

cthia wrote:

roseandheather wrote:FiE: boy, Honor has awesome friends. also i love sonja now.

And thank God for her friends. She'll need them for all of the enemies she seems to effortlessly make, behind the scenes, by simply doing her job well.

I never could get over how vehemently someone like Honor, who is everything you'd want a naval officer and a citizen of the Star Kingdom to be, could be so hated.

It's exactly because she's everything a naval officer should be that the mediocrities hate her; she shows them up for the narrow-minded, full of themselves, privileged, time servers that they are!

ywing14 wrote:I'm always a little bit jealous of people who started with OBS.

I was flying to Hungary to visit family and my mom purchased me A Short Victorious War (great call on her part since like since like 20 years later I am posting on the author's website forum). But I sorta had to work my way back and read the other books after that.

Did you ever get a chance to tell mom it wasn't... such a short or victorious war?

cthia wrote:

roseandheather wrote:FiE: boy, Honor has awesome friends. also i love sonja now.

And thank God for her friends. She'll need them for all of the enemies she seems to effortlessly make, behind the scenes, by simply doing her job well.

I never could get over how vehemently someone like Honor, who is everything you'd want a naval officer and a citizen of the Star Kingdom to be, could be so hated.

Because Honor is a Republican Party Hero in a Liberal Democrat Party Universe

Nimitz

There is a politics section for comments like that.

Nimitz1923PD wrote:

cthia wrote:
And thank God for her friends. She'll need them for all of the enemies she seems to effortlessly make, behind the scenes, by simply doing her job well.

I never could get over how vehemently someone like Honor, who is everything you'd want a naval officer and a citizen of the Star Kingdom to be, could be so hated.

Because Honor is a Republican Party Hero in a Liberal Democrat Party Universe

Nimitz

Only a genie could have stood up to the barrage of excrement thrown at Honor in FiE. It was as if Weber was seriously pissed that he couldn't kill her off. So he decided to make that baseborn bitch wish she were dead! LOL

He used everything but the kitchen sink on her.

I love the density of action in that book. And the internal strife of Harrington. No military could break or beat her. But the civilian contingent of her own planet was driving her mad. She was broken when she left for Grayson. And the Graysons didn't like it one bit.

It was only because of the Graysons that that alliance didn't dissolve.

cthia wrote:Only a genie could have stood up to the barrage of excrement thrown at Honor in FiE. It was as if Weber was seriously pissed that he couldn't kill her off. So he decided to make that baseborn bitch wish she were dead! LOL

He used everything but the kitchen sink on her.

I love the density of action in that book. And the internal strife of Harrington. No military could break or beat her. But the civilian contingent of her own planet was driving her mad. She was broken when she left for Grayson. And the Graysons didn't like it one bit.

It was only because of the Graysons that that alliance didn't dissolve.

Heck, the High Ridge government did all they could to give Grayson the finger and send them the route of Erewhon.

Arrogance was not a monopoly the Mandarins enjoyed. Perhaps then, we shouldn't hold anything against the Solarian people.