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Originally Posted by LT7A
I've read a few books by David Weber and I'm pretty sure I've read at least one of the books in that series. I've definitely enjoyed his writing, although the last one I had to put down because he engages in such a profound amount of detail and background on character after character, there just wasn't enough story in between the descriptions, haha. I think he imagines prolifically and it was just too much for me. But that was just one book, one time. I'm going to see if my local library has the series. They will also order them in for me, book by book, so I can read them in order.
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You got that right. This has come up often in discussion on the David Weber Forums page where readers discuss his various works in a format not unlike this forum we all love so much. I think the consensus is that the detail isn't put on paper to simply fill space. Those details are important to understand the relationships among characters and concepts. Deeper understanding of these relationships gives much greater impact to the decisions those characters make, their actions and the events that take place. It melds the story together in my head so much better if I try to keep up with all the characters, what they're thinking, past events in their lives...indeed the very detail that is given up front in the pages dedicated to character development.
https://forums.davidweber.net/
Of course it doesn't seem that way if/when the character you just spent 10 minutes reading up on gets whacked in the next chapter!
Aside from that, the man has a talent for gripping readers and weaving fantastic story lines in such a way as to make them intriguing enough to keep us coming back for the next work. I got caught up in his Honorverse series and read deep into it. Eventually I decided Hard Military Science Fiction was just too much and so I stopped on that one. Maybe I'll return to it in the future as well but for now, Safehold will keep me entertained in that space for quite some time to come.
There will be another title in this series if Mr. Weber can stay healthy. It's likely to tie up many of the loose ends and the crazy things that happened in the end of the last installment! When he is within a few months of releasing the title, he will start posting what everyone calls snippits of the new text in the forum mentioned above (search for snippits). Let me just tell you those snippits in the past regarding soon to be released installments in this series were hella exciting and something myself and thousands of other readers out there really, really enjoyed.
Anyway...happy reading!
-Kevin