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Title: Weber's worst
Review: Sadly, unless you are a dedicated and brain washed member of the Weber cult, you will almost certainly find yourself skimming this over done nightmare of a novel, desperately hoping for the space battles and action that made the series worth reading in the first place - and when the action does come, you will find it sparse and unfullfilling.To date the series was characterized by excellent military action set against a believable political background. In this latest, most self indulgent, episode we are flooded by hundreds of pages of boring and over written petty politics, while the few battle scenes are dealt with in a few paragraphs - in short Weber has tragically reveresed the formula that made him a great military sci-fi author. The entire 800 page novel desperately needs to be cut down to about 250 pages, and Weber desperately needs to find an editor with the guts to get him under control and force him to return to the early style which made him worth reading in the first place.
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