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ActonofMAM t1_isxk9uq wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Why are there no popular character focused Sci Fi series? by DapperTalk2702

Weber tries hard, but sometimes you need a machete to find your way through all the exposition to the Crowning Moments of Awesome.

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[deleted] t1_isxl42x wrote

You could just skip all the chapters about the enemy politics, and go skim the Wikipedia page on the French Revolution.

Because that's what the author did, yuk yuk yuk

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ActonofMAM t1_isxlkjb wrote

Weber was at one point a history grad student working toward a PhD. It's his tragic flaw: to him, all the back story stuff IS interesting. He was also absent the day the "show, don't tell" unit was covered in writing class.

But I'll forgive him one heck of a lot for "Ooops," said Shannon Forraker.

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