{"id":2836,"date":"2011-03-20T16:42:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T21:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/03\/20\/reading-david-weber-on-my-mobile-phone\/"},"modified":"2011-03-20T16:42:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T21:42:06","slug":"reading-david-weber-on-my-mobile-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/03\/20\/reading-david-weber-on-my-mobile-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading David Weber on my mobile phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cover<\/p>\n


\nAshes of Victory & War of Honor
\nDavid Weber
\nKindle editions
\npublished in 2000 and 2002
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\nBear with me because this is relevant. This January, about a year or so after everybody else, I finally broke down and got myself a smart phone on a not too onerous subscription plan. The phone I got was a HTC Wildfire, a dear little thing with some annoyances, but nothing major and because it was an Android phone, it had a version of Amazon’s Kindle available for it. Earlier this month I got this, then was looking around for some free books to put on it. Got the usual set of the Classics from Project Gutenberg<\/a> of course, but I also wanted something more modern, something light and preferably science fiction, something I could read on the tram without having to pay too much attention to it.\n<\/p>\n

\nEnter David Weber and his Honor Harrington<\/cite> series. Back in the nineties I devoured those books, but even then I knew they were not by any measure good<\/em> books: wish fulfillment war porn with a severe case of hero worship and occasional dodgy politics and more than occasional dodgy science. Even on a sentence and paragraph level Weber is often just not very good: awkward dialogue, oodles of infodumps just as the spacewars heat up and in general too much verbiage with stock phrases repeated over and over again. Yet for all that I kept reading. I was going to just read a bit of Ashes of Victory<\/cite> just to test Kindle on my phone, yet here I am having read both that and War of Honor<\/cite>. Weber must be doing something right.\n<\/p>\n

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Ashes of Victory & War of Honor David Weber Kindle editions published in 2000 and 2002 Bear with me because this is relevant. This January, about a year or so after everybody else, I finally broke down and got myself a smart phone on a not too onerous subscription plan. The phone I got was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,22],"tags":[1314,1316,1315],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-science-fiction","tag-ashes-of-victory","tag-david-weber","tag-war-of-honor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}