Quote Originally Posted by warty goblin View Post
Once you power through the first book, in which nothing happens for an exceedingly large number of pages, and when something finally does start to happen, it grinds to a halt for a massive info-dump, the series is a lot of fun. Right until it becomes really boring, which is probably a good time to stop reading.

Also, it's David Weber, and that means things will be italicized. So if you can't stand that, I suggest reading something else. If nothing else, at the end of the day one is always left with the baffling question of why a person is reading a "Horatio Hornblower but ___' book, instead of just cutting to the chase and reading an actual Horatio Hornblower book.
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