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The Last Centurion
Topic Started: Sep 15 2008, 10:43 AM (275 Views)
Morrell
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So, I just read John Ringo's "The Last Centurion". Any one else read it? Anyone interested in a review or spoilers or anything?
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SladeJack
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I've never read it but it always seemed interesting. I wouldn't say no to a down-and-dirty.
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Makkabee
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John's a fun guy to have a drink with, but I kind of drifted away from his books after a while. Felt like I wasn't really getting anything new out of them, or at least nothing new that I liked. They did get more overtly political in a way that turned me off as time went on.
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SladeJack
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I only read the one Posleen book--Watch on the Rhine. I didn't pick up any others because I find the idea of a bunch of flesh-eating monsters descending on the Earth and eating us by the billion too disturbing. I gather that there's more story to it than that in some of the other books--I know we get revenge on the Darhel for throwing us under the bus, and not just from WotR's epilogue, either--but I've been soured on it. And it's not like it was the best written book of all time, though I did find the back story of the Good German as told through the flashbacks extremely poignant. In fact I was probably reading the whole thing as much to get that story as for any other reason.
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