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 | | Courageous (The Lost Fleet, Book 3) by Jack Campbell ISBN-10: 9780441015672 ISBN-10: 0-441-01567-0 ISBN-13: 9780441015672 ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01567-2 Paperback 2007-12-18 Ace Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description The Lost Fleet continues its perilous journey home. Badly damaged and low on supplies, the Alliance Fleet is raiding Syndic mines for raw materials-and Captain "Black Jack" Geary hopes they can continue to remain one step ahead of their enemies. But the Syndics are the least of Geary's worries when he learns of the existence of aliens with the power to annihilate the human race. | ||
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Good stuff Good military sci fi series so far. Probably the best I have read in a long time. I especially like the portrayal of the military concepts of honor, tradition and selflessness that make our military so strong. I am not as concerned with the on and off again moodiness of Co-President Rione as some of the other reviewers have commented , However, the main character CAPT Geary needs to quit having so much self doubt. No effective commander can function properly and responsibly with as much self doubt as is constantly attributed to our hero. He needs to get a grip on his life and move forward. Sure anyone in battle has doubts but you need to have confidence in your abilities, in your subordinates - officers and NCOs to give you the information that allows you to make informed decisions. If you have that much doubt in your own abilities and your decision making then you should relinquish your command. He needs to pick a good Executive Officer (not just his flag ship commander) and a battle staff to assist in decision making rather than simply relying on a "virtual conference debate" among ship commanders. The books otherwise are good reading and have really keep up my interest. I await the next books in the series and look forward to finding out more about the constant reference to the "Aliens" that keeps popping up. | ||
Enjoyable but I am getting annoyed This is my first space opera series and it was fun. The premise is good, excellent. My complaint is in the extreme irritation in an author who continues to repeat sections via wholesale cut and paste. It is almost as though 20% of the book feels as though its a repeat. I find myself rolling my eyes. The characters who whine is ridiculous. The hero who is not asserting leadership and lets knuckleheads walk over him is ridiculous. The author who produces cardboard love scenes so stiff they could break like uncooked spaghetti is kinda amusing but I give him a wave for trying. It feels he was commanded to do so by his publisher. The battle scenes were extra long. The bitchout sessions by his lover were getting tedious. This was not going in a positive direction at all by books end. On a scale 1 to 5, Five is Best: Villian: 4 Plot: 3 Creativity: 3 Uniqueness: 2.5 Humor: 1 Bringing the sexy: 0 Passion: 3 stars (for duty & honor ) Dullness setting in on Series: 3 Laughs & Amusement factor: 1 Silly Whiners getting on your nerves: 5 Lazy Author repeating too much from prior chapters: 5 The investment has been made now and I want to know what is going to happen next. I bought the first 3 as as books on tape (audiobooks). Now that I know the author has been a little lazy, I will not invest in an audiobook on book #4. I will buy that as paperback because I do want to know what happened but not at $24.00. If the pattern continues, there will be a lot of cut and paste, not a lot of plot advancement and the characters chasing their tails and not going anywhere except someplace pretty durn depressing. For that I can read in an afternoon in Barnes and Noble and not even buy the paperback for #4. | ||
ruffled around the edges Though extremly well written and graphically depicted beyond all expectations, i did find that much of what happens in the book must be simply accepted. For instance, HOW BIG are some of these ships, compared to actual objects, foot ball stadium? and is there artificial gravity or do they float around inside the ships. What's the propulsion system? does it have a name, is it gravity fed, ect, ect... Though these questions seem incredibly important, the books seem to glance off of the implied incredibly well. | ||
Wonderfull Mil-Sci-Fi Wonderfull book, wonderfull series. Very deep and beliveble characters and very realistic space phisics, in a story arc very well planned. I didnt want reaching the end of the book because so delicious and please was the reading. Well written, tied together, lots of themes developing that will lead to future story lines, without sacrificing the current book. I have great hopes for the next one. Go Black Jack! | ||
You could start reading the series with this one. You might want to read the books in THE LOST FLEET series in order. But if for some reason you can't get #1 THE LOST FLEET: DAUNTLESS or #2 THE LOST FLEET: FEARLESS -- you can start with this one without fear of being bewildered or confused. Even the characterizations are crystal clear so that you aren't wondering why this person does this or "who" this other person is. And after you've read COURAGEOUS, you'll still want to read the previous ones if you haven't already. In fact, you may want to reread the previous ones! This series is Military SF at its best - but it's not all plot. It doesn't read like the worst of the Arthurian Legend novels, detailing one battle after another until you don't care who wins. Each battle is set up perfectly so that the personalities of the Captains commanding ships in Geary's Fleet figure into the orders Geary gives. It even matters, politically, who Geary is sleeping with (and who not) all for good reasons rooted in character as well as politics. If you've had a little too much Fantasy interdimensional battle novels lately, you should try this one. The writing is clean, compelling -- and trust me, it's hard to write a mid-series novel that's as "transparent" as this one to the compelling forces detailed in previous novels without spoiling the current one. This Series takes its place beside Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.'s LENSMAN SERIES, but unlike the Lensman Series, THE LOST FLEET is not "space opera" at all. It's more like the Dragnet, or Columbo of Interstellar Warfare with a dash of THE DRESDEN FILES plotting thrown in. THE LOST FLEET: COURAGEOUS is just pure enjoyment. | ||