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Loading... Brothers in Arms (edition 2001)by Ben Weaver
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book has quite a few elements that ought to render it fairly typical fare. The picked on "lower classes" turn out to be especially able to adapt to being soldiers, the soldiers are trained before a sneak attack when their training is accelerated and they're thrown into combat too soon and so on. There are even aliens who make the training machines that make the soldiers superhuman. Literally. There are some nice touches though - the training isn't infallible, the training to help offset PTSD is missed, disastrously so. The prejudice against the "gennyboy" leads to a mutiny and so forth. I'd rate this higher, but it's told as a memoir - it makes moments like "I looked down and her K-bar was sticking out of my chest" rather less gripping than they should be, because you know he's going to survive, it's more a question of how. no reviews | add a review
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Scott St. Andrew is a first year cadet at South Point Academy on Exeter, a rocky moon circling a distant colony planet. All he has to do is survive the toughest, most gruelling training program in the military. Then he'll be qualified to become an officer in the Guard Corps and be on his way off his filthy, poisonous planet and into the Terran Alliance elite. But Scott's chance of being the one in a thousand to escape the colonist destiny is rapidly disappearing. His genetic flaws (scars, no memory boosting or physical enhancement) make him one of the weakest in his squad and an inevitable target for ritual hazing. And events are about to spiral completely out of his control as the long simmering resentment between the colonial worlds and the rich Terran Alliance flares into open violence and rebellion. Now every soldier has to chose his side--and survive a hellishly accelerated training to join the deep space fighting before there is nothing left to fight for. No library descriptions found. |
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If I could, I would sue the writer for emotional damages and time wasted. The writing style is far below par and if there is any worse anti-hero than Scott I have yet got to encounter him/her.
After about 100 pages I couldn't take it anymore and tossed the book away. Even if the rest of the book (and/or trilogy) would be nobel prize quality it just would not make up for the torture of reading this first part. Avoid at all costs, unless you're into self-infliction of psychological pain! Your brain will be very thankful.
I'd rather wear a pink tutu and let myself get bombarded with overripe tomatos for a whole day on some marketplace than read one more single word. ( )