On Basilisk Station (David Weber) - this is the first Honor book, right? Then I read it. It was ok, but I didn't feel compelled to read the rest of the series. Do they get better as they go on? I did love his Path of the Fury.

The first book was a little hard to get into but the series just kept getting better. My only problem is that I am OCD about not skimming and I have had to force myself to not read all the technical stuff over and over until I understood it. It really wasn't that important to the story line. I enjoyed the series even when I was at the peak of my OCD but once I learned to skim over the technical parts it became very easy to read. He does a very good job of showing all sides of conflicts so that there are very few truly "good guys" or "bad guys". Just people doing the best in whatever situation they are stuck in.


Hunting Party (Elizabeth Moon) - I didn't finish it. I liked the 1st part that was on the ship, but when the action switched to the planet, the change of pace lost me. And I never read any of Moon's other military SF. Is it great?

I didn't enjoy the Hunting Party much. But her latest series has been a lot of fun. Again she is back to painting memorable characters.

The Sheepfarmer's Daughter (Elizabeth Moon)
Divided Allegiance (Elizabeth Moon)
Oath of Gold (Elizabeth Moon) - I read this in a omnibus edition. Pretty good, although a tad weird/preachy at the very end.

This was my introduction to Fantasy. It was probably the perfect series to suck me in.

The Magic of Recluce (L.E. Modesitt, Jr.) - pretty awful/juvenile IMO

That was a different little series. Nothing terribly exciting and very understated. But I have felt differently about woodworking since I read it. There was something about it that touched me a little and made me think.