books to make my flist's heads explode: John Ringo

this made me laugh all the way through. I don't know if I can actually read the books, since I see Ringo on the convention circuit and might not be able to keep a straight face next time I see him if I do.

Also this seems like just about the maximum recommended level of exposure to prose like that >.>

RINGO can't even keep a straight face when the books are mentioned in his presence. So you shouldn't feel that you should have to. :-p

Thanks for posting this. Pretty good review, in the fer-what-its-worth category.
Me, I love the Kildar series - "Paladin of Shadows" just doesn't work.
Me? Mike Harmon isn't me, but I know him, worked with him. understand him.
Your reaction, and many of the reactions on this thread, remind me of the movie "Babe"
Think of how the sheep think about the sheepdogs.
{grin}This sheep dog is reading the sheeple comments and chuckling.

Kildar is a look into the Darkness. A Sheeple looks at it and shudders.

Me, I get both nostalgia and horror, "at least I wasn't this bad".

Yep, John is thinking about "how the world is, and think of how it ought to be."

{BSEG} Me, I just buy the E-arcs as soon as they get released.

You know, you really ought to pick up the "Looking Glass" series. Those are action-adventure in the Heinlein juvenile style, updated to the 21st Century.
I'd really like to see what you think of "Princess of Wands"

Sleep well
Ed the Loadsmasher

Great stuff, I always use to wonder when I came across the John Norman
books when I was in my teens how these books could be sold out of every drug store in the country when they said that the only good woman was a slave and that all women secretly wanted to be slaves. But obviously John has been reincarnated (if hes dead) or his muse has moved on. Of course the first names are the same so, perhaps .... lol.
On the other hand, YIng and Yang baby, Ying and Yang.
We all have a dark side and better to leave it in your mind.

I see a lot of people trying to deny the real world.
A) are there hookers forced to work as sex slaves all over the world? CHECK
B) do you either have to have a lot of conditioning or be seriously screwed up to kill someone and end there life? CHECK
C) have warrior/leaders throughout history founded empires, kept harems, built and destroyed acording to there whims and thoughts. CHECK
D) do s&m, bondage, fetish, and swinger clubs exist in every major city in North america and the world (above or below public perception)plus a lot of the small towns? CHECK
E) Are small wars and blackops run every day somewhere in the world, do those with the pull and the muscle use it to get concesions, even from the superpowers? CHECK
F)Is a least 3/4 of the world populated by countries and places that regard women as at best broodmares, at worst chattel and disposable? CHECK

so I'm a little confused, are you unhappy because he's writing about the real world and just had the bad judgement to actually get it printed
or mad because he pulled the blanket off your heads?

P.S. At present the West is involved in a war with an enemy that thinks if he dies killing non-belivers he will go to paradice where he will be serviced by 99 virgins that are his personal harem
(kind of puts things in perspective, doesn't it?)