Buddy/Group Read: A Few Good Men by Sarah A. Hoyt

[Greyweather]

I'm at the halfway mark. A whole host of distractions have been keeping me from making progress.

A friend of Hoyt's, Amanda Green, actually wrote up a Reader’s Group Discussion Guide for Baen for A Few Good Men

http://www.baenebooks.com/p-2002-read...

[Marina]

Cool.

And here's how the character came to be. Fascinating. And explains why there's not a whiff of him in Darkship Thieves.

http://madgeniusclub.com/2014/10/15/f...

(Also why she writes gay men but not lesbians- pretty funny, actually, but hey, creative mind and all that.)

[Greyweather]

Masha wrote: "My first thought at the start of the book was that a man who repeatedly calls himself a monster will turn out to be anything but. Evil people don't see themselves that way."

Well I don't know about that. Some human predators know that their actions are evil and yet feel compelled to do it anyway.

Masha wrote: "On a different note, when Luce says he now has a will to live because he just got new READING MATERIAL, I immediately thought of all my book geek friends :) "

If I was where he was, stuck for umpteen years with no other form of recreation and only a small library of books to read over and over, any new book would be an absolute treasure to me.

Les wrote: "Mention of the Good Men also had me wondering what the relationship was between them and the Good Men in the title of the book. Some irony perhaps?"

Would you believe I completely overlooked that connection until I was over halfway into the novel?

[Greyweather]

Les wrote: "This quote from the chapter Familiar Strangers

“You couldn’t have known. How could you have imagined? And he made a bad job of explaining. Would you have done the same if you knew? No. Then you’re..."

Isn't the wisdom of acknowledging the limits of one's knowledge a concept that goes back to Socrates? At least, that's what I remember from my freshman year literature class.

[Marina]

Huh. Apparently I forgot to do a review. All fixed now (spoiler-free, BTW).
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Jack]

Masha wrote: "Huh. Apparently I forgot to do a review. All fixed now (spoiler-free, BTW).
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

It's an awesome review, Hoyt should cut you a check.

[Marina]

Thanks! It's not like my usual reviews, more of an explanation why *I* thought this book was special. And Sarah A. Hoyt is killing me (and my husband) off in her next book, so that would do as a "payment." No, seriously, she wrote that up before I posted the review, so my integrity is intact :)

[Marina]

For those who have finished and want a little more, a "10-years later" sequel novella is included in this just-published anthology. (Some other good authors in there to sample as well) - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005...