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  • Poll [12 votes]: Which of the three books do you enjoy the most?
Subject: Which book?
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Poll: Which of the three books do you enjoy the most?  [closed]
The Fall of Reach:  33%
(4 Votes)
The Flood:  0%
(0 Votes)
First Strike:  67%
(8 Votes)
Total Votes: 12

Which book? I liked TFOR, it helped out the best.

  • 04.27.2004 6:24 PM PDT
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how about an option for all of them

  • 04.27.2004 6:31 PM PDT
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It's too hard to choose. You need some combo options. I could tell you my LEAST favorite, though, and it's probably the same with most people: The Flood. William C. Dietz just didn't have what Nylund does.

  • 04.27.2004 6:46 PM PDT
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Is it just me or does Dietz just say 'barked' more than Nylund, but they both say it too much, but I like Nylund's writing better, and i've yet to read First Strike so I have to say The Fall of Reach.

  • 04.27.2004 6:49 PM PDT
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Nylund is a much better writer then Deitz

  • 04.27.2004 6:49 PM PDT
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As much as I liked the story that the Flood portrayed, I couldn't stand Dietz's style of writing. He would pack too much into a sentence.

An example:
He picked up the fallen gun off the ground, looked up and down the hallway, and ran to the far end to the door.

This was not actually in the book, because I'm too lazy to grab it to write up an actual example, but that is just how he writes. Clause-comma-clause-comma-clause-period. Normally it wouldn't bug me, but if you watch for it, it happens almost every paragraph.

  • 04.27.2004 6:57 PM PDT
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Yeah, Dietz said way to much stuff that wasnt required i gues you can say.

In The flood there also wasnt really much to get excited about it in, we've all played the game, no?

First Strike owned all, no matter what.

  • 04.27.2004 7:00 PM PDT