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The Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell is complete dreck and I love reading it for some reason. Every character is a cliche, every last fucking one, and nothing happens that isn't foreshadowed. It's obvious that the author would like to think he's very much like one of the supporting characters, but based on the quality of his writing it's equally obvious that he's much too stupid to be that person. The dominant faith of the setting is a purer distillation of conservative politics than anything I've read about, the human adversaries are literally corpo-nations, and the aliens are even more one-dimensional than the humans
What are your stupid pleasures and what's stupid about them, /lit/?
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Reminds me of the Ciaphas Cain books. They're just exactly what you expect them to be.
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>>9302715
Hello Jack
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>>9302726
No, I've read Ciaphas Cain too and it doesn't even come close to how bad The Lost Fleet is. Ciaphas himself is likable, whereas Black Jack is laughably stupid, naive, reactive, and I cannot adequately convey how retarded his relationships with other characters are. The Cain series does have a repetitious narrative style, but the events being described by that narrative aren't actually repeating. The same battles happen in The Lost Fleet over and over and over again.
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Wow, you niggers really want to discuss John Green more than this, huh?
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>>9302715
horus heresy series. ive taken a break from them and i tell myself each one will be the last but
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>>9302715
I like simple adventure novels with semi-philosophical elements, like Conrads sea stories, Moby Dick and Robinson Crusoe.
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