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I couldn't get through the first book of the Night's Dawn trilogy. Hamilton has a talent for setting and environment and background, but the plot and characters are terrible. He specifically states that the company knows the planet wouldn't be profitable for hundreds of years until it's industrialized, so they colonize Lalonde as an agrarian society. This makes no sense. The author has pretty obviously inserted himself into the character of Calvert, which makes the numerous and descriptive sex scenes that much more creepy. Every young female character is described with a sexual component. It's like some dude writing Internet erotica decided to write a novel during those sections of the book. What really stopped me from reading more was this discussion between my friend and I: friend: yeah al copne takes over a planet friend: and hooks up with a interplanetary pop-star friend: who's somehow super brilliant and insisive and is always right and has superhuman powers of persuasion friend: and al capone builds a navy friend: and attacks the space navy friend: it's aewsome friend: u suck friend: finish reading it me: I'm sorry my eyes are bleeding now from reading that plot synopsis
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