I wondered why, and still do, why he was here. There aren’t too many prominent authors here, so I thought that was cool. When I started reading him, I found out that he lived in the city I currently reside in, Chattanooga, and got excited. I should have read some of the reviews more thoroughly.

I first came across him when I picked up some collaborations he did with one of my favorite sci fi writers, David Weber, and they were pretty good, so I looked up some John Ringo books and got this. John Ringo is an interesting author, an interesting person. The book this review discusses is not the one I read, but probably matches many of his points which is condensed into this: 'Because dammit, there's bad, and then there's so bad you have to memorialize it for future generations.' ( ) So, interestingly, after searching the Internets for opinions on this novel I come across an internet meme I never knew existed: OH JOHN RINGO NO. The science is fascinating, the plot moves along, he obviously knows military tactics, the characters are one dimensional bores, every female mentioned is 'stacked', and Ringo has a nasty habit of injecting ridiculous political agenda into the weirdest bits of his story. John Ringo is not a great author he isn't even a good one. Eventually he makes a prototype Death Star. With this fortune, he begins to create lasers. Funny, but still not as well delivered as the aforementioned Douglas Adams. A human entrepreneur finds out another group of aliens love Maple Syrup. We give them our rare precious metals they don't nuke more cities. Shortly later, aliens nuke cities and take over the world. Gate pops up in the general region of earth, aliens fly through and gave a brief humorous description of what the gate exactly provided: namely, the ability for anyone who could pay (aggressor/trader made no difference to it) a trip through. Live Free or Die starts with a near Douglas Adams' flair for comedy. My requirements were thus when I set out to read this novel (which is really a series of three novellas packed into one larger work):

Live free or die book john ringo