Hard Lessons (A Learning Experience Book 2)

IT'S OKAY BUT............The author uses the first one third of the novel as a platform to preach to you about personal responsibility and liberty, and the inherent problems of big government, which greatly diminishes the reader's pursuit of the sci-fi tale. I understand that his personal conservative philosophy drives the story line, but I wanted to be entertained by a story of man against the interstellar community, not made to feel that I was sitting on a wooden bench listening to a sermon from the pulpit. I enjoyed the first novel of this series, and was looking forward to this sequel, but by time I had gotten through the first one third of the novel, I felt I had been hijacked. I would give a third novel in the series a chance, but if Mr. Nuttall allows his political sermonizing to become foremost to the story, I will not read another of his works. What a shame as I really enjoyed the premise of the series.

This book is a solid piece of writing. The author does well extrapolating would our future would be like if our best & brightest had somewhere to go. Outside of a not so few stubborn holdouts, most of us would leave in a heartbeat. Why else would we be reading sci-fi?

I have read some of the other reviews on here concerning this & other more non politically correct authors. If you do not like being "preached" at I suggest you go read a dictionary. It is about the only thing you find that does not have an overt bias. Many of my favourite authors are quite liberal. I am by no means liberal myself. The author views are not 100% my views. Some, perhaps most things we would agree on. Nutall's story fits perfectly inline with his previous book. What more can you really ask of an author? Yes, we have political philosophy. Yes, we have military action. If you the reader, do not care for these things: be warned, you find all this in his books. He deservedly has no patience for people who would ignore the consequences of their or other's actions.

Smattering of social commentary make this a different book. The ideal utopia is created perhaps too easily in this novel and the battle goes too easily too in some ways. But the book is a great read and continues my enjoyment of this author. Off to get the next one ...

I heard about these books from a fellow Marine who told me it would change the way I look at my job: it did not only that but also changed how I look at the entire world and my place in it. I am going to start camping allot more in Montana....

I enjoyed the read. A classic space battle, blasters, ray guns, nucs, powered armor. It has a background of a tea partier (government is bad) but that is easily ignored since it mostly in italics at the beginning of every chapter. If you ignore those parts you lose nothing.

Please keep writing I enjoy your work. I have pounded through two of your books in just a few days and have already downloaded the third. You should also write a book on politics, would read it as well.

I couldn't finish the book. The pages and paragraphs were so jumbled up I couldn't stand to keep reading. When paying for something you expect it to be readable without having to unscramble everything.

In the venerable tradition of R.A.H., Chris wraps his social and political, "if this goes on," commentary with an intensely engaging, "David and Goliath," story where the new kid on the block, The Solar Union, takes on the local giant.

Any who enjoyed, "A Learning Experience," where the Solar Union is born, will almost certainly enjoy this sequel where the Union takes its first baby steps onto the Galactic stage.

I am cheered to report that Chris has clearly left good room for more stories in this Universe.
G.

To many inconsistencies and rite out ludicrous statements. Like how can 100+ of anything be more then 1000+ of the same thing. Why would a pilot of a large combat vessel with a full bridge crew including I take it communications personnel, be receiving and forwarding message traffic to the captain out of the blue!?

I am attempting to get thru the last 52 minutes of this book atm and I can honestly say its not easy going. Final battle is just... baah

Probably to fed up with this book atm to write a sensible review.. This book's an epic let down compared with book one.

Chris Nuttall was not in my small group of favorite sci-fi authors, but this series is really well done. A Learning Experience was my favorite novel by Chris Nuttall so I went back and re-read it before starting this novel. I enjoyed it the second time, which is the true test of a great novel. Hard Lessons just flowed right on after A Learning Experience. I think I'll try another Chris Nuttall novel and see if I should move him into my favorite authors group with Chris Hechtl and Laurence Dahners.

The general story was pretty good, and the science was better than some of Chris's previous works, however, fully 25% of this book was an attempt to explain a tea partier's concept of racism. A bit distracting, to say the last.