Agreed on Conroy.
He had a clever idea in 1901, but then someone told him he should alternity other wars. His contracts have outrstripped his ability.
I kind of enjoyed these books up to the point in one of the Colonization novels where I found myself hoping someone would kill Yeager. At that point, I stopped reading the series.
Ya know, it’s funny because I’m not entirely sure I can disagree with your conclusion — and yet at the same time I enjoyed How Few Remain. Some of his other series seem silly — alien attacks in the middle of world wars and whatnot. But the premise in this one, shifting history by changing one seemingly incidental point in the Civil War and having it play out from there, is certainly an intriguing starting point.
Even How Few Remain could have been better. But it’s an entertaining read, if alternate history is your sort of thing.
Same here. I tried reading the first of his Worldwar series, and I couldn’t get past the fact that everyone talked like they were consciously trying to be characters is a really bad dime novel. I coudn’t get immersed in the story, because I kept thinking, “Nobody talks like that!” It’s unfortunate, because I think the premise was interesting, and I would have liked to follow the story to the end, if the reading wasn’t so unpleasant.
I think I’ve read pretty much everything he’s written, mainly because as a teacher I get a charge out of real life characters he randomly throws into the stories. As a Southerner, I love ‘The Guns of the South’. YES!! Give those Yankees a taste of Uzis! Sorry…continue on.
I fully realize the problems with his writing, but I still buy the books the day they come out and read them straight through until they’re done.
Me too. It’s like crack cocaine, only worse for ya. 
AK-47’s unless my memory has gone astray.
You must have hated Star Wars. 
It started with AKs, Uzis made a brief appearance later along with presumably .50cal class machine guns.
Ah OK. I managed to buy most of the plot. What was completely unreasonable, however, was Turtledove protraying the Southerners as less racist than the Afrikaaners.
I kid… I kid…
As far as I’m concerned, the dialogue in Turtledove’s first Worldwar book made Star Wars seem like The Wire.
I very much enjoyed The Guns of the South but gave up on the World War series after the third book, when almost nothing happens to advance the story.