Originally Posted by
awp_101
To clarify, my issue isn’t the long range shooting. As much time as he spent shooting and experimenting, I have no doubt he could do it. Because it’s the written word with no idea of inflection, etc I may have read more into the stories than was there. Another problem might be after years of hearing how good his stories were, I wasn’t as blown away as I expected to be. I’ve had that happen with movie recommendations. The bang-to-hype ratio gets out of whack sometimes.
It’s been ~15 years since I read it and I’ve never read any of his other books. I should probably try again.