On 6/16/2021 8:10 AM, Richard Aiken wrote:
> I had a hard time *reading* Big Damn Heros because the first half was so very
> obviously a primer for folks who'd never heard of the show/movie. Every single
> character spent most of their time "reminiscing" about events in Episode
> Such-And-Such, in order to bring newbies up to date. The only way I managed to
> finish the book was by listening to it as an audible book. I still haven't
> started on the next one, but I'll get to it one of these days.
>

	This problem is not restricted to the Firefly novels. I stopped reading most of
the Star Trek and Star Wars novels for exactly the same reason. The first
several chapters would always be re-introducing the main characters, sometimes
with odd off-kilter changes. The good novels minimized the effect of this, but
it was always there.