Old Man's War and the Galaxy of Snark

When searching for book recommendations, one book that came up was Old Man's War by John Scalzi. It is a military science fiction story with an interesting twist. It was also free on Kindle Unlimited, so I decided to try it out. Though I liked the interesting way humans in the future created an army to fight aliens on the other side of the galaxy, I could not get over the fact that I couldn't stand the main character and his poor attempts at humor. 

Far in the future, Earth finds a way to make super soldiers defend their colonies on other planets from war-like alien armies. Old people are recruited because of their experience and wisdom. Their minds are uploaded into super soldier bodies. Half of the book is about the protagonist, John Perry and his old people crew (The Old Farts) going through training and learning how to use their super soldier augmentations. However, though our protagonist has an elderly mind, he is still very immature. All of the characters were very snarky, a style of humor popular when this book came out in 2005.  I had to force myself to finish the book. 

I am glad that I soldiered on and concluded my mission to finish the book. The alien races and their cultures were interesting to learn about.  I enjoyed the descriptions of space battles and of the different strategies John Perry had to learn. I also like learning about different kinds of super soldier units developed by the Colonial Union and how they worked with the Old Man crew. 

Though by the end, there were elements of the book that I enjoyed, I was disinterested in continuing in the Old Man's War book series. I don't think Scalzi's style is for me. I even looked him up and the best description I could find was that the Old Man's War Universe is described as being in a Galaxy of Snark. I would only recommend this book if you were a huge military science fiction fan and want to turn your brain off for a few hours.