Get It Now A Learning Experience (A Learning Experience, #1) Penned By Christopher G. Nuttall Conveyed In Digital Copy

basic idea behind the story was OK but I didnt enjoy it as much as I thought I would, I found the story a bit disjointed as if bits were missing and the only person I got to know during the whole book was Steve.

Unfortunately this was one of the problems, I want to like my heroes but at times I found Steve to be a naive reactionary toddler and even though he had his good parts I just couldnt like him.

Another aspect of the book I found slightly worrying is that the women in the book were either nerds to be hit on, partners, prostitutes, idiots who took Womens Studies at College or victims.
Where any women part of the command structure or did the author just decide they were incapable
Great story!

Exciting read! First contact books always get me, but this one seems real.
That makes it fun. And I love how he picks at liberalism, My kind of guy! This would be a great movie!

This was a good book from the beginning.
Albiet a little slow to gain my total attention at first,
This book would be a great read for anyone wanting a great action suspence story, Christopher G. Nuttall's A Learning Experience, Bookreceives four from me, The book is fun the situation interesting, It is a great diversion especially in the Time of Corona,

Rummel's reading. Humm, I think I'm developing an unhealthy attachment to Rummel's readings, Astounding performance. This book is no exception to his ability to create so many different voices, and his female voices are good too, I think it may also be the type of books he reads, I don't know enough about the industry to know if he chooses them or if he is selected, but someone has paired him well, For combat, work, space opera, Rummel's deep resonant voice is perfectly matched, I first encountered his work with Something Wicked This Way Comes, and his performance was unbelievable, Highly recommended.

The book:

I'm going to start with some negatives first, Nuttall gets a bit redundant at times when discussing the main character's partner, Look we understand that she's his partner, the love of his life, and in every respect his wife without the title, We don't need to hear ittimes, Once is enough. It would have been more interesting if Steve the main character questioned why he never married her, and most importantly why is this important.
This is an interesting aspect of Steve that is both a positive and a negative, Steve is conservative, like more right than he might realize, He has ideas about others that are dancing on the line of prejudice, I think he's set for changing his ideas in the future, This was negative because his ideas seemed too stereotypical to me, and lacked any depth, This is a positive because he isn't as right as he may think he is, and this will allow him to question and grow.
Lastly, I think the author gets distracted with outside elements, like environmental protest about terraforming Mars, I found that unbelievable but who knows maybe, The story is fine without these occasional comments,

Ok, the book, This is great fun. I loved the situation of these aliens seeking to abduct some humans, but accidentally abducted a family of military men, well trained military men.
I enjoyed the development of the book thereafter since this happens in chapter, I've not given any spoilers, The situation is at many times kind of comical, The plot is pretty solid, It is clearly one book in a series, but it has a goal that is met in the end, If you read this, and enjoyed it but didn't think you wanted to go further, you'd be ok, YOu wouldn't really be hanging in the air,

Recommended: The book, yes, I recommended for anyone interested in a fun story, I also recommend it highly to my friends who are military men who are unsure if they would like space opera, This would be a good start for them, This had such great potential then ruined it with political garble, I couldn't get past the anti government rambling to try to get to what could have been a good story This book is pure sciencefiction.
There isnt much better sciencefiction than what this story tells, You have aliens, advanced technology, Earth veterans/military guys, women, and a bunch of criticism of the government, What more could you ask

This starts out with a group of military veterans, friends and their brothers out camping in Montana.
The military veterans have all recently gotten out of the military for one reason or another with most not happy the way things were going.
These people lived and grew up in Montana where people are few and far between and they prefer it that way, Most of these guys grew up on a ranch in Montana and learned how to take care of themselves while on the ranch prior to ever getting into the military.


Now, you have a alienhip coming out of the night sky, landing and telling them that they are now prisoners of this alien Horde and to kindly get into their spaceship.
The aliens have weapons which they use on one of the guys, killing him fairly quickly, Once inside thehip, these guys find out these particular aliens dont appear to be acting very smart, They dont seem to be comfortable with the weapons their holding and certainly not used to watching prisoners, It doesnt take long before Steve Stuart, the oldest Brother, to overpower one of the “guards” and take his weapon, From there, they escape the compartment they are in and finish off killing or capturing all the other aliens on the ship.


The ship is now theirs, The find the former Starship Captain and remove the silver band from around his head not realizing exactly what it is, Steve is holding it and feels a definite compelling need to put it on which he does, He now finds he is in neural contact with a fantastic computer/AI/database that instantly answers any question he puts to it.
Additionally, once he has an answer, the finds the new knowledge is forever retained, So he starts asking about this ship and the former occupants,

He finds out that these are pretty stupid aliens who had a ship that definitely wasnt theirs and they had not real knowledge of how to operate it.
They also had no idea of how to us the weapons they wear carrying and his friends death might have just been an accident.
So, Steve begins leaning more and more about the galaxy that is now bigger than he or any human ever thought, They find that humanity is a very small cog in a vast number of civilization, most very definitely more advanced than Earth.


So, what would you do if you found yourself now in control of significantly advanced alien technology that you could understand and put to use.
This includes medical technology that can completely repair a human body and fix all existing illnesses forever if the human was still alive.
They also have significantly more advanced weaponry than anyone on Earth and control the high orbitals of Earth with the ability to locate and destroy anything they wanted.


The only problem with this book is that there is so much that isnt explained, But you shouldnt dwell on that, Just read the book for the fun of it, I dont know if given the same situation it would have come out as good as it did, These guys are way too forgiving,

Ive read a lot of Christopher G, Nuttalls books and all are extremely well written, I hope he keeps them coming, Im looking forward to reading the next book in this series, Best of the books I read from Nuttall, There is more originality inpages then the other books have combined, At the ending the auther confess to having listened to feedback, dunno if thats why the book feel so different in a good way.


Christopher, you should check out Simmel's theory on the tragedy of culture, Im sure it would help you abit,

Please continue to explore how earth would be affected and dont turn it into a generic spacebattle with alot of aliens.


PS. Would buy the sequel. DS There's always a hidden jewel out there amongst the of books!

Large scale and fast paced galactic development.
Much to ponder as I enjoyed this political and military ride, Too fast paced. Skipping all details, the story jumps into action sequence too often, It would have been great if the author included more details on the setting of new colony, how humans rushed with the newly acquired star ships.
Loved the action though, kept me engaged throughout, Would definitely want to read Steve's future adventures with the Galactics, The author constantly preaches his political beliefs, It takes away from what could have been a good story, I

would say that this book is a bit different, It is not the usual adventure book about a bunch of humans that discover that aliens do exist, get hold of some alien tech, and boldly goes on an adventure into space.
Well, it is a bit of that but it is also quite a bit a political story about breaking free from the Earth and the existing governments and creating a whole new nation.


Normally I do not like books with too much political slant in them but I have to say that I found this one rather enjoyable to read.
It of course helps that I share much of the main characters aversion for bureaucratic oversized governments, Everyone gets a bit of the ire in this book but I cannot help to be particular found of the slapping the European Community and United Nations get.
I live in the middle of that mess as well as work for an international organization and as far as I am concerned the useless and disconnectedfromreality assholes in Brussels and Geneva deserves all the trashing they get.
But I am digressing.

As usual the book is quite well written and the characters are well done and fun to follow, The rather far out “hey lets make our own state” idea that just goes from crazy idea to reality iswell crazy but also a wee bit different as well as fun reading.
Parts that I quite liked are when Steve and his friends take down the ignorant government agents and in general the “surprise effects” from the advanced technology he has acquired.


One criticism would be that it is all done a bit naively, simplistically and way to fast, Personally I think the book could have been a lot longer, or the story split over several books, Some things just feel rushed and glossed over, Although I can also understand that the author must cater for a reasonably wide audience and not all people like long detailed books.


So far I have quite liked all the books from Mr, Nuttall that I have read, This one is probably somewhere in the middle of the bunch, If a sequel comes out I will surely pick it up but there are other sequels from this author that I am looking forward to more eagerly.

Keep your politics out of sci fi

I have purchased quite some few of the authors books end enjoyed his writing but this book get preachy about American politics and reads like a GOP propaganda manual.


Message to Chris Just enter in your bio that I hate anything that is not White Anglo Saxon, I get it your conservative who lives in a society that has an artificially inflated standard of living based on colonialism, I get it as I benefit every day from being born in the U, S. , however I'm not dumb enough to believe that life
would be the same for me if I was born poor in Turkey or I'm a better person because of my place of orign.
Your a good sci fi writer, Stick to it and leave the politics out of it, What a tool. .