It's not her best. I was reading it, but I forgot if I'd read the first two or just the first one and haven't cared enough to figure it out so I'm stalled on the series. I'm pretty sure I actually own the ones I've read so eventually I will find them/it and know for sure...
I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.
Giles ,'Beneath You'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
-t - Jan 18, 2012 9:22:27 am PST #17449 of 28332
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Consuela - Jan 18, 2012 9:25:25 am PST #17450 of 28332
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
P-C, you should read Bujold. If you like romance, start with Cordelia's Honor, which is a space opera romantic adventure with politics and ethical dilemmas. If you prefer to avoid romance, but like space opera and adventure, start with The Warrior's Apprentice (currently bundled with some others as Miles Errant, I think).
If you prefer fantasy, give The Curse of Chalion a try, which is a secondary-world fantasy in which the gods exist, and interfere indirectly in human affairs.
Whatever you choose, you'll find fascinating, engaging, fully human characters; believable politics; witty dialogue; fast-paced action; and great world-building. There's a reason she's won every major award the SF world can bestow on her.
Vonnie K - Jan 18, 2012 9:33:48 am PST #17451 of 28332
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
And then, as is our wont whenever a new Buffista starts on the Vorkosigan series, we can have yet another conversation about which order to read the books!
Polter-Cow - Jan 18, 2012 9:35:31 am PST #17452 of 28332
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
If you prefer fantasy, give The Curse of Chalion a try, which is a secondary-world fantasy in which the gods exist, and interfere indirectly in human affairs.
That sounds like my bag! Although I keep hearing about that Miles Vorkosigan fellow. He is in a lot of books.
§ ita § - Jan 18, 2012 9:37:59 am PST #17453 of 28332
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Part of my brain is telling me that I read that, but nothing on the wikipedia page is triggering memories.
The safest thing might be to just read them again.
Consuela - Jan 18, 2012 9:39:17 am PST #17454 of 28332
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Although I keep hearing about that Miles Vorkosigan fellow. He is in a lot of books.
He is! He is a hyperactive military genius who is 4'10", with bones that tend to snap easily, and a bit of a Daddy Complex, since his father is an admiral and planetary hero. So naturally he becomes, at 17, an admiral in charge of a mercenary space fleet.
There are many characters in the Vorkosigan novels, but Miles is rather the center point about whom they all revolve.
-t - Jan 18, 2012 9:47:12 am PST #17455 of 28332
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I might like the Chalion books better than the Vorkosigan, but, really, both are out in that zone of Really Good where I don't need to fine tune exactly how good they are beyond Really Good and comparisons become kind of meaningless.
bennett - Jan 18, 2012 9:58:36 am PST #17456 of 28332
I love the Chalion books the best. Not that I don't love Miles, but I find something more each time I reread the first two Chalion books. The third one, not so much.
Consuela - Jan 18, 2012 10:03:04 am PST #17457 of 28332
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The third one, not so much.
I liked the third one well enough, but I wanted more connections with the first two.
Toddson - Jan 18, 2012 10:03:05 am PST #17458 of 28332
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
a bit of a Daddy Complex
Consuela, mistress of understatement.
One of the things I enjoy about Bujold's books is that mixed in with the serious or dramatic scenes, you get humor. And in the lightest one - A Civil Campaign (quite late in the series) - there's lots of it. Along with the characters, the plots, the world building ....
Although I got fed up with the Sharing Knife series - read the first two and then gave up on it.