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!
Jayne: You wanna go, little man? Wash: Only if it's someplace with candlelight.
'Objects In Space'
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."
Vonnie K - Jan 18, 2012 9:33:48 am PST #17451 of 28266
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Polter-Cow - Jan 18, 2012 9:35:31 am PST #17452 of 28266
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 28266
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 28266
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 28266
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 28266
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 28266
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 28266
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.
Sue - Jan 18, 2012 10:11:44 am PST #17459 of 28266
hip deep in pie
Read Bujold!
I read one and did not care for it. I don't even think I finished it. But my book tastes don't run very geeky.
Consuela - Jan 18, 2012 10:21:00 am PST #17460 of 28266
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I read one and did not care for it.
Not everything is for everyone, and to be fair, she has a few clunkers (Diplomatic Immunity, Cryoburn, Ethan of Athos imo; and possibly the Sharing Knife novels). But the Vorkosigan novels, at least most of them, are on my "re-read for comfort" shelf. And they translate well to audio--I've listened to The Curse of Chalion on audiobook twice.