Actually, I'm pretty sure I read the first one ... but it was a while ago. I mostly remember the Darweth books and the Silicon Mage ones.
Mal: How drunk was I last night? Jayne: Well I dunno. I passed out.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Toddson - Mar 11, 2021 2:03:18 pm PST #26535 of 28175
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
amyparker - Mar 11, 2021 2:09:27 pm PST #26536 of 28175
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
askye, have you tried Martha Wells' The Murderbot Diaries? I ask because the first four are on sale in hardback and a set is on its way to my house.
My first Cherryh was the Faded Sun trilogy; Cyteen messed with my head, and when I found out exactly how long it was going to take me to run out of books in her Foreigner series I might have shrieked with joy.
- looks at very full bookcase, makes despairing noise* You know, I could have put a bookcase where that bar cabinet is.
-t - Mar 11, 2021 2:27:52 pm PST #26537 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have the most recent Foreigner book just recently added to my TBR. I thought she was done with that ages ago and discovered that, no, I had just missed A WHOLE LOT a few years ago so catching up was fun but apparently I still can't quite keep on top of it. I like that universe so so much
The rest of her work, honestly, there's so much of it I get overwhelmed thinking about branching out. I made some inroads into Alliance-Union, I think.
Volans - Mar 11, 2021 5:19:03 pm PST #26538 of 28175
move out and draw fire
looks at very full bookcase, makes despairing noise*
We just bought 3 new bookcases AND have boxed up 11 boxes of books to go.
Thanks all for the recs...other than Discworld these are new to me.
-t - Mar 11, 2021 8:28:13 pm PST #26539 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, The Iron Dragon's Daughter has a very Industrial Revolution but based on magic vibe, if I remember right. Magic acting like technology
Consuela - Mar 12, 2021 5:43:58 pm PST #26540 of 28175
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I've read a bunch of Cherryh -- probably my favorite is the Morgaine sequence, it's science fantasy with swords and horses and world-gates. So good.
That said, it's pretty common to start a Cherryh novel and not have any idea what's going on, because usually the characters don't either. How to know you're in a Cherryh novel: you're exhausted, haven't eaten in at least 12 hours, don't trust the people you're with, and the political situation is very complicated. Often your enemies are more sympathetic than your allies are.
Cashmere - Mar 14, 2021 8:17:25 pm PDT #26541 of 28175
Now tagless for your comfort.
Angel with a Sword is my favorite Cherryh book. [link]
Toddson - Mar 15, 2021 12:36:12 pm PDT #26542 of 28175
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
aww ... Carl Hiaasen is retiring ... at least from his column.
bennett - Mar 15, 2021 2:06:32 pm PDT #26543 of 28175
My one issue with CJ Cherryh's books is that her backlist is not always available as ebooks and my eyes can no longer read the print on my old DAW paperbacks.
EpicTangent - Mar 17, 2021 12:11:44 pm PDT #26544 of 28175
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I discovered that someone at the Central Public Library has created a book reading (posting a chapter at a time) and posted it on Facebook. The current book is Rebecca. I was so excited to have it to listen to while I'm working. I feel like an ungrateful wretch, but the reader is Not Good, verging on Painful. So while I appreciate that she is probably the one who created the program and am grateful to her for her efforts, it is not without cringing that I am listening.