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altarielI'm bereft at the lack of new Vorkosigan books, and I've been wondering what can fill the hole. Lots of people recommend the Honor Harrington books in the same breath as Bujold, but I'm not sure whether I'll like them, given that what I like in the Vorkosigan books is not so much the military bits - which I skim - so much as the character stuff. So - is it worth my getting into them? Any alternatives?
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Date: 2005-02-16 11:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-17 02:11 am (UTC)The Company series looks interesting: I had a peek at the first one at Amazon - reminded me of Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog. Thanks!
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Date: 2005-02-17 06:39 pm (UTC)So glad the Kage Baker books look interesting to you. If you read any, enjoy! :)
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Date: 2005-02-16 11:42 am (UTC)I've read some of the Honor Harrington books, but after awhile I realized that it was patterned so closely on Lord Nelson's history that I found it - irritating. I mean, the machiavellian head of the enemy world: Rob S. Pierre? C'mon--!
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Date: 2005-02-17 02:13 am (UTC)LOL! It sounds like if I do try the series I should stick with the earlier ones.
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Date: 2005-02-17 05:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-17 11:54 am (UTC)Well, the Cadfael books aren't going anywhere.
The Moon book are space opera, but good space opera. And she does do great old ladies.
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Date: 2005-02-17 07:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-17 07:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-16 12:11 pm (UTC)How about Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, the only doorstopper fantasy series worth the dead trees. It's the War of the Roses on fantasy crack!
Sadly, however, Martin is only on book 4 out of a projected 7, and each book is roughly a kajillion pages long. I hope he's a healthy man.
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Date: 2005-02-16 03:01 pm (UTC)And "the War of the Roses on fantasy crack" - roflol - that's SO perfect! :) He'd better be a healthy man, that's for certain.
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Date: 2005-02-17 03:32 am (UTC)Heh, I hope he's paying you for that excellent sales pitch! Hm, I may wait till the series is complete.
(That's the reason I've still not let myself get into Stephen King's Dark Tower series, despite all 'The Waste Land' stuff in them. Although once the last one comes out in paperback I can go for it.)
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Date: 2005-02-16 12:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-17 01:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-17 02:54 pm (UTC)I do indeed have a copy of Friday's Child -- I just need to have a quick re-read taking notes as I must must must finish that dratted Cinderella story of mine (not to mention my Earthsea one for you! (ack, not doing very well here...)), but I'll chuck it in the post when I'm through. I'm sure you have enough to be getting along with in the meantime ;)
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Date: 2005-02-17 03:33 pm (UTC)Though I think my favourite Heyer anti-heroic hero would have to be MrCalverleigh in "Black Sheep".
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Date: 2005-02-16 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-17 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-17 02:03 am (UTC)Just so long as you know I was joking!
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Date: 2005-02-17 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-17 02:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-17 02:13 am (UTC)Aha!
Date: 2005-02-16 12:44 pm (UTC)Re: Aha!
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Date: 2005-02-16 01:24 pm (UTC)That being said, it is also true that there are still plenty of Georgette Heyers out there, though some are better than others -- not all of them are equally re-readable and you don't want to read them all in a row anyway because you get sick of them.
But, really, you should get addicted to the Liaden Universe novels by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller! They've been described as a cross between Star Wars, James Bond and Georgette Heyer, so of course you must read them at once! The main sequence of stories starts with "Agent of Change" (or the one just before, "Conflict of Honors"). Go! Read! Right now! Forget about Honor Harrington.
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Date: 2005-02-17 07:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-17 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-16 01:45 pm (UTC)My eyes glaze over when I start reading things like "
My eyes glaze over when I start reading things like "<insert ship's name> was cruising along at 6000kps squared" but I generally just skip over those parts to the character stuff.
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Date: 2005-02-17 02:21 am (UTC)Yes, that's exactly the kind of thing that makes me switch off. It seems to work OK in Bujold, although I do skim that kind of thing even in her books to get back to the angst and witticisms. If the characters are good enough in the early HH books, I won't mind a bit of technobabble.
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Date: 2005-02-16 02:19 pm (UTC)Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise books.
Mary Stewart's contemporary (well, 50s/60s) romances, not her Arthurian stuff.
There's always some more of Elizabeth's Moon's 'Serrano Legacy' series. Hey, didn't I lend you the first three books in those? :-)
I'll get my coat.
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Date: 2005-02-17 05:35 am (UTC)I was poking around online about the Modesty Blaise books - what is the tone of them?
There's always some more of Elizabeth's Moon's 'Serrano Legacy' series. Hey, didn't I lend you the first three books in those? :-)
*guilty face!*
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Date: 2005-02-16 03:08 pm (UTC)(Stupidest reason ever, I know.)
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Date: 2005-02-16 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-17 02:14 am (UTC)The Dodo is very sweet, though!
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