Honor or Miles (A rant requested by firstfrost)

[mjperson]

Cruises and sitting on a jury both involve a lot of waiting, so I've been plowing through the Vorkosigan books Firstfrost is making me read. She presented them initially as, "like Honor Harrington but good," which of course miffed me as a Weber fan, but I'm reading them.

After four books, I do have to say that Bujold appears to have a greater command of

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[firstfrost]

I would just like to say for the record, that I made you read the Vorkosigan books, and you made me read Inferno.

[mjperson]

True, though I warned you you wouldn't like it before I made you read it... ;-)

[dcltdw]

She presented them initially as, "like Honor Harrington but good," which of course miffed me as a Weber fan, but I'm reading them.

*perks up ears* Ooh? Fascinating. My conclusion with Weber is that he needs to be paired with another co-author: leave the characters and plotting to the other author, and let Weber write the chase scenes. (I thought Basilisk Station was great, and then they all got progressively worse. Crown of Slaves, if I'm remembering the title right, with Eric Flynt, was smashing, because I suspect Flynt wrote the characters, although I tried a Flynt-only book, and I nearly stabbed out my eyes, it was so bad. Hmm.)

I have never heard of google, so what is the first book in this series?

Where to start...

[mjperson]

It turns out it's secretly two series, one starring Miles and one (shorter) starring his mother. I was told to start with Shards of Honor and the The Warrior's Apprentice to get both series underway. Apparently though, this is another set of books with an epic reading order holy war being fought throughout its own fandom, so start where you dare, and see what happens.

Re: Where to start...

[fredrickegerman]

Yeah, I was reading these on my phone when we were walking Hadrian's Wall (I got Andrea one of the books that turned out to come with a CD of all the others), and which book to start with turned out to be complicated. I read mom followed by Ivan, with The Other Book not on the CD and thus safely postponed until afterwards.

[countertorque]

Miles is like Harry Potter: "No! Don't get any help! We have to hide the good guy plot from the good guys at all costs!" Gah.