My first thought is to say I like steampunk a lot - at least, I think I do.
I like steampunk a lot (one of my favorites is The Two Georges by Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss (yes, that Richard Dreyfuss). But mostly I like video steampunk as opposed to the literary variety.
I tend to avoid Mirror Dance, too. It's a very emotionally difficult read for me.
What did Cordelia say to Mark about Miles?
Book's upstairs, I'm down, but the gist of it was that she wouldn't have given Miles a gun, let alone a mercenary army, OWTTE. It really bothers me that with all her gungho-ness about his potential when he was a baby, she can't at least pretend to understand that she might have had just a *smidgen* to do with how he turned out. It wasn't all Barrayar's fault. And that how he turned out could have been so much worse given everything that happened to him.
But even so, even from a distracted son's point of view, the gaps are peculiar.
I suppose. I think Mirror Dance would have been improved with something from her POV, at least a mental explanation for her attitude towards Miles. I can understand why Lois didn't do it, from a craft point of view, but it's still incredibly frustrating.
The trouble with Cordelia is that her blind spots are bigger than all of Barrayar's.
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Date: 2007-09-27 02:30 am (UTC)I like steampunk a lot (one of my favorites is The Two Georges by Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss (yes, that Richard Dreyfuss). But mostly I like video steampunk as opposed to the literary variety.
I tend to avoid Mirror Dance, too. It's a very emotionally difficult read for me.
What did Cordelia say to Mark about Miles?
Book's upstairs, I'm down, but the gist of it was that she wouldn't have given Miles a gun, let alone a mercenary army, OWTTE. It really bothers me that with all her gungho-ness about his potential when he was a baby, she can't at least pretend to understand that she might have had just a *smidgen* to do with how he turned out. It wasn't all Barrayar's fault. And that how he turned out could have been so much worse given everything that happened to him.
But even so, even from a distracted son's point of view, the gaps are peculiar.
I suppose. I think Mirror Dance would have been improved with something from her POV, at least a mental explanation for her attitude towards Miles. I can understand why Lois didn't do it, from a craft point of view, but it's still incredibly frustrating.
The trouble with Cordelia is that her blind spots are bigger than all of Barrayar's.