I feared the tapes would cost a lot, but I wasn't sure what the arithmetic would actually be. I assume you aren't about to get rid of any of that material for a while anyway.
They're a set I dubbed off the library's tapes back a while ago. Then I got hold of an original set through the Bujold list at a fairly deep discount (not as cheap as what I'm letting these go for, but still cheap), so these are spares to me now.
But if I can't get rid of them, I'll probably tape over them -- there's a couple of other series I can get through the library that I'd like to own. So don't count on them being around indefinitely [g].
You're right that we don't see Aral acting all that much, except for towards the end of Barrayar when Vordarian tries to pull his coup. I do think we see his genius then. Maybe not as much as we would if Cordelia, who really doesn't understand Barrayaran politics all that well yet, wasn't the POV character. I feel sort of the same way about Aral's actions in Shards.
But I don't think Miles is ever ordinary
I don't think Miles ever has the chance to be ordinary, frankly. Even on the most petty levels, let alone the unpetty ones. Listening to Memory over the last few days and seeing the kinds of everyday things he takes for granted (being foster brother to the Emperor, thinking of the Chief of ImpSec as an honorary uncle, the sheer whole servant and privilege thing that we see in his actions regarding Martin and so forth) makes me think that Gregor's line in ACC about the fish being unaware of the water he swims in a lot more astute than it seems on first glance.
And I am a Miles partisan. I like Aral, but I adore Miles. And Miles, by a lot of standards, is a spoiled brat [g].
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Date: 2007-10-02 03:05 am (UTC)They're a set I dubbed off the library's tapes back a while ago. Then I got hold of an original set through the Bujold list at a fairly deep discount (not as cheap as what I'm letting these go for, but still cheap), so these are spares to me now.
But if I can't get rid of them, I'll probably tape over them -- there's a couple of other series I can get through the library that I'd like to own. So don't count on them being around indefinitely [g].
You're right that we don't see Aral acting all that much, except for towards the end of Barrayar when Vordarian tries to pull his coup. I do think we see his genius then. Maybe not as much as we would if Cordelia, who really doesn't understand Barrayaran politics all that well yet, wasn't the POV character. I feel sort of the same way about Aral's actions in Shards.
But I don't think Miles is ever ordinary
I don't think Miles ever has the chance to be ordinary, frankly. Even on the most petty levels, let alone the unpetty ones. Listening to Memory over the last few days and seeing the kinds of everyday things he takes for granted (being foster brother to the Emperor, thinking of the Chief of ImpSec as an honorary uncle, the sheer whole servant and privilege thing that we see in his actions regarding Martin and so forth) makes me think that Gregor's line in ACC about the fish being unaware of the water he swims in a lot more astute than it seems on first glance.
And I am a Miles partisan. I like Aral, but I adore Miles. And Miles, by a lot of standards, is a spoiled brat [g].