Well, if you change your mind, email me, because who knows when I'll get around to taping over them [g].
Miles as a spoiled brat? How do you see that?
I think it's how I feel about most novels about aristocrats, actually. Memory just shows more of it than the previous books in the series because it's the first book where we see Miles as Lord Vorkosigan on Barrayar for any length of time. I think it's the way he takes having money and servants for granted, and the many little comments, say for example, the one to Illyan at the end of the fishing scene where they pawn off cleaning the fish on Martin ("that's what minions are for") and so forth and so on. He's not nasty about it, like some aristocratic characters are, and he does care about his subordinates more than most, but it's still -- he just takes it for granted.
But I have to say I feel that way about many of the historical romances I've read and enjoyed over the years, too.
Having servants and being independently wealthy tend to equate in my mind with being spoiled, just on general principles.
we're too deeply into Miles' point of view for me to see him as sexy.
This is not a problem for me [g]. Then again, I used to be married to a man who was very like Miles except that he had much less heart.
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Date: 2007-10-03 02:02 am (UTC)Miles as a spoiled brat? How do you see that?
I think it's how I feel about most novels about aristocrats, actually. Memory just shows more of it than the previous books in the series because it's the first book where we see Miles as Lord Vorkosigan on Barrayar for any length of time. I think it's the way he takes having money and servants for granted, and the many little comments, say for example, the one to Illyan at the end of the fishing scene where they pawn off cleaning the fish on Martin ("that's what minions are for") and so forth and so on. He's not nasty about it, like some aristocratic characters are, and he does care about his subordinates more than most, but it's still -- he just takes it for granted.
But I have to say I feel that way about many of the historical romances I've read and enjoyed over the years, too.
Having servants and being independently wealthy tend to equate in my mind with being spoiled, just on general principles.
we're too deeply into Miles' point of view for me to see him as sexy.
This is not a problem for me [g]. Then again, I used to be married to a man who was very like Miles except that he had much less heart.