Weekend reading roundup (06 Feb 2017)

[nanila]

How did your weekend reading go? If you planned on anything specifically, did you read it?

Comments

[heliopausa]

Planned to have a just-for-fun read - the target was A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold. I started it, then decided I obviously needed to read the book preceding it in the series - so I read that one, Komarr, instead. It was a bit of a let-down - I had very much enjoyed several early ones in the series, but in this the cultural aspects seemed a bit slapdash, and the characterisation really set up - the reader so plainly instructed to despise this character, admire this other one... yeah, yeah, I get it, Bujold.

[nanila]

I'm sorry the just-for-fun read was less fun than expected.

I must admit, I got about halfway through the Vorkosigan saga chronologically, and when I reached Brothers in Arms I very suddenly lost interest. I've never picked it up again, although I have reread some of the earlier ones.

[heliopausa]

I've read several, and particularly enjoyed the first two. In these two (I'm now half-way through A Civil Campaign) she seems to be just seeing how she can use the established readership to experiment with, in order:
- mystery-thriller genre
- comedy-romance genre
They are both pretty slipshod.