Nameless: A Feature in Development

[helloladies]

At the end of every week, we gather at Lady Business HQ to share media thoughts and chat about the recent happenings in our tiny spheres of human experience. Puns welcome.

In theory, eventually this feature will have a name once we all agree on one. In the meantime, to open the festivities, a gif to sum up 2016 so far:

Comments

[renay]

One day I will read the whole Vorkosigan series! Technically I should at at least read Cordelia's Honor because I read so little of it before bouncing off that I could count Bujold as a new author for this year.

(I'm still bitter about Sleeping Giants. HOW DO YOU MAKE GIANT ROBOTS BORING?)

Is Game Change pretty accessible to people who don't have a lot of political knowledge/language in their toolkit? That's largely why I bounce off a lot of political nonfiction; having to stop and look up terminology is time consuming and draining.

[justira]

You should totally read Cordelia's Honor! Just get through the shorter first novel in the omnibus and settle in for the Hugo-winning awesomeness that is the second one.

Sleeping Giants was weird for me. It came out of the gate very strong, but then slowed down and down and down. I liked the format? =\

I think Game Change is pretty accessible? I mean there are a LOT of names of people in the political sphere that it might help if I knew, but the book does provide brief summaries of all the key players at least.

[renay]

I sometimes wonder if I tried reading Bujold too early, before I got used to reading SF again and refamiliarized myself with some of the common tropes. I should be BETTER PREPARED now.

[dira]

Speaking as a huge, huge Bujold fan--there is also an element of "author's first novel, written c.1984" to Shards of Honor (the first half of Cordelia's Honor. If you're particular about going in order, be assured she gets better. If not, I've seen Komarr suggested as an alternate entry point--it makes a lot of the most intense drama of the series backstory, but I don't think actually spoils it. (I personally came in at The Vor Game, which was bewildering, but I was twelve and it was on my brother's bookshelf.)

[renay]

Right! justira has talked about this and suggested other starting points and I do have the whole series in hardcopy and ebook. I figure if I bounce off Barrayar again I'll choose a different starting point. :D