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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8800112" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>She is well worth reading, at least up until the point that her mental health started declining and like Agatha Christy her writing started to slowly decline with it. (Sad face.)</p><p></p><p>I'd read her Miles Vorkosigan series in strict chronological order, starting with 'Shards of Honor' and 'Barrayar' (best read as a single story) and going all the way through to the climax in 'A Civil Campaign' and then stopping. <em>It's important to stop.</em> Make sure to read the short stories and novellas in the appropriate spots. Her short fiction is also really good. The series will go through several phases as her writing matures, starting with better than average sci-fi romance/thriller, moving on to somewhat light-hearted sci-fi military comedy, and then getting quite philosophically heady and serious in IMO her best period Borders of Infinity, Brothers in Arms, Mirror Dance, and Memory. 'A Civil Campaign' functionally completes the story with a great 'Happily Ever After' ending, and then after that things start sliding down hill quickly. There is a lot here for everyone no matter what style you like, so just ignore the various types of cringe that occasionally shows up or treat it as fun camp and go with it depending on your taste.</p><p></p><p>Also read the tangential novels in the same universe Falling Free and Ethan of Athos, both worth your time. </p><p></p><p>Also read 'The Curse of Chalion' and 'Paladin of Souls' <em>and then stop there</em>. Stopping is important. Bujold has a bad habit of undermining her own work and attacking the very structure that made her earlier works good. Think Lucas. Bujold is really good with story arcs at the level of individual stories, but stop in the series before she runs out of good story and starts pulling "Han shot second" crap.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 8800112, member: 4937"] She is well worth reading, at least up until the point that her mental health started declining and like Agatha Christy her writing started to slowly decline with it. (Sad face.) I'd read her Miles Vorkosigan series in strict chronological order, starting with 'Shards of Honor' and 'Barrayar' (best read as a single story) and going all the way through to the climax in 'A Civil Campaign' and then stopping. [i]It's important to stop.[/i] Make sure to read the short stories and novellas in the appropriate spots. Her short fiction is also really good. The series will go through several phases as her writing matures, starting with better than average sci-fi romance/thriller, moving on to somewhat light-hearted sci-fi military comedy, and then getting quite philosophically heady and serious in IMO her best period Borders of Infinity, Brothers in Arms, Mirror Dance, and Memory. 'A Civil Campaign' functionally completes the story with a great 'Happily Ever After' ending, and then after that things start sliding down hill quickly. There is a lot here for everyone no matter what style you like, so just ignore the various types of cringe that occasionally shows up or treat it as fun camp and go with it depending on your taste. Also read the tangential novels in the same universe Falling Free and Ethan of Athos, both worth your time. Also read 'The Curse of Chalion' and 'Paladin of Souls' [i]and then stop there[/i]. Stopping is important. Bujold has a bad habit of undermining her own work and attacking the very structure that made her earlier works good. Think Lucas. Bujold is really good with story arcs at the level of individual stories, but stop in the series before she runs out of good story and starts pulling "Han shot second" crap. [/QUOTE]
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