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The point is not that Tien was an ass.
Mar. 16th, 2010 09:23 pmOh, Liaden books (with an honorable mention to Georgette Heyer, because I could write almost exactly the same post about her [wry g]).
These were first recommended to me when I had just finished my first reading of the Vorkosigan series, and was pitching around madly for more good character-driven space opera with romantic elements. People kept telling me, oh, if you love Bujold, you're going to love Lee and Miller.
Well, I didn't. And while I was probably more disappointed reading them directly after the Vorkosiverse than I would have been if I'd just read them cold, I don't think I would have liked them much more than I did, which is to say not at all.
So, the semiannual/biannual/somedadblamedregular period l/o/v/e/f/e/s/t/discussion of the Liaden books pops up on not one, not two, but three email lists I happen to belong to. Simultaneously. This week. And I make my semiannual/biannual/somedadblamedregular complaint that the Liaden books are not what they were advertised to me as being.
And what do I get? A whole bunch of responses saying that well, not everyone likes the same books, yadda yadda yadda.
That's not the point! The point is that everyone else is seeing things that I would normally enjoy reading in these books, things That Aren't There, and I want to know how this could be and why I can't see what they're advertised as having when everyone else can. Not the same thing as "well, not everyone likes the same books." At all.
Anyway, I'm not trying to start the Liaden discussion up again, esp. here, so please don't take this as an invitation to tell me not everyone likes the same books or try to explain why some people see things in books that other people don't (the latter has been attempted, most successfully by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nlbarber over on RRA-L). I'm using the Liaden books l/o/v/e/f/e/s/t/discussion, 2010 iteration, to complain about this whole missing the point issue.
I couldn't actually care less whether or not Tien was an ass. The man is dead, thankfully.
Now if you've got another author who writes something along these lines, I'd be more than happy to hear from you...
These were first recommended to me when I had just finished my first reading of the Vorkosigan series, and was pitching around madly for more good character-driven space opera with romantic elements. People kept telling me, oh, if you love Bujold, you're going to love Lee and Miller.
Well, I didn't. And while I was probably more disappointed reading them directly after the Vorkosiverse than I would have been if I'd just read them cold, I don't think I would have liked them much more than I did, which is to say not at all.
So, the semiannual/biannual/somedadblamedregular period l/o/v/e/f/e/s/t/discussion of the Liaden books pops up on not one, not two, but three email lists I happen to belong to. Simultaneously. This week. And I make my semiannual/biannual/somedadblamedregular complaint that the Liaden books are not what they were advertised to me as being.
And what do I get? A whole bunch of responses saying that well, not everyone likes the same books, yadda yadda yadda.
That's not the point! The point is that everyone else is seeing things that I would normally enjoy reading in these books, things That Aren't There, and I want to know how this could be and why I can't see what they're advertised as having when everyone else can. Not the same thing as "well, not everyone likes the same books." At all.
Anyway, I'm not trying to start the Liaden discussion up again, esp. here, so please don't take this as an invitation to tell me not everyone likes the same books or try to explain why some people see things in books that other people don't (the latter has been attempted, most successfully by
nlbarber over on RRA-L). I'm using the Liaden books l/o/v/e/f/e/s/t/discussion, 2010 iteration, to complain about this whole missing the point issue.I couldn't actually care less whether or not Tien was an ass. The man is dead, thankfully.
Now if you've got another author who writes something along these lines, I'd be more than happy to hear from you...
