Randy was annoying, but in ways that made profound sense to my 17-year-old self. I didn't peg to the Brionne #2 possibilities because, again, reading order.
I cracked up every time Cloud went -cattle-, imagining a Companion saying such a thing.
Oh, my. Yes. If I had read these after a few more run-ins with crazy internet fandom, that would have been my reaction too.
I first read Bujold when I was 16 and Cherryh at 17, to I tend to see them as a continuum of character treatment, even though Bujold tends to write character-driven stories and Cherryh strikes me as more plot-driven. This may have been reinforced by accidental conflation of bits of Barrayar with bits of Downbelow Station, which was just weird.
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Date: 2007-09-21 06:09 pm (UTC)I cracked up every time Cloud went -cattle-, imagining a Companion saying such a thing.
Oh, my. Yes. If I had read these after a few more run-ins with crazy internet fandom, that would have been my reaction too.
I first read Bujold when I was 16 and Cherryh at 17, to I tend to see them as a continuum of character treatment, even though Bujold tends to write character-driven stories and Cherryh strikes me as more plot-driven. This may have been reinforced by accidental conflation of bits of Barrayar with bits of Downbelow Station, which was just weird.