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Summary: A relief from Komarr
Review: I was unhappy with Bujold's last book (Komarr) and was afraid I would not like this one, but I liked it a lot and lost sleep just to keep reading it. It really is a "comedy", though - not a second Mirror Dance.
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Summary: A Delicious Read
Review: Delectable, tart and fulfilling... Bujold's new book is all that and more. How does she do this time after time? This book is marvelous. The characters continue to develop and grow in wisdom, teaching us the secrets of life on the way. Please read this series. Few authors can touch your heart the way Bujold can. (Or tickle your funny bone with such finesse.) Don't wait, read now!
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Summary: !!! One of the best in Vorkosigan series by LMB I guess !!!
Review: I read 10 chapters on Baen's website and these are really interesting! I surfed this site every day with hope to read new chapter during August. But sorry to say there were only 10 chapters and no more. It is really disappointing because in Russia you have to wait years before new book will be translated and printed. Especially now. But I guess that the end of ACC is much more superb then the start. And of cause I am to say "That is ONE of best!" among LMB books. It was really great!
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Summary: Lois McMaster Bujold at play
Review: I've found that the best way to think of this book is not as a comedy of manners by Bujold, but as SF military fic by Jane Auston. It lacks some of searing psychodrama of the last few books (It is not Mirror Dance, which put me in a haze for two weeks), but it is _endlessly_ funny, entertaining, and manages to be really sweet and romantic, too.
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Summary: Pretty darn good for a chick book
Review: When I first read the cover slip and all the talk about romances I settled in for a long, boring read. Well, I finished it in one day. Very amusing. And entertaining, which surprised me cause there are no space battles or the like. I envision Ms. McMaster Bujold writing about the Vorkosigan family for years to come. Miles deserves to be a parent of some kind of misfit kid.
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Summary: READ THIS BOOK (Is that emphatic enough?)
Review: Alright, despite about what some reviews whine, there IS a shoot-em-up. Which is far, far from the point. This is a delightful, funny book containing some of LMB's most brilliant zingers ever ("It can't be THAT couch, can it ... ?" exploded in my brain at a certain point). It's also quite faithful to her characters. Look, despite Miles' history, John Christian Falkenberg he isn't -- he wins on forward momentum and playing situations on his veins, not on being the ruthless strategist possessed of crystalline cold logic, and being helplessly in love doesn't change him. Thank heavens.
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Summary: Just give me a Ma Kosti spiced peach tart while I read!
Review: I stayed up past 1 am last night to finish this and have started RE-reading it already today. The only thing that would make this experience any better would be some of Ma Kosti's spiced peach tarts to eat while I read and enough to hand the kids a couple each, too! They are bugging me to cook dinner!
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Summary: Another entertaining read
Review: I have read all of Lois McMaster Bujold's books and have enjoyed them all. While this is not my absolute favourite it's near the top of the list. I enjoy all her characters and like the way that Miles has matured as he has progressed through his books. I felt this book was more amusing than the others - I particularly liked Pym's description of the attack on the drains. Bujolds skills in writing just seem to improve with each book. I saw traces of both Jane Austin and Dorothy L Sayers in her handling of relationships and mature attitudes. I just hope she keeps on writing and that her next novel won't be too long a wait.
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Summary: Another winner for Lois and Miles
Review: I couldn't wait to grab LMB's latest off the shelf as soon as it arrived. I had to take a long plane trip that week, and it was very distracting to the other passengers that I kept breaking out into laughter at every other page. I meant to sleep on that flight, but I had to keep reading... A Civil Campaign works on a whole lot of levels. If you have read any of the other Miles Vorkorsigan books, then you know that politics and strategies figure heavily. This book is as delightfully plotted and executed as any of Miles famous military excursions. It is hard to pick a favorite scene or line out of a book full of memorable scenes and speeches, but certainly the dinner party will go down in SF history. I would sum up the book with the quote: "...let me introduce -- she's getting away!"
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Summary: Space opera does not have to have blood & guts to be good!
Review: This book proves that there is life beyond the nerve disrupter! I don't think that Bujold has written her best book yet, but it's so reassuring to see that characters can still grow & plots can still be hatched without the familiar (even comfortable) background of the Dendarii... Miles is enough of a person to survive on his own merits, with or without a small(ish) Mercenary fleet for support. Other reviewers appears to have been offended by Miles' seemingly clumsy and ham-fisted behaviour towards Ekaterin - Haven't any of you ever been in love, and didn't any of you read the bit where Mark so succinctly puts his finger on the problem - to paraphrase - "he's always gone for women who know what they want and how to get it, for the first he time has to do the running and he doesn't know how!" Poor Miles! I think that the next book(s) will reinforce that Bujold is a master of her craft, and even if "A Civil Campaign" doesn't win the Hugo, there's plenty of life left in Miles for her to work on - and of course, there's always Ivan's story. He's going to come of the metaphorical closet soon, I can just feel it! A very entertaining read-in-one-sitting book (many thanks to Baen for their generosity in pre-publishing...)
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