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Summary: Only one complaint!!
Review: Well, I love the book, read it four or five times already butI've only got one complaint....too many typos that just jar me forsome reason. Little things, but still jarring to my trained eye. I suppose that's the price you pay for getting a first edition, let's hope they fix them in the later printings.
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Summary: The absolute best of a great series!
Review: Ms. Bujold has done it again. She consistently writes marvellous books and continues to develop her characters. When I first read "Komarr", I finished it absolutely starving to find out what happens next and the last year has been torture waiting. Now I can give my copy of "Komarr" a rest and reread "A Civil Campaign" over and over until the next installment. I bet I'm not the only reader who has fallen in love with Miles; if only he knew how many women were out there for him! This is a delightful book, filled with romance, wit, intelligence, and lots of humor. I stayed up all night devouring it. Ms. Bujold, if you read this, please don't make us wait too long for the next book.
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Summary: Disappointing beyond words
Review: I am truly astonished to say that I did not enjoy A Civil Campaign. I have loved virtually everything else Bujold has ever written. She manages toturn characters she's built and nurtured over all the succeeding novels into clowns, caricatures, or ciphers. The main characters - Ekaterina, Miles - suffer by far the worst. Ekaterina, who I previously believed to be strong and damaged (but recovering), comes off here as a heroine from the pages of the very worst kind of romance novel. She actually does press her loved one's letter to her bosom. And you can hear her breathing the words "Oh, how I want him. How I love him. But it can never, never be." Her bosom would probably be heaving while she uttered it, too. Please. Miles, who has carried every novel but the first two (in the chronology of the series) with his wit, intelligence, and planning, appears as understanding nothing at all about human nature or about strategy. This, I must note, from a man who is an incredibly skilled judge of character and a brilliant strategist. His behavior while in pursuit of romance is sillier than that of any teenager's, anywhere. What kind of person decides to befriend his beloved first, so that she may learn to love him as he loves her, seducing her steathily, and then tells everyone he's ever met? Certainly not a skilled covert operative who has lived for a decade with secrecy and deceit. The novel does show that Bujold retains her touch with dialogue.
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Summary: Good but I expected more
Review: I was a little disappointed in this book. While it was enjoyable, Miles just did not seem like himself. It was as if the author had put him on Ritalin. My favorite of all the books is still The Warrior's Apprentice, because it has all the difficult characters like Sergeant Bothari, and Mile's Grandfather. They are deeply flawed characters whom you still care about.
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Summary: a Glorius book!
Review: I read this book three times the week I finally got ahold of it, after haunting the Baen web site for months grabbing each new section as it was posted (thanks Baen). I really hope Lois is reading these reviews and basking in this well-deserved "standing ovation" -- especially if doing so encourages her to write more Vorkosigan stories REALLY SOON. I only have one complaint: it's hard to read other authors' books now, as they all seem tame if not downright dull. Lois, you're the best by far!
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Summary: Best Book Ever Written??? Could Be
Review: AS Miles gets older, his biographer gets better and better. This is perhaps the best book I've ever read. I picked it up friday night and didn't put it down until it was finished. I picked it back up again on Sunday and I've finished it again. The delicate interplay between Ivan and Miles, Miles and Mark, Miles and Ektarin and even Ivan and Lady Alys were delicious to read and savor. Please, please please write faster Lois
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Summary: What a pleasant surprise
Review: It constantly amazes me: Lois McMaster Bujold is the only author I've ever encountered who could write a long series of books that have original plots and (gasp!) continuous character development. I have loved every one of her Miles Vorkosigan books, and "A Civil Campaign" is no exception. Bujold fans, buy this book immediately! New-comers, buy this book and all the others as soon as possible!
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Summary: An Interstellar Screwball Comedy
Review: LMB has done it again. This latest adventure in the Vorkorsigan series has Miles trying to court the lovely Ekaterin without her knowledge. Events proceed to a dinner party, where everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Does Miles get Ekaterin? Or does she go the way of Eli Quinn. I won't tell you here; read the book. I will tell you I'm waiting impatiently for Bujold's next book. She has two ways to continue this series: either a straight sequel, or a novel that goes back into the history to expand on an anodote that Miles mentions to his father. I want both.
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Summary: Great
Review: I can't get over how good her books are there wasn't one page I didn't enjoy now I have to wait for the next book.
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Summary: The Social Dinner From Hell!
Review: The author is just a genious, capable of substituting starships with butter bugs, and come ahead! I laughed myself silly over that dinner scene, that lends itself wonderfully to, uh, live action with small characters inside the reader's head. And I was adequately serious and moved when the book was so. I believe the greatest strenght in the book is the characterization, not only of the main characters but of a surprisingly rich cast of supportiong ones, long known or just introduced. I did an all-nighter on this book; by the end I was so engrossed that I ate whole the Council of Counts scene, that wasn't very logical. I wonder what can she do for an encore, but I will be arround, waiting...
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