vorbore's comments (member since Jan 04, 2009)

vorbore's comments from the Lois McMaster Bujold Fans group.

I've got the e-mail! I've got the e-mail!!
*dancing around the room in circles*
But not in the inbox here, but to my e-mail address.
Whatever, as long as it worked out!
*grinning like crazy*

Vorlady wrote: "i'll be your friend *grin*

seriously though, if you're uncomfortable with the message change thing perhaps, since I've been sending most of the messages out, if you friend-ed me you'd get them?"

Even if I would figure out how to start receiving poll invitations, I don't expect it to work retroactively. Anyway, it would be enough for me to receive them in the future... Together with other announcements circulating in this group.

I don't understand *sniff*
I got nothing. Zip. Nada.
Why does goodreads mail not love me. *more sniffs*

Actually, I am a bit annoyed. What did I do wrong? Stupid, stupid!

I have found a checkbox for getting an e-mail when someone invites me to a poll and I checked it just now. Maybe that'll help. Or maybe I am beyond help *boohoo*

OOkey, I've just changed that. Not very comfortable with this change though. Let's see what happens. Although there will be no tellin' before the next circular message is sent, I guess.
I suppose it would also make some uncomfortable to befriend with all of the members of this group. Or not? *smiling hopefully, consumed with paranoia*
Don't mind my paranoia too much though, I'll be fine :)

I do not see any message anywhere on my home page here. I checked the inbox as well, and there is nothing new there... Maybe I am not looking at the right place??

Lovely! Hopefully then the Horizon will be the next...
I am already halfway through it. I am reading way to fast, but I can't help it. These two will definitely be material for several re-reads.

I missed the last three polls for the next reading, simply because I forgot to check if there were any new polls. Could a circular letter be sent to all members when a new poll about what we would be reading next is started?

I've just finished this one, for the first time, and I loved it! It is so much better than the first two, perhaps because there are other Lakewalkers and Farmers interrelated in all kinds of different ways and not just Dag and Fawn and their love. Much more perspective. And to describe Barr as Lakewalkerish Sunny Sawman, in order to subtly point out that some flaws (and therefore also some advantages) are universally present in people, Lakewalkers and Farmers equally. Because it is one thing to have a high-and-mighty Dar or Cumbia, they are doing the Wrong, but they remain dignified in their erroneous behavior. But being equated with a Sunny Sawman just places Lakewalkers (or at least that one) right down to the ground (and not in the groundwork sense of the word).
There is lots of action, lots of further development of the idea of ground, groundwork and making, and I am so glad that I bought both Passage and Horizon at the same time, so that I can proceed with reading right on. It is just that I am already sad because I will get to the end too soon.
And I adored the line "Nothing worth doing is fun all the time. But it's still worth doing all the time". It completes the famous Cordelia's Law About Things Worth Doing so perfectly.

I agree with Kiri. I have a "thing" about bugs.

I will have to take a pause here (and on every other of my on-line activities) because my computer at home is ill(again) and I have to take it to good uncle doctor. I am writing this from work, but I cannot continue from here, because A) it is not allowed and B) I don't have the time

I hope it will be over soon, this ordeal :( :)

It could be that his father managed to hurt him enough with his disregard to seriously harm their relationship. On the other hand, Miles treated him with kindness and respect, once owned an RG class freighter, and had horses and kittens, which is also not to ignore. But, when he asked Miles if he would make Ekaterin happy - that seemed a bit farfetched.

Yeah, it seems that everybody is to busy reading to drop a line :)
The problem with kids in real life is that they never react as you intended them to. And they don't buy bs.
I don't think Miles would have it *that* easy with my kids LOL.

I adore the attic scene. And the letter. The letter is breathtaking.

I love the line about letting one win and stealing off all of his/hers future victories that way.

And Pim. Pim was priceless :))

To summarize: just thinking about this book makes me smile. I am grinning like a crazy just now :D

The final scene in the hospital, when Miles says: "The next number up is one." It stops my heart every time :)))

Sergyar has a different wormhole to link to Komarr and it is linked with Escobar as well. Somebody else would surely claim Sergyar. Komarr and Escobar being the most probable choice, provided that they have the means to support their claim.

Actually, I do not believe that the kinds of Tien can love anybody, not even themselves. They are so full of resentment and mockery towards love. Ekaterin said something in that tone, about him turning every emotion to a mockery, or something similar, I can't exactly remember. It may be the result of growing up in such atmosphere, of making fun of emotions and referring to them as to weakness.
Ekaterin was on the other hand very young when she married him. I got the feeling that she was more in love with love itself and her being a family founder, builder, gardener of sorts. She had a pretty picture in her head and wanted to be a part of it. She stayed with him for many reasons, but I don't see any of them as love.

It is never justifiable to invade on others. I have many difficulties while reading the parts of Komarr that are justifying the Barrayaran invasion. It is a fact that for Barrayar there was lots at stake since it was their only contact with the rest of the Nexus through that one wormhole. So I can understand, but it still leaves a bad taste to try to approve. There is no such thing as a nice invader.

There is that part in Memory about quiet place inside that I love so much. It is a turning point in his life, to discover having that place, and to discover that some things and/or people have no mass. It is not his death that made him improve that much - after all he did his most stupid stunt after that (lying in his report to Illyan) - but the point when he finally realizes that he cannot sell his heart for his heart's wish. As Mark put it: "Oh. So that's what integrity looks like. I didn't know. "

Because most of the interviewers are not in the interviewing business for the truth, but for the sick thrill and feeling of power. There is a sentence somewhere in the Vorkosiverse books about the good side of fast penta - it removed the unwanted elements out of the law enforcement.

And on the other hand, she would feel that the failure of her marriage would be her personal failure. That is often so in societies where woman are subdued to man, as the Vor society is. In such societies, all the fault is on woman, while all the credit goes to man.

I apologize for the omission of the spoiler alert.

But.
The only wormhole link to Barrayar lead from Komarr, and the traveling to Sergyar and Escobar went through that way too. See the Nexus map in Borders of Infinity. Or the one on http://wwww.dendarii.com (http://pw1.netcom.com/~fresne/home.htm)
That is why Komarr was so important to Barrayar in the first place.

I think that they would slip back in the way of living from the time of isolation, because people like familiar things in times of distress, however bad these might actually be. Without any way of getting in touch with the rest of the universe, a major distress it would be. There would probably be a civil war or two. Good that it did not happen.