Miles Vorkosigan--THE WARRIOR'S APPRENTICE - final thoughts?

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

We're getting started with the next book in the series (The Vor Game) in about 5 days, so... any final thoughts about The Warrior's Apprentice? Are you motivated to read more in the series? How does it stack up against the previous 2 books in the series? Any other comments?

[Frank]

I enjoyed Cordelia's Honor more, though i thought The Warrior's Apprentice was a very good book.

[Jon]

Yes, I liked Cordelia's Honor better than Warrior's Apprentice. But I still liked both of them and I'm glad I read them.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

It was a romp and a fun intro to Miles, with some serious moments and overtones. Certainly I am looking forward to more of the series. I read Shards of Honor and Barrayar as separate books and liked Barrayar a lot more. The Warrior's Apprentice is a very different book from the books about Cordelia & Aral, IMO.

[William]

I'd probably rank Warrior's Apprentice above Shards of Honor but slightly below Barrayar and some of the later Miles novels. It is a good book and very entertaining, but I'd say Bujold improved as an author in her later books (later in terms of writing, not necessarily chronology).

[Random]

William wrote: "It is a good book and very entertaining, but I'd say Bujold improved as an author in her later books (later in terms of writing, not necessarily chronology)."

I have to agree, though we are approaching one of my favorite books in the series. Just a month to go. :)

[Ken]

Yes, Warrior's Apprentice is an excellent book, not great but fun. It hooked me on Bugold's writing

[Shel, Moderator]

Popping in months later to say that I RACED through this book. What fun! I'm looking forward to seeing how the character develops over the course of the series, since so many of you have mentioned what a good job Bujold does with it.

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

Shel, glad to see you're catching up with the discussion!

Yet another way GoodReads is so much better for this than Yahoo: it's easier to look up older discussions and get involved in them.

[Shel, Moderator]

Yes, when I have the time I definitely want to do some more poking around your old discussions. Though it does look like a bunch of the discussions I'd be interested in reading were back on Yahoo...oh well!

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

If you're interested (and anyone else too, of course), you can check any of the old discussions in the archives of the Yahoo group - they go back almost a decade. It's not as nicely organized as here (just a chronological list of thousands of emails) but everything is still there. You do have to join the group there to have access to the archives. Here's the link:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Beyond_...

(but if you want to chat about any of the older books, I'd recommend starting a thread here, in the "Previous Books of the Month" folder, rather than on Yahoo)

[Richard]

I have to say I really appreciate reading your previous discussions on these books. Now I am looking forward to reading the whole series.