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Same, honestly. Although I also add Shards of Honor and Mirror Dance.
Memory is my favorite. Mountains of Mourning a close second.
For me it would have to be the first story that hoked me, so it would be Weatherman.
I always recommend "A Civil Campaign" to everyone as one of the most awesomely hilarious books ever. It's not what hooked me (that was Cetaganda, randomly picked up in a library), but it's the book I go back to again and again for an amazing good time and a hysterical-laughter workout for my abs.
I must add that I am a biochemist. It may make me bust up a lot more... what rhymes with "mucopolysaccharide"? It's wonderful!
Memory was my favorite until I read Captain Vorpatril's Alliance.
My vote is for Civil Campaign - I cried too - but from laughter during the dinner scene!
In my view, the dinner scene from Civil Campaign is the ultimate culmination of years of character development - best served with the knowledge of all previous stories.
A Civil Campaign had several of the best lines of the entire series, and is probably the most joyful of them. And has the Illyan meets Ekaterin chapter (13, somewhat appropriately), which is my favorite passage of ever written. Memory, though, has the single best line of the series. "The only thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
My hardcover copy of A Civil Campaign is coming apart from rereading (mostly before I began also using e-books--I have almost everything of yours in both forms) and I have ordered a new copy from Uncle Hugo's while ordering your latest. Have you read C. S. Lewis' short book An Experiment in Criticism? Judging books by their readers (instead of the reverse) and exploring the characteristics of the good reader, he asserts that good readers love to reread books they have found worthwhile.
Ditto A Civil Campaign, Memory, and Shards of Honor.
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Same, honestly. Although I also add Shards of Honor and Mirror Dance.
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Memory is my favorite. Mountains of Mourning a close second.
For me it would have to be the first story that hoked me, so it would be Weatherman.
I always recommend "A Civil Campaign" to everyone as one of the most awesomely hilarious books ever. It's not what hooked me (that was Cetaganda, randomly picked up in a library), but it's the book I go back to again and again for an amazing good time and a hysterical-laughter workout for my abs.I must add that I am a biochemist. It may make me bust up a lot more... what rhymes with "mucopolysaccharide"? It's wonderful!
Memory was my favorite until I read Captain Vorpatril's Alliance.
My vote is for Civil Campaign - I cried too - but from laughter during the dinner scene!
In my view, the dinner scene from Civil Campaign is the ultimate culmination of years of character development - best served with the knowledge of all previous stories.
A Civil Campaign had several of the best lines of the entire series, and is probably the most joyful of them. And has the Illyan meets Ekaterin chapter (13, somewhat appropriately), which is my favorite passage of ever written. Memory, though, has the single best line of the series. "The only thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
My hardcover copy of A Civil Campaign is coming apart from rereading (mostly before I began also using e-books--I have almost everything of yours in both forms) and I have ordered a new copy from Uncle Hugo's while ordering your latest. Have you read C. S. Lewis' short book An Experiment in Criticism? Judging books by their readers (instead of the reverse) and exploring the characteristics of the good reader, he asserts that good readers love to reread books they have found worthwhile.
Ditto A Civil Campaign, Memory, and Shards of Honor.
