{"id":10331,"date":"2006-10-29T19:26:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T00:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/10\/29\/10331.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:55:20","slug":"book-report-the-vor-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/10\/29\/book-report-the-vor-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Vor Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It looks like I haven&#8217;t reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/order_isbn.asp?isbn=0671720147\">The Vor Game<\/a>, which would seem to imply that I haven&#8217;t read it in the last three years. This seems unlikely. Far more likely is that I read the thing and then forgot to blog it.\n<p>It&#8217;s quite a good Miles book. It&#8217;s got his mercenary band, which is good. It&#8217;s got some interesting stuff with Gregor. It has one bit that is very Barrayar, and another bit that is out in a galactic spot we haven&#8217;t visited yet (or after, because you can read them out of order just fine). There&#8217;s lots of Miles lying desperately, which is good stuff. I don&#8217;t much like the villain character (either of them, actually), but then they aren&#8217;t in the book much. Actually, the best bit is when Miles gets sunk under a meter of mud all by himself.\n<p>If somebody asked me where to start on the Miles books, I would definitely tell them to start with the Cordelia books. If you like those, you can jump into Miles just about anywhere. It&#8217;s reasonable to start with <I>Warrior&#8217;s Apprentice<\/I>, but you could start with this one just fine, and if you like it, you can go back. Or you could start with <I>Komarr<\/I>. Or with <I>Memory<\/I>. Or <I>Brothers in Arms<\/I>. I wouldn&#8217;t advise starting with <I>A Civil Campaign<\/I>, because I think it leads on from <I>Komarr<\/I> too well, and it would be too bad not to be able to read them together. I wouldn&#8217;t advise starting with <I>Cetaganda<\/I>, because I started with <I>Cetaganda<\/I> and I didn&#8217;t like it very much, and decided not to read the others (I changed my mind, later). I wouldn&#8217;t advise starting with <I>Diplomatic Immunity<\/I>, because it stank. I don&#8217;t know about <I>Mirror Dance<\/I>; it might not work at all if you don&#8217;t like Miles a bit going in, and therefore have some sympathy for Mark.\n<p>I will say this&#8212;if you don&#8217;t like <I>The Vor Game<\/I>, it probably isn&#8217;t worth your time trying any of the others.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like I haven\u2019t reported on The Vor Game, which would seem to imply that I haven\u2019t read it in the last three years. This seems unlikely. Far more likely is that I read the thing and then forgot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17862,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10331\/revisions\/17862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}