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[owl]

I have been browsing the LMBujold list.

Have discovered that some readers think

• Gregor doesn't care all that about Miles (or that it's all tell-not-show in the books) because he doesn't haul him out of his woe-I-have-been-booted-from-the-military funks in WA and Memory


• Ges and Serg weren't, well, I suppose 'lovers' is kind of inappropriate, but anyway


• Donna/Dono isn't bi (and was all along)


• Elli is more interesting a character and more worthy of Miles than Ekaterin is

I don't think there's anyone going with e) All of the above, but you never know.


(My responses in order: take a closer look at the plot of those two books, no-brainer, Countess Vormuir springs to my mind, and ok, did you get the Beijing editions?)

Comments

[coughingbear]

Re: Gregor and Miles, absolutely. Also, in Memory, as soon as a way becomes clear for Gregor to give Miles something useful and constructive (for both M & the Empire) to do, he takes it.

[owl]

Yes, Miles should really have been court-martialled. Instead of which, he gets promoted :-P
But I can't see Gregor throwing Miles into a bath of ice-cubes. If G. had appeared at that both, iles would probably have died out of sheer avoidance. And after the dressing-down Gregor does do a sort of older-brotherly 'okay, you're tacitly forgiven; come and meet my girlfriend?' which is rather sweet.

Why do I not have a Gregor icon?

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to think now whether any of the covers have Gregor on.

[owl]

None of mine do. That probably is why.