One more for the road

[osprey_archer]

One last rec! This one for a Wishbone/Vorkosigan saga crossover, The Barkosigan Saga: Mirror Dance. It's totally awesome and hilarious and the Wishbone voices are totally right - I haven't watched Wishbone in ages but even so I recognized the cadences of his voice over.

And the Vorkosigan voices are hilarious

(MILES!WISHBONE: Mark! You can’t just impersonate me and take my mercenaries without asking!

MARK!WISHBONE: Well, you weren’t using them! And I will inform you that my cause is very noble.)

although I don't know if they're Vorkosigan-like as I haven't read the books *ducks*. I tried! I did! I couldn't get over the part where Aral masterminds a war against an innocent planet in order to mask his assassination of his planet's evil Crown Prince, and Cordelia marries him anyway because he...angsts so attractively about being forced, FORCED I TELL YOU, to kill millions of innocents? I don't even know.

Comments

[goldjadeocean.livejournal.com]

That's... certainly an interesting spin on events (for Shards of Honor). I cannot factually argue with it, however. :(

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I did the same thing to my friends when they made me watch Phantom of the Opera. "Run away, Christine!" I cried. "The phantom is a deranged stalker serial killer! Run away!"

This reading is factually correct. But apparently normal people do not read the story that way.

[goldjadeocean.livejournal.com]

I experienced PotO the same way you did (partly because I read the Gaston Leroux version first). On the other hand, I started reading the Vorkosigan saga with Miles's books, so I was already a hardcode Aral/Cordelia shipper before I read that book.

[girl-called-sun.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recs!

(Do try Miles' books, they really are better than SoH).

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I have heard this. They're on my list for books to attempt again.

Also, I love your icon.

[girl-called-sun.livejournal.com]

The quote is from one of the later Vorkosigan books, if that tempts you....

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I see I have stepped into a trap. *sighs dramatically* Very well, then. If I skip Shards of Honor, where do I start?

[girl-called-sun.livejournal.com]

The Warrior's Apprentice is the first Miles book. They get better as they go on - you'd like A Civil Campaign, I think.

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

The recs all sound exciting! I'm probably going to have to read the Wishbone and Northanger Abbey and maybe even the Hark! A Vagrant one. : )

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Do read the Hark! A Vagrant story! It's HILARIOUS!