[LMB] ACC as Romance, was Elli

[Ed Burkhead]

Jennifer Sessions <sessiojr at uwec.edu> wrote:
> Oh yes. the dinner party is still hard for me to voluntarily read 
> precisely for the cringe inducing impending doom nature of the fiasco. . . .
Dan answered:
> I thought the dinner party scene was brilliantly farcical.  

Humor does often involve levels of painful situations.  I could empathize with
EVERYONE at the dinner party.  For the first ten times I read that section, I
laughed so hard I leaked tears of humor and empathic-pain.  (I don't otherwise
EVER leak tears over books.)

Yeah, Miles's and Mark's aftermath is a painful couple of pages but the book
gets really good after that and I think you will feel that way about the rest
of the book, too, Jennifer.

I do like the galactic adventures and I'm basically a hard-SF person.  But I
still think of ACC as my favorite Vorkosigan book.

For me, Barrayar is a close second.  The shopping present from the capital,
delivery scene is also a favorite due to the painful humor eliciting
out-loud-laughs and tears-of-empathy on the same page.

Ed