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Jul. 11th, 2012 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsA PROS/CONS LIST
Pros of rereading Kage Baker's Company Books:
1. MENDOZA, best antisocial cyborg botanist lady protagonist ever
2. The centuries that Lewis spends earnestly writing fanfic
3. Joseph and Lewis: Wacky Cyborg Road Trip (Wacky Cyborgs Get Drunk On Chocolate! Wacky Cyborgs Visit Famous Literary Sites!)
4. Latif and his fine, fine self
5. Van Drouten and her fine, fine self
6. Nan and Kalugin, Cyborg OTP
7. My eternal desire to give Juan Bautista and Porfirio enormous hugs
8. The same for Victor, except if I did I would probably get the plague
9. Lolhistory!
10. Lolfilm history!
11. PRINCESS TIANA PARAKEET
12. Immortal cyborg William Randolph Hearst
Cons of rereading Kage Baker's Company Books:
1. Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, WORST VICTORIAN EVER
2. That whole book where Mendoza is brainwashed and has foursomes with her three dead ex-boyfriends and then one of the dead ex-boyfriends implants the other two as fetuses in her womb
3. That other whole book where they then turn into cyborg versions of Mary and the Holy Trinity
4. The fact that if I do this thing I can't even skip that last book, because PRINCESS TIANA PARAKEET
Pros of rereading Kage Baker's Company Books:
1. MENDOZA, best antisocial cyborg botanist lady protagonist ever
2. The centuries that Lewis spends earnestly writing fanfic
3. Joseph and Lewis: Wacky Cyborg Road Trip (Wacky Cyborgs Get Drunk On Chocolate! Wacky Cyborgs Visit Famous Literary Sites!)
4. Latif and his fine, fine self
5. Van Drouten and her fine, fine self
6. Nan and Kalugin, Cyborg OTP
7. My eternal desire to give Juan Bautista and Porfirio enormous hugs
8. The same for Victor, except if I did I would probably get the plague
9. Lolhistory!
10. Lolfilm history!
11. PRINCESS TIANA PARAKEET
12. Immortal cyborg William Randolph Hearst
Cons of rereading Kage Baker's Company Books:
1. Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, WORST VICTORIAN EVER
2. That whole book where Mendoza is brainwashed and has foursomes with her three dead ex-boyfriends and then one of the dead ex-boyfriends implants the other two as fetuses in her womb
3. That other whole book where they then turn into cyborg versions of Mary and the Holy Trinity
4. The fact that if I do this thing I can't even skip that last book, because PRINCESS TIANA PARAKEET
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Date: 2012-07-11 07:25 pm (UTC)Hah, #2 actually is the second-to-last one mostly -- The Machine's Child, which is Mendoza's long brainwashed honeymoon leading into the WTF of the ending. I forget which bits actually happen in which book, but what makes The Machine's Child extra special is that it's ALL long brainwashed honeymoon with no chance for the reader to escape and spend time with anyone else who doesn't make you want to throw the book against the wall.
(Empress of Mars is indeed a Company story! It's basically a prequel to that part where Alec accidentally blows up the moon. But I don't know whether that connection was a later addition or not.)
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Date: 2012-07-11 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-11 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-11 07:36 pm (UTC)(Also, now I feel old, I read the first one sometime toward the end of college. . . . okay, I'm done now.)