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Foreigner Series; Favorite Moments (beware spoilers!)
Topic Started: Feb 5 2008, 08:21 PM (6,200 Views)
Busifer

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As for wine for breakfast, haven't you ever heard of mimosas (champagne and orange juice) and Kir Royale (champagne and black currant syrup/liquor)?


Urrkk!!!
That's Swedish for Y.U.K. ;-)

Well, I know. I just don't drink them. Not even well AFTER breakfast. I'd NEVER spoil champagne with anything!
A café in Berlin (West; this was well before glasnost) where I used to breakfast offered a small breakfast, a big breakfast, a sweet breakfast; and a 'sparkling' breakfast. Never tried one. Having had beer all night, still somewhat hung over, didn't encourage starting the day (mid morning, actually) with anything alcoholic...

Plus, I don't like drinking alcoholic beverages too early, on principle.
When I had them it was because the night had *magically* :atwink turned into morning, but that was a looooong time ago. I think I maybe was 27 yo the last time, and that is 25 years ago, hehe!
Personally I think huge amounts of tequila have had something to do with this; let's say I learnt something, the hard way!
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Aja Jin
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mimosas are great :salad:

many years ago, my wife and I were on a weekend out with friends from college (no kids for any of us yet)

when we went down to the big dining room for a semi-late breakfast, we saw a great big group of retirees whooping it up and hitting the mimosas bigtime

that's when I started looking forward to retirement :atwink
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Busifer

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:atwink I think the Swedish term for mimosas would be 'uncivilized'. But in truth, that's how Europeans tend to view Americans*. Or - that's how you tend to view any culture not your own, at least when you get down to the stuff you find incomprehensible :atwink

Personally I think that's one of the big reasons I like the Foreigner books so much.

* Now and again I have to tell people I know that "no, the US is a big place, not everyone is a bible-wielding sectarian". But that's what the media show, and shows like CSI, which is hugely popular here (in three incarnations; LV, Miami, & NY), doesn't do much to erase that picture - lot's of crazies on that one!
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You can't beat a champagne breakfast. Sausage scrambled egg, toast mushrooms and champers. Doesn't encourage strenuous activity in the rest of the day though.

Favourite bits. Bren forgetting he's left the operator phoning Dana Every couple of minutes. For an entire day!

Illsidi. Pretty much anytime.
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Busifer

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You can't beat a champagne breakfast. Sausage scrambled egg, toast mushrooms and champers.


That's where you foreigners do weird stuff we Swedish people don't understand. :atwink Champagne and scrambled eggs? And sausages?!?! Oh no. No no NO.

Possible foodstuffs are lightly poached asparaguses, or fresh strawberries, or smoked and dried reindeer. Not at the same time, of course!
And, oh, onion quiche, and light pastries or desserts.

Champagne while taking a bath, reading, is also acceptable, but personally I prefer a chilled lager. But my tub is too small. I need an atevi style bath.

Oh well, off to work, now.
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(A litle off-topic, maybe, but my breakfast usually consists of an apple. :lol:)
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How about a couple of things I really wish there'd been much more to?

The chess game between Banichi and Jago which Bren mentions in his letter to Toby while on the ship.

The Station Atevi and Human Worker jokes Bren refers to, regarding the differences between the two species. Oh, I so wanted to hear a few of those!
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Resa,Feb 13 2008
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The Station Atevi and Human Worker jokes Bren refers to, regarding the differences between the two species. Oh, I so wanted to hear a few of those!

Yes! I wondered about those too.
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Busifer

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The chess game between Banichi and Jago which Bren mentions in his letter to Toby while on the ship.


Yes, I liked that one too - 'Jago tries not to be smug' :atwink - and would like more of those personal everyday moments.
On the other hand those don't drive the story, so I can understand why they're far between...
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((sighs)) Ah yes, I'm sure that's why -- as they'd easily distract from the storyline if she put them all in. But you know, I bet some of them exist somewhere, in a pile of pages she didn't use.

One wishes fervently that Aiji :cherryh: would consider putting some of them up on her webpage one day. I wouldn't even care if they were punctuated...
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Busifer

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Yes, I guess she has loads of discarded material we'd love to read...
Why, DVDs come with a lot of extras, why can't books have them, too?
(OK, I know why, but one can wish?)
The website would be a great place for them - it's not like the thing bathes in new fresh material anyway :atwink
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Having finished rereading Pretender, I rather liked Cajeiri noticing Bren's isolation: when he muses to himself that Bren is as lonely as he is!

Are there any other SF books by :cherryh: where any of the protagonists have a personal relationship of any extent? In the Foreigner books we have Bren and Jago, and Tabini and Daimiri. Toby's marriage fails, and his current imvolvement with Barb seems fraught with the potential for disaster.
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Busifer

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Are there any other SF books by :cherryh: where any of the protagonists have a personal relationship of any extent?


I've only yet read the Foreigner books and the Company Wars books plus Cyteen but I don't think they have uncomplicated relationships in them.
Hellburner have Meg & Dekker (I'm kind of discounting Sal & Ben, I'm thinking of that as more of a convenient arrangement).
Cyteen, of course, have Justin & Grant, but we really don't know what kind of relationship they REALLY have.

I'm thinking that those relationships revolves more around dependency than around love?

The only 'romantic' pairing, except Jago & Bren, that I can think of is Sandy & Allison, in Merchanter's Luck, and maybe Elene Quen & Damon Konstantin, in Downbelow station, but by Finity's End that relationship has grown kind of thin...

BTW, those musings are in Deliverer, not Pretender :atwink, and I liked them as well. Partly because it's here he also muses on Bren's relationship with Jago, not to mention his granny's relationship to her chief of security...
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One also enjoyed Deliverer for Cajieri's musings on Bren and his Great Grandmum.

I am a HUGE Ilisidi fan, and would love more info on her relationship with the ever proper Cenedi.
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I view this as a good series into which Illisidi and Cajeiri breathed a special burst of life. Both are outstanding characters, developed and portrayed with exceptional skill. Most authors just can't do this like CJ. Combine that with unparalleled skill in portraying aliens, and you have pretty consistent enjoyment.
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