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Heavy Time; I'm reading the A/U books
Topic Started: Dec 20 2014, 10:35 PM (291 Views)
Neco the Nightwraith
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I've finally gotten around to getting the rest of CJ's books read (for those who know me, you know that my favorites are the Foreigner books, Chanur books, Faded Sun, plus Serpents Reach. I think I liked the Morgaine books as well, but they need a reread to refresh my memory.)

Early on, when I first started reading CJ's books, (I was about 11 when I started checking them out from the library) I read Tripoint and Rimrunners, but remember little. I also read Finity's End, but that was much later; I had rescued the paperback book from a box of other books that were mouldering in a box in the shop at the ranch. I was scandalized that someone had tossed a Cherryh book away like that, so I made it mine. XD It lives here with me now.

Anyway, so I've decided I was going to read/reread all the Alliance Union books. Since my husband has most (if not all) of CJ books, this should be easy for me, lol.

Yesterday I started reading Heavy Time. I read just over half the book that afternoon/evening, and really enjoyed the world building and detail. Bird is so far my favorite character, Ben pisses me off and I just wish Bird would smack him now and then, and I really feel bad for Dekker, which in a perverse way means I like him too. :P Some of the lingo took a while for me to figure out, but it finally dawned on me what things like "radrab" and "brut" meant, so I had little light bulbs going off as I read. I enjoyed the speaking style too, and the detail involved. I can even see little prototype ideas used in other books, or as remnants left over of that writing style (they may not have been deliberate of course, but I noticed them anyway).

And, finally, I know a book is good when I dream about it. My dreams last night, however confusing or mixed up, still had elements of Heavy Time in them, and I love that. :)
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I really need to reread Heavy Time, Rimrunners, and Hellburner. Likely Tripoint too. Been too long.

I really enjoyed the books, with NG and the others, with someone so emotionally/mentally damaged, struggling to recover, and his self-doubts, self-recriminations, added with the other crew trying, somehow, to live with him, put up with him, or reform him. Then add in their own problems as indie small-time shippers trying to get by in their world. Great use of language, great characters and world-building, to make a very plausible world and problems.

Finity's End is one of my favorites. Somehow, not only Fletcher, but Jeremy. The idea they were of an age, but separated by the time difference, I think, and Jeremy was endearing in himself. -- Merchanter's Luck is also one of my favorites, and I think it's the third book of hers I had ever read. I think the order was, Downbelow Station, Pride of Chanur, Merchanter's Luck, and Chanur's Venture, in which I encountered CJC's books. I was fortunate: The university library had a few of her books at the time, and this was before Foreigner, in the mid- and late 80's, when I first was introduced to her books.

Chanur is still very probably my favorite series of hers, among my favorites of any SF books.
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