Cherryh-picking
Oct. 3rd, 2019 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowI've been rereading C. J. Cherryh's Chanur series. I'm just about done, maybe a third of the way into _Chanur's Legacy_.
Cherryh's work is almost always serious in tone; some of the Foreigner books display a bit of humor ("Salad!"), but stark horror is more her style. But _Chanur's Legacy_ is suffused with understated humor. Poor hapless Hallan Meras, Hilfy's fastidious stsho passenger, and the whole sequence with the mahen miner and his exploding rocks (which I haven't gotten to - they're still at Urtur Station)... It's not laugh-out-loud stuff, more shake-my-head-and-chuckle, but this book remains one of my comfort reads.
Cherryh's work is almost always serious in tone; some of the Foreigner books display a bit of humor ("Salad!"), but stark horror is more her style. But _Chanur's Legacy_ is suffused with understated humor. Poor hapless Hallan Meras, Hilfy's fastidious stsho passenger, and the whole sequence with the mahen miner and his exploding rocks (which I haven't gotten to - they're still at Urtur Station)... It's not laugh-out-loud stuff, more shake-my-head-and-chuckle, but this book remains one of my comfort reads.
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Date: 2019-10-06 12:07 pm (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22finity%27s+end%22
For you today, I was thinking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nWBq_OEaa0