I hate Joe Bennett. Not at all as funny as Bill Bryson, but thinks he is, and he is always horrible about left-wing politics and feminists and ESPECIALLY Helen Clark.

If you don't like Miles at the end of Barrayar, you will probably continue to dislike him until he grows up a bit, which happens when he's about 30. (Memory, which unfortunately doesn't make sense unless you have at least a vague recollection of his other books.)