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Wait or start
I have not begun this series yet (I know I'm a bad person since SRD goes out of his way to recommend it). However, I own all the books up to Reaper's Gale and will get Toll the Hounds when it comes out next week, but my question is: since I have not started the series yet and he's close to being done, a couple more books (a few more years I would assume), should I wait until he's done so I can just read them all for the first time from start to finish, or just start reading them now? Any advice would be appreciated!
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I'm pretty sure I know how those of us who have read all of the series that's been written so far will vote. And there's two considerations that come to mind:
-If it turn out you hate it right from the beginning, you may as well find out now, and stop buying the books.
-It's very complex, detailed stuff. If you love it, you might end up reading it more than once, to keep it all straight. You could start a reread before the last books come out, and be better prepared for them.
-If it turn out you hate it right from the beginning, you may as well find out now, and stop buying the books.
-It's very complex, detailed stuff. If you love it, you might end up reading it more than once, to keep it all straight. You could start a reread before the last books come out, and be better prepared for them.
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have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
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So?? Any comments you'd care to make in the DG thread? Extraordinary book!! The Chain of Dogs!!! Fiddler!!!Zenlunatic wrote:I"m reading "Memories of Ice' now (no I'm not that slow, I don't read them back to back, one - then other stuff then back)...I think it's frickin' awesome...thanks again for the advice to get started.
And to think, I think that I think MoI is even better!! Both books are mind-numbingly good. Yet, so very, very different from each other, it's like comparing apples and oranges. Still, if a gun was pointed at my head, I'd pick MoI.
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Hey, it's Michael from Santa Fe!
I've never thought about Karsa's size relative to, say, Foamfollower. I think their builds are fundamentally different. Toblakai strike me as muscle-bound; Giants seem to me to have that ropy-wiry build. I think Giants might be just a smidge taller than Toblakai. But that's just my opinion.
I've never thought about Karsa's size relative to, say, Foamfollower. I think their builds are fundamentally different. Toblakai strike me as muscle-bound; Giants seem to me to have that ropy-wiry build. I think Giants might be just a smidge taller than Toblakai. But that's just my opinion.
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Yeah, that's what I thought, sort of a Giant Dwarf (is that an oxymoron?)...aliantha wrote:Hey, it's Michael from Santa Fe!
I've never thought about Karsa's size relative to, say, Foamfollower. I think their builds are fundamentally different. Toblakai strike me as muscle-bound; Giants seem to me to have that ropy-wiry build. I think Giants might be just a smidge taller than Toblakai. But that's just my opinion.
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OK, due to circumstances in my life, after I finished "Midnight Tides" I was not able to read "The Bonehunters" in a timely fashion...I'm thinking of just starting again (I own all the books, including all those written by ICE up to "Stonebuilder"). I know most of you have read the books multiple times, so should I just start again or read "Bonehunters" even though it's been over a year since I read "Midnight Tides"...
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Depends on your memory... but I'd say go with Bonehunters. It's as good a place to start as any
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I immediately reread the first four before moving on to MT. Yeah, I loved them like very few things I've ever read, and I was very excited to reread them. But there's also just tons and tons of stuff in them, and I wanted a better handle on it all.
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