Kevin's Watch

Oh, Menolly, you posted a link for Publlication Order, but, I don't see a link for "Suggested order". I could of course google it, but, may end up with a different suggested order than you are suggesting

sindatur wrote:I generally watch/listen to things in release order first time through, because any spoilers are intended and readers/watchers of the day got them that way. But, I will try your suggested order

My suggested order is the release/published order. McCaffrey published the first two of the Harper Hall trilogy before publication of The White Dragon.

And those first two trilogies are enough of the story arc for you to decide if you want to continue, or stop with those.

Enjoy!

Menolly wrote:

sindatur wrote:I generally watch/listen to things in release order first time through, because any spoilers are intended and readers/watchers of the day got them that way. But, I will try your suggested order

My suggested order is the release/published order. McCaffrey published the first two of the Harper Hall trilogy before publication of The White Dragon.

And those first two trilogies are enough of the story arc for you to decide if you want to continue, or stop with those.

Enjoy!

Ah, OK, Got it

Fist and Faith wrote:I'm not one of those Tehanu freaks. Heh. I've read it a couple times, but not sure I remember it enough to be helpful. I'm certainly willing to try though, if you want.

It's not about knowing the book well, it's about if I've written about it well.

Haha, Tehanu is my favourite of them.

And my feedback is in.

--A

Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

That's actually next on my reading list.

It's on my "to buy" list. Along with about 20 or more others.

--A

Apparently they've republished Erikson's first novel recently, This River Awakens (originally published under his real name, Steve Lundin).

Now reading The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson.

Just finished The White Dragon by Anne McCaffery. It's my first McCaffery and Pern novel. Quite enjoyable, but it was meta-dissonetic (ouch!) everytime I read Menolly's name, as I know the true Menolly is the one here on the Watch

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I dunno if this counts, but I just finished Fool by Christopher Moore.

Very fun. Lots of shagging and insults.

ussusimiel wrote:Just finished The White Dragon by Anne McCaffery. It's my first McCaffery and Pern novel.

Oy!
Talk about reading out of order! That would be the second to last novel of the first two trilogies to read.

ussusimiel wrote:Quite enjoyable, but it was meta-dissonetic (ouch!) everytime I read Menolly's name, as I know the true Menolly is the one here on the Watch

The second trilogy, at least the first two books (Dragonsong and Dragonsinger) of the Harper Hall trilogy, focuses on Menolly. I just truly connected to her when I read her tale.

Menolly wrote:

ussusimiel wrote:Just finished The White Dragon by Anne McCaffery. It's my first McCaffery and Pern novel.

Oy!
Talk about reading out of order! That would be the second to last novel of the first two trilogies to read.

ussusimiel wrote:Quite enjoyable, but it was meta-dissonetic (ouch!) everytime I read Menolly's name, as I know the true Menolly is the one here on the Watch

The second trilogy, at least the first two books (Dragonsong and Dragonsinger) of the Harper Hall trilogy, focuses on Menolly. I just truly connected to her when I read her tale.

I had no idea you were a Dragon Rider (Or at least important in a Dragon Rider's Story)

I was trying to keep from spoiling it for you, sin.

I (or at least the one I chose my name from) am/is not a Dragonrider, but a Harper. However, I/she am/is strongly associated with fire lizards.

...and that's all I'll say.

I finished Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon. Good book, though short.

SoulBiter wrote:Starting "The forever War" by Joe Haldeman

Interesting book. For the main character in the book only 4 years have gone by, but because of the way they travel in space over 200 years have passed on the Earth. The UN now runs everything. He is a throwback from an earlier time and there are no longer any Hetero's. Sex is considered gross and all babies are conceived via science. The govt did that on purpose because people were not making good choices in their mates. Anyone that is Hetero or showing tendencies there-of are considered sociopaths and put through a corrective process. Only about 60% through this book. Written in 1974..

Just finished Daniel Abraham's "A Shadow in Summer" last night.

I think that means it's back to "Ender's Game". (which I started when I was in the middle of the other one.)
P'raps it's a little odd reading it for my first time when my son is 6 years old...

I'm still trailing through the Discworld books, in the order they were written - up to Soul Music now. I was still reading through the intervals of the tennis match tonight. Mad rush to finish before my re-read of the last Chronicles. And - someone has lent me Alison Weir's "The Princes in the Tower" which I suppose I'd better read although I just know it will be a load of rubbish.