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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 5:26 am
by Avatar
It starts to get really intense (and good) in book 3.
And I feel you about Morn...she really annoyed me for big chunks of the series.
--A
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:51 am
by deer of the dawn
Sorus wrote:Yes, what SD said. I will admit that I did not read the books in the proper order, but jumping from two to five is not something I would recommend.
Why would you do that??
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:33 pm
by Sorus
I bought the fourth book not realizing it was part of a series. The fifth book wasn't available yet, so I went backwards. It made sense at the time.
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:58 am
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Yeah, I've done that a few times, back when I had no choice. Actually, I did it with the Malazan books too...read 1-4, then backwards from 8 to 5.
--A
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 7:58 pm
by Nathan
I accidentally bought the third in a series of books on Audible recently. I immediately got a refund and bought book one instead.
How was it that you came to have no choice but to read Malazan backwards from 8-5 Av?
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 5:37 am
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Well, LuciMay & Fist sent me book 1 and book 2-4 respectively (to my eternal gratitude), and then I found book 8 here on a sale, so I bought it. But I couldn't find 5-7.
Then it turned out somebody I worked with had them, but he was reading 5, and had lent 6 to somebody else. So I read 7 first.
And then it just made sense to go backwards to 5.
--A
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 5:14 pm
by Savor Dam
...and just like that I better understand why Menolly was so OCD about getting the entire Potter collection into one box for you back in 2010...
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2016 12:51 pm
by deer of the dawn
I know I did that once with a series, but I found it so annoying that I was supposed to know things and people that I decided not to do it again. (And now I don't remember the series because it died with the wall-of-bangs, I guess.)
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 7:14 pm
by deer of the dawn
Btw I said This Day,,, when I am actually reading A Dark and Angry God.
I saw a list of the "Top Ten Most Disturbing Books of All Time". The only book on the list I had read was Blindness, by Jose Saramago, an excellent book. And definitely less disturbing than the Gap Series.
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 7:55 pm
by Sorus
I had to Google that list, since banned and/or disturbing books tend to end up high on my reading list.
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 5:26 am
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Savor Dam wrote:...and just like that I better understand why Menolly was so OCD about getting the entire Potter collection into one box for you back in 2010...
It wasn't so bad with Malazan...since the stories jumped around so much.
--A
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 11:46 am
by deer of the dawn
Sorus wrote:I had to Google that list, since banned and/or disturbing books tend to end up high on my reading list.
There is actually a film of
Blindness which was a very faithful adaptation. But of course, read the book first.
Am at the point in book 3 where I'm going, does UMCP know the drug really
does work and they're letting the Amnion get a hold of it, and if so why?...
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 4:56 am
by Avatar
Oh, just wait.
--A
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 2:03 am
by Savor Dam
Av has it right...and kudos to deer for an insightful question. The onion layers of the Gap...
Read And Find Out!
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 4:18 am
by Hunchback Jack
One thing I will say about The Gap, particularly during books 3 and 4, is that you need to pay attention not just to what characters' motives are, but to what other characters think those motives are.
ETA: book 3 is my favorite, I think. But the whole series is great.
HBJ
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 4:48 am
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Yes, book 3 is fantastic. 4 & 5 are pretty damn great too.
--A
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2016 6:59 pm
by deer of the dawn
These facts are good to know. It just gets more and more intriguing, doesn't it? Right now the ships are converging on Valdor and I don't even know what the freek anymore...
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 4:50 am
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--A
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 4:54 am
by StevieG
The first time I read the series, I missed about 2 weeks of work once I was about half way through ADAHGA
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 10:45 am
by deer of the dawn
Maybe I can tell my 3rd grade class we're going to have a reading marathon. I'll sit and read while they do... for a month...
Hunchback Jack, welcome to the Watch.