At 10:08 11/25/2002 -0800, Dennis Higbee wrote: >On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Matthew Hunter wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:36:31AM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet > <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote: > > > "Casey Rousseau" <casey at trinityhartford.org> writes: > > > > As for Kurtz, yes, I was explicitly recommending the first two > trilogies. > > > That's about right. Either that or just the first 1. I'd be very > > > doubtful about anything past that, anyway. > > > > That's odd. IMHO they get better, rather than worse. > > Particularly the first trilogy -- it's very rough, obviously an > > early and unpolished set of books. > >This is the consensus among Deryni fans. The author herself has said on >numerous occasions that she'd like to take out a number of elements from >the first trilogy that she only put in because she "thought they had to >be there." I read the first Kurtz novel. For some reason, it turned on my squick sensor, so much that I have avoided reading anything else by her. -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net