> Which skzb book did you start with? I believe it was either Yendi or Jhereg; I can't recall. My ex handed one to me, figuring that I'd get a kick out of them. I was hooked from then on out. I blame this, for the most part, on SKZB; and, in part, on my ex... It was a year or two later that I started gobbling every Brust book in sight, and thrusting them upon friends and relatives (in fact, I sent some with my mother when she went to South America, and she had to leave a couple behind because she was carrying too much. So after she read them, she'd leave them in the hotel lobby. I'm thinking some poor, unsuspecting person in Peru is now hopelessly addicted to Brust's work...:). <grin> Chris "So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear, Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my Good" - John Milton - 'Paradise Lost'