On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 08:18, Andrew Lias wrote: > >Now, I have a question: I have been planning to hook some of my > >friends on Dragaera, and am trying to decide in what order to loan them the > >books. > > I used to be a big partisan of story-chonological order but, more and more, > I've come to believe that publication order is better. > > As often as not Brust "forshadows" things that have already happened, but > which haven't been revealed in the series. By reading them in publication > order, you get that little extra thrill of discovery -- "Oh, that's what > Vlad was talking about!" -- just a little bit more often, and I think that > makes it well worth the while. To play the devil's advocate, if you read them in reverse order you can get the 'Oh! I remember that!' like I got when reading the legend at the beginning of BP. Jag