What I was looking for, and found to some extent, was the development of Vlad's status in the world, mostly watching his relationship with Morrollan et al and also watching his growth in the ogranization. I especially liked reading Dragon immediately after Taltos - it's Vlad and M's second meeting, really, and the beginning of the evolution of the relationship from a job to a friendship. I was also impressed when reading Jhereg and seeing how much it alluded to the just-previous-chronologically events of Yendi, which obviously hadn't been written yet. How much of Yendi had Steve already plotted out when he wrote Jhereg? Did he plan/expect Jhereg to turn into a series, or was he expecting it to be a singleton book? Did the plot of Yendi, which flows natually from my perspective, have to be manipulated to be consistent with what had already been said in Jhereg? There are a number of books where a earlier-written book references an event in an earlier-chronologically book, and sometimes I've had to take those referenes with a few grains of salt, but I couldn't find any complaints on the Jhereg-Yendi links. Now that I've finished up through Klava with Honey, it's on to the Khaavren romances for me..... > <html> > <body> > At 02:28 PM 2/14/2006 -0500, you wrote:<br> > <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I've been re-reading the Vladiad in > chronological order, which I must<br> > say is an interesting experience.</blockquote><br> > I did that recently myself. I have to say that it's really not as > good an experience as reading them in publication order. Reading > them in publication order gives a much better narrative flow, and you > watch Steve get better and better as a writer rather than jumping back > and forth between better and (sorry Steve) less well written books. > This is even more true if you include the Khaavren books as well as the > Vlad ones (which one should for completeness sake); it was quite jarring > to go from Sethra Lavode to Taltos (or Brokedown Palace).<br><br> > <br> > <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Am I > over-analyzing?</blockquote><br> > On <i>this </i>list? No such thing.<br><br> > C</body> > </html> > >