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Gaertk at aol.com Gaertk at aol.com
Tue Jun 11 17:59:49 PDT 2002

Disclaimer:  I'm not in charge of this list, and I don't
want to be.

Some questions:

Are we discussing Khaavren books and Brokedown Palace too?

How much are we biting off at a time?  I like the idea of
doing one chapter at a time so we can really delve in and
analyse the heck out of eveything, but there's a total of
about 250 chapters (including interludes, epilogues, etc)
which at one a week would take 5 years, even at one a day
it'd take nearly a year.  A whole book at a time wouldn't
allow too much depth of discussions before moving on.  So 
compromise with a few chapters? And how much time between
chunks?

What order do we do them?  Published, chronological, 
alphabetical, random, Cycle?

For those of you unclear on the exact chronological order
[checks for original, dang didn't copy that to this 
computer, Google, cut, paste, change a word...]

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Dragaera Books Sorted By Chronological Order of Events

This is very nearly [1] the closest you can get to the 
chronological order of events without actually chopping 
apart individual chapters.

[The Khaavren Romances]
_The Phoenix Guards_
_Five Hundred Years After_
_The Viscount of Adrilankha_ [not yet published]

[Stand Alone Fenarian Book]
_Brokedown Palace_

[Mobster Vlad]
Prologue of _Jhereg_ (overlaps some flashbacks in _Taltos_)
_Taltos_
_Dragon_, skipping Interludes
_Yendi_
Interludes from _Dragon_
Rest of _Jhereg_
_Teckla_
_Phoenix_

[Retired Vlad]
_Athyra_
_Orca_ [*]
_Issola_


"A Dream of Passion" -- I've come to the conclusion that 
this short story is in fact just a dream that Vlad had 
sometime after the first couple of chapters in _Dragon_.  
Read it any time after you've read at least one of the 
mobster books.

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[1] Technically, the Prologues from _Athyra_ and _Orca_ and
the Interludes of the latter should be moved to after 
Chapter 17 of their respective books, but this hurts the 
flow of the prose without adding anything.

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[*] Even if you ignore the rest of this post (due to
availability or contrariness) please, Please read as many 
Vlad books as you can before _Orca_.  A certain scene at the 
end of _Orca_ is the only thing that I believe really Needs 
spoiler protection.  There are a few comments in _Issola_ 
that might spoil _Orca_, depending on how good you are at 
guessing.

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--KG