While we’re reminiscing! I first picked up Magician a long time ago. 28yrs! The 1st edition uk paperback well before silverthorn. I’ve read them all since then. Multiple times. The first book is sadly gone. The poor tatty thing was retired when the excellent authors edition of Magician came out a few years later.
I don’t know what it is about the series that connected so well, maybe it was the sheer scale, the political intrigue, the writing style. Maybe all or more. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve picked up any one of the books and settled down to read a few chapters knowing that I can easily jump into the storyline, enjoy it for a while, then do it again months or years later. Not many books you can do that with. Sad to know that of my 3 favourite fantasy authors 2 are no longer with us – James Rigney (Robert Jordan) & David Eddings. I hope REF is around a long time after the Riftwar Saga is completed, and the next project done & dusted. Then again I hope I’m around as well to read & re-read them all! Thanks Ray Stephen From: Martin Kjær Kleis Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:51 PM To: feistfans-l Subject: Re: More than half my life I first found a Raymond book while I was visiting my, at the time, girlfriend in Copenhagen. I needed something to read for my 5 hour train journey back home. It was Tears of the Gods, so not the best place to start, but I loved it. I lend it to a friend of mine, who then bought Magician, which I in turn borrowed as well. Since then I've read.. well all of them I guess, or at least almost. My entire topself is only for Raymond E. Feist, everything else can stand lower. I was 15 back then, and I'm turning 25 this summer. So almost half my life reading these books, and they have been reread so many times I recently got them all again, because the old books were worn down! Martin On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:41 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: Richard Williamson <[email protected]> writes Anyway... Stumbled on the limp version (Braldt cover*) in 1987 probably, so 25 years ago. Mathematically speaking, I hit the half-life of Midkemiitis in 2010... For me it was the old Geoff Taylor paperback, when I was looking for something to take on holiday. Had not read in 10 years, so needed something good to read. The cover looked nice, the blurb on the back interesting :)! Also, I stumbled on this list 15 years ago, so summer 2013 I will have spent 1/3 of my life on here. Found the list in '97 when I first got a home Internet connection at the astounding speed of 28kb Crydee when live in 99 so is 12 years old so a little under a quarter of my life and were shortly moving to 100Mb -- John The Official Raymond E Feist Website http://www.crydee.com/ Books to read, and shelves to fill, Ray's great books, just fit the bill.
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