On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Anestis Kozakis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Going through my old e-mails I found this from John from a while ago. It >> only includes the first three books, The Empire series, and The Wood Boy. >> > > To enjoy these books to the fullest they must be read concurrently with > The Empire Sequence as our main Character, Pug, appears in both > trilogies. > I find that approach odd. Do you read each individual book that way, too? Many of Ray's books follow a group of characters that split up, and some go one place and we follow them for a while, then we go back to when they split up and follow another group for a while, and then we go back to a third group and follow them, and then jump back to the first (who may be "behind" the timeline now), and so on. Is that really so confusing? How on earth did you read ME, then? Why, if it's not confusing within a book, is it so hard with different books that are mostly self-contained stories with casual references to other books? Don't get me wrong - if this makes you happy, go for it. Your choices won't affect my enjoyment of the books at all, so do what works for you. I just think it's...unusual. Personally I read them a lot closer to the "alternate" order, though I like to move the legends books to immediately before the Empire trilogy, and the Legacy books to immediately after (a little closer to the chronological, but maintaining integrity within series).
