Agnès Léguillon <[email protected]> writes >Hello fellow Feist fans, >I'm currently reading all the books, using John's Alternate Reading Order >from Crydee. I'm in the Riftwar Legacy series and I'd like to know more >about John's logic in creating this reading order.
>It would be nice if John (or anyone else who wants to chip in) could >enlighten me on why he prefers to read the books in that order. I don't. OK, here is the logic. We kept getting people asking for a chronological list of books, which to me is illogical, jumping back and forth from book to book. I personally prefer to read in the order published. I am not one to squirrel away my books till I get the last one in the series, so I can then read them in chronological order at some unspecified date in the future. But, I could see merit to grouping off-shoot series together. If you look at how the list is created you will notice there is a pattern. First remove from the books all those that were not essential to the main story and it's flow. That leaves you with Riftwar Saga Krondor's Sons Serpentwar Saga Conclave of the Shadows Darkwar Saga Demonwar Saga Chaoswar Saga You will also notice that for all these but the first, the prerequisite is to have read the series that cam before. The others that have been identified as Not Essential to Main Story, have been slotted in roughly based on their release date. With the Exception of Jimmy the Hand which was released after Talon, and Jimmy and the Crawler which came out recently. Shards of a Broken Crown Apr 1998 Krondor the Betrayal Nov 1998 Krondor the Assassins Nov 1999 Krondor Tear of the Gods Feb 2001 Honoured Enemy Aug 2001 Murder in LaMut June 2002 Talon of the Silver Hawk Sept 2002 Jimmy the Hand July 2003 -- 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.
