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Old 03-07-2004, 02:52 PM   #113
Slartibartfast
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Originally posted by wolf


I never thought of Narnia as a slog ... you reading them in the "traditional" order, or the "order of events" order?


It just seems to be going a bit slow. I'm reading them in the order the books are numbered. Lion, Witch..., Caspian, Dawn Treader.

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Originally posted by wolf


A friend of mine thrust it into my hands in a book store some years back and said "buy this."

That's very funny, because I did exactly the same thing to a friend of mine. I though it would be his type of book, so I was pretty ticked off when he gave up reading it saying he wasn't getting into it. He said he didn't like Vinge's style of throwing you into what is going on, and then only bit by bit explaining what the hell is going on. Funny, that was one of the things I liked about Fire Upon the Deep.

So wolf, just be aware that there will be times in the book (up to about half way) when things don't completely make sense, expect to understand it all later.
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