Outside of a Dog: Robb, J.D.: (07) Holiday in Death

Kathy

Kathy wrote on October 24, 2002 at 8:46 PM:

Wow. You're reading them out of order! Then again, it probably doesn't make that much difference. You can pretty much establish where you are in the timeline by Peabody. :-) Still trying to figure out how Nora Roberts can write so damn many books a year, though.

Kate

Kate wrote on October 24, 2002 at 9:29 PM:

Oh no, I've read all of them as they were published. I was just re-reading.

I'm very fond of Peabody.

And I know how she writes so many: she doesn't rewrite or get proofread. And I say this as someone who enjoys her books.

Mary Kay Kare

Mary Kay Kare wrote on October 28, 2002 at 5:51 PM:

Rereading all of Pratchett in order was my summer project. It is a measure of my summer that it's now the end of October and I've just finished SOUL MUSIC. It's interesting what I had forgotten from the early books. Unfortunately, I'm in Seattle for an indeterminate time and all the Pratchett books are in California. Living in 2 places at once is not the glamorous thing it's cracked up to be. All my winter clothes are there, along with my boots...

Sigh

MKK

Kathy

Kathy wrote on October 28, 2002 at 8:09 PM:

Oh, phew. Not out of order, then. And I completely agree that she doesn't rewrite or get proofread, but I also wonder if she's dictating them, given how goofy some of the typos are.

My summer project (aside from swallowing about two-thirds of the completely ouevre of Diana Wynne-Jones) was re-reading my way through Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles. Y'know, it really does make much more sense the second time around! (especially if you've made it through Nicholas two or three times).

Kate

Kate wrote on October 29, 2002 at 6:48 PM:

Kathy--I've thought about re-reading Lymond many times, but they're just so emotionally draining and time-consuming that I begin to wonder if I ever will. I have no doubt that it makes more sense the second time around, though.

Kathy

Kathy wrote on October 30, 2002 at 5:30 PM:

Well, the weirdest thing about re-reading is that the Russian bits in RC actually seem exciting and make sense. :-) Also, the advent of Vol. II of Elpeth Morrison's DOROTHY DUNNETT COMPANION adds quite a bit when you're not very well-versed in Renaissance multilingual poetry. :-)

The really draining/time-consuming bit will be making it through Nicholas for a third round.

Kate

Kate wrote on October 30, 2002 at 9:20 PM:

I'm probably not going to read the Niccolo books, just because I hear that they're even more difficult to figure out the first time through than the Lymond books. If I ever do re-read Lymond, though, I'm definitely buying a copy of the Companion (in the same way that I hear a Sayers companion is coming out soon; those I definitely re-read, obviously).