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InfinityLtd   06-22-2004, 12:09 PM
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Ken Valentine Wrote:The scene is actually scarcely more than a paragraph, and I'm sure you have read worse.

Ken V.

I'm sure that I have read worse stuff, but somehow, I think knowing that this actually happened will make it harder. I don't know: maybe I'll forget by the time I get to GATEWAYS (still planning on reading the Adversary Cycle and RJ books in chronological order one right after the others as soon as I finish some other books I've had stacked up for awhile).

Eric S. Bauman

"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -- John Barth

"All things serve the Beam." -- Stephen King

Paper clips: the larval stage of coat hangers.
Ken Valentine   06-23-2004, 04:01 AM
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InfinityLtd Wrote:I'm sure that I have read worse stuff, but somehow, I think knowing that this actually happened will make it harder. I don't know: maybe I'll forget by the time I get to GATEWAYS (still planning on reading the Adversary Cycle and RJ books in chronological order one right after the others as soon as I finish some other books I've had stacked up for awhile).

You know, I've been thinking about sitting down and establishing a cronological order based on comments in the books. I can forsee some semantic problems, so it will probably end up being two chronological orders. For example, when some people say "last summer", they mean the summer that passed earlier "this" year. When I say last summer, I'm referring to the summer of LAST year. This summer is the summer of THIS year, and next summer is the summer of NEXT year.

In Night World, the sun rose late on May 17, XXXX. Reprisal ended about four months earlier.

In All The Rage, Jack comes across the name of Dr. A. Bulmer, who is practicing medicine at the time. Which places All The Rage before The Touch.
In a Reprisal flashback, a derelict asks Will Ryerson, "Are you the one?" So we know that the Dat-Tay-Vao is searching.

There are little clues like this throughout all the books. It ought to be fun putting them all together.

Ken V.
jimbow8   06-23-2004, 09:56 AM
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Ken Valentine Wrote:You know, I've been thinking about sitting down and establishing a cronological order based on comments in the books. I can forsee some semantic problems, so it will probably end up being two chronological orders. For example, when some people say "last summer", they mean the summer that passed earlier "this" year. When I say last summer, I'm referring to the summer of LAST year. This summer is the summer of THIS year, and next summer is the summer of NEXT year.

In Night World, the sun rose late on May 17, XXXX. Reprisal ended about four months earlier.

In All The Rage, Jack comes across the name of Dr. A. Bulmer, who is practicing medicine at the time. Which places All The Rage before The Touch.
In a Reprisal flashback, a derelict asks Will Ryerson, "Are you the one?" So we know that the Dat-Tay-Vao is searching.

There are little clues like this throughout all the books. It ought to be fun putting them all together.

Ken V.
MAN!! I have to read these books again. I don't remember so much of this stuff. So much to read, so little time, such a slow reader. *sigh*

**SPOILER ALERT**
I forget - who did the Dat-Tay-Vao end up with in Nightworld?

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Ken Valentine   06-23-2004, 10:12 AM
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jimbow8 Wrote:MAN!! I have to read these books again. I don't remember so much of this stuff. So much to read, so little time, such a slow reader. *sigh*

**SPOILER ALERT**
I forget - who did the Dat-Tay-Vao end up with in Nightworld?


SPOILER!

At the end of THE TOUCH the Dat-Tay-Vao moved to Sylvia's little autistic son Jeffy, where it remained until it transferred back into the sword at the end of Night World.

Ken V.
ALowerDeep   06-23-2004, 11:13 AM
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can anyone tell me how good crisscross was and how does it measure uo to the other RJ books. I want to know before i decide to purchase the signed edition online.

A LOWER DEEP
jpwynn   06-28-2004, 12:02 PM
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ALowerDeep Wrote:can anyone tell me how good crisscross was and how does it measure uo to the other RJ books. I want to know before i decide to purchase the signed edition online.

A LOWER DEEP

I truly thought that it was the best yet!
Ken Valentine   06-28-2004, 12:27 PM
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ALowerDeep Wrote:can anyone tell me how good crisscross was and how does it measure uo to the other RJ books. I want to know before i decide to purchase the signed edition online.

A LOWER DEEP

It's excellent! By all means get it.

Ken V.
Bluesman Mike Lindner   06-28-2004, 12:40 PM
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ALowerDeep Wrote:can anyone tell me how good crisscross was and how does it measure uo to the other RJ books. I want to know before i decide to purchase the signed edition online.

A LOWER DEEP

You will not be disappointed. Jack at his best.
Bluesman Mike Lindner   06-28-2004, 12:52 PM
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jimbow8 Wrote:MAN!! I have to read these books again. I don't remember so much of this stuff. So much to read, so little time, such a slow reader. *sigh*

**SPOILER ALERT**
I forget - who did the Dat-Tay-Vao end up with in Nightworld?

Do what I do, Jimbo--skip every other word. Wink
jimbow8   06-28-2004, 12:54 PM
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Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Do what I do, Jimbo--skip every other word. Wink
That explains a lot! Wink

Jim (just had to get that little jab in)

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
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