Maggers Wrote:Welcome!
I read THE KEEP when it was first published and became a life long FPW fan. I had to look long and hard for other FPW books, though. The never seemed to be readily available back then. Now I have them all, some second hand, some not. I'm a happy girl.
cobalt79 Wrote:But you HAVE to read The Tomb. Much to learn about Jack and so many other "things".
ImDeranged Wrote:What's this The Tomb everyone's talking about? :confused: My first FPW book was the $4.99 bargain version of The Keep. I liked it so much as soon as I was done I ordered the limited edition Borderland Press version. Figured anybody that could write a book like that deserves some more of my money so I added the limited edition Rakoshi into my cart as well.
So The Keep was my first FPW book, but Rakoshi was my first RJ book. I'm still hoping the next book is named "The 13th Tomb". It wouldn't even have to have a tomb in it :out:
Automatic Jack Wrote:Just wondering, seeing as I'm likely not to get any sleep tonight, which of the novels was your first? By which I mean, which one of the books precipitated your transition from RJ virgin to full-blown Jackaholic? (Forgive me if this is a repeat of another thread.)
As for me, I was very fond of Masque before I'd even heard of the RJ books, but one day I was surfing the library shelves and the bright green of Hosts caught my eye. I kind of wish I could recapture that feeling of simply jumping into the series without any background knowledge of the previous books; other than a few references to "that event", it was fairly stand-alone. And it was early enough that the meaning of certain motifs, like women with dogs, wasn't as imperative to my understanding.
If you'll recall, Hosts also starts out from the POV of a character other than RJ, which added to the unsettling feeling of reading out of order. I can't quite remember what I thought about it, except that I must have liked it enough to immediately borrow the whole series. I guess for me, you could say Hosts was a "Gateway" novel, har dee har.
And then after I was hooked, I'd fully read up to Haunted Air before even getting my hands on a copy of The Tomb, because the library had every book except the first one So it was very interesting to read the series backwards like I did. The characters and events are revealed in a slightly skewed manner that you wouldn't get from reading them chronologically. Of course I'm forced to go at them in order from now on, since whenever a new one comes out I read it immediately!
lexator222 Wrote:I just read some of the other comments, and was thinking:
Since "The Tomb" is now "Rakoshi", perhaps FPW can write a new version of "The Tomb" wherein there actually IS a tomb, and repairman Jack can explore and destroy some sort of evil that is connected to all other otherness evil somehow!
It's just a thought!
Lexator