My boyfriend's 16 year old son is a voracious reader and seems to like a lot of what I like but has never read F. Paul Wilson. I'm wondering in everyone's opinion what would the best place to start for him be? He, like me, likes to read series in order - and I know I could start him off on the 1st Repairman Jack book - but I'm wondering if some of the other related books might be better to start with. Help? I'd like to get him some of these for Christmas and just wanted to start him off in the right spot! Thanks!!
sharpwit617 Wrote:My boyfriend's 16 year old son is a voracious reader and seems to like a lot of what I like but has never read F. Paul Wilson. I'm wondering in everyone's opinion what would the best place to start for him be? He, like me, likes to read series in order - and I know I could start him off on the 1st Repairman Jack book - but I'm wondering if some of the other related books might be better to start with. Help? I'd like to get him some of these for Christmas and just wanted to start him off in the right spot! Thanks!!
Yeah! Welcome to the board!
I am 14 myself, and The Tomb is a great hook. If not that book, try The Keep or Deep as the Marrow. Good Luck!
"Lord, what fools these mortals be"
"The opposite of war isn't peace; it's creation."
You'd think that Killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't! it just makes people dead.
The Keep
Major K
"He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a Prince." George Graham Vest
"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us." - Maurice Maeterlinck
Great - thank you so much - I actually was hooked after reading The Tomb! I am going to get him a couple so this is a good start!
I'll be interested to see what happens when young people who started with the Young RJ series start rolling in. I finished Secret Histories fairly recently and it kind of makes me wonder how my perceptions of Jack would have changed had I started with that book!
Ya gotta tell everyone, Hatcher! Soylent green is PEOPLE!!
sharpwit617 Wrote:My boyfriend's 16 year old son is a voracious reader and seems to like a lot of what I like but has never read F. Paul Wilson. I'm wondering in everyone's opinion what would the best place to start for him be? He, like me, likes to read series in order - and I know I could start him off on the 1st Repairman Jack book - but I'm wondering if some of the other related books might be better to start with. Help? I'd like to get him some of these for Christmas and just wanted to start him off in the right spot! Thanks!!To echo Sigocat and Libby . . . It all begins with THE KEEP!
I've hooked a number of people by giving them that book. In fact, I bought five more copies last Saturday.
If you want to read the series in order -- chronological order rather than published order -- the next book would be REBORN.
Then you should start in with the RJ books until BLOODLINE, which takes place at the same time as THE TOUCH, and the entire RJ series takes place during the events of REPRISAL -- NIGHTWORLD of course is last.
I hope that wasn't confusing.
Ken V.
Ken Valentine Wrote:To echo Sigocat and Libby . . . It all begins with THE KEEP!
I've hooked a number of people by giving them that book. In fact, I bought five more copies last Saturday.
If you want to read the series in order -- chronological order rather than published order -- the next book would be REBORN.
Then you should start in with the RJ books until BLOODLINE, which takes place at the same time as THE TOUCH, and the entire RJ series takes place during the events of REPRISAL -- NIGHTWORLD of course is last.
I hope that wasn't confusing.
Ken V.
Don't worry, it was understandable.
"Lord, what fools these mortals be"
"The opposite of war isn't peace; it's creation."
You'd think that Killing people would make them like you, but it doesn't! it just makes people dead.
I myself started out with the tomb around age 15 or so I think and from that point on i was hooked and quickly tracked down the next 3 books and have been an avid reader of fpw's ever since.
If you wanted to start off with something non rj i would recommend maybe Sibs the first time i read the book it was compared to me by someone to be a little like "false memory" by dean koontz which still to this day is one of my favorite books so when i heard that i had to read it and sibs knocked me on my butt and i loved it and its my favorite non rj book.
If you wanted to start off with something non rj i would recommend maybe Sibs the first time i read the book it was compared to me by someone to be a little like "false memory" by dean koontz which still to this day is one of my favorite books so when i heard that i had to read it and sibs knocked me on my butt and i loved it and its my favorite non rj book.
"Sanity? Worthless things like that, I never had them for as long as I can remember!"
sharpwit617 Wrote:My boyfriend's 16 year old son is a voracious reader and seems to like a lot of what I like but has never read F. Paul Wilson. I'm wondering in everyone's opinion what would the best place to start for him be? He, like me, likes to read series in order - and I know I could start him off on the 1st Repairman Jack book - but I'm wondering if some of the other related books might be better to start with. Help? I'd like to get him some of these for Christmas and just wanted to start him off in the right spot! Thanks!!
I moved to Arizona at that age. No TV, no friends, no job, middle of the summer nothing to do. I rediscovered reading. After I read everything in the house, my dad and I visited a local used bookstore where I scored both "The Keep" and "The Tomb" written by an author I'd never heard of. As much as I loved both books, "The Tomb" was the definitive book that summer. I very much identified with Jack as being a loner and loved how he was inventive under all circumstances. At the time, I never dreamed he would have a series. He just always ended in that chair with the telephone ringing. I LOVED IT!
with The Tomb.